Literacy in Grade 3

The first portion of our mornings in Grade 3 has students engaging in a variety of learning opportunities with regards to English Language Arts and Literacy. Throughout our mornings, students are beginning to use specific reciprocal reading strategies to help them better understand both the fiction and non-fiction texts they are presented with. Students also spend time investigating phonics and how phonics connects to and supports the reading and writing process. In addition to this, students are learning to write a variety of written texts and each week they are introduced to certain letters of the alphabet in which they are required to write using cursive handwriting.

Recent Literacy Learning Outcomes:

• I can recognize and apply a wide variety of long and short vowel sounds when decoding unknown multisyllabic words
• I can independently read and demonstrate comprehension of texts that vary in length or complexity
• I can make predictions using background knowledge and information within a text
• I can identify information from texts that support my predictions
• I can modify predictions based on new or additional information
• I can reflect on predictions to confirm or change understandings
• I understand that the writing processes includes: planning, drafting, revising, editing and sharing
• I am beginning to revise written texts for accuracy, clarity, or appeal by adding, removing, or changing words or sentences
• I am beginning to edit writing for spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
• I can use cursive handwriting to write some letters of the alphabet with appropriate letter formation, size, proportion, and slant