Third grade Reading Skills
Reading Tasks
Good Morning Students !!
Today you will be practicing some reading tasks
Author’s purpose
Synonyms / Antonyms
Figurative Language-1
Figurative language -2
Point of view
Poetry
You will click on each reading task on the left and
practice each activity and complete quizzes.
I will be monitoring your progress and will be
grading all printed quizzes and journal entries.
Inferences
Main idea
Cause and effect
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have finished.
synonyms
antonyms
Language and Grammar
Practice
Below you will find a review of all reading skills.
skills.
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Author’s Purpose
Inform
persuade
entertain
Synonyms and Antonyms
Similar and opposite meanings
Figurative Language
Simile
Point of View
First person
metaphor personification
Third Person
alliteration
Poetry
Stanza
Inferences
Formulate guesses and conclusions from what you
know.
What is the sentence or stories main topic?
Main idea
Cause and effect
Antonyms and synonyms
verse
Rhyme
Rhythm
form
When one event cause another event to happen.
The cause is telling why it happens. The effect is
telling what happens.
Antonyms - are words that have opposite meanings.
Synonyms - are words that have similar meanings
Author’s Purpose
Persuade
Inform
The author is trying to get
you to think in a certain way.
To convince you to buy
something or do something.
To teach you something. To
provide you with information,
or instructions about how to
do something.
Entertain
To entertain you or make
you laugh. Fiction writing
that will amuse you, and
keep your interest.
Figurative Language
Simile -
A comparison using “as or like”
Ex. He is as fast as a cheetah.
The girl could jump like a kangaroo!
Metaphor -
Making an unrelated comparison without the use of
“as or like”
Ex.
Personification-
The storm is a monster.
John is a walking dictionary.
Describing something non-human performing human
actions or having human characteristics.
Ex. The pen danced across her paper.
The swimming pool is calling my name.
Alliteration -
A series of two or more words having the same
beginning letter or same beginning sound.
Ex. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Seashells along the sea shore.
Point of View
Let's review Point of View.
First-person Point of View
A character in the story is
the narrator. This
character is telling the
story. The narrator uses
the pronouns I, me and we.
In first-person point of
view, readers learn about
events as the narrator
learns about them.
Third-person Point of View
The story is being told by
an outside observer someone who is not in the
story. The author uses the
pronouns he, she, and they.
In third-person point of
view, the author can tell
about the thoughts, actions,
and feelings of the other
characters.
Poetry terms
Stanza -
A section or division of a poem: specifically a grouping of lines that
develops an idea.
Rhyme -
When two words sound the same. Usually at the end of the word.
Rhythm or meter-
The pattern of beats or a series of stressed and unstressed
syllables identified in a poem.
Form -
Lines of poetry having the same rhythms or rhymes in a pattern
throughout a poem. Poetry forms are patterned using letters such
as : ABAB or ABBA
Inferences
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Main Idea
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Cause and effect
When one event causes amother event to happen. The cause is telling
why it happens. The effect is telling what happens.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
Synonyms - are words that have similar meanings.
Examples:
Large – enormous
funny – humorous
Antonyms - are words that have opposite meanings.
Examples:
Fast – slow
Loud - soft
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