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3rd Grade Reading

Ignite a passion for reading in your third grader with Sylvan Learning’s personalized tutoring, tailored to enhance comprehension and fluency for academic excellence.

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Building enthusiasm for reading

We know you want to build your child’s confidence and enthusiasm for reading. 3rd grade is a great time to turn reading frustration into triumph … or to provide advanced help to move your 3 rd grader ahead. Using your child’s personal learning plan as a guide, our 3rd grade reading tutors will weave the building blocks of reading — vocabulary, phonics and word patterns — into fun lessons. With our great teaching, cool technology and motivational rewards, you’ll see bigger smiles and better results in no time.

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What they’ll learn

With our 3rd grade reading tutoring, your child will learn key reading concepts and skills such as:

Fluency
Read grade-level texts with accuracy
Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
Understand how punctuation impacts fluency
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Phonics
Identify letters of the alphabet
Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (i.e., block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (i.e., join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (i.e., car, bear, pier)
Break a word down into syllables, or use syllabication
Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (i.e., books, started, singing, gladly)
Identify compound words
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Vocabulary
Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
Identify the words that make up a contraction
Understand compound words
Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning
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Reading Comprehension
Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
Answer questions about a text after reading it
And much more based on your child's unique reading needs …
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Reading tutoring by grade levels

Our reading programs offer instruction in common topics like phonics and reading comprehension to help your student gain confidence in reading. (Watch them succeed in all subject areas!)

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“It has been a great experience. The tutors are awesome and my daughter enjoys learning here. Glad we took the step to try it out!”
— Danielle W. · Columbia, SC

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