By the third grade, students are well on their way to being independent readers. They begin to develop the skills necessary to be more critical readers.
Students read novels and begin to look closely at the author s use of language and writing style.
As they proceed through this process, the students writing assignments are closely correlated with what they are reading. By the end of the third grade, students are prepared to present brief written and oral reports. The students in third grade do an extensive letter writing unit as well as comprehensive units on newspapers and baseball. Roald Dahl and E.B. White are two of the major authors studied by third graders. At the third grade level, the students must commit to memory all of the multiplication and division facts.