Teaching in Room 9. Making Inferences - Day 3 | 3rd Grade Reading. Special | 28m 11s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Students review what an inference is and use their skills to help answer questions.

The third-grade ELA portion of the M-STEP also includes answering questions about a longer passage, writing paragraphs and matching notes with main ideas, for example. How did you do?

Both of these studies looked at Florida, a state that has had a 3rd grade reading policy on the books since 2003. In a 2017 study , researchers followed students who were retained in 3rd grade ...