Third

Major Third Grade Topics/Themes

Language Arts

Reading:

• Phonics / Decoding
• Reading Fluency
• Reading Comprehension
  • Responding to comprehension questions in complete, detailed sentences.
  • Main Idea
  • Summarizing
  • Making inferences
  • Making predictions
  • Drawing conclusions
  • Comprehension within the content areas (Social Studies, Science)
  • Visualization
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Literature Circles/Book Clubs (Discussion)
  • Understanding figurative language (simile, metaphor)
• Recognizing/Appreciating different genres

Literary Themes/Chapter Books:

• Versions of "The Three Little Pigs"
• Titanic
• Pompeii
• Beverly Cleary
• Roald Dahl
• E. B. White
• Tomie DePaola
• Patricia Polacco
• Eve Bunting
• Chocolate
• Ancient China/Chinese New Year
• Hawaii/Luau
• Fiesta/Cinco de Mayo/Mexico
• Little House on the Prairie
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chocolate Fever
• Chocolate Touch
• Nancy Drew and the Chocolate Mystery
• Cricket in Times Square
• Bunnicula
• Charlotte's Web
• Magic Tree House: Pilgrims
• Magic Tree House: Tonight on the Titanic
• Magic Tree House: Titanic
• The Gadget War
• The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane (DeCamillo)
• The Wall (Bunting)
• Ben Franklin

English:

• Parts of Speech
  • Nouns /Compound Subject Nouns
  • Verbs/Compound Verbs/Regular & Irregular Verbs
  • Prepositions
  • Conjunctions
  • Interjections
  • Objects of the Preposition
  • Direct Objects/Compound Direct Objects
  • Indirect Objects
  • Transitive Verbs
  • Adjectives
  • Adverbs
  • Articles
  • Pronouns
• Types of Sentences
• Punctuation
• Writing Expository Paragraphs
• Writing Persuasive Paragraphs

Writing:

• Writers' Workshop
• Creative Writing
  • poetry
  • personal narratives
  • short stories
  • 2-point & 3-point paragraphs
  • persuasive paragraphs
  • friendly letters
  • personal narratives
  • "Three Little" Stories (Versions of "The Three Little Pigs")
  • poetry
  • reports

Word Study:

• common spelling patterns & oddballs
• vocabulary (Wordly Wise program)

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Math

• Time
• Money
• Solving Number Stories
• Addition & Subtraction Algorithms (Partial Sums, Trade First)
• Math Facts/Fact Families (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division)
• Place Value
  • Whole numbers to millions
  • Decimals to the thousandths place
• Geometry
• Measurement (including Perimeter, Area, Circumference, & Diameter)
• Fractions
• Algorithms for Multiplication (Partial Products, Lattice)

Social Studies

• Native Americans: Kwakiutl, Cheyenne, Navajo
• Pioneers
• Pilgrims
• Titanic (as a link to the story in our anthology)
• Conserving Natural Resources
• Timelines
• African American History
• Presidents/Elections
• Geography/Map Skills
• Ancient China
• Maya/Incas/Aztecs (?)

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Other

• Animal Classification
• Habitats
• Earth Day/Conservation
  • The Lorax by Dr. Suess
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