It has been proven that children benefit immensely when parents take an active role in their education. Skill Sharpeners: Spell & Write provides grade-specific practice designed to keep written language skills at the ready! Full-color pages will help children master grade-appropriate spelling, reading, grammar, punctuation, and writing skills through a variety of fun and engaging exercises. Grade 3 specifically covers spelling words, long and short vowel sounds, visual memory, visual and auditory discrimination, common and proper nouns, capitalizing proper nouns, identifying subjects and predicates, using apostrophes to make contractions, writing an acrostic poem and a personal narrative, using context clues, map skills and more.