3rd Grade Curriculum Overview

The following are general topic areas and intended timelines for instruction. Topics are listed in the months they are most likely to be taught, but may occur
earlier or later than indicated. Math topics are listed for the at grade level curriculum only.

Math Reading Writing Shurley English Science History Pillars

September place value Comprehension Sentence parts Sentence/punctuation Animals World Introduction
strategies and writing a rules Geography to Citizenship,
Add and -visualization complete integrity,
subtract multi- - connections sentence Subject noun verb perseverance,
digit numbers -inferring sentences and honor
-summarizing

October Write numbers Comprehension diary of an -Analogies Human Body World Introduction
to a hundred strategies animal writing Geography to excellence
thousand -main idea project and intro -Add adjectives and and respect
- metacognition to writing adverbs to sentence
temperature to -determining process classification
the nearest importance
degree in -questioning
Fahrenheit and
Celsius

November Round numbers Nonfiction 3 point Types of nouns Human Body None Citizenship
to the nearest expository Types of sentences
10,000, 1000, Genres paragraph (declarative,
100 and 10 interrogative,
exclamatory,
Make change up imperative)
to one dollar
 3rd Grade Curriculum Overview
The following are general topic areas and intended timelines for instruction. Topics are listed in the months they are most likely to be taught, but may occur
earlier or later than indicated. Math topics are listed for the at grade level curriculum only.

December Multiplication Character traits, persuasive Prepositions and None Ancient Integrity
can be shown motivations, writing prepositional phrases Rome
using repeated feelings
addition, equal- Identify when to use
sized groups, play, stanza, drama a/an
arrays, area
models, equal Subject verb
jumps on a agreement
number line
and skip
counting
January Represent simile, metaphor, point of view Possessive pronouns Light/Optics/Ey Vikings and Perseverance
division facts hyperbole, e Earliest
by using a personification conjunctions Americans
variety of
approaches, poetry
such as
repeated
subtraction,
equal sharing
and forming
equal groups

Solve
multiplications
and division
word problems
 3rd Grade Curriculum Overview
The following are general topic areas and intended timelines for instruction. Topics are listed in the months they are most likely to be taught, but may occur
earlier or later than indicated. Math topics are listed for the at grade level curriculum only.

February commutative, Authors point of descriptive Helping verbs Sound/Ear Early Honor
associative, and view writing Exploration
distributive Natural and inverted
properties word order

elapsed time Compound sentences

March Fractions Compare/contrast how to essay Fixing run-on Ecology Early Excellence
-know that it is and speech sentences Exploration
a part of a suffix/prefix
whole Identifying fragments
- order and
compare interjections

April input-output Pollyanna narrative Possessive nouns None Thirteen Respect

rules writing Colonies
and Direct objects
solve word compare/contra
problems with st essay Irregular verbs
an unknown
Verb tenses
parallel and
perpendicular
lines

describe and
create
geometric
shapes
 3rd Grade Curriculum Overview
The following are general topic areas and intended timelines for instruction. Topics are listed in the months they are most likely to be taught, but may occur
earlier or later than indicated. Math topics are listed for the at grade level curriculum only.

May Long division Pollyanna poetry book Indirect objects Astronomy None Pillar Review
and animal
Graphing research Editing quotation
marks
measuring
distances