Learning Like a 3rd Grader, Part II

Though classrooms differ from state to state, your child will learn a lot of universal reading and writing facts, practices, and rules. By the end of third grade, your child should be able to do the following things:

Third Graders Must Begin To:

• Read nonfiction and fiction books at home
• Share-read with a parent and read alone
• Use inflection when they read
• Understand opinion and learn to express thoughts
• Make connections with their lives and what they read
• Increase the time spent in silent reading
• Realize that words have different meanings
• Understand suffixes, prefixes and word pattern
• Use descriptive words
• Break down the parts of a sentence (predicate, verb, noun, adjective)
• Write developed paragraphs 

HOT TIP: “Help your child discover the resources available in your local library. When children at this age visit the library regularly, they get valuable assistance in finding new books to read. They also begin to see libraries as a source of information about topics that interest them. They may also even learn some specific library skills, such as how to look up a title on a computerized catalog.” ---PBS Parents

Resources:

http://www.schoolfamily.com/school-family-articles/article/871-third-grade-academics-what-to-expect

http://www.greatschools.org/students/academic-skills/third-grade-language-arts.gs?content=118&page=all

http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/second/reading_milestone_second.html

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