In Grade 3, students develop their reading and viewing skills to interact meaningfully with a variety of texts. They learn to apply comprehension strategies, develop vocabulary, and recognize how authors craft texts to convey meaning. Students read for pleasure, personal growth, and to gather information.
By the end of Grade Three, the learner will be expected to:
Assessment strategies that provide information about learning:
The purpose of Reading and Viewing instruction is for pleasure and personal growth and to develop readers who enjoy and interact meaningfully with a wide range of genres and text forms. Meaningful interaction with texts is developed through learning how to access and build on background knowledge and use the information provided by various sources for meaning, developing vocabulary, recognizing and using language structures, and meaningful application of graphophonic elements of the text.
Teachers should be aware that reading comprehension strategies are similar to listening comprehension strategies. These include determining the main idea, making connections, predicting, visualizing, inferring, analyzing, and synthesizing. Regular opportunities for students to practice these strategies with texts at their independent reading level will help them develop as confident, strategic readers.
