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Grade 3 · Primary Division

EQAO prep without turning home into a test centre.

A short, original practice routine to help your child get comfortable explaining their thinking. Lessonfield is not affiliated with EQAO and does not reproduce secure assessment questions.

What the real assessment covers

Reading, writing and mathematics skills learned by the end of Grade 3. The real assessment is completed online at school. Use Lessonfield for low-pressure practice, and use EQAO’s own sample test when you want your child to see the official format.

Open official Grade 3 EQAO information and sample resources ↗

10–15 minutes

Mathematics warm-up

Ask your child to show or explain how they know. A reasonable strategy matters as much as getting to the answer.

  1. A shelf has 6 rows of 4 books. How many books are there? Show another way to see the same multiplication.
  2. Estimate 298 + 407, then find the exact sum.
  3. A pizza is cut into 8 equal pieces. Three pieces are eaten. What fraction remains?
  4. Maya has $10.00 and buys something for $6.35. How much money remains?
  5. A graph shows 7 children chose apples, 5 chose bananas, and 3 chose oranges. How many children were surveyed?
Parent answer guide
  1. 24 books. For example, 6 × 4 = 24; the same array can also show 4 × 6 = 24.
  2. Estimate about 700; exact answer 705.
  3. 5/8 remains. Eight equal pieces minus three eaten leaves five.
  4. $3.65 remains.
  5. 15 children. 7 + 5 + 3 = 15.

If an answer is wrong, ask “What did you notice?” before correcting it.

10 minutes

Reading warm-up

Sam planted bean seeds in two cups. One cup sat near a sunny window and one sat in a dark cupboard. Sam gave both cups the same amount of water. After a week, the plant near the window was taller and greener. Sam decided to move the second cup closer to the window and keep observing it.
  1. What was Sam trying to compare?
  2. Which detail best supports the idea that light affected the plants?
  3. Why is it useful that Sam gave both cups the same amount of water?
Parent answer guide
  1. Sam was comparing how the two bean plants grew under different light conditions.
  2. The plant near the sunny window was taller and greener after a week.
  3. Keeping the water the same makes the comparison fairer because light is the main condition being changed.
10–15 minutes

Writing warm-up

Prompt: Write about a small problem you solved. Explain what happened, what you tried, and how it turned out.

Before writing, have your child say their main idea out loud, name two details, then write. At the end, reread once for meaning and once for punctuation/spelling.

Parent check
  • Is the main idea clear?
  • Do the details support it?
  • Are the sentences understandable and connected?
  • Did your child reread and improve something?
A calmer plan

What to do the week before.

1. Do one short mixed practice, not a marathon worksheet.

2. Let your child use the official EQAO sample test once so the online format is familiar.

3. Practise explaining: “I chose this because…” and “I know my answer makes sense because…”

4. If one math idea is shaky, return to the Lessonfield learning library and work on that concept directly.

5. Keep the stakes low. EQAO results do not determine your child’s report-card grade.