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Third Grade
In third grade, students continue to strengthen their foundational skills in reading, writing, and math. They also start to learn about more complex topics in science and social studies. Additionally, third graders also participate in extracurricular activities such as art, music, sports, or clubs. In general, the focus of third grade is on building a strong foundation of academic skills while also encouraging social and emotional growth.
Course Resources
English Language Arts
Math
New series under review​
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Envision Mathematics
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Common Core Workbooks,
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Savvas Online
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IXL
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additional math apps
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teacher made resources/worksheets, supplemental worksheets and activities
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Science
Elevate Science Workbook, Savvas Online, Generation Genius, Supplemental Worksheets, Youtube Videos, Teacher Made Worksheets
Social Studies
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt magazines, HMH Ed (online resources), teacher made resources/worksheets, supplemental worksheets and activities, YouTube videos
ELA
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At the end of this course a successful student should be able to read texts of various structures and answer basic comprehension questions based on them. Students should also be able to use various text analysis strategies to generalize, infer, summarize, classify, organize, and compare texts both during oral discussions and in written responses including five or more sentence paragraphs. Students should also be able to support their thinking by citing evidence from a text. In addition, a successful student will be able to compare and contrast multiple aspects/components of two or more texts and interpret figurative/nonliteral language. Finally, according to state standards, students should be able to demonstrate a grade-appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
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End of Course Outcomes
Math
At the end of this course a successful student should be able to use their basic facts to solve computation problems. In addition students should be able to make some decisions and attempt problems by estimating, organizing, making observations, classifying, comparing, collecting, and displaying data. Students will also be able to make conjectures and draw mathematical conclusions based on their observations. Finally, students will develop multiple connections and use applicable content to determine the most effective approach to solve a problem.
Science​
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At the end of this course a successful student should be able to represent and recall scientific theories and procedures and use these ideals to perform scientific experiments. Based on their observations and data collections, students should be able to organize and classify the relationships among scientific facts. Students should also be able to develop a model and reason for complex and non-routine scientific phenomena. Finally, students should be able to perform an organized investigation to deduce the relationship between controlled scientific variables (based upon third grade standards.
Social Studies
At the end of this course, students should be able to use their study of U.S. geography, people and cultures, past and present, from our own community and other parts of the world, how and why communities change and stay the same over time, natural resources, how the physical environment shapes cultures, why governments are important, how the U.S. government works, ways in which our needs are served in the economy, and roles of citizens to integrate themselves into their communities and thrive in everyday life.
