Third Grade Expectations
Upon entering third grade students should be able to:
General:
- How to write the Ogden School heading
- How to use a planner
- How to participate with a partner and in a group
- Speak in complete sentences
- Participate in conversation and discussion
- Alphabetize words through the second letter
- Follow directions that have up to three steps
Reading:
- Identify and use the Open Court Reading Strategies:
- Predicting, Visualizing, Making Connections, Asking Questions, Monitoring & Clarifying and Adjusting Reading Speed
- Choose an appropriate book at their own reading level
- Respond to who, what, when, where, why questions in complete sentences orally and in writing
- Distinguish between fiction and non-fiction
- Recognize and read all sight words from the Second Grade Dolce List
Language Arts:
- Identify and complete rhymes
- Identify and form compound words
- Identify and form contractions
- Use past and present verbs
- Use guide words to find words and entries in a dictionary
- Students should be familiar with an index, table of contents, and glossary
- Identify base words
- Identify singular and plural nouns
- Write complete sentences with a capital letter, complete idea and ending punctuation
- Apply spelling words and grammar words to writing
- Write a complete paragraph including a topic sentence, three details and a closing sentence. Know what a topic sentence and closing sentence are.
- Add suffixes: s, ing and ed
Mathematics:
- Identify odd and even numbers from 0-100
- Count, recognize, and write to 100 by 2s, 5s and 10s
- Identify place value to 1,000
- Demonstrate an understanding of Mathematics terms and symbols: +, -, =, <, or >.
- Tell time to the hour, half hour and quarter hour
- Determine the value of a collection of coins
- Develop automaticity for basic facts in addition and subtraction for numbers 1-12
- Read a four-digit number
- Know how to use a 0-110 number grid
- Round two-digit numerals to the nearest ten
- Add or subtract two-digit numbers using Everyday Math strategies
- Recognize geometric shapes and match shapes with correct names
- Measure to the nearest inch
- Solve simple addition and subtraction word problems
Science:
- Understand the basics of the scientific process: making predictions, making observations, recording data, and interpreting data
- General knowledge of the solar system
- Recognizes herbivores and carnivores
- Describes how animals use camouflage
- Can identify the different parts of a plant: stem, roots, and leaves
- Can group and categorize different objects
Social Studies:
- Identify city, state, and country
- Knows address and phone number
- Identifies holidays, cultures, and traditions
- Knows the seasons
- Can identify Chicago on a map
- Uses basic map features: map key, map scale, compass rose
- Can find directions using a map
Suggestions for Parents/Students:
- Your child should be reading at least 30 minutes a day
- Practice addition and subtraction facts on a daily basis
- Review place value up to 1,000
- Practice telling time to the hour and half hour
- Continue to introduce multiplication facts using flashcards
- Keep a weekly journal of summer activities. Review editing and spelling skills
- Explore free summer programs offered by the Chicago Park District
- Conduct easy and fun science experiments or make scientific observations
- Ask questions when reading and encourage your child to respond in complete sentences
- Review second grade sight words
- Continue to read to your child