The third grade incorporates reading, spelling, and grammar instruction into our literacy block each day. Students learn vocabulary, word study skills, phonics and spelling patterns each week. Additional comprehension skills are taught through the reading of a variety of stories, poems, novels, and genres. Small groups are an important part of our instruction. Students are in leveled groups where they receive reading instruction in a small group setting. Reading group instruction includes fluency, leveled readers and novels based on their individual reading level. Third grade uses Renaissance Accelerated Reading to set individualized goals and ensure comprehension of reading books on a student's individual reading level. Third grade students are assigned an individualized reading goal each 9 weeks. They are expected to read and meet their goal during the nine weeks. Parents have access to Renaissance Home Connect to monitor their child’s progress and results on their comprehension quizzes.
Technology is incorporated into our instruction on a daily basis. The use of our Promethean Board allows for state of the art visuals and student interaction. IXL, Readworks, Scholastic, and Epic are just a few of the apps and resources that are used in our instruction to enhance the learning opportunities for our students.
Cursive handwriting is taught in third grade. Students are instructed in lowercase and uppercase letters and words.
