Picture Perfect Prepositions: Place & Movement for Grade 3 

This engaging Grade 3 worksheet on Prepositions of Place and Movement helps young learners understand how words like in, on, under, between, behind, into, over, across, and towards show position and direction. Designed with colorful picture-based prompts and real-life examples, this worksheet makes grammar learning visual, practical, and fun.

Through structured activities such as Fill in the Blanks, True or False, Multiple Choice Questions, Sentence Rewriting, and Paragraph Writing, students strengthen their understanding of how prepositions describe location and movement clearly and accurately.

Why Prepositions of Place and Movement Matter in Grammar? 

Prepositions help students describe where something is and how movement happens. For Grade 3 learners, this topic is important because: 
1. It improves sentence clarity and descriptive writing skills. 
2. It strengthens spatial understanding through visual learning. 
3. It builds strong foundations for paragraph writing and storytelling. 
4. It enhances everyday communication using correct position and direction words.

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

This worksheet includes five grammar-rich activities that build fluency with prepositions of place and movement:

Exercise 1 – Fill in the Blanks 
Students choose the correct preposition from a word bank and complete each sentence based on picture clues.

Exercise 2 – True or False 
Students identify whether the given preposition is used correctly in each sentence.

Exercise 3 – Multiple Choice Questions 
Learners select the correct preposition from three options for each sentence.

Exercise 4 – Sentence Rewriting 
Students rewrite sentences by replacing incorrect prepositions with the correct ones from a given word bank.

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Students write a short paragraph on “The School Playground” using place and movement words appropriately.

Answer Key (For Parents & Educators)

Exercise 1 – Fill in the Blanks 
1. in 
2. behind 
3. around 
4. under 
5. next to 
6. down 
7. into 
8. onto 
9. between 
10. at 

Exercise 2 – True or False 
1. True 
2. False 
3. False 
4. True 
5. False 
6. False 
7. True 
8. True 
9. True 
10. False 

Exercise 3 – Multiple Choice Questions 
1. through 
2. onto 
3. between 
4. behind 
5. towards 
6. over 
7. under 
8. next to 
9. across 
10. into 

Exercise 4 – Sentence Rewriting 
1. Raj is sitting on the box. 
2. He climbed up the mountain. 
3. Pooja sat beside Mohit during lunch. 
4. The bird flew out of the cage. 
5. The boy dived into the water. 
6. The biker stopped at the traffic light. 
7. The airplane is flying high above the clouds. 
8. Riya kept her books in the bag. 
9. The light switch is below the picture frame. 
10. The goalkeeper is standing in front of the net. 

Exercise 5 – Paragraph Writing 
Answers may vary.

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