NEWFANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Third Grade

(skills and concepts taught in the first marking period)

English Language Arts

Study Skills

• Using parts of a book: index, glossary
• Using an internet search engine (Yahoo, Google)
• Using reference sources: telephone directories, dictionaries, encyclopedias
• Using graphic aids: diagrams and maps

Comprehension Skills

• Story elements (who, what, where, when, why, how)
• Make predictions
• Problem / solution
• Identify and use steps in a process

Vocabulary Skills

• Use compound words
• Prefixes
• Context clues
• Antonyms / synonyms
• Identify multiple meanings

Phonic Skills

• Short vowels
• Long vowels
• Syllable patterns
• Consonant clusters
• Double consonants
• Diphthongs

Writing Skills

• Six Traits of Writing

Mathematics

• Data, graphs and facts (read pictographs, line and bar graphs)
• Problem solving using a guide, choosing an operation and finding a pattern
• Organize data
• Look for patterns
• Make pictographs and bar graphs
• Place value (understand place value through hundreds place; explore relationships; place value through thousands)
• Compare numbers
• Order numbers
• Round numbers to tens and hundreds (ex. 28=30, 134=100)
• Telling time to the nearest five minutes, half and quarter hour

• Ordinal numbers
• Calendar
• Addition patterns, subtraction patterns
• Missing numbers
• Estimate sums, estimate differences
• Explore adding with regrouping, subtraction with regrouping
• Column addition
• Problem solve – guess and check using small numbers
• Count coins – half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, and penny
• Use dollars and cents
• Add money, subtract money
• Problem solve – exact answer or estimate

Parents, please help your child by continuing to review the following first marking period items at home:

· Read daily with your child

· Ask questions about what your child has read

· Summarize plot of stories read or plots of movies, TV shows, DVDs, etc.

· Read chapter books independently and discuss with an adult

· Practice telling time to the nearest minute, five minutes, 30 minutes

· Money – count loose change

· Practice addition, subtraction, and multiplication

· Go to the library on a regular basis

· Practice telling time on a clock with hands.

· Problem solving – using guide words (ex. more, total, difference, altogether, left)