Third grade students will be completing several types of writings throughout the year. The children will move from simple sentences to compound and complext sentences. Students will also progress from one paragraph to detailed multi-paragraph writings. They will be practicing such skills as appropriate introduction, topic and closing sentences.
The FUNdations ELA program will continue to be used this year to help strengthen the children's reading and writing skills. Fundation skills should be practiced and applied to their written work. Cursive will also be slowly introduced during the FUNdations program.