Third Grade Curriculum at a Glance
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Asks and answers inferential questions about text
- Identifies literary elements in text (setting, characters, etc.)
- Retells and/or summarizes text including characters, settings, and events
- Identifies the main idea and/or theme of a text
- Compares and contrasts details of text(s) (i.e., plots or events, settings, and characters)
- Identifies and understands various types of literary devices (figurative language)
- Uses comprehension strategies to understand fiction and nonfiction text
Foundations of Reading
- Reads grade-level text at an appropriate rate with expression to support understanding
- Knows and applies grade-level phonics and decoding strategies
- Uses vocabulary strategies including context clues to determine the meaning of new words
Writing
- Writes for different purposes: Narrative, Informative, Persuasive/Opinion
- Develops writing by planning, revising, and editing
- Uses research to build knowledge
Language
- Writes complete, simple, and compound sentences
- Capitalizes words as needed
- Uses punctuation correctly
- Uses parts of speech correctly (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.)
Speaking and Listening
- Effectively engages in discussions within a group
Handwriting
- Writes clearly and legibly
- Forms cursive letters correctly
Word Study (Spelling)
- Applies word study skills in daily writing
- Spells words in isolation (differentiated BEAR assessments)
Math
- Understands place value concepts
- Adds and subtracts whole numbers up to six digits
- Rounds whole numbers up to six digits
- Solves real-world word problems
- Fluently multiplies facts up to ten
- Understands division concepts in relation to multiplication (fact families)
- Multiplies two-digit by one-digit numbers
- Reads, writes, and understands fractions as numbers
- Compares and orders fractions
- Finds unknowns represented by symbols in number sentences (add, subtract, multiply)
- Understands the properties of addition and multiplication
- Describes, extends, and creates number patterns
- Determines the value of a set of coins or bills up to twenty dollars
- Finds perimeter and area using a variety of strategies
- Solves problems using measurement
- Understands 3D shapes and their attributes
- Classifies angles
- Solves problems using temperature
- Solves problems using time (e.g., elapsed time)
- Summarizes, constructs, and analyzes data
Social Studies
- Analyzes the traits of good citizens
- Examines and determines the main purposes of Oklahoma state government
- Understands the historic significance of past events/people and symbols of Oklahoma history
- Identifies and describes basic economic activities creating prosperity in the state of Oklahoma
- Examines Oklahoma’s geography and how people of Oklahoma interact with their environment
- Understands the significant events and historic personalities contributing to the development of the state of Oklahoma
Science
- Conducts investigations concerning forces and interactions between objects (electric and magnetic)
- Compares and contrasts plants and animals and their life cycles
- Represents data in tables/graphs to describe typical weather conditions during a particular season
- Investigates the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object
- Makes observations about the habitats of living organisms and their change over time