Third Grade Reading
Focus Skills and Focus Strategies
In order for your child to comprehend what he/she is reading, skills and strategies must be applied. In the new reading series, we concentrate on these skills and strategies in whole group, small groups, guided reading, and across all areas of the curriculum. The skills and strategies that we focus on in third grade are listed below.
Watch for the Focus Skill and Focus Strategy for each week in my weekly newsletter that is sent home on the first day of school each week.
| Focus Skills | Focus Strategies |
| Decode Long Words | Use Context to Confirm Meaning |
| Narrative Elements | Make and Confirm Predictions |
| Elements of Nonfiction | Read Ahead |
| Author's Purpose | Summarize |
| Word Relationships | Adjust Reading Rate |
| Sequence | Reread to Clarify |
| Prefixes and Suffixes | Use Decoding/Phonics |
| Summarize | Use Text Structure and Format |
| Compare and Contrast | Self-Question |
| Fact and Opinion | Create Mental Images |
| Main Idea and Details | |
| Locate Information | |
| Cause and Effect |
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