Topics Covered in 3rd grade 2015-2016

Reading

Writing

1. Building a Reading Life

1. Crafting True Stories

2. Reading to Learn:
Grasping Main Ideas and
Text Structures
3. Character Studies

2. The Art of Information

Writing

4. Research Clubs:
Elephants, Penguins, and
Frogs, Oh My!
5. Solving the Mystery
Before the Detective or
Series Book Clubs
6. Little Things are Big:
Making Meaning from
Poems and Poetic Craft in
Literature
7. Learning Through
Reading: Countries Around
the World or Biography
Book Clubs or Solving the
Mystery Before the
Detective or Series Book
Clubs
8. Social Issues Book Clubs

4. Changing the World:

Persuasive Speeches,
Writing and Editorials
5. Information Writing,
Reading, Research

3. Baby Literary Essay

6. Once Upon a Time:

Adapting and Writing Fairy
Tales

Math
1. Understand
Multiplication and Division
of Whole Numbers
2. Multiplication Facts for
0-10
3. Use Multiplication to
Divide: Division Facts
4. Fluently Multiply and
Divide Within 100
5. Connect Area to
Multiplication and Division
6. Represent and Interpret
Data
7. Use Strategies and
Properties to Add and
Subtract

8. Fluently Add and

Subtract Within 1,000
9. Multiply by Multiples of
10
10. Use Operations with
Whole Numbers to Solve
Problems
11. Understand Fractions as
Numbers
12. Fraction Equivalence
and Comparison
13. Solve Time, Capacity,
and Mass Problems
14. Attributes of TwoDimensional Shapes
15. Solve Perimeter
Problems