2008-2009: Third Grade Curriculum for First Nine Week Period

Reading

• Identifying elements of realism and fantasy
• Sequencing and summarizing
• Identifying the author’s purpose
• Drawing conclusions
• Making inferences
• Story structure: character and setting
• Biography and timelines
• Main ideas and details

Grammar/Language Arts

• Complete sentences
• Subjects and predicates
• Statements and questions
• Commands and exclamations
• Compound sentences
• Common and proper nouns
• Singular and plural nouns

Vocabulary

• Using context clues: homonyms
• Word structure: compound words
• Using a glossary or dictionary
• Using context clues: multiple meaning words
• Word structure: prefixes and suffixes
• Using context clues: synonyms

Writing Workshop

• Personal narrative
• Finding topics to write about
• Workshop procedures

Math

• Ordinal Numbers
• Reading and writing numbers up to 100,000
• Comparing and ordering numbers
• Rounding
• Counting money and making change (using count up method) up to $5.00
• Adding two and three digit numbers with regrouping
• Adding three or more numbers
• Subtracting two and three digit numbers
• Subtracting across zeros
• Adding and subtracting money
• Fact Families
• Input/output tables
• Estimating sums and differences

Social Studies

• What is a community?
• How communities are different
• Urban, suburban, rural communities

Science

• Characteristics of living things
• Needs of plants and labeling parts of a seed
• Needs of animals, how animals grow, parts of animals, kinds of animals
• Identify what makes up an ecosystem
• Identify various habitats
• Food chains and food webs