Third Grade
Grade-Level Content Standards
Third Grade
Third grade is a year of great change for kids! They are full of energy and are often in a hurry! Their enthusiasm is magical and contagious! Third graders play hard, but tire easily and can often be overzealous, taking on more than they are able to handle. At this age(8-9), students learn well by doing, for example, with manipulatives and other hands-on activities. Exaggerated story-telling using elaborate words is typical of this age group.
Social and emotional strategies/skills include:
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Works collaboratively in groups and contributes to the group effort.
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Explores fairness and justice with differences of opinion
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Adjusts better to change, showing signs of an easygoing personality
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Takes more risks and recovers from mistakes or problems more quickly
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Enjoys friendship groups with mostly same gender friends.
Foundational English Language Acquisition(ELA) Skills include:
- Answer inference questions from text
- Use text evidence to support statements
- Write multiple (3 or more) well formed paragraphs on a topic with sensory details and transitions, correct spelling, punctuation, and grammar
- Identify main idea, theme, message, and purpose with text evidence for fables, legends, myths, poems, and non-fiction reading
- Identify expository text features (e.g. table of contents, glossary, index, captions, maps, diagrams, etc.)
Foundational Math Skills include:
- Read, write and say numbers up to 100,000
- Memorize multiplication and division facts through 12
- Understand, solve, and explain 2 step word problems using all four operations
- Understand the foundational skills of fractions using multiple representations
- Compute multi-digit addition and subtraction problems up to 10,000
- Understand the attributes of shapes in different categories
- Use measuring tools to calculate length, width, height, area, and volume
- Tell time to the nearest minute
Tips for Parents of 3rd Grade Students:
- Give praise and recognition to your child
- Set aside time for your child to talk and explain their ideas
- Encourage your child so socialize in groups as feasible
- Encourage cooperation over competition in group tasks
- Help your child compartmentalize stressful things like school tests
- Write directions out for your child to follow (eg morning/bedtime routines)