For third-graders, learning English can be a fun adventure. What better way to make it exciting than with short, engaging stories? These stories aren't just about reading, they're about exploring different worlds, meeting new characters, and learning valuable lessons along the ...
Identifying the main idea of a story is an important reading concept. By third grade, most students are able to decode words and are ready to move on to more complex reading strategies. In order for children to become fluent readers, they must be able to understand what they read. Finding...
My first period came when I was twelve or thirteen. It happened on the week long camping trip...with all the seventh and eighth graders. The teachers liked us to do one service project during these trips, and the one they arranged was trail building. We drove up to the base of the ...
Third graders (N=26) wrote 632 stories over a ten month period, and mainly described their experiences at home and in their neighborhoods, or their trips to various destinations. Twelve stories by four children were selected for a discussion of the emergence of children 's selves. The ...
Significant effects of grade and structure indicate that the canonical form is more easily ordered than are the other structures and also that third graders are much less accurate at the task than are sixth or ninth graders. Additionally, children were shown to use an event‐sequence strategy ...
Results indicated that the mean percentage of correct responses for third-grade students was 72; and for sixth grade students, it was 78. The sixth-grade students achieved significantly higher levels of comprehension in anaphora than did the third graders....
This study examined narratives written by ten seventh graders. Each subject wrote three narratives, each in a different narrative perspective: omniscient, first person narrator, and third person limited narrative perspectives. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effect of perspective on narrati...
In the third book of theSmall Spacesseries (beginning withSmall SpacesandDead Voices), we return to Mount Hemlock Resort, where the spooky smiling man left Ollie, Coco, and Brian with a sinister promise. Knowing the man has new games in store for them, the trio tries to be ready for an...
BALTIMORE - For the first time, wearing their robes, Maryland judges stepped out of their courtrooms and into classrooms full of curious third graders Wednesday morning. Judges from the Supreme Court of Maryland, the Appellate Court of Maryland, local circuit courts and the distri...
As I enter my classroom every day and see those woods through the window, I can't help but get excited about my 28 third graders who are looking for their own place to fall in love with reading. ••••• Colby Sharp is a husband, father, and a third-grade teacher in ...