Author: Gabriel Chidester

SOAR!

Reading Literature

Reading Informational Text

Safety first!
Only your best!
Act responsibly
Respect others

Reflective
Knowledgeable
Balanced
Principled
Risk-Taker
Open-Minded
Inquirer
Thinker
Caring
Communicator

Reporting Standards:
RL.3.2— Recount stories, including fables and folktales, and myths from diverse cultures: determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
RL3.3 – Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
RL3.4 – Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language.
RL3.9 – Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books)
Kid Friendly Language:
RL3.2—I can recount/retell (put in my own words) stories
RL3.3—I can use the characters’ actions to help me understand what happens in the story
RL3.3—I can describe characters in a story.
RL3.4—I can tell the difference between true or factual and exaggerated text
RL3.9— I can define theme. I can define setting. I can define plot.

Writing

Measurement and Data
Reporting Standards:
W3.2a - Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aid comprehension.
W3.2b - Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.
W3.2c - Use linking words and phrases (e.g., also, another, and, more, but) to connect ideas within categories of information.
W3.2d - Provide a concluding statement or section.
Kid Friendly Language:
W3.2a—I can write a paper to inform someone about or explain a topic
W3.2b—Ican use details and facts to support the topic
W3.2c—I can connect my information using linking words and phrases
W3.3d—I can write a conclusion for my paper

SL3.1c - Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.
SL3.1d – Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.
SL3.2 – Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
SL3.3 – Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.
SL3.4 – Report on a topic or text, tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
SL3.6 - Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

Speaking and Listening

Reporting Standards:
RI3.2 – Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
RI3.4 – Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
RI3.5 – Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
RI3.7 – Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
Kid Friendly Language:
RI3.2—I can identify main idea in a text
RI3.4—I can locate and use references to find meaning of general words
RI3.5—I can use headings, bold words, captions, highlighted words to find information
RI3.7—I can use pictures and words in a text to help me understand what I read

Language

Reporting Standards:
L3.1h - Use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions.
L3.1i - Produce simple, compound, and complex sentences.
L3.2g - Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L3.3b – Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading
L3.4b - Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content
L3.4c – Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content
L3.4d - Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.
L3.5a—Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context
L3.6 – Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate words and phrases
Kid Friendly Language:
L3.1h—I can correctly use coordinating and subordinating conjunctions
L3.1i—I can produce simple, compound and complex sentences
L3.2g—I can capitalize important words in a title
L3.3b—I can tell the differences between the rules of speaking and writing
L3.4c—I can break down unknown words in to units of meaning to determine definitions
L3.4d—I can use dictionaries or the Internet to find the meanings of words
L3.5a—I can tell the difference between literal and non-literal phrase meanings
L3.6—I can use new grade level appropriate words
and phrases

Reading Foundational Skills

Reporting Standard:
RF3.3a - Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
RF3.3c—Decode multi-syllable words
RF3.3d - Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
RF3.4c - Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Kid Friendly Language:
RF3.3a—I can find prefixes and suffixes in words
RF3.3c—I can break apart words into syllable segments to help me decode words I do not know
RF3.3d—I can read longer words and words that are spelled irregularly
RF3.4c—I can recognize when a word I have read does not make sense within the text
RF3.3d—
RF3.4c—

Character Traits

Mathematics

Number and Operations in Base Ten

Operation and Algebraic Thinking

Reporting Standards:
3.OA.2—Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers
3.OA.3—Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities
3.OA.4—Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers.
3.OA.5—Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide. (Commutative property of multiplication, Associative property of multiplication, Distributive property.)
3.OA.8—Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.
3.OA.9—Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations.
Kid Friendly Language:
3.OA.2—I can find the quotient of whole numbers using equal groups
3.OA.3—I can decide when to multiply or divide to solve word problems.
3.OA.4— I can find the missing number in a division and a multiplication problem.
3.OA.5—I can use the properties of multiplication and division to solve problems.
3.OA.8—I can construct and equation with a letter standing for the unknown quantity.
3.OA.9—I can explain rules for a pattern using properties of operations.

Reporting Standards:
3.MD.3 Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step “how many more” and “how many less” problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
3.MD.4 Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units – whole numbers, halves, or quarters.
3.MD.5 Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
3.MD.6 Measure areas by counting unit squares
3.MD.7 Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
3.MD.8 Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length.
Kid Friendly Language:
3.M.D.3—I can interpret a bar/picture graph to determine ‘how many more” and “how many less”.
3.M.D.4—I can identify each plot on the line as data or a number of objects.
3.M.D.5—I can define “unit square”. I can define area
3.M.D.6—I can use unit squares of cm, m, in, ft, and other sizes of unit squares to measure area.
3.M.D.7- I can compare the area found by tiling a rectangle to the area found by multiplying the side lengths. I can multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles. I can find the area of a rectangle by modeling the distributive property using
multiplication and addition. I can find areas of rectangles.
3.M.D.8—I can find the perimeter when there is an unknown side length.

3.NBT.3 Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
Kid Friendly Language:
I can use place value to multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10

Science

Changes

Reporting Standards:
2.P.2 – Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo.
2.P.2.1 – Give examples of matter that change from a solid to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by heating and cooling.
2.P.2.2 – Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a container before and after freezing.
2.P.2.3 - Compare what happens to water left in an open container over time as to water left in a closed container.
Kid Friendly Language:
2.P.2—I can explain how states of matter change.
2.P.2.1—I can describe and compare the different properties of matter
2.P.2.2—I can measure with accuracy using the metric system.

Social Studies

Reporting Standards:
3.H.1.1—Explain key historical events that occurred in the local community and regions over time
3.H.1.2—Analyze the impact of contributions made by diverse historical figures in local communities and regions over time.
3.H.1.3—Exemplify the ideas that were significant in the development of local communities and regions
Kid Friendly Language:
I can explain past and current events in my community and region.
I can analyze the impact of important historical figures (past and present) in my community and region.
I can describe the ideas important to my community and region.
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Green Hope Elementary
2800 Louis Stephens Drive
Cary, NC 27519
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Green Hope Elementary

3rd Grade
Curriculum Objectives Quarter 2

This brochure is designed to share common core standards and benchmarks with our families. Your understanding of what your child is expected to learn at each grade level is essential as we work together to reach your child’s learning potential.
Mrs Volland NBCT