Grade 3 • Language Arts • Writing
Writing
Your child will write for various audiences addressing a variety of purposes: to inform or explain, to persuade, and to express personal ideas. They will control sentence structure, word choice, and the conventions of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. The Being a Writer program is designed to help students build these writing skills. Throughout the program students hear and discuss examples of good writing and use it as a model to draft, revise, and publish their own writing. The program also helps the class become a community of writers in which everyone feels welcome.
Third Grade Writing Units
- The Writing Community
- The Writing Process
- Personal Narrative
- Fiction
- Expository Nonfiction
- Functional Writing
- Opinion Writing
- Poetry
- Revisiting the Writing Community
Writing Tips
- Encourage your child to write often.
- Provide an area in your home for writing with special materials (pencils, different types of paper, markers, envelopes).
- Praise your child’s writing.
- Share letters and cards from friends and relatives with your child.
- Encourage journal writing for special occasions (trips, family events, planning a birthday party).
- Have your child help you compose shopping lists, notes and letters to friends, and invitations.
- Encourage your child to write stories.
- Allow your child to take risks on a rough draft. Be your child’s partner for changing and correcting his or her writing.
- Encourage your child to write thank you notes, invitations, letters to others, lists of things to do, and items to take on a trip.
Handwriting Tips and resources
- Practice at least 30 minutes per week.
- Practice writing the letter in the air, on the carpet, in shaving cream, on a sibling's or parent's back.
- Cursive Letter Formations Links to an external site.
- Handwriting paper Links to an external site.