Third Grade

Language Arts/English Standards

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

1.1	Students can use patterns in words, and "chunking" to decode unfamiliar words.
1.2	Students can read words with more than one syllable.
1.4	Students know that synonyms mean the same, antonyms mean the opposite, and that some words sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
1.5	Students can categorize from specific to general. (e.g. dog/mammal/animal/living things)
1.8	Students can use prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning of a word.

2.0 Reading Comprehension

2.4	Students can remember important information and events when they read. They can make reasonable predictions and change them as they get new information.
2.5	Students can tell the main idea and supporting details in an expository text.
2.6	Students can tell important information from the text, including problems and solutions.

3.0 Literary Response and Analysis

3.2	Students can tell the difference between a fairy tale, myth, folktale, legend and fable from around the world.
3.4	Students can figure out the basic theme of something they are reading. They look for what the author is trying to say.

1.0 Writing Strategies

1.1	Students can create a single paragraph with a developed topic sentence supported by simple facts and details.
1.4	Students can revise drafts to improve coherence and logical progression of ideas by using an established rubric.

2.0 Writing Applications

2.1	Students can write narratives that a.) provide a context within which an action takes place, b.) include well-chosen details to develop the plot, and c.) provide insight into why the selected incident is memorable.
2.2	Students can write descriptions using concrete sensory details that support and present unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions

1.1	Students understand and can use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking.
1.3	Students can identify and use past, present, and future verb tenses properly in speaking and writing.
1.4	Students can identify and use subjects and verbs correctly in speaking and writing simple sentences.
1.5	Students can punctuate dates, cities and states, and titles of book correctly.
1.6	Students can use commas in dates, locations, addresses and for items in a series.
1.7	Students can capitalize geographical names, holidays, historical periods, and special events correctly.
1.8	Students can correctly spell one-syllable words with blends, contractions, compounds, orthographic patterns, and common homophones.

Mathematics Standards

Number Sense

1.3	Students can tell the place value of each digit in numbers up to 10,000.
1.5	Students can write the place value of each digit up to 10,000 in the form of an equation.
2.1	Students can find the sum or difference of two whole numbers between 0 and 10,000.
2.2	Students know their multiplication tables automatically, for all numbers from 1-10.
2.3	Students can use multiplication to check division problems and division to check multiplication problems. They know that multiplication is the opposite function of division.
2.4	Students can multiply multi-digit numbers by one digit numbers.
3.2	Students can add and subtract simple fractions.
3.3	Students can add, subtract, multiply, and divide amounts of money, using decimals.
3.5	Students can reduce a basic fraction to its simplest form.

Algebra

1.1	Students can write mathematical expressions, equations, and inequalities.
2.1	Students can find the total cost of multiple items when I know the cost of each individual item.

Measurement/Geometry

1.2	Students can find the area of a figure by counting the numbers of squares that would cover it. Students can find the volume of a solid figure by counting the number of cubes that would fill it.
1.3	Students can find the perimeter of a polygon with integer sides by adding the sides together.
2.1	Students can identify, describe, and classify polygons.
2.2	Students can recognize and describe these types of triangles: isosceles, equilateral, right, and obtuse.
2.3	Students can recognize and describe quadrilateral: square, rectangle, parallelogram, rhombus, and trapezoid.

Mathematical Reasoning

1.2	Students can determine when and how to break a problem into simpler parts.
3.1	Students can evaluate the reasonableness of the solution in the context of the original situation.
3.3	Students develop generalizations of results obtained and apply them to other circumstances.