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Reading Skills
3rd Grade
Reading Terms
3rd Grade Spelling
3rd Grade
100

Why do we highlight in a story?

To find our proof for answering a question

To show important things/names/words

100

What is PIE?

Persaude, Inform and Entertain

Author's Purpose

100

People or animals in a story?

Characters

100

How do you spell the plural form of baby?

babies

100

Sometimes the lines rhyme in this type of text

Poem

200

What is one strategy you can use during your MCA test?

Get rid of answers

Highlight

Take your time

Do your best

200

What person is the story written in if it is being told by a character IN the story?

1st person 

DAILY DOUBLE

200

The name of a story

Title

200

How do you spell the plural form of fox

foxes

200

A person, place or thing 

Noun

300

What is two types of Text Structure?

Cause and Effect

Sequence

Compare and Contrast

Problem and Solution

Description

DAILY DOUBLE

300

Words that help you figure out what a word means in a passage.

Context Clues

DAILY DOUBLE

300

The person that writes a story.

Author

300

How do you spell the plural form of mouse?

mice

DAILY DOUBLE

300

What text feature is found under or beside a photograph?

caption

400

What should you do at home before the MCA?

Get a good night's SLEEP, eat a good breakfast, think positive

400

The order of events in a story is called?

sequence

400

Where a story takes place.

Setting

400

How do you spell the plural form of book?

books

400

What do you call "paragraphs" in a poem?

stanzas 

DAILY DOUBLE

500

What does Persuade mean?

To convince/get you to believe or do something
500

What do we call the "lesson" or "moral" in the story?

Theme

500

What the whole passage is about.

Main Idea

DAILY DOUBLE

500

how do you spell the plural form of tooth?

teeth

500

An action word 

Verb