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3rd Grade

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Reading

Math

Reading Resources

Reading

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Units:

 

Unit 1: Building A Reading Life

In this unit, we work to build good reading habits and encourage a love of reading that will carry kids through their third-grade year.  We also begin focusing on students comprehension skills, emphasizing how third-grade readers stop and check themselves to see if they are understanding what they read.  Finally, we work on tackling harder and more challenging texts - how to persevere when things get tough and use reading strategies instead of giving up.

 

What your kids should be doing:

  • Reading books and texts that they are excited about!  

  • Finding good quiet places where they can focus

  • Looking for "just right" books that are not too hard or too easy

  • Pausing after a section or chapter to check their comprehension

  • Stopping to tackle hard words and think about what they mean instead of skipping over them

 

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Unit 2: Mystery

In this unit we will use the genre of mystery to think deeply about character's traits and motivations.  These texts will help readers learn to synthesize - to pull ideas from across the whole book together - in order to understand the story.

 

What your kids should be doing:

  • Pausing to ask themselves questions about their texts

  • Using strategies to figure out what's going on at tricky parts of the text

  • Re-telling the big characters and events to you 

  • Thinking about how some parts of the book connect to other parts

  • Talk about what kind of people their characters are and why they do what they do in the story

 

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Unit 3: Reading to Learn

This is our first nonfiction unit of third grade.  In third grade, students move from identifying the main topic of a text, to determining the main idea of a text and the supporting details that show that idea.  It's no longer enough to just say, "This is about bats. This part is about what they eat, and this part is about how they get food."  Instead, they need to be able to say, "This is about how bats are in danger. For example, this part of the text says that humans are going into their caves and waking them up.  That is one way they are in danger. Another part of the text shows they are in danger when. . ."

 

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Unit 4: Character Studies

As the title suggests, our second fiction unit is all about understanding characters.  Students will work to analyze characters across a whole text to understand what kind of person they are and how they change from the beginning of the book to the end.  This is a crucial part of understanding the theme of a book, or the lesson or moral it teaches and/or shows us about life.

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Math Resources

Math

 

 

 

Module 1:  Properties of Multiplication and Division and Solving Problems with Units of 2–5 and 10

In this first module of Grade 3, we build on second-grade knowledge of addition and work toward greater fluency. We will also be building arrays (arrangements of a set of objects organized into equal groups in rows and columns), and setting the stage for multiplication and division.

 

 

Module 2: Place Value and Problem Solving with Units of Measure

In module 2 we will explore measurement using kilograms, grams, liters, milliliters, and intervals of time in minutes.  Students will use various addition and subtraction strategies, including the standard algorithm, to solve problems involving measurement.  Our goal is not for students to master every strategy but to use the strategies that work for them in order to understand addition and subtraction problems.

 

 

 

Module 3: Multiplication and Division with Units of 0, 1, 6–9, and Multiples of 10

Module 3 revisits multiplication and division - one of the central concepts in third grade mathematics. Throughout this module, students will be building fluency in the multiplication and division facts they learned in Module 1 as well as building new knowledge about new factors from 0 to 10 within 100.

  

 

Module 4: Multiplication and Area

Module 4 introduces the concept of area as the amount of space inside a shape.  In third grade, we focus on understanding the area of rectangles by treating them like an array of squares which we already know how to solve by multiplying the length times the width.  This unit not only teaches students about area, but also reinforces our multiplication strategies.

 

 

Module 5: Fractions as Numbers on the Number Line

 

 

Module 6: Collecting and Displaying Data

 

 

Module 7: Geometry and Measurement Word Problems

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