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Third Grade Curriculum
Math
- Fluently add and subtract within 1,000 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 using understanding of place value
- Represent and Interpret Data
- Understand, memorize, and apply multiplication and division facts/strategies up to 12
- Identify and write fractional parts of shaded regions of objects
- Measurement: Time, Length, Liquid Volume, and Mass
- Determine area and perimeter
- Geometry: Two Dimensional Shapes
- Process and solve word problems
- Read, write, and explain number sentences using a variety of mathematical concepts
Science
- Life Science
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- Living Things
- Ecosystems
- Earth Science
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- Earth and Its Resources
- Weather and Space
- Physical Science
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- Matter
- Forces and Energy
Social Studies
- Apply map skills to understand the world in which we live
- Identify and use cardinal directions
- Identify and locate the major continents and oceans
- Identify major physical features features of the world (Landforms)
- Identify and locate the 50 states of the U.S.
- United States and TN Geography
- Economics (with TN focus)
- Indigenous People through European Exploration
- Early North American Settlements
Language Arts
- Reading
- Read grade-appropriate passages independently with fluency and expression
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when decoding isolated words and in connected text.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills when encoding words; write legibly in manuscript and cursive.
- Understand and apply new vocabulary
- Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings (synonyms, antonyms, homophones/homographs)
- Distinguish literal from nonliteral language (similes, metaphors, figurative language, etc.)
- Use text features (illustrations, captions, sidebars, graphs, diagrams, labels, etc) to locate relevant information and explain how illustrations contribute to the understanding of a text.
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
- Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
- Use text evidence to answer questions and demonstrate understanding of a text:
- reader perspective vs. narrator or characters’ perspective
- Distinguish reader point of view from that of an author of a text.
- characters, setting, and plot
- sequence of events
- theme
- cause and effect
- main idea and key details
- Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
- Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
- Conduct short research projects that build general knowledge about a topic.
Language Arts
- English/Grammar
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when speaking and conventions of standard English grammar and usage, including capitalization and punctuation, when writing
- Identify parts of speech (subject, verb, noun, pronoun, and adjective) and apply understanding when used in particular sentences
- Apply understanding of types of sentences
- Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences
- Capitalize appropriate words in titles
- Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue
- Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, use technology to produce, publish, and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing
- Preschool Curriculum
- Kindergarten Curriculum
- First Grade Curriculum
- Second Grade Curriculum
- Third Grade Curriculum
- Fourth Grade Curriculum
- Fifth Grade Curriculum