Supporting your child at home

The resources and activities listed on this website have been developed to extend prior learning and engage students during this period of school closure. In addition to these resources, we have additional suggestions on how to support your child's education at home.

Third grade readers could be:

• listening to books
  -read aloud daily to your child
  -listening to audio books (Raz-Kids, Bookflix, Storyline, epic)

• Word Study: (readwritethink)
  -reading and decoding multi-syllabic words
  -read and recognize irregularly spelled words
  -read and decode words with prefixes and suffixes

• practicing reading and writing on their own every day

• pulling out key ideas and details; theme or central (big) idea

• describe the overall structure of a text, including describing how the beginning introduces the text and the ending concludes the text.

• identify and use text features to understand the text.

• summarizing stories and informational text using details.

• writing a daily journal or use prompts from Journal Buddies