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3 and 4 Summertools

This document provides tips and tools for practicing important 3rd and 4th grade reading and math skills for 30 minutes per day. For reading, it recommends fluency practice, using a personal dictionary, and playing vocabulary games. Comprehension tips include summarizing texts and asking who, what, when, where, why questions. Useful websites are listed. For math, it suggests memorizing multiplication facts, telling time, counting change, and measuring. Hands-on games like math scavenger hunts and building arrays with Legos are recommended. Sites for math practice with telling time, money and measurement are also included.

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3 and 4 Summertools

This document provides tips and tools for practicing important 3rd and 4th grade reading and math skills for 30 minutes per day. For reading, it recommends fluency practice, using a personal dictionary, and playing vocabulary games. Comprehension tips include summarizing texts and asking who, what, when, where, why questions. Useful websites are listed. For math, it suggests memorizing multiplication facts, telling time, counting change, and measuring. Hands-on games like math scavenger hunts and building arrays with Legos are recommended. Sites for math practice with telling time, money and measurement are also included.

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3-4 READING & MATH

TIPS & TOOLS


Cut on horizontal line below, and fold on vertical line to make a bookmark.

READING MATH

30 minutes a day 30 minutes a day


READING/FLUENCY MULTIPLICATION
Tips Tips
Priority: Read multisyllabic words fluently and smoothly Priority: Memorize math facts up to 10x10
Read for 20 minutes in a "fun" spot - yard, hammock, blanket fort, etc. Have a parent/guardian make a math scavenger hunt for you; each clue
Create your own personal reading dictionary notebook - decorate it could contain a math multiplication problem that must be solved
and write down new, unfamiliar words as well as their meanings; correctly in order to obtain the next clue
review the words on a regular basis Create a "Math Memory" game using notecards; to get a match, you
Use alphabet cereal or letter tiles (if you have them) to spell long, must find both the problem card (ex. 9x5) and the answer card (ex. 45)
multisyllabic words (or words from your reading dictionary); break the in the same turn
words into parts with one vowel sound per part Use Legos to build equal groups or arrays to solve multiplication
problems
Tools
Tools
Helpful Websites
Startwithabook.org
Helpful Websites
Raz-Kids.com SplashLearn.com
Fluency Tutor for Google - https://fluency.texthelp.com ReflexMath.com
Funbrain.com OR  Reading Rivet app (free ebooks) Sumdog.com (look for the "Tables" button under the "Subjects" tab)
Summer Reading Program - scholastic.com/site/summer/home.html Numberock math multiples videos on YouTube
Google "30 Fun, Hands-On Ways to Teach Multiplication"

COMPREHENSION AND VOCABULARY TELLING TIME, MONEY, AND MEASURING


Tips Tips
 Priority: Construct meaning while reading literary/nonfiction texts  Priority: Tell time to the minute, count change, and measure objects
Read a short section of text and then write/share a one sentence summary Keep track of when you start and end 5 different activities; then, figure
Look back after reading and ask yourself: who? what? when? where? why? out how much time has passed (or elapsed); tell time on an analog clock
Play vocabulary/word games or apps (for example: choose five new, Open a "store" for your younger siblings; use fake money from a board
unfamiliar words to learn each week -- see how often everyone in the game or spare change -- practice giving correct change to your customers
family can use these words in everyday conversation) Use a ruler or tape measure to measure various items around the house
(to the nearest 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch, and inch)
Tools
Tools
Helpful Websites
Helpful Websites
Commonlit.org (search for 3rd/4th grade level passages)
ReadWorks.org MathNook.com
Youngzine.org/Newsela.com - student news sites MrNussbaum.com/math/telling-time
Vocabulary.com (sign up for free; search for a particular grade/book) Mr.Nussbaum.com/cash-out-online-game (counting change game)
Flocabulary.com - create 30-day free trial (Reading & Writing) Onlinemathlearning.com/measurement-games
Google "5 Hands-On Ways to Teach Telling Time"

Other Skills to Practice: Other Skills to Practice:


*using context clues to figure out word meanings *finding perimeter and area *rounding numbers
*summarizing *making connections *identifying literary *recognizing place value *identifying fractions
devices (similes, metaphors, alliteration...) *adding/subtracting six-digit numbers

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