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Reading/English/Language Arts

Fluency: ELA3R1:  The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression

• Applies letter sound knowledge to decode unknown words quickly and accurately

• Reads familiar text with expression

• Reads third-grade text at a target rate of 90 words correct per minute

• Uses self-correction when subsequent reading indicates an earlier misreading within grade-level text

 

Vocabulary:  ELA3R2:  The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively

• Reads literary and informational text and incorporates new words into oral and written language

• Recognizes and applies the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms

• Identifies and infers meaning from common root words, common prefixes (ex. un, re, dis, in) and common suffixes (ex. tion, ous, ly, ful)

• Determines the meaning of unknown words on the basis of context

Comprehension:  ELA3R3:  The student uses a variety of strategies to gain meaning from grade-level text

• Reads a variety of texts for information and pleasure

• Makes predictions from text content

• Recognizes plot, setting, and character within text, and compares and contrasts these elements between texts.

• Summarizes text content

• Makes connections between texts and / or personal experiences

• Self-monitors comprehension to clarify meaning

• Identifies the basic elements of a variety of genres – (fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry)

• Recognizes the author’s purpose

Writing:  ELA3W1:  The student demonstrates competency in the writing process

• Captures a reader’s interest by setting a purpose and developing a point of view

• Begins to share a focus and an organizational pattern based on purpose, genre, expectations, audience, and length

• Writes a length appropriate text in order to address the topic or tell the story

• Prewrites to generate ideas, develops a rough draft, rereads to revise, and edits to correct

Conventions:  ELA3C1:  The student demonstrates understanding and control of the English language, realizing that usage involves the appropriate application of conventions and grammar in both written and spoken formats

• Correctly identifies and uses subject/ verb agreement and adjectives

• Identifies and uses nouns (singular, plural, possessive) correctly

• Speaks and writers in complete and coherent sentences

• Distinguishes between complete and incomplete sentences

• When appropriate, determines the meaning of a word based on how it is used in an orally presented sentence

• Writes legibly in cursive, leaving space between letters in a word and between words in a sentence.

• Uses common rules of spelling and corrects words using dictionaries and other resources

• Uses appropriate capitalization and punctuation (end marks, commas, apostrophes, quotation marks)

Listening/Speaking/Viewing:  ELA3LSV1:  The student uses oral and visual strategies to communicate

• Adapts oral language to fit the situation by following the rules of conversation with peers and adults

• Recalls, interprets, and summarizes information presented orally

• Uses oral language for different purposes:  to inform, persuade, or entertain

• Listens to and views a variety of media to acquire information

Math

Algebra:  M3A1: Students will use mathematical expressions to represent relationships between quantities and interpret given expressions.

• Describe and extend numeric and geometric patterns

• Use a symbol such as _ and ▲ to represent an unknown and find the value of the unknown in a number sentence.

Numbers and Operations:  M3N1: Students will further develop their understanding of whole numbers and ways of representing them.

• Identify place values from tenths to ten thousands

• Understand the relative sizes of digits in place value notation (10 times, 100 times, 1/100 of a single digit whole number) and ways to represent them

Data Analysis:  M3D1: Students will create and interpret simple tables and graphs

• Solve  problems by organizing and displaying data in bar graphs and tables

Numbers and Operations:  M3N2: Students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving

• Use the properties of addition and subtraction to compute and verify the results of computation
• Use mental math and estimation strategies to add and subtract
• Solve problems requiring addition and subtraction

Measurement:  M3M1: Students will further develop their understanding of the concept of time by determining elapsed time of a full, half, quarter hour

Process Skills: M3P1: Students will solve problems (using appropriate technology).

• Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematical problem solving.

Process Skills: : M3P5: Students will represent mathematics in multiple ways.

• Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas.
• Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems.
• Use representations to model and interpret physical, social, and mathematical phenomena.

Science

Life Science S3L1: Students will investigate the habitats of different organisms and the dependence of organisms on their habitat.

• Differentiate between habitats of Georgia (mountains, marsh/swamp, coast, Piedmont, Atlantic Ocean) and the organisms that live there.
• Identify features of green plants that allow them to live and thrive in different regions of Georgia.
• Identify features of animals that allow them to live and thrive in different regions of Georgia.
• Explain what will happen to an organism if the habitat is changed.

Life Science S3L2: Students will recognize the effects of pollution and humans on the environment

• Explain the effects of pollution ( such as littering ) to the habitats of plants and animals
• Identify ways to protect the environment. Conservation of resources and recycling of materials.

 

Habits of Mind S3CS1: Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.

• Keep records of investigations and observations and do not alter the records later.

• Offer reasons for findings and consider reasons suggested by others.

• Take responsibility for understanding the importance of being safety conscious.

Habits of Mind S3CS2: Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and following scientific explanations.

• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers mentally, on paper, and with a calculator.

• Use commonly encountered fractions - halves, thirds, and fourths (but not sixths, sevenths, and so on) - in scientific calculations.

• Judge whether measurements and computations of quantities, such as length, weight, or time, are reasonable answers to scientific problems by comparing them to typical values.

 

Habits of Mind S3CS3: Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities utilizing safe laboratory procedures.

• Choose appropriate common materials for making simple mechanical constructions and repairing things.

• Use computers, cameras and recording devices for capturing information.

• Identify and practice accepted safety procedures in manipulating science materials and equipment

Habits of Mind S3CS4: Students will use ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

• Observe and describe how parts influence one another in things with many parts.

• Use geometric figures, number sequences, graphs, diagrams, sketches, number lines, maps, and stories to represent corresponding features of objects, events, and processes in the real world.

• Identify ways in which the representations do not match thier original counterparts.

Habits of Mind S3CS5: Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.

• Write instructions that others can follow in carrying out a scientific procedure.

• Make sketches to aid in explaining scientific procedures or ideas.

• Use numerical data in describing and comparing objects and events.

• Locate scientific information in reference books, back issues of newspapers and magazines, CD-ROMs, and computer databases.

Habits of Mind S3CS6: Students will question scientific claims and arguments effectively.

• Support statements with facts found in books, articles, and databases, and identify the sources used.

The Nature of Science S3CS7: Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and how it is achieved.

• Similar scientific investigations seldom produce exactly the same results, which may differ due to unexpected differences in whatever is being investigated, unrecognized differences in the methods or circumstances of the investigation, or observational uncertainties.

• Some scientific knowledge is very old and yet is still applicable today.

The Nature of Science S3CS8: Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.

• Scientific investigations may take many different forms, including observing what things are like or what is happening somewhere, collecting specimens for analysis, and doing experiments.

• Clear and active communication is an essential part of doing science. It enables scientists to inform others about their work, expose their ideas to criticism by other scientists, and stay informed about scientific discoveries around the world.

• Scientists use technology to increase their power to observe things and to measure and compare things accurately.

• Science involves many different kinds of work and engages men and women of all ages and backgrounds.

Social Studies

Historical Understandings: SS3H1:  The student will explain the political roots of our modern democracy in the United States of America.

• Identify the influence of Greek architecture (Parthenon, U. S. Supreme Court building), law, and the Olympic Games on the present.
• Explain the ancient Athenians’ idea that a community should choose its own leaders.
• Compare and contrast Athens as a direct democracy with the United States as a representative democracy.

Historical Understandings: SS3H2:  The student will discuss the lives of Americans who expanded people’s rights and freedoms in a democracy.

• Paul Revere (independence)
• Explain social barriers, restrictions, and obstacles that these historical figures had to overcome and describe how they overcame them.

Geographic Understandings: SS3G1:  The student will locate major topographical features of the United States of America.

• Locate the equator, prime meridian, and lines of latitude and longitude on a globe.
• Locate Greece on a world map.

Geographic Understandings: SS3G2:  The student will describe the cultural and geographic systems associated with the historical figures in SS3H2a.

• Identify on a political map specific locations significant to the life and times of these historic figures.
• Describe how place (physical and human characteristics) had an impact on the lives of these historic figures.
• Describe how each of these historic figures adapted to and was influenced by his/her environment.
• Trace examples of travel and movement of these historic figures and their ideas across time.
• Describe how the region in which these historic figures lived affected their lives and had an impact on their cultural identification.

Government/Civic Understandings: SS3CG1: The student will explain the importance of the basic principles that provide the foundation of a republican form of government.

• Explain why in the United States there is a separation of power between branches of government and levels of government.
• Name the three levels of government (national, state, local) and the three branches in each (executive, legislative, judicial), including the names of the legislative branch (Congress, General Assembly, city commission or city council).
• State an example of the responsibilities of each level and branch of government.

Government/Civic Understandings: SS3CG2: The student will describe how the historical figures in SS3H2a display positive character traits of cooperation, diligence, liberty, justice, tolerance, freedom of conscience and expression, and respect for and acceptance of authority.

Map and Globe Skills:

• Use a letter/ number grid system to determine location
• Use inch to inch map scale to determine distance on map
• Use a map to explain impact of geography on historical and current events
• Use latitude and longitude to determine location

Information Processing Skills:

• Organize items chronologically
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
• Identify main idea, detail, sequence of events, and cause and effect in a social studies context
• Identify and use primary and secondary sources
• Interpret timelines
• Construct charts and tables
• Draw conclusions and make generalizations
• Translate dates into centuries, eras, or ages

 

 

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