Additional Activities

statueHere are easy activities you can do with your child to help reinforce the Third Grade language arts standards.

For several activities, we have listed similar online activities that your child can explore themselves or that you and your child can do together.

  • Discuss conflict when watching a television show or a video
  • Discuss how a problem in a story is solved with your child
  • Help your child create a flyer to advertise a yard sale, missing pet, or neighborhood event
  • Ask your child’s opinion of a book and encourage your child to support his/her conclusion
  • When reading with your child, ask your child to figure out the meaning of an unknown word by using clues in the story

Skill:

Read and write poetry with your child

Activities:
  • Acrostic Poems

    Write your own acrostic poem to describe a thing, idea, or topic.

  • Shape Poems

    Poems can be lots of different shapes, such as an apple, leaf, heart, balloon, and more!

  • Acrostic Poem Creator

    Write an acrostic poem using your name.

Skill:

Provide a variety of reading materials for your child to use, such as books, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, almanacs, and nonprint media (e.g. television, internet)

Activities:

Skill:

Regularly visit the local public library or bookstore

Activities:
  • Book Hive

    Need a book to read? Book Hive can help you find the perfect book for you.

  • Guys Read

    Boys, check out this page. Here is a list of books picked just for you.

  • Help Me Find a Book

    Answer some questions and get a list of books you should try out.

Skill:

Read aloud to your child and discuss a character’s actions

Activities:
  • Magic Keys

    Read and enjoy these sometimes silly stories.

  • Story Place

    Read a story, print out an activity to do, and explore the reading list for books like the story.

Skill:

Create and perform a play for the family

Activities:
  • Play-Maker

    Learn about all the pieces of a play, from the script to the props and costumes. Be sure to check out the tips section.

  • Try A Skit

    Gather some friends and try this funny skit. Can you write your own skit next?

  • Create Your Own Play

    Fill in the blanks to write your own play starring the Poppy Hill animals.

  • Write Your Own Play

    Choose a setting, a scenario, characters, and make a play that really stands out!

Skill:

Create a postcard to send to family or friends

Activities:
  • Printing Press

    Now you can create a newspaper, booklet, brochure, or flier.

  • Postcard Creator

    Learn the parts of a postcard and write your own postcard to a friend, family member, or character in a book!

  • Brochure Planning Sheet

    Use this sheet to plan a brochure for a report, project, book report, or other activity.

Skill:

Point out colorful words or phrases when reading or watching television with your child

Activities:

Skill:

Encourage your child to review and edit his homework assignments

Activities:

Skill:

Ask your child to identify and sequence the events in a story that are recalled or made up

Activities:
  • Story Map

    Use the story map to organize your ideas about a story you read or a story you might want to write.

  • Sequence of Events

    Practice figuring out the sequence or order of a story.

Skill:

Have your child locate information by using a table of contents and find word meanings in the glossary

Activities:
 
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