Third Grade Reading

About Grade 3 Reading

Grade 3 reading (3rd grade, ages 8–9) is 40 lessons in 5 units: Vocabulary & Word Power (lessons 1–8), Comprehension Skills (lessons 9–16), Reading for Information (lessons 17–24), Reading Fluency & Expression (lessons 25–32), and finally Reading Projects (lessons 33–40), project work that brings the year together. Along the way, children learn to define cause and effect and explain the relationship between them, distinguish between skimming and scanning as reading strategies and identify the four stages of a story arc: setup, rising action, climax, and resolution.

Start here: Lesson 1: Use Context Clues for Meaning is free to open and print. Every other lesson has a free preview of its mini lesson and vocabulary.

Paper first: each lesson is printed before you call your child. You read it once and talk it through, your child does the exercises on paper, and you correct together with the Parent checklist — about 45 minutes at the table. The next day, a 10-minute screen review of the same lesson.