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3 rd Grade<br />

Transitional Stage of Reading:<br />

Transitional readers continue to build their expertise with the use of phonics, visual cues, context clues,<br />

sentence structure, and text structure to read unfamiliar material. They are growing in their skills of<br />

predicting, cross-checking, and monitoring their understanding of content.<br />

Books appropriate for students in this stage are easy chapter books that require more than one sitting to<br />

read. They utilize vocabulary of several hundred, primarily one- and two-syllable, words. These stories are<br />

more complex and often require the reader to make inferences. They typically contain few, if any,<br />

illustrations.<br />

Stages of Writing:<br />

Refer to ASPIRE (appendix B).<br />

Genre – historical fiction, mystery, folk tales – pour quoi stories, poetry, nonfiction.<br />

Suggested Authors:<br />

Aesop<br />

Christopher van Allsburg<br />

Matt Christopher<br />

Beverly Cleary<br />

Andrew Clements<br />

Debbie Dadey<br />

Rahl Dahl<br />

Douglas Florian<br />

Patricia MacLachlan<br />

Patricia Polacco<br />

Faith Ringgold<br />

Louis Sachar<br />

Allen Say<br />

Brian Selznick<br />

Shel Silverstein<br />

William Steig<br />

John Steptoe<br />

E. B. White<br />

Laura Ingalls Wilder<br />

Jeanette Winter<br />

© <strong>Albemarle</strong> <strong>County</strong> Public Schools, May 2006 30

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