Third Grade Language Arts for Homeschoolers and Websites to Make Learning Fun

Homeschoolers have the freedom to follow their own educational course, or if they unschool, to let the children lead and choose what their subject matter. There are, however national education standards however, that homeschoolers may want to follow. This article lists the subject matter according to national standards for language arts. It also includes links to useful and fun websites that will keep learning fun.

By third grade a student should have strong reading skills, being able to read both silently and out loud. The should be familiar to both prose and poetry. Gameclassroom.com has great lessons to help you teach students to read prose and poetry.

Basic grammar exercises for third graders also includes the following. Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word can be taught with a lesson guide from donnayoung.org. You can reinforce this skill with these funbrain.com resources.

Students must be able to use the dictionary. These skills can be learned with the help of this lesson plan found at scholastic.com. Quia.com has a game you can use to practice.

Developing word-attack methods are very important as they help a student understand what they are reading. Reading a-z.com has a guide to help teach this important skill.

Synonyms teach words that mean the same thing. Antonyms are words with the opposite meaning, and homonyms are words that sound the same. Kids can learn to tell the difference by playing academic games like .

There is no shortage of spelling help online. As kids tend to push back when it comes time to practice spelling, you will want to use some of these spelling games. My recommendations are Superteacherworksheets.com which includes spelling lists, and Spelling City which allows you to insert your own words.

Third grade students must learn punctuation marks such as the period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, and quotation mark. Get online practice for punctuation at gamequarium.com.

Students should be able to give Oral presentations in which they report experiences orally with accuracy. This prepares them for being able to write reports as well as short, original stories and poems. They should learn the concept of paragraph. Here is a great tutorial you can use at scholastic.com. In learning to write, students should first learn Postwriting skills such as editing and proofreading. You can find online tutorials at educationworld.com and Hartcourtschool.com.

Cursive writing is also a skill that third graders should practice. This can be accomplished with worksheets from websites such as kidszone.com, or abc teach.com.

Reading materials for third graders should consist of legends, myths, poems, and plays as in addition to fiction and non fiction reading. Here is a third grade book list that focuses on values. Here is another book and reading list for third graders, that are in the public domain.