March Reading
This month in third grade, we are continuing our work on learning and practicing reading strategies to better understand a variety of complex short fiction and nonfiction texts.
We are working on strategies to help us make inferences, understand and express the main idea, and figure out the meaning of unknown words or phrases.
Please encourage your child to use the strategies they are taught and to go back into the text to find and underline evidence while answering questions about a text. It is also important for students to realize when they are struggling to understand a text or a portion of a text and to then reread texts in a different way. For example, students have been taught to reread while envisioning (making a movie in their mind) or by breaking down confusing sentences and using punctuation and text features to help build comprehension.
