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The Third Grade Tracker explains some essential skills your child should learn during third grade language arts and mathematics. Use the Grade Tracker to track your child's progress and find Resources to help your child succeed academically. Click here for tips on using the Grade Tracker. We also offer Grade Trackers for first and second grades.
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Build vocabulary using different strategies, such as:
Context clues: These are the familiar words around an unknown word.
Illustrations and maps: These are nontext clues to content.
Prefixes: These are common word beginnings like "pre-," "bi-" or "fore-."
Root words: These are common base words like "cycle," "post" or "news."
Suffixes: These are common word endings like
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- Use the context of gold and silver to figure out copper is a valuable metal in the following sentence: "Miners looked for gold, silver and copper."
- Use an illustration or a map to better understand the text's message.
- Use knowledge of words like "soak," "pay" or "school" to figure out new words like "presoak," "prepay" and "preschool."
- Use knowledge of words like "news" to derive the meaning of "newsman," "newsstand" and "newsworthy."
- Use knowledge of words like "beauty," "plenty" and "care" to figure out new words like "beautiful," "plentiful" and "careful."
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Read with greater fluency.
Accurately pronounce and read the words on a page. Use intonation and expression when reading.
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- Pause at commas or periods and use intonation appropriately when reading an exclamation or question.
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Comprehend text and make connections.
Identify similarities and differences between the characters or events in two different stories. Relate a story to an actual experience. |
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- Read a story and discuss a personal experience that relates to the theme or subject of the story.
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Learn strategies for finding information.
Use features in books (such as chapter headings, titles, maps, charts and glossaries) and a variety of resources to acquire information.
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- When reading about mammals, refer to the book's glossary, look at charts and use chapter headings to discover specific facts about mammals.
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Identify the basic literary elements in a story.
Recognize plot, character and setting. |
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- Read a story and identify, discuss and write about its plot (the main action), characters (who was involved) and setting (where the story took place).
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Identify and read different types of literature.
Learn to distinguish between nonfiction, fiction, fables, legends, poetry and other types of literary works. |
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- Read a fable such as "The Fox and the Grapes" and understand that a fable is a story with a lesson.
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Use basic grammar and sentence structure.
Learn the proper use of capital letters, periods, commas, quotation marks and subject-verb agreement. |
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- Capitalize all proper nouns, the first letter in a sentence and the pronoun "I."
- Use a period at the end of a sentence; use commas in a series, in a date and after a salutation ("Dear"); use quotation marks to indicate speech.
- Show how a verb changes when used with a single and plural subject.
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Build writing skills.
Write different types of stories, descriptions and reports using longer and more complex sentences and larger units of text. |
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- Write a story with a beginning, middle and end that includes descriptions and complex sentences.
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Write multiple drafts and revise an assignment.
After completing a writing assignment, rewrite it in order to make it better. |
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- Write a second draft of an assignment to improve its clarity, focus and grammar.
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Count, compare and understand numbers, learning these skills:
Read, write and describe whole numbers up to 100,000.
Identify the place values of digits in numbers up to 10,000.
Compare and order numbers up to 10,000 using the <, > and + signs.
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- Put the following numbers in numerical order: 8,453 64,022 45 982 959 5,677
- In the number 6,845, 6 = thousands, 8 = hundreds, 4 = tens, and 5 = ones.
- 7,442 > 6,998; 6,998 < 7,442
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Build measurement skills.
Use rulers, scales, thermometers and clocks to estimate and measure length, weight, temperature, perimeter, area and volume; and to solve problems using measurement. |
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- Choose the appropriate tools to measure and weigh objects in a room.
- Measure the perimeter of a rectangle and a triangle.
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Build addition, subtraction and multiplication skills and learn about division.
Add and subtract numbers up to 1,000.
Know multiplication tables up to the 10s.
Understand the relationship between multiplication and division. |
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- Add 342 + 683. Subtract 245 from 878.
- Multiply 8 by 7.
- 6 divided by 2 = 3, 3 x 2 = 6
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Improve money sense skills.
Understand the value of money and how to count and sort bills and coins. |
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- Calculate how much change you will receive if you pay for a $3.50 purchase with a $5 bill. What bills and coins would you get?
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Build fraction skills.
Read, write, represent and compare simple fractions using symbols and words. |
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- Show how a pizza can be divided into quarters, eighths and twelfths. Show that 3/4 of a pizza is greater than 1/2.
- Understand that one-quarter or one-fourth = 1/4 and that 1/8 + 3/8 = 4/8 (the same as 1/2).
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Build geometry skills.
Identify one-, two- and three-dimensional figures and classify two-dimensional figures having up to six sides. |
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- Identify triangles, rectangles, hexagons, polygons, quadrilaterals, cubes, etc.
- How many sides does a square have? How many sides does a cube have?
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Learn basic algebraic concepts.
Identify and describe a pattern in a particular set of numbers. |
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- What is the pattern for the numbers 3, 6, 9? What would be the next number in the sequence?
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