Level Three

Confident readers beginning to utilize and understand more complex sentence structure.

* Larger Plot and Character Development - Readers begin to monitor their own comprehension as they understand more complicated plots and characters.

* Challenging Vocabulary Words - Stories begin to use more complicated words that prompt readers to seek out definitions independently and use them more often in everyday speech.

* More Difficult Sentence Structure - Complex sentence structures helps readers understand groups of related words and the phrases that make them up.