3rd Grade CCSS: Reading: Foundational Skills

For third graders, this Common Core area helps students gain mastery of the concepts of print, the alphabet, and the basic conventions of the written English language. Those goals can be met with support and prompting, and can be differentiated by student skill level. Among the complete standards for this grade, third graders will be asked to: use third grade appropriate phonics and word analysis skills to decode words, use common derivational prefixes and suffixes, as well as Latin suffixes, decode multi-syllable words and irregularly spelled words, read third grade texts with the proper fluency, accuracy and understanding.