Third Grade Reading Expectations

1.  The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.1 Uses word recognition skills and strategies to read and comprehend text.

1.1.1 Apply phonetic principles to read including sounding out, using initial letters, and using common letter patterns to make sense of whole words.

Apply understanding of phonics.

• Use knowledge of phonics to read unfamiliar words in grade level text.
• Read words containing complex letter patterns/word families (e.g., -ieve or –eive, -ield).
• Apply multi-syllabic decoding when reading words in all text.

1.2 Use vocabulary (word meaning) strategies to comprehend text.

1.2.1 Use word and sentence structure to understand reading materials including prefixes, suffixes, contractions, and simple abbreviations.

Apply knowledge of word and sentence structure to comprehend text.

• Identify the meanings of prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings, and abbreviated words in grade level text.
• Describe how word meanings change as affixes are added to base words (e.g., rest/unrest/restful).

1.2.2 Use a variety of reading strategies to comprehend words and ideas, including self-correcting, re-reading, reading on, and slowing down.

Apply word-meaning strategies in grade level text.

• Substitute familiar words for unknown, attempt alternative pronunciation for unknown word.

1.2.3 Use dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources to understand and confirm word meanings.

Apply knowledge of reference materials to determine word meanings.

• Use glossaries and dictionaries to find or confirm word meanings.

1.3 Build vocabulary through wide reading.

1.3.1 Use pictures, graphics, word meaning, and context clues to comprehend text.

Apply strategies to predict, clarify, and expand word meaning in grade level text.

• Use pictures, illustrations, and diagrams independently to clarify/expand word meaning.
• Use context clues to predict the meaning of unknown words, including multiple meaning words like homophones and homographs.

1.3.2 Build reading vocabulary across content areas.

Understand and apply new vocabulary.

• Increase vocabulary through reading literary and informational text.
• Use new vocabulary in own speaking and writing.

1.3.3 Identify and interpret general and specialized vocabulary critical to the meaning of text.

Apply knowledge of content area vocabulary to reading.

• Identify and define words and concepts necessary for understanding math, science, social studies, and other content area text.
• Recognize that some words have a different meaning in different content areas. (e.g., area in math and geography).

1.4 Apply word recognition skills and strategies to read fluently.

1.4.1 Read grade level text fluently.

Apply word and text structure knowledge to read fluently with comprehension.

• Read aloud familiar grade level literary and informational text accurately, using appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expression.
• Read aloud unpracticed grade level text at a target rate of 110-120 words correct per minute.

1.4.2 Adjust reading rate to incorporate new skills or read unfamiliar text with understanding.

Apply different reading rates to text.

• Adjust reading rate to suit difficulty of texts such as content area reading and for different purposes such as pleasure reading vs. reading for information).