rd

Grade Lunch and

Learn

Building AWESOME readers!

Meadowbrook Elementary
November 13, 2014

Welcome to our Lunch and Learn

*Introduction-of third grade teachers and Mrs.
Davis
*Reading toolkits-Purpose is to provide resources
for you to take home and use with your child today!

*Why have a Lunch and Learn?-We want to teach

you and give you resources to use with your child at
home in reading.

3rd grade shift in reading

Shifts from learning to read and becomes more about reading

to learn.
Less decoding and digs deeper into the meaning of the story.

Comprehension plays a bigger role in their reading which entails

understanding vocabulary and digging deeper into the questions
being asked about the story.
Instead of sounding out words they should be recognizing chunks
of words. (Ex. in-ven-tion)

What is the Read to Achieve Law and what does it

mean for my child?
In 3rd grade your child will take the English Language Arts
reading EOG and they need to make a 3, 4, or a 5 to pass.

Throughout the school year for each English Language Arts

standard, students are taking two reading practice tests a week in
order to prepare.
If they dont pass what happens?

They receive a sticker on their file that they are being retained in 3rd
grade reading.
They will receive reading instruction at their reading level the following year.
Your child will be highly encouraged to attend a summer reading camp.

Dont panic! There is a light at the

end of the tunnel!

Four Essential Literacy Components

Fluency
Test taking strategies
Comprehension

Vocabulary

Fluency-reading like we talk

RF.3.4.B
Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression
on successive readings.

What can I do at home?

Timed repeated readings

Hash tag fluency phrases
Prefix/suffix practice sheet
Teach your child to chunk words (Ex. Mag-net-ic)
Model appropriate patterning and phrasing
Make sure your child is in text that they are fluent in. Have them read books at
their instructional/independent level.

Test Taking Strategies

.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as
the basis for the answers.

.RI.3.3
Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps
in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

Test Taking Strategies at home:

Preview the text and set yourself up to read the story. (Fiction/Non-fiction)
Find evidence in the text to support your answers.
Always read ALL of the answer choices completely.
Eliminate nonsense answers right off the bat.

Comprehension

RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for
the answers.
RL.3.2
Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson,
or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

Strategies learned at school:

*TTQA-Turn the question around
*Fiction books-character traits, problem/solution, BME

*Non-fiction books-text features, main idea, details, facts

What can I do at home?

Practice the verbal and written comprehension questions with your child.
Always have them go back and find their answer in the text.
Make them use supporting details from the text when they answer a question.

Vocabulary
RL.3.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral
language.

RI.3.4
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3
topic or subject area.

Strategies learned at school:

*Read around the word and use context clues
*Literal vs. non literal language
*Visualizing the word

What can I do at home?

Make children use context clues to determine unknown words.
Have conversations about vocabulary words related to the topic before they read the book.

Other resources
Apps for your I pad or your tablet
Readingrockets.com
Readingreef.weebly.com (Title Is website/blog)
Parent Lending Library