Reading
- Read for pleasure- uninterrupted for at least 20 minutes
- Uses a variety of reading strategies: sounding out, sight words, context clues, picture clues
- Difference between fiction/non-fiction stories
- Elements of a story
- Character, plot, setting, events
Sequencing skills
Fact/opinion
Character feelings
Important details
Cause and effect
Predicting outcomes
Main idea
- Identify words
- Prefixes/suffixes
- Synonyms/antonyms
- Know different reference books/use
- AtlasAlmanac
- Dictionary
- Encyclopedia
- Globe
By the end of the Third Grade, students should begin reading chapter books, e.g. Ramona Forever.
Writing
- prewriting strategies
- edits for spelling using dictionary, spell checker, or word lists
- revises for improved word choices
- uses correct grammar/verb usage
- uses basic menu icons and keyboard to produce text on computer/alpha smart
- maintains a focus on topic
- considers the audience
- writes in paragraphs
- selects pieces to share or publish
- proper format for a letter - friendly and business
Communication
- correct use of english language - slang vs. “proper” English
- follows complex oral directions
- contributes to group work/discussions
- dramatizes stories and poetry
- identifies main ideas/sequence when listening to stories
- retells stories appropriate to grade level
- evaluates and provides feedback on presentations
The information provided here was taken from the Washington State Framework of Essential Learning Requirements (EALRs), distributed by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI).
Math
- Number recognition, counting and writing 1-1000
- Greater / lesser than
- Column addition, four digit addition with carrying
- Equivalent sets of tens and hundreds
- Number lines
- Column subtraction, four digit borrowing with borrowing of tens and hundreds
- Fraction of 1/2
- Ordinal numbers--first through tenth
- Duplicate horizontal problems to vertical problems
- Coins and money value, adding cents
- Graphs and charts
- Measurement--length, weight, liquid, volume, time
- Counting order
- Shapes--square, circle, triangle, rectangle
Social Studies
The following are suggested age appropriate topics. In planning curriculum, the goal is to give your young student an overview of many of these subjects as they build a foundation for logical understanding. They will continue to look into these subjects deeper as they grow older.
- Methods of communication
- World history--Middle East, Spain
- Conservation
- Christopher Columbus
- Communities--family, farm, town, city
- American History
- Common businesses
- Colonization
- Farming, types of farms, farm products
- Slavery
- Natural resources
- Government
- Maps and globes
- George Washington Carver
- Continents
Science
- Sky, air, clouds
- The flood, and geological changes thereafter
- Wind and temperature
- Jungles and hot lands
- Oceans, tides
- Tundra and cold lands
- Solar system--earth’s rotation and movements
- Volcanoes and earthquakes, fire rock, water rock
- Galileo and Telescopes
- Time--past, present and future, measuring time with sundials, hourglasses, candles, and clocks
- Astronauts
- Animals, plants, fish, birds, reptiles
- Calendars, measuring minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years
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