What your third grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good third-grade education

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Label

What your third grader needs to know : fundamentals of a good third-grade education

Title remainder

fundamentals of a good third-grade education

Statement of responsibility

edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr

Title variation

What your 3rd grader needs to know

Contributor

• Hirsch, E. D., (Eric Donald), 1928-

Subject

• Curriculum planning -- United States
• Third grade (Education) -- Curricula -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

The best way to nurture your child's reading and writing abilities is to provide rich literary experiences and find frequent and varied opportunities to work and play with language. By the end of second grade, children have developed a reading vocabulary of familiar words and can decode the letter-sound patterns of many unfamiliar one- and two- syllable words. During third grade, as they increase their knowledge about words (including the concepts of syllables, prefixes, and suffixes), they put that knowledge to work, decoding unfamiliar multisyllabic words. If a child has not mastered the skill of decoding simple words, that practice should continue. By third grade, the mental process of turning letters into sounds should be nearly automatic. This year, children focus more on meaning as they read. Their reading vocabulary expands tremendously, as does their ability to read longer and more complex literature. They read for information and begin to use nonfiction reference books like children's dictionaries and encyclopedias. They learn the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, and they read and enjoy longer and more complicated "chapter books." In third grade, children continue to learn about language as they write it: identifying parts of speech, properly using punctuation, and recognizing sentence types. They begin to shape their own writing, understanding how paragraphs relate in a larger whole and exerting more control over vocabulary and structure

Member of

• Core knowledge series

Cataloging source

CGP

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Series statement

Core knowledge series