Our expectation is to move all students to grade level performance as soon as they are able to achieve at that level. During self-selected reading, third graders select books which they can read on their independent level. As teachers conference with each student, book selection and comprehension are monitored to ensure each student is appropriately challenged. Children at third grade level will read several simple chapter books this year. Better readers will read more complicated books.
Third graders can read independently.
Third graders now have enough skills to use to understand what they are reading and to deal with any new words they need to read. They know how to use the surrounding words and sentences as clues to figure out the new word's meaning, and they know the sounds of enough letters that they can sound out many words. Third graders will read poetry, tall tales, myths, fairy tales and fables. Third graders will learn to identify what type of story they are reading. They will become more comfortable with the various forms of literature by writing their own tales, and fables.