Third Grade Curriculum Guide

Language Arts

Scott Foresman Reading Street Common Core

Houghton Mifflin English

Weekly stories that incorporate:

Phonics/Word Analysis

Literary Terms

Reading Comprehension

Spelling

Vocabulary

Listening and speaking

Oral reading fluency

Literature circles – Charlotte’s Web, Dexter the Tough, Sarah Plain and Tall

Read to Self

Read to Peers

Read to Teacher

Comprehension

Context Questions

Small Group Discussion

Large Group Discussion

Compare and Contrast Between Media and Literature

  • Convections/English

Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics of a Sentence

Nouns, Verbs, Adjective, and Adverbs

Capitalization and Punctuation

  • Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Viewing

Narrating and Entertaining

Writing a Personal Narrative

Writing a Story

Explaining and Informing

Writing Instructions

Writing a Research Report

Writing to Express an Opinion

Writing to Express and Opinion

Writing to Persuade

Handwriting

Zaner-Bloser Handwriting

Manuscript review

Cursive readiness

Writing Lowercase Letters

Writing Uppercase Letters

Using Cursive Writing – Students only write in cursive after February 1st except for spelling

Math

McGraw-Hill: My Math

Based on Common Core State Standards:

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

  • Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
  • Understanding properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
  • Multiply and divide within 100.
  • Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patters in arithmetic.

Numbers and Operations in Base Ten

  • Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Numbers and Operations in Fractions

  • Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.

Measurement and Data

  • Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid, volumes, and masses of objects.
  • Represent and interpret data.
  • Geometric measurement: understanding concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Geometry

  • Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Religion

Blest Are We: Faith and Word Edition 3

The Church is One

The Church is Holy

The Church is Catholic

The church is apostolic

The church Has a Mission to the world

Feasts and Seasons

The Church Year, Holy Days, Ordinary Time

Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, Easter

Blessed Mother and other special saints

Mass and prayer

Michigan History

Meet Michigan by David B. McConnell

Meet Michigan

Michigan’s First People

Visitors from Far Away

Becoming a State

Michigan Grows Up

Michigan Today and Tomorrow

The government of Michigan

Public Issues Facing Michigan Citizens

Core Democratic Values

Science

Science See learning in a whole new light – Scott Foreman

  • Life Science

Plants and Animals

Ecosystems

 Habitats

Life Cycles

  • Earth Science

Water

Weather

Rocks and Soil

Changes on Earth

Natural Resources

  • Physical Science

Matter and Its Properties

Changes in Matter

Forces and Motion

Energy

Sound

  • Technology

Science in Our Lives

Specials

  • Art
  • Music
  • Spanish
  • Computers
  • Physical Education
  • Library/Media