3rd Grade Curriculum Standards Quarter 1 Literacy Reading Literature RL3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RL3.2 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. RL.3.3: Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to a sequence of events. RL3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. RL3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Reading Informational Text RI3.1 Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RI3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. RI3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. RI3.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area
Math Place Value and Addition and Subtraction NBT.2- Use multiple strategies to add and subtract numbers through 1000. These strategies rely on aspects of place value and help students visualize the ungrouping and regrouping needed to make new 10s and 1s as needed. Multiplication and Division 3.OA.1- Understand that 5X7 is the same as 5 groups of 7 objects. 3.OA.3-Solve one step word problems involving multiplication and division. 3.OA.8-Solve two-step problems involving addition and subtraction. Students learn strategies to help them solve these types of problems. 3.OA.9 Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For example, observe that 4 times a number is always even, and explain why 4 times a number can be decomposed into two equal addends. Measurement 3.MD.3-Represent and interpret pictures and bar graphs. Students learn to collect data using a question and solve word problems involving picture and bar graphs.
Reading Fluency and Foundational Skills RF.3.4: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. RF.3.5: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. Language L3.4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. Speaking and Listening SL.3.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly. SL.3.3 Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail. SL3.5 Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
Writing W3.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. W3.4 With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. W3.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Science Landforms 3.E.2 Compare the structures of the Earth’s surface using models or three-dimensional diagrams. 3.E.2.1 Compare Earth’s saltwater and freshwater features (including oceans, seas, rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, and glaciers). 3.E.2.2 Compare Earth’s land features (including volcanoes, mountains, valleys, canyons, caverns, and islands) by using models, pictures, diagrams, and maps.
Social Studies Understanding Local Government 3.C.2 Understand how citizens participate in their communities. Cultures and artistic expression 3.C.1 Understand how diverse cultures are visible in local and regional communities. 3.C.1.1 Compare languages, foods and traditions of various groups living in local and regional communities. 3.C.1.2 Exemplify how various groups show artistic expression within the local and regional communities. 3.C.1.3 Use non-fiction texts to explore how cultures borrow and share from each other (foods, languages, rules, traditions and behaviors).