Welcome To Third Grade!                                                                    

Third Grade Student Skills

HOW PARENTS CAN HELP

• Encourage reading by having a variety of newspapers, magazines and books at home.
• Read aloud to your child to build vocabulary and listening skills.
• Share and discuss books and stories at home to motivate your child to read.
• Discuss news at home.
• Write at home. Leave your child notes and messages. Encourage your child to write you notes, too.
• When preparing meals, ask your child to be responsible for timing items cooking on the stove or in the oven.
• While shopping, give your child a predetermined amount of money to spend. Have him/her make decisions about what he/she can or cannot buy with this amount.
• Have a family plan for reducing, reusing and recycling materials at home. Collect data and chart or graph your efforts.
• Identify animals in your yard or nearby habitat.
• Use various sources to learn about life in other countries. Compare and contrast to life in the U.S. Are there ways family members can or do make responsible contributions at home, school or in the community?

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Language Arts

The third grade student will:

Listening, Viewing and Speaking

• follow multi step oral directions
• interpret oral literary selections for details, main ideas, themes, settings, actions and figurative language
• speak clearly using correct grammar
• read a literary selection aloud
• give oral presentations for specific purposes and audiences
• determine main content and supporting detail in a nonprint media
• distinguish fact from opinion in nonprint media (television advertisements)

Structural Analysis and Vocabulary

• recognize vowel patterns
• identify the written form of words given orally or within a context
• identify prefixes and suffixes of given words
• form contractions
• interpret the meaning of words, including multiple meaning words, using context clues
• recognize synonyms or antonyms of words

Reading and Literature

• use text features to predict content (table of contents, headings, illustrations, captions)
• recognize details from texts and determine sequence of events
• identify the main idea
• recognize cause and effect relationships in literary texts
• compare and contrast similarities and differences in texts
• recognize major literary genre (drama, poetry, fables, fantasy, biography, etc.)
• analyze characterization in a literary selection
• describe the development of the plot and problem resolution in a literary selection
• identify the author's purpose including to persuade, to inform, to entertain and to tell a story
• differentiate between fact, fiction and opinion in text
• justify an inference using specific information from the text
• use a variety of strategies to monitor reading (rereading, self correcting, summarizing, checking
  other sources)

Study and Reference

• use a table of contents or index to find information
• use a variety of reference materials to gather information
• organize information (outline, timeline, graphic organizer)

Writing

• brainstorm and organize ideas for a topic
• write a narrative or expository draft focusing on a central idea or topic
• use an organizational pattern appropriate to purpose and audience
• use support to develop ideas and topic sentences in writing (specific details, precise word choice,
  examples)
• use simple transitions to show sequence in a narrative story or to relate ideas in expository writing
• develop a piece of writing by adding, deleting or rearranging ideas and details
• edit writing for capitalization, punctuation, usage and spelling
• edit writing for fragments, run on sentences and sentence clarity
• produce and share final writing products
• write a story, friendly letter and a report

Grammar, Handwriting, Mechanics/Spelling

• use correct grammar
• write legibly in cursive
• use correct mechanics of language in writing
• use correct spelling in writing

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Mathematics

The third grade student will:

Number Sense

• read and write the numeral and word form for whole numbers through hundred thousands
• demonstrate an understanding of place value of whole numbers
• compare and order whole numbers through hundred thousands
• recall basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts
• estimate and find sums and differences of whole numbers
• find the product of a two or three digit number and a one digit number or multiple of ten
• identify multiples of whole numbers 1 10
• find the quotient, with or without a remainder, when a two or three digit number is divided by a one
  digit number
• solve real world problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication or division of whole
  numbers
• read and write proper fractions with denominators including 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8,10 and 100
• compare and order common fractions including halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths and eighths
• find sums and differences of two fractions with single digit denominations
• identify, compare and order decimals through hundredths
  solve problems involving money
• identify equivalent numbers in different forms using whole numbers, fractions and decimals through
  hundredths

Measurement

• determine the appropriate units, tools and accuracy needed for a measurement problem
• solve problems involving time
• identify the value of money in coins or bills up to $20.00
• read and interpret the temperature of a Fahrenheit or Celsius thermometer to solve problems
• estimate the quantity of a group of objects and justify the estimate
• estimate and measure length, weight and volume to solve problems using U.S. customary or metric
  units
• estimate and find the perimeter and area of a rectangular shape

Geometry

• recognize and use geometric vocabulary to describe two and three dimensional figures (parallel and
• perpendicular lines, quadrilateral, right angles)
• identify, classify and draw common geometric figures
• identify similar and congruent relationships of geometric figures
• solve mathematical and real world problems involving the measurement of angles

Algebraic Thinking

• identify and extend numerical patterns to solve problems
• identify a rule that describes the mathematical relationship of a pattern
• identify a number sentence with a variable to represent a simple word problem
• identify and plot the ordered pair located by a point on a graph

Data Analysis and Probability

• identify parts of a graph and their purpose
• interpret and compare information from different types of graphs
• identify the median, mode and range from a set of data
• calculate the probability of a particular event occurring from a set of all possible outcomes

Problem Solving

• formulate problems from real world and mathematical situations
• apply strategies to solve a variety of word problems
  

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Science

The third grade student will:

The Nature of Matter Chemistry

• determine the physical properties of matter using metric tools
• recognize that physical changes in the states of matter can be produced by heating and cooling
• use magnification tools to observe minute details of objects

Energy

• identify forms of energy (heat, light, electricity, sound)
• recognize that heat can be provided in a variety of ways (chemical reactions, electrical machines,
  friction)

Force and Motion Physics

• identify characteristics of waves (crest, trough, length, height)
• identify simple machines and how they are used

Processes that Shape the Earth Earth Science

• recognize the stages of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration)
• recognize the causes and effects of weathering and erosion
• recognize the effects of earthquakes and volcanoes on land formation

Earth and Space Astronomy

• describe the lunar cycle as the changes in the way the moon looks over a 28 day period
• compare the relative positions of the planets
• describe the characteristics of our solar system's planets with emphasis on the inner planets

Processes of Life Biology

• recognize similarities and differences among plants
• identify vertebrates and their characteristics

Ecology

• identify examples of living things classified as producers, consumers, carnivores, herbivores and
  omnivores
• recognize ways that animals depend upon plants for survival
• recognize that the size of a population is limited by the availability of resources
• classify resources as renewable or nonrenewable

The Nature of Science

• demonstrate skills necessary to work cooperatively with other students
• use the scientific method to complete tasks related to the study of science
• recognize that science allows people to solve problems, make decisions and form new ideas
• recognize the significance of the history of science and scientists' contributions to the
  development of scientific concepts

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Social Studies

The third grade student will:

Focusing Skills and Knowledge

• identify lines of latitude and longitude on a globe
• locate the equator and the northern and southern hemispheres on a globe
• locate all seven continents on a map or globe
• describe geographic regions, land forms and climates and their effects on human activity
• examine history using a variety of sources (books, magazines, documents, Internet sites)

History

• recognize aspects of family life of ancient and medieval times in agrarian and urban settings
• describe significant scientific and technological achievements of ancient, medieval and Renaissance
  times
• identify changes in transportation and communication that affected the lives of people in ancient
  and medieval times
• recognize consequences of explorations that occurred during the Age of Discovery

Government and Citizenship

• recognize the emergence throughout history of different laws and systems of government
• recognize ways citizens participate in democracies

Economics

• recognize the role that money played in the development of ancient civilizations
• recognize ways governments have provided goods and services during ancient times, medieval times
  and the Renaissance
  
  

Students should be doing the following
activities at home: 

Make sure your parents sign your agenda book every evening ( Monday - Friday).


Read every evening for 30 minutes. Record your progress in your Reading Log.


Practice your multiplication math facts.


Practice your weekly spelling words.        

Websites for Kids

• www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/kidsweb

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Websites to Help Parents 

• American Library Association/Awards and
• Notables 
•  Children's Book Council 
•  US. Department of Education: Helping Your Child Become A Reader

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