Grade 3 · Week 1Main idea
How a City Bus Gets You to School
Students read a short article about a city bus route and find the main idea and the details that prove it. Word work is compound words and closed syllables.
On screen - your kid, alone
- 1Day 1 - Meet the story
- 2Day 2 - Word work
- 3Day 3 - What it means
- 4Day 4 - Fix & re-read
- 5Day 5 - Show what you know
Offline - with you
Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
This week your child reads a short article about a city bus and finds what it is mostly about. On day 5 they read their sentence out loud to you and you ask them the printed question. Listen for how they read the word sunlight.
How a City Bus Gets You to School
Every school morning, a city bus stops at the corner of Pine Street. The doors fold open with a soft hiss. The driver is named Sam. He has been awake since five, and his bus was checked before sunrise. Sam's morning route starts at the bus yard. He drives past the library, turns at the red brick school, and stops nine times. Each stop has a number and a time on Sam's schedule. He watches the clock, and he keeps to it. The people who ride the bus are called passengers. Some carry backpacks, and some carry coffee cups. A schedule is a plan that tells when things happen. Sam's schedule tells him when to leave and when to arrive. Some days the road is busy. A truck blocks a lane, a light stays red, and the bus falls behind. Sam never speeds. He drives with care, calls out the next stop, and waits for the last passenger to sit down. When you climb down at your school, the bell has not rung yet. The route worked. The schedule held.