grade 3 English/language arts

By third grade, we expect all of students to be reading well and able to focus on reading to learn new information. Students learn how to summarize and paraphrase key ideas from both nonfiction and literary texts. Students also respond to literature through writing and discussing. It is essential for students to build rich vocabularies, so we teach students vocabulary both explicitly and through decoding strategies such as phonetic and structural analysis. They also study synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms along with root words and affixes.