• Support for Student Success Grade 3 - ELA

     

    Third Grade ELA Focus Skills

     

    Have daily reading experiences – child reads aloud and silently for extended periods of time.  Talk about the reading experiences – describe the characters in the story, the problems the characters experience and tell how the problem is solved or discuss the information presented in a nonfiction book.  Use strategies when reading to help understand what is read (use clues in the passage to help with unknown words, reread a part of the story that is confusing or unclear, make predictions about what will happen next and determine if predictions come true or use text features such as

     

    Study and practice weekly spelling lists (Hear the word, See the word - look at the word and then close your eyes and imagine it, Say the word, Say the letters in the word aloud, Write the word as you say the letters).

    Identify relationships among words such as synonyms - words with similar meanings (run - sprint), antonyms - words with opposite meanings (easy - hard), homonyms - words that sound the same but have different meanings and sometimes different spellings (bear-bare) and multiple meaning words - words with more than one meaning (round – something that is shaped like a circle or ball/ a section of a game or sport).

     

    Use writing as a way to tell a story to another person. The story should have an interesting beginning (not “Hi, my name is . . .”), tell the events in the order that they happened and end with a closing sentence – (not the words “the end”).

     

     Write a variety of sentence types – ask a question, make a statement, make a command, show enthusiasm, join two complete sentences with “and, but, or” to form a compound sentence and include these types of sentences when appropriate in writing stories or reports.

     

     

     
    The Parent Guide to Grade 3 http://www.education.com/grade/third-grade/

     

     Reading Tips for Parents of Third Graders http://www.readingrockets.org/article/7837


    Student Websites:

     
     Third Grade Reading Activities http://www.abcya.com/third_grade_computers.htm

     

    Word Games http://www.funbrain.com/FBSearch.php?Grade=3