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3 rd Grade Curriculum. 2014 – 2015. Reading. Speaking/Listening Skills Comparing Genre – additional nonfiction text Comprehension Skills: Longer text, higher level processing skills, monitoring own comprehension, and fluent/expressive reading
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3rd Grade Curriculum 2014 – 2015
Reading • Speaking/Listening Skills • Comparing Genre – additional nonfiction text • Comprehension Skills: Longer text, higher level processing skills, monitoring own comprehension, and fluent/expressive reading • Thinking Skills: Connect, Compare, Interpret, & Evaluate All of these things together work together to build a stronger reader in all subject areas.
Spelling • Words Their Way • Student will examine, manipulate, & categorize words. • It’s a developmentally driven instructional approach providing an integrated way to teach phonics, vocabulary, and spelling to improve literacy skills. • Lists are based on the student’s developmental word knowledge. • Spelling tests will be given every 2 weeks.
Language Arts and Writing • Write Traits • Writing Process • Writers’ Workshop • Writing across the curriculum • Grammar Lessons – transferring skills from isolation to authentic writing.
Mathematics - New Information • Rounding and compatible numbers • Congruency and Symmetry • Measurement Equivalents • Volume, Capacity, Weight, & Mass • Perimeter and Area • Time to the minute • Numeration – to hundred thousands • Multiplication – Fact Strategies • Subtraction – regrouping to the hundreds • Word Problems – larger amount of words; multi-step • Estimation
Social Studies • Communities and Geography • Building a Government • Colonists and Native Americans • Winter Holidays & Around the World • Westward Expansion & Immigrant • Industrialization & Invention • Marketplaces • Integrated during Language Arts
Science • Science Processes and Safety • Force, Motion and Energy • Earth and Space • Organisms and Environment • Environmental Education at Elm Fork at UNT
Extra Programs • Great Expectations- Wednesday mornings • Clubs- first Friday of the month
Excessive Tardies/Unexcused Absences • Your child’s attendance is monitored daily by the attendance clerk and teacher, and Mrs. Roebken will review all absences and tardies. With the workload increasing this year, it is very important that students are on time and present each day so that they do not get behind.
Testing Dates • STAAR- State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness • Math- Tues., April 21 • Reading – Wed., April 22
Websites • Parent information will be posted on our teacher websites through http://mcauliffe.lisd.net • Parent/Student handbook http://mcauliffe.lisd.net/pdf/11_12_McAuliffe_Parent_Student_Handbook.pdf