Third Grade Curriculum

READING WRITING WORD STUDY/
SPELLING
MATH SCIENCE SOCIAL STUDIES
Comprehension Strategies:
connecting
visualizing
questioning
inferring
synthesizing
summarizing
questioning

Literature Circles

Guided Reading

Self Select

Independent Reading

Fiction & Non-fiction

Fluency

Readers' Theater

Genres

Read Alouds

Readers' Notebooks

Portfolio Pieces:
procedure
response to literature
persuasive
narrative

 
report
personal essay

Free Writes

Poetry

Readers’/Writers’

Notebooks

Journals

GUM (grammar, usage, mechanics)

 

Weekly words

 

Word sorts

 

Word meaning

 

Weekly tests

 

Everyday Math
Problem solving
(Portfolio Pieces)
computation numbers
operation concepts geometry measurement
algebra statistics probability

Math Games

 

Animal Adaptations

 

Electricity and Magnets

 

Solar System

 

Human Body

 

 

Native Americans

 

Map Skills

 

Communities

 

Social Skills