Third Grade
Third Grade
Math:
Skip count by whole numbers,
Compare and order numbers, Identify place value, Identify ordinal
position to twentieth, Identify and complete patterns
Solve routine and nonroutine problems, Master all basic addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division facts, Add/subtract
multidigit numbers
Multiply a multidigit number by a single digit number, Divide by single
digit divisors, Add positive and negative numbers, Picture, name, and
order fractions
Add and subtract fractions with common
denominators, Measure to the nearest quarter inch, millimeter, foot,
and yard
Identify the volume of standard containers, Compare and measure mass,
Measure perimeter and area, Tell time to the minute
Determine elapsed time, Count money, Make change for a dollar, Identify
angles, Identify lines of symmetry, Identify function rules
Graph ordered pairs on a coordinate graph, Tally, Write addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division fact families
Write story problems for addition/subtraction number sentences
Create,
read, and write observations from real graphs, pictographs, bar graphs,
Venn diagrams, and line graphs
Handwriting
Getting Ready to Write, Writing to
Help Me Think, Writing Notes and Letters, Writing Stories and Poems,
Writing to Describe
History
Using Maps and Social Studies Tools,
Studying One Community
Learning about Cities and Smaller Communities
Farm Products for Our Communities
Resources for Our Communities
Connecting Our Communities
Citizenship
Our Nation Celebrates Its Past
Science
Plant Growth, How Animals Grow and
Change, Living Things Needs Each Other, How People Affect Plants and
Animals
Properties of Matter, Work and Machines, Forms of Energy, Sounds, Rocks
and Soil, Changes in the Earth
Clouds and Storms, The Sun, Moon, and Planets, The Body's Support, Your
Body's Health Needs
Spelling
Short Vowel Sounds, Double Letters,
Verbs, Consonant Clusters, More Letters than Sounds, Plurals
The Sound j, The Sound k, The Sound s, Verbs that End with e, The Vowel
Sound a, The Vowel Sound e
The Vowel Sound I, The Vowel Sound o, Compound Words, Contractions
The Sounds o and or, The Sound ur, The Sound ar, Silent Letters, Words
that End with y
The Sounds el and er, Homophones, The Sound oo, The Sounds ou and oi
Words with ou and ough, Syllable Patterns
3rd grade- Reading Celebrations and Fanfares
Passport stories, Porthole stories,
Beauty stories, Milestone stories
Voyage stories, Landscape stories, Applause stories, Window stories
Literature for broadening experience and increasing appreciation
Comprehension for expanding understanding and evaluating ideas
Thinking for deeper understanding and more dynamic expression
Writing for effective communication and meaningful responses to
literature
Speaking for active,
confident expression of thoughts, understandings, and insights
Listening for learning to derive meaning from spoken language
Decoding for early, confident word identification
Vocabulary for word power to expand comprehension and refine expression
Language for understanding uses of language and connecting related
processes
Study skills for using reading to learn