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    Language Arts
    Reading Skill and Vocabulary Words
     
    Reading Skills in 3rd Grade/Spiral Reading Skills:
    -Identifying the main character's  traits
    -Story elements (characters, plot, and setting)
    -Multiple-meaning words 
    -Glossary, Thesaurus, and Dictionary Skills
    -Prefixes and suffixes
    -Author's Purpose
    -Theme 
    -Compare/Contrast 
    -Sequencing  
    -Making Inferences
    -Identifying context clues to define unfamiliar words
    -Identifying the problem and solution of a story
    -Fluency
    -Fantasy and Reality
    -Summarizing a story
    -Identifying Cause/Effect
    -Making Predictions
    -Identifying the Main Idea and Supporting Details 
    -Analogies 
     
     
     LAL Reading Skills We Are Learning: Date: October 8th-October 19th (test date 10/19) 
     
    Multiple-meaning words, Identifying the Main Idea and Supporting Details, and Context Clues
      
    Main Idea: most important ideas, information, or facts about a topic or a story
    Supporting Details: smaller pieces of information that support the main idea of the story 
    -Making a main idea and supporting details chart based on text 
     
    LAL Vocabulary:
     
    Fierce: something is very strong on violent
       - Sentence: The fierce wind blew the tree down.

    Whips: when something moves or hits quickly or suddenly
       - Sentence: During a tornado, the wind whips around and around.

    Echoes: when you make a noise and the sound is repeated
       - Sentence: My voice echoes in the cave.
     
    Shuffles: to walk without lifting your feet off the ground
       - Sentence: My little brother shuffles when he puts on Dad's shoes.
     
    Huddle: a group of animals or people that is close together
       - Sentence: The football players formed a huddle to decide on their next play.
     
    Junior: the younger or smaller
       - Sentence: There were two grown seals and one junior seal at the zoo.
     
    Down: the fine, soft feathers on a bird; to go from higher to a lower place
       - Sentence: Down helps protect birds from the cold.
     
     
     
     
     
     LAL Reading Skills We Are Learning: Date: September 24th-October 5th (test date 10/5)
     
    Story Elements
       -Identifying the characters, setting, and the plot of the story 
     
       -Making a story map graphic organizer
     
    Story Elements Include:
       -Characters: the people and animals in a story, and their actions move the plot along
     
       -Setting: when and where the story takes place (The setting can change throughout a story)
     
       -Plot: is made up of the events in a story that includes the most important part of the    beginning, middle, and end of a story 
     
     
    Character Traits
       -parts of a character's personality. These can be good or bad: responsible, creative, greedy, or jealous. (Other examples can be found on the sheet in your child's binder.)
     
    Context Clues
       -Using clues within a sentence to define an unknown word. 
     
     LAL Vocabulary:
     
    crackle: make a series of small, sharp snapping noises
    announced: told something in a loud or official way
    soared: flew high in the air
    starry: full of many stars
    envelope: a flat paper container, often used for sending letters through the mail
    photograph: a picture made with a camera 
     
     
     
     
    LAL Reading Skills We Are Learning: Date: September 14th-September 23rd (test date 9/23)
     
    Story Elements
       -Identifying the characters, setting, and the plot of the story 
     
       -Making a story map graphic organizer
     
     
    Story Elements Include:
       -Characters: the people and animals in a story, and their actions move the plot along
     
       -Setting: when and where the story takes place (The setting can change throughout a story)
     
       -Plot: is made up of the events in a story that includes the most important part of the    beginning, middle, and end of a story 
     
       -Compound words: a word made of two smaller words
             Example:  down + stairs = downstairs 
     
    LAL Vocabulary:
     
    Downstairs: "down the stairs"
       - Sentence: The girl walked downstairs to get the mail.
     
    Nervous: when person is afraid or worried
       - Sentence: I feel nervous when I ride on an airplane.
     
    Chuckled: laughing quietly when a something is funny
       - Sentence: I chuckled when I heard the joke.
     
     Nonsense: a silly or untrue idea or thought
       - Sentence: I was afraid to go to the library. My friend said my fears were nonsense.
     
     Fumbled: when something is done in a clumsy way
       - Sentence: He was tired and fumbled into his pajamas.
     
     Trudged: a way of walking slowly or dragging one's feet
       - Sentence: The tired student trudged up the hill to his house.
     
     
     
     
     
    RIDE Strategy
    (How to answer short answer and open-ended responses) 
    Restate your question
    Include ideas/opinions
    Detail within your answer
    Explain/end your response and check work