Third+Grade+Student+Goals+for+Reading

Student Goals For Reading Intervention 

**__Fluency Goals for 3rd Grade Students:__** All 3rd graders should read 77 words per minute in the fall. In the winter all 3rd graders should read 92 words per minute. At the end of the school year 3rd graders should read 110 words per minute.

**__Phonics Goals for 3rd Grade Students:__** 3rd graders should know all their letter sounds and be able to decode one-syllable words at the beginning of the school year. As the year progresses students will improve their decoding skills while applying what they learned throughout the school year.

__**Comprehension Goals for 3rd Grade Students:**__ 3rd grade intervention students will increase their ability to understand what they read by applying comprehension skills taught throughout the school year. Such skills include finding the main idea and details, determining fact and opinion, and comparing and contrasting.

__**Vocabulary Goals for 3rd Grade Students:**__ 3rd grade students will increase their knowledge of new words and their meanings. Skills that are taught to achieve this goal include synonyms and antonyms, using context clues, and prefixes and suffixes.