Third grade is the year Florida starts testing. This is the summer that decides how ready your child walks in.
Fifteen pages built for one specific transition — finishing second grade and starting third. And this transition matters more than the others, because third grade is where reading shifts from learning to read into reading to learn, where multiplication arrives, and where the FAST assessment enters the picture for the first time.
We don't cram for that. We build for it. Every page here works on understanding before speed: multiplication as equal groups before it's ever a memorized fact, place value deep enough that rounding makes sense, and reading passages that require going back to the text for evidence. A child who understands why doesn't panic when a question looks unfamiliar in the spring.
📘 What's Inside
15 pages in our signature bridge structure
A parent "How to Use" guide with pacing guidance
10 content pages alternating reading and math
Reading: longer passages, main idea, inference, and finding evidence in the text
Math: place value to 1,000, multi-digit addition and subtraction, an introduction to multiplication as equal groups, and multi-step word problems
A cumulative Mixed Challenge covering the full book
A student reflection page for self-assessment
Complete answer key
Clean layout with real work space for showing thinking
🎯 Perfect For
Second grade graduates heading into third
Families getting ahead of Florida FAST testing before it starts
Building multiplication readiness before the school year does
Tutors running a summer bridge program
Homeschool summer units between grade levels
📝 How It Works
Download instantly and print the workbook.
Read the How to Use page first — it sets the pace correctly.
One content page per session, four or five days a week.
On reading pages, have your child underline the sentence that proves each answer.
Finish with the Mixed Challenge in the last week of summer, then do the reflection page together.
