3rd grade reading activities

Reading fluency centers that will help students grow as fluent readers independently! Perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Great reading center activity for a read to someone station, or just a weekly reading center in an elementary reading classroom.

Literacy centers are a great way to help 3rd grade students practice ELA skills and standards. This post shares ideas for reading, writing, word work, and grammar stations that are great for third graders. #thirdgradewordwork #3rdgradeliteracycenters #3rdgradecenters #centersfor3rd #smallgroupsinthirdgrade #thirdgradeideas #literacycenters #literacycenters3rdgraders

day-by-day plans, resources, and activities for the first week of third grade

Here in third grade, we practice fluency daily with: -Word Lists -Phrase Lists -Passages/Running Records My Mental Journey I have had a love-hate relationship with fluency. As a third grade teacher, my students are subject to end of year, high-stakes testing for the first time. Fluency is not tested on these exams, students have

How do you keep the engagement high during your upper elementary reading lessons? Over here, I love to use topple blocks to keep my fourth and fifth grade students SUPER motivated when it comes to inferencing, restating the question, finding the main idea, and more!

Literacy Centers in the classroom should be simple, easy, and fun! Using No Prep or Little Prep ideas help with time management, lesson planning, and easy weekly set-up. These five centers can be used all year with just a few simple changes each Friday afternoon. These literacy center ideas for 3rd grade will help you get home to your family without staying late at school.

This FREE reading response journal menu is a great tool for independent reading time, supporting comprehension skills, and keeping your students accountable during reading workshop. These reading response journal prompts are perfect for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade.

Do you have struggling readers you just can't reach? This mega list of reading intervention activities will help you teach all students how to read!

10 Perfect Read Aloud Books for 3rd Grade – Pragmatic Mom

3rd grade anchor chart

These tab books are a super engaging way to make nonfiction book report writing meaningful and fun! Skills covered include main idea and supporting details, nonfiction text strucuture, nonfiction text features, author's point of view, summarizing, and more. A low prep, printable activity that is great for independent or group work with students in grades 3, 4, 5 or 6. Use for any informational text or nonfiction reading passage.

3rd grade anchor chart

Engage your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students with this fun FREE reading comprehension passage, worksheets, and printables packet! Download, print, and use the complete History of the Chocolate Chip Cookie unit right away for reading comprehension lessons, activities, strategies, and centers. Differentiated for even easier use across grade levels. Click the link to get your FREE download today!

I mean...why WOULDN'T you use cootie catchers in your reading block? It makes perfect sense. Ok - remember last week how I was talking about doing a little spring cleaning with some of my TpT resources? Well, I did a little spring cleaning in my file folders on my computer as well. Yikes. Now THAT'S a bit of a rabbit hole. I got in a little deeper than I wanted to, but I figured I might as well finish the job. I got rid of a lot (a LOT) of cringe worthy products that just didn't make the cut…

I’ve been writing fluency passages for the last four years. I never really dreamed that it would help so many teachers across the country, but it has, and I am truly grateful. I’ve been asked many times over the years to provide fluency for third grade and I’ve said no. Largely because it would take...Read More »

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Want to make Reading Centers easier and more fun for teachers and students? These simple tips will keep your students engaged with guided reading while keeping your preparation and management to a minimum!

Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...

Word work activities that work with any word list in 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th grade in elementary school. use these fun activities this year to grow student vocabulary and deepen word knowledge.