3rd Grade Readers
Our 3rd-grade readers embark upon a pivotal transitional year in their reading experience. This year, your child is expected to transition from learning to reading to reading to learning. Children at this grade level are expected to know how to use reading in every aspect of learning. As a 3rd grader, your child needs continued practice in basic reading skills such as phonics, phonemic awareness, and sight word vocabulary. Your child needs to master these basic skills. More complex skills will be learned while engaging in more sophisticated reading material.
Your 3rd grader should be ready to embark upon reading chapter books and various text genres with more complex sentence structures. Chapter books are generally read in multiple sittings and feature more developed plots and layered characters than beginning readers your child reads at previous grade levels.
This year, your child is expected to transition from learning to reading to reading to learning.
By the end of third grade, your child is expected to be an engaged independent reader and able to...
- Use reading comprehension strategies such as asking questions, making predictions, inferring and summarizing.
- Demonstrate understanding of a story by recognizing and summarizing the main idea and key details.
- Describe characters in a story.
- Understand the different genres of fiction.
- Determine the main idea and details in nonfiction texts.
- Use and understand text features in nonfiction texts.
- Use context clues to learn new vocabulary.
- Compare and contrast information from texts.
- Discuss books with peers, family, and friends while demonstrating critical thinking skills.
Developing reading proficiency takes time and practice. Students need to gain knowledge, become familiar with reading strategies, and receive feedback from parents, knowledgeable teachers, and others.
Our Book Club is a great place for your third grader to become an engaged reader while mastering reading with comprehension, decoding multisyllabic words, reading more fluently, developing a robust vocabulary, and discussing great chapter books with other kids. Join our upcoming class.
READING WITH COMPREHENSION and READING ENGAGEMENT
Third grade is also a critical year for comprehension development.
Third grade is also a critical year for comprehension development. Becoming an engaged and independent reader requires learning how to make meaning from text and how to demonstrate understanding of what is read by putting it into your own words through discussion and written summarization.
Third graders should be able to provide detailed retellings of what they read and share their personal points of view about stories. A common frustration among parents is that their children are simply decoding words but not understanding their reading. Their children have yet to understand that reading is an interactive process between them, the author and the text which is satisfying and rewarding. Reading comprehension is essentially what your child does throughout his or her interactions and engagement with a book. Readers with good comprehension are always thinking strategically and skillfully throughout the reading. They visualize the characters and settings while creating mind-movies of the book in their heads. They make connections to characters, and plot development and constantly wonder about what will happen next as one event after another occurs. Reading engagement is a big part of comprehension and what makes reading fun to do.
How To Master Reading Comprehension
A common question I receive from parents is how can I help improve my child’s comprehension and ensure they are getting it? In other words, how can I help make sure my child understands what he/she reads and how can I assess their progress as a reader?
The #1 way for comprehension to improve and become mastered is for your child to read a lot.
Additionally, your child needs to receive daily direct reading comprehension strategy and skill instruction. Listening to thinking aloud read alouds, reading daily and discussing books he or she reads, is the best way for your child to develop comprehension skills.
Monarch Literacy 3rd Grade Book Club Classes
Our fun strategy and skills-based book club classes are designed to show your child that reading is fun, interactive, and engaging while helping him or her improve/master comprehension. By the end of our session, your child will want to read more and enthusiastically select “just right” books to enjoy, independently.
Enrolling in this book club will give your child a huge reading advantage. Your child will be able to:
- Observe/learn word attack strategies for decoding multi-syllabic words.
- Actively read and discuss a great selection of diverse chapter books with peers.
- Receive direct and explicit instruction on reading comprehension strategies and skills modeled throughout each session with a skillful teacher.
- Develop independent reading reasons and become motivated to read more.
- Develop a positive attitude about the joy and benefits of reading.
If you have any questions and would like to discuss your child’s participation in class or reading development, set up a discovery call today.
