Third Grade Reading Skills

Third Grade Reading Skills

Suggested Teaching Strategies for 3rd Grade Reading Skills

1. Reads fluently with speed, accuracy, pacing, and inflection
2. Reads fluently with understanding
3. Follows oral and written directions
4. Demonstrates comprehension of words, sentences, directions, and stories
5. Communicates in written form
6. Identifies/spells many words
7. Spells frequently-used words correctly
8. Expands sight vocabulary
9. Self-corrects when reading miscue
10. Extends word patterns
11. Decodes unknown words in context using meaning cues, sentence       structure cues, and phonetic generalizations
12. Determines cause and effect
13. Reads for more than one purpose
14. Utilizes picture/context cues
15. Recognizes synonyms, antonyms, contractions and compound words
16. Draws conclusions from reading
17. Recalls details
18. Makes and revises predictions
19. Compares and contrasts
20. Uses title page, table of contents, index, and glossary as information sources
21. Follows directions
22. Listens to oral reading