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Questbook
Ages 8–9 · Common Core aligned

A personalized 3rd grade workbook where your child is the hero

Third grade is the big jump: multiplication and division, first fractions, area and perimeter. Reading shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, so the book works on main idea, author’s purpose and prefixes.

Every page is built for one child: their name in the problems and stories, the world they pick, the things they love. One quest a day, about 20 minutes, printed at home.

Get the free 5-day sampleNo card · full month $39, one-time

What 3rd grade learns in the book

Each new skill gets its own lesson page — a picture, the steps and a worked example — before the practice starts. Skills from the year before come back as warm-ups and Friday review.

Math — new this year

  • ★Multiplication
  • ★Division
  • ★Area
  • ★Perimeter
  • ★Fractions
  • ★Equivalent Fractions
  • ★Rounding
  • ★Elapsed Time

Reading & writing — new this year

  • ★Prefixes
  • ★Quotation Marks
  • ★Commas in a List
  • ★Subject & Predicate
  • ★Main Idea
  • ★Author's Purpose

3rd Grade Common Core standards covered

The exact codes print on the grown-ups page of every book, so you can see what each week practiced.

  • 3.OA.A.1Interpret products of whole numbers as equal groups.
  • 3.OA.C.7Fluently multiply and divide within 100.
  • 3.OA.A.2Interpret whole-number quotients as sharing into equal groups.
  • 3.NF.A.1Understand a fraction 1/b as one part of a whole partitioned into b equal parts.
  • 3.NF.A.3Explain equivalence of fractions and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.
  • 3.MD.C.7Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
  • 3.MD.D.8Solve problems involving perimeters of polygons.
  • 3.MD.A.1Tell time to the nearest minute and solve problems involving elapsed time.
  • 3.NBT.A.1Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
  • L.3.1Explain the function of nouns, verbs and adjectives; form simple and compound sentences.
  • L.3.2Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue; use commas in addresses and series.
  • L.3.4.bDetermine the meaning of a new word formed when a known affix is added.
  • RI.3.2Determine the main idea of a text and recount the key supporting details.
  • RI.3.1Ask and answer questions about a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
  • W.3.3Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences.
  • W.3.7Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

Struggling with something? Weight the book toward it

Pick a focus when you build the book and those skills come up about three times as often, without dropping anything else.

  • Times tables & division

    The multiplication facts that unlock everything after them.

  • Fractions

    The topic children most often get stuck on.

  • Place value & big numbers

    Hundreds, thousands, and knowing what each digit means.

  • Word problems

    Turning a sentence into a sum — usually the real difficulty.

  • Telling time & money

    The practical math that shows up every day.

  • Shapes, area & measuring

    Shapes, measuring length, area, perimeter, angles and volume.

  • Reading comprehension

    Understanding and explaining what was just read.

  • Writing longer answers

    Getting more than one sentence onto the page.

  • Grammar & punctuation

    Capitals, periods, commas and apostrophes.

  • Vocabulary & spelling

    Word building, prefixes, roots and confusable words.

Eight worlds to choose from

The same 3rd grade curriculum, told as a different adventure. The world names the chapters, the companion and the word problems.

  • Academy of Magic cover art

    Academy of Magic

  • Space Explorers cover art

    Space Explorers

  • Deep Sea Discovery cover art

    Deep Sea Discovery

  • Dinosaur Dig cover art

    Dinosaur Dig

  • Soccer Champions cover art

    Soccer Champions

  • All-Star Stadium cover art

    All-Star Stadium

  • Detective Agency cover art

    Detective Agency

  • Superhero Squad cover art

    Superhero Squad

Try the first five days free

Type your child’s name and 25 real pages of their 3rd grade book arrive by email. If they ask for day 6, the full month is $39 — one-time, not a subscription.

  • ★20 daily pages — math, reading and writing
  • ★Reading passages chosen around what they love
  • ★A Research Quest project and a diploma
  • ★Answer keys and the standards covered
  • ★Print at home as often as you like
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