Reading 3: Third Grade Fluency and Comprehension (CEFR B2+)

This is an ongoing class for third graders, or students at the third grade reading level, who would like to improve reading fluency and comprehension. Students will be encouraged to read aloud during the class and engage in discussions about the text. Because each class does not build upon previous ones, students can "pop in" and "pop out" as needed. We will read a different text each class. 

Small class size (1-4 learners only) will ensure plenty of attention for learners!

The types of text read in this class will be narratives (stories) and informational text. 

Reading classes will always begin with introductions and greetings between the teacher and student(s). If the class has a topic, concept or theme, it will be introduced at the start of the class. 

Next, students will read the text aloud. This will usually include a reading strategy called choral reading when there are multiple learners.  Throughout the text, the teacher will initiate discussions about the text, focusing on understanding, comprehension, and critical thinking. 

Students will be encouraged to make predictions and inferences. Students will summarize the text, make connections with the text and learn about context clues. We will also examine the main idea, theme, topic, and details of a text, as well as text evidence and visual clues. Students will learn about characters, character traits, and feelings. 

*RL = Reading Literature
*RI = Reading Informational Text

Learners will practice reading literature and the following skills: recounting stories, determining the central message or moral of the story, explaining how a character’s action contributed to the sequence of events, referring to parts of a text when speaking about a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language, identifying point of view, compare and contrast parts of the text or characters, and more. 

Learners will practice reading informational text and the following skills: identifying relationships between a series of historical events, determining the main idea of a text and recounting the key details, recalling the steps in a procedural text, distinguishing their own point of view from that of the author of a text, using information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of a text, describing the logical connections between parts of a text, and much more. 

Throughout the entire class, many discussion questions will be asked in order to promote critical thinking, to help the students to relate to the lesson, and introduce each topic within the lesson. 

This class is best for any student who is currently reading at a third grade level and wants to improve his or her reading skills. Students do not need to be familiar with reading concepts or topics of the class beforehand. We will review and practice in class. 

The class materials will be presented via Google Slides and screen shared on the teacher's screen only. Learners will need nothing outside of the Outschool Zoom classroom.

CEFR B2+

Our 3rd Grade ELA class: 

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