Word Roots at Work: Building Word Families for Class 3

This Grade 3 English grammar worksheet focuses on understanding root words and word families to help learners see how words are connected. Students explore how a single root word can form many related words by adding suffixes or changing word forms.
The worksheet builds vocabulary skills by showing how root words help learners guess meanings of new words. Through matching activities, children identify nouns, adjectives, and descriptive words that belong to the same word family.
Designed for Class 3 learners, the exercises are simple, visual, and engaging. Matching tasks encourage logical thinking while strengthening spelling, meaning, and word usage in everyday language.
By practicing root words and word families, students develop stronger reading comprehension, improved vocabulary, and confidence in forming and understanding new words.

Why Root Words Matter in Grammar?
Root words are the foundation of many English words. For Grade 3 learners, this topic is important because:
1. Root words help children understand how new words are formed.
2. Word families improve vocabulary and spelling awareness.
3. Recognizing roots helps students guess word meanings while reading.
4. These skills support better writing and clearer expression.

What’s Inside This Worksheet?

This worksheet includes three structured vocabulary-building activities:

✏️ Exercise 1 – Root Words and Nouns  
Students match root words with nouns formed from them, such as action words or people who do an activity.

🧠 Exercise 2 – Root Words and Adjectives  
Learners match root words with adjectives that describe qualities or feelings related to the root.

📘 Exercise 3 – Root Words and Meaning Changes  
Students match root words with words formed using suffixes that change their meaning or function.

✅ Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Match the Root Word  
Act – Action  
Help – Helpful  
Teach – Teacher  
Play – Playful  
Read – Reader  
Paint – Painter  
Write – Writer  
Clean – Cleaner  
Farm – Farmer  
Sing – Singer  

Exercise 2 – Match Root Words with Adjectives  
Play – Playful  
Care – Careful  
Hope – Hopeful  
Use – Useful  
Joy – Joyful  
Fear – Fearless  
Help – Helpful  
Color – Colorful  
Power – Powerful  
Pain – Painful  

Exercise 3 – Match Root Words with Meaning-Changing Words  
Act – Active  
Create – Creative  
Move – Movable  
Talk – Talkative  
Think – Thoughtful  
Help – Helpful  
Teach – Teachable  
Read – Readable  
Drive – Driven  
Paint – Painted  
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