Reading Together Grade Three was developed to build on the fluency and comprehension strategies of our second-grade program, or to intervene with other students who are falling behind during this critical gateway year. Grade Three contains a rich mix of literature from informational and procedural text to fiction and poetry. Writing skills are enhanced through end-of-lesson activities and graphic organizers. Lessons are grouped by theme, so tutees learn to synthesize information from several tutorials. They also learn to form their own questions, and find answers by rereading and using classroom resources. See a sample lesson to preview the strategies used to promote fluency and comprehension.

Fluency strategies

Modeled reading
Guided oral reading
Silent independent reading
Repeated reading
Monitoring and correcting

Predicting
Setting a purpose
Text connections (text-to-self; text-to-world; text-to-text)
Retelling
Explicit questioning
Inferring
Visualizing
Synthesizing

Vocabulary is built as students are exposed to authentic literature and actively participate in learning.

Writing is practiced in each lesson during post-reading activities (letters, books, Venn diagrams, story maps, sequencing sentences, etc.). Students are given many opportunities to practice text structure, and to compare and contrast what they have read.

See how Reading Together helps students achieve end-of-grade expectations.  Grade Three is part of a continuum that includes Grade Two and Intermediate (Grades Four, Five and Six).