What your child will learn

The following is a list of units your student will work through the year. Click on each title to read a document with main concepts of each unit and strategies you can use to support them at home. For identification of which unit your child is working in, contact your child's school or teacher.

• Building a Reading Life
• Mystery: Foundational Skills in Disguise
• Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Idea and Text Structure
• Character Studies
• Research Clubs: Elephants, Penguins and Frogs, Oh My!
• Genre Strategies
• Learning through Reading: Countries Around the World

Supporting your child

In addition to the information on the documents linked above, this section will provide you with other strategies and activities you can use at home with your child.

The following is a great article with tips and tricks you can use with your child when reading with them at home: Eight Ways to Support Third Grade Readers from www.greatschools.org. Click here to access the article.

The following are short videos with strategies you can use with your child at home. These videos are resources located through www.greatschools.org

Additional Resources

A Child Becomes a Reader for Grades K-3. Follow this link to an brochure from the National Institute of Literacy with useful tips for supporting your child in reading.

Below are several links to videos to help gain understanding into your child's development in reading throughout their third grade year.