What We Learn in Third Grade
Math:
Literature:
Informational Texts:
Vocabulary:
Writing:
Science:
- Use place value understanding to perform mathematical operations (addition and subtraction)
- Develop understanding of unit fractions
- Tell and write time (half hour, quarter hour, 5 minute, 10 minute)
- Represent and interpret data
- Understand and find perimeter and area
- Describe and compare quadrilaterals using attributes
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division
- Understand property of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division
- Multiply and divide fluently through 10
- Identify and explain patterns
Literature:
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text
- Determine and understand point of view
- Compare/contrast story elements (theme, setting, plot)
Informational Texts:
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text
- Analyze the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text (time sequence, cause/effect, compare/contrast)
- Determine main idea and supporting details.
Vocabulary:
- Acquire and accurately use grade appropriate and content specific vocabulary
- Use a range of strategies to determine meanings of unknown words (prefix, suffix, context clues, etc.)
Writing:
- Write opinion pieces on topic supporting a point of view with reasons
- Write informative texts to convey ideas and information clearly
- Write narratives using effective technique, detail, and event sequences
- Organize writing as appropriate for task and purpose
- Write routinely over extended periods of time and shorter time frames
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of grammar
- Use appropriate capitalization; punctuation; and spell grade-appropriate words correctly
- Social Studies:
- Shows understanding of communities
- Shows understanding of US history
- Shows understanding of economics
- Shows understanding of government
- Understands and apples vocabulary
- Use text features to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
- Use information gained from illustrations and words in a text to demonstrate understanding of a text
Science:
- Shows understanding of matter, properties, and states
- Shows understanding of the water cycle
- Shows understanding and can identify sources of energy (sun, moon, shadows)
- Shows understanding of plant parts and functions.
- Understands and apples vocabulary
- Use text features to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently
- Use information gained from illustrations and words in a text to demonstrate understanding of a text