Free ESL Worksheet Grade 3

Grade 3 My House and Home Grammar Worksheet: There is / There are

About This Resource

A two-page grammar worksheet that teaches Grade 3 English learners when to use "There is" and "There are" when talking about a house, through four activities that move from recognition to reading comprehension.

Overview

This worksheet targets a key structure for describing places in English: choosing "There is" for one thing and "There are" for more than one. It opens with a clear rule reminder ("There is a bed" vs. "There are two chairs") and then practises the rule four ways. Activity 1 (Circle the Correct Word) has students choose between "is" and "are" in six sentences about a house. Activity 2 (Fill in the Correct Form) removes the multiple-choice support and asks students to write the correct form themselves. Activity 3 (Look and Write) connects the grammar point to the My House and Home picture vocabulary, asking students to build a sentence from a picture and a number. Activity 4 (Read and Circle True or False) puts the grammar to work in a short original reading passage about a character named Kiet, checking comprehension rather than just form. A Grammar Reminder box at the end summarises the rule one more time for quick reference.

Resource Details

Subject: ESL
Topic: My House and Home
Category: Grammar
File Type: PDF
File Size: 69.6 KB
Published: 03 Sep 2026
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Grade 3 55 Minutes Grammar My House and Home

Student Task

Use this worksheet after students are comfortable with the My House and Home vocabulary (from the Vocabulary PowerPoint, Flashcards, and Vocabulary Worksheet), since it assumes students already know the room and furniture words and are now ready to focus on sentence grammar. Review the rule reminder at the top of the page together before students begin. Activities 1 and 2 work well as guided or independent practice; Activity 3 is a good check of whether students can produce the grammar rather than just recognise it; Activity 4 combines grammar with reading comprehension and works well as a closing task. Keep the Grammar Reminder box visible as an anchor chart idea for your classroom wall.

Classroom Use

Play a quick "One or Many?" drill before the written work: hold up a flashcard showing one item, or two flashcards showing the same item, and have students call out "There is..." or "There are..." as fast as they can. This builds automaticity with the choice before students have to apply it in writing.

Differentiation

SUPPORT: Let students underline the noun after the blank in each sentence before choosing "is" or "are," as a visual cue for which rule applies. Reduce Activity 2 to four items if six feels like too much.
ON-LEVEL: Students complete all four activities independently in one sitting.
CHALLENGE: Ask students to rewrite two sentences from Activity 4 by changing the number of items described (for example, turning "There is a tall tree" into "There are two tall trees") and adjusting the verb accordingly.

Answer Key & Assessment

Use the completed worksheet as a direct check of the "There is / There are" rule, and mark it against the included answer key. Watch for the specific error pattern of using "is" with a plural noun, which is common with English learners and worth a quick small-group review if several students make it.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to choose "is" or "are" correctly after "There" depending on whether one or more than one thing is described.
Students will be able to write the correct form of "There is / There are" from a prompt.
Students will be able to build a complete "There is / There are" sentence from a picture and a number.
Students will be able to read a short "There is / There are" passage and answer true/false comprehension questions correctly.

Teacher Tips

When a student makes a wrong choice in Activity 1, ask them to say both options out loud rather than simply correcting them. Grade 3 English learners often self-correct once they hear "there is two chairs" against "there are two chairs," because the mismatch sounds noticeably wrong to the ear even before it is understood as a rule.