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Teaching & Learning Curriculum Comprehensive Reading Program Grade Level Expectations - Third Grade
Teaching & Learning Curriculum Comprehensive Reading Program Grade Level Expectations - Third GradeGrade Level Reading Expectations - Third Grade
Making Meaning at Text Level
- Selects and integrates most appropriate strategies and can explain how meaning was gained and/or checked
- Justifies stance on authenticity of text, or reasons for actions in text, and own response
- Identifies importance of setting in terms of characters and actions
- Identifies author's intention and purpose for writing and how these influence reading and response
- Identifies main idea or message of text and evaluates how this influences meaning and the reading
- Considers how different illustrative or text forms present a different view of or emphasis on the same content or theme
- Summarizes orally and in writing information gained from text and/or illustration
- Identifies persuasive elements in fiction and nonfiction material
- Uses a range of reference material including technical texts to pursue interests and complete tasks
- Skims and scans when selecting a book or seeking information
- Uses reading to explore ideas and gain new knowledge
- Uses charts and tables to read and present information comparing, recording, summarizing, or reorganizing ideas and facts from textual and/or illustrative materials
- Uses pace and intonation to reflect purpose and meaning when reading to others
Making Meaning at Word Level
- Uses knowledge of letter clusters, syllabification, affixes, roots, and compound words for identifying and/or confirming words
- Shows knowledge of multiple meanings of some words
- Uses dictionaries, glossaries, and thesauruses to check meaning and spelling
Making Meaning Using Context
- Selects and uses synonyms and antonyms for adjectives, adverbs, verbs
- Identifies similes and metaphors and provides alternatives
- Copes with a wide range of features within a text or book
- Copes with more than one form within a text
Reading Attitudes and Behaviors
- Uses library for specific purposes as well as for browsing
- Gathers and synthesizes information from paragraphs and longer texts and from a variety of sources
- Reruns and self corrects over longer passages and on a range of writing forms
- Identifies elements in the text and illustrations that develop characterization and influence the presentation of plot
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