3rd Grade Reading Activities
In third grade, learning gets kicked up a notch, and more complex concepts will land squarely on your child's plate. Want to help, but aren't sure how? From fun activities to learn about place value, to outdoor games that teach parts of speech, we've got the goods to keep your child on track all year long.
Inferring meaning is an essential third grade skill, and basically asks your child to "fill in the blanks" of what he is reading.
If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square. It's a fun way to highlight important story details and put them in a logical order. She can even use the Book Square as a bookmark, and add information to it as she reads!
More reading activities for 3rd grade:
Create a Recipe to Practice Writing
With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!
Sweet Sorting: A Fun Activity to Practice Categorizing
Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!
Learn to Find the Big Ideas!
Categorizing information according to specific attributes is a key critical thinking skill in third grade. By sorting and grouping key facts about Martin Luther King Jr., students will develop this skill while they celebrate Dr. King’s life.
Go on a Teddy Bear Expedition!
This game helps children learn directions in a fun way. The object of the game is to find the hidden teddy bear by only using cardinal directions and coordinates.
Make a Book Square!
If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square. It's a fun way to highlight important story details and put them in a logical order. She can even use the Book Square as a bookmark, and add information to it as she reads!
Play Word Bags to Learn Parts of Speech
Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around by creating this fun, easy, learning game your child will enjoy playing!
Make a "KWL" Poster to Organize Learning
A KWL chart is an instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. It will help your child evaluate new information against her prior knowledge--an important process during third grade.
Learn to Connect with Stories
As important as it is to sway your child away from TV, computer games and plastic toys, sometimes you just have to bring the lesson to him! This activity uses your child's favorite television show to illustrate how we connect to what we read.
Race for Spelling Patterns!
In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to a race, involving spelling patterns in words. This is one race she will want to run again and again! And it will do wonders for her reading fluency.
Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Learning prefixes and suffixes is a great way to boost vocabulary quickly. And these letter combos are best learned in the context of the words that they create. Here's an easy game to get your child thinking about these beginnings and endings, in between a lot of shouting and laughing.
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