3RD GRADE ENTRANCE PROFILE

 Prepositions of time.
 Prepositions of place.
 Frequency Adverbs.
 How much…? How many…?
 Past Simple Verbs To be.
 Past Simple affirmative, Negative and Questions.
 Comparatives with short adjectives.
 Auxiliary “Should” for giving advice.

Children are expected to be able to write, edit, and revise basics by entering third grade.
They are also expected to master basic reading skills and begin to focus on comprehension.
Third grade students should be familiar with three-digit numbers and know which digit is in
the “ones” place, which is in the “tens” and which is in the “hundreds”.
Third grade places a heavy emphasis on reading. You may have heard that it is the degree
to which children move from “learning to read” to “reading to learn”. In order for children
to be prepared, it is important that they master basic “learning to read” skills, such as
improving vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension.
Your state's academic standards describe the skills children are expected to master at each
grade level. Here are some of the important skills kids should have by the end of second
grade.
Skills to be ready for Grade 3: Language Arts
During second grade, children continue to develop their reading, writing, and speaking
skills. They learn to analyze and summarize what they read in different types of texts,
including short stories, articles, and multi-chapter books.
Children entering third grade are expected to know how to gather information on a
particular topic by reviewing various sources and how to summarize it. They are also
expected to know how to edit and revise written work. Here are some ways kids build skills
in these areas and prepare for third grade:

Read fables and folk tales from different cultures and identify the central message, lesson,
or moral of the stories.
Read about science, social studies, and history and determine the purpose and main idea of
those texts.
Respond to who, what, where, when, why and how about stories (either in writing or
orally), using the rules of English.
Describe how an author uses details to support an idea.
Group the facts of a topic and describe what was learned. Watch a video about how third
graders do research for an essay.)
Write about an event with a beginning, middle, and end.
Write about books using details and examples to support their opinions.
Learn more about reading and writing difficulties and how to choose books for your child's
reading level. And explore fun ways to increase phonological awareness, develop reading
skills, and stimulate writing.
Skills to be ready for 3rd grade: Mathematics
Beginning in third grade, children begin to use abstract thinking in mathematics. They work
with three-digit numbers and apply their knowledge of the value of a number based on its
position (such as knowing that the "3" in "357" is in the hundreds place and means "300,"
that the "5" is in the the tens place and means “50” and so on).
The value of a number according to its position is an important concept. It not only helps
with addition and subtraction, but also serves as a foundation for rounding, multiplying,
and dividing, which are skills that will be learned in third grade
Second grade students continue to work on addition and subtraction and begin to learn how
to measure objects and shapes. By the end of second grade, children are expected to be able
to do the following activities in order to develop the required math skills:
Add and subtract numbers up to 100 to solve one- or two-step logic math problems.
Add and subtract numbers up to 20, using strategies to calculate mentally (instead of doing
the calculations on paper).
Understand the ones, tens, and hundreds place in a three-digit number; Begin adding and
subtracting three-digit numbers.
Read and write numbers up to 1000.
Measure and estimate length, using inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.
Solve problems using the value of money, such as knowing that one dime is equal to 10
pennies
Divide circles, squares, and rectangles into equal parts (halves, thirds, fourths).
Solve mathematical logic problems using information from a bar graph.
Learn more about how kids with learning and attention issues can fail math problems.
Learn what third grade academic skills often look like in practice. Explore fun multisensory
techniques for teaching math. Also review how math skills develop at different ages.
4TH GRADE ENTRANCE PROFILE
  Could / Couldn´t for ability.
 Present Progressive.
 Present Progressive.
 Past Progressive.
 Interrupted Past.
 Comparative and Superlative adjectives.
 Comparative and Superlative Adverbs.
 Gerunds as subjects and objects.
 Zero Conditional.
 Have to.
 May and Might.
 Give send take bring, show.
 Will / Won´t.
 Going to.
 Will for promises and Offers.
 Past Progressive (while).
In preparation for fourth grade, third graders focus on using language and writing in various
subjects.
Most children who are ready for fourth grade are able to understand how and why
multiplication works.
Fourth grade students have to support their ideas about a text with facts and details.
Being prepared for fourth grade includes focusing on the use of language and writing in all
subjects. Math skills begin to include ideas and not just numbers.
To find out if your daughter is ready for fourth grade, check your state's academic
standards. Not all states have the same standards, but many states have similar expectations
of students. These are some of the important skills you are expected to master by the end of
third grade in preparation for fourth grade.
Skills to Prepare for 4th Grade: Language Arts
To prepare for fourth grade, students are exposed to a wide variety of reading material,
including fiction, nonfiction, charts, and maps. They are expected to understand these new
materials and write about what they have read. As writers, they are expected to begin to
organize information and ideas more effectively, and to support their claims and
observations with facts and details.
Future fourth grade students are also expected to be able to:
Read different types of stories, describe what happened, how the characters were affected,
and what they learned.
Answer questions about readings in history, social studies, and science, and also use the
information in illustrations, maps, and graphs to answer questions.
Give class presentations on a given topic, using facts, data, details, and specific vocabulary.
Participate in discussions, speaking clearly, listening, sharing opinions, developing other
people's ideas, and asking questions.
Use dialogue and description to write about what a character is thinking and feeling.
Collect information obtained on the Internet in addition to that obtained in books and
articles; Use that information to write research papers.
Learn ways to help your child develop phonological awareness in elementary school, along
with other ways to improve reading skills at home.
Skills to Prepare for 4th Grade: Mathematics
By the end of third grade, children should be familiar with fractions and begin to
understand the “whys” of multiplication and division. In fourth grade they will begin to
calculate the area of geometric shapes and to use different strategies to solve mathematical
problems of logic. To work on those skills, they are expected to be able to:
Explain what multiplication and division are.
Know the multiplication tables up to 12 and multiply the numbers by 10
Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve logic word problems that
involve more than one step
Understand the concept of area and how it relates to multiplication
Understand and identify fractions as numbers that can be placed in a sequence of numbers;
compare two fractions (such as knowing that 2/3 is greater than 3/5)
Express whole numbers as fractions and recognize fractions that are whole numbers (such
as knowing that 4/1 is the same as 4)
Measure weights and volumes
Read graphs and tables; display data in charts and tables
Learn how various learning and attention issues can affect math skills. And read a list of
questions you can ask about teaching math at school.