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                                Curriculum

The University School curriculum guidelines are set forth by the Tennessee Department of Education which
 is located at www.tennessee.gov/education.  The standards listed below are those that are assessed for
third graders through their Terra Nova test which occurs in April of each year.  Curriculum activities in the
third grade classroom reflect the assessed standards as well as those that are introduced or are
developing.   Third grade students also participate in music, art, health, physical education, guidance, and
library classes.

 

LANGUAGE ARTS
Third Grade
READING
The student will develop the reading and listening skills necessary for word recognition, comprehension, interpretation, analysis, evaluation, and appreciation of print and nonprint text.
Oral Language / Decoding
Key  
A Distinguish individual sounds including consonant blends within words.
A Identify and/or select rhyming words. 
A Recognize root words and their various inflections (walks, walking, walked).
Comprehension
A Determine word meaning within context using prefixes and suffixes.
A Determine word meanings through the use of context clues.
A Recognize grade appropriate vocabulary within context.
A Select appropriate synonyms and antonyms within context.
A Determine correct meaning/usage of multiple meaning words.
A Select questions used to focus and clarify thinking while reading.
A Determine the sequence of events in a story. 
A Identify stated cause and effect relationships in text. 
A Distinguish between fact and opinion within text.
A Identify the stated main idea of a reading selection.
A Determine appropriate inferences from text.
A Identify setting, characters, and plot in a reading situation.
A Determine the problem in a story and recognize its solution.
A Recognize basic plot features of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths. 
A Identify different forms of text (e.g., poems, plays, and stories). 
A Recognize how illustrations support the text.
A Select information using available text features (e.g., maps, charts, and graphics).
A Recognize the parts of a book (e.g., table of contents, and glossary).
WRITING
The student will develop the structural and creative skills of the writing process necessary to produce written language that can be read, presented to, and interpreted by various audiences.
Process
A Choose the most specific word to complete a simple sentence. 
A Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, inform, exhibit knowledge, respond to a picture, story, or art).
A Complete a simple graphic organizer to group ideas for writing (e.g., webbing).
A Identify the audience for which a text is written.
A Select the best title for a text. 
A Choose a topic sentence for a paragraph.
A Choose a supporting sentence that best fits the content and flow of ideas in a paragraph.
A Identify unnecessary information in a paragraph.
A Complete a simple graphic organizer (i.e., charts, graphs, and diagrams) arranging information to be used in a writing sample.
A Rearrange events in sequential order.
A Rearrange sentences to form a sequential, coherent paragraph. 
A Rearrange a story sequentially with a logical beginning, middle, and end.
A Identify the most reliable source of information for preparing a report.
ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE 
The student will use standard English conventions and proper spelling as appropriate to
speaking and writing.
A Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., as subjects, singular and plural), verbs (i.e., present, past, and future), and adjectives (i.e., comparative and superlative) within content.
A Recognize grade level compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations within context.
A Identify correctly used capital letters in names, dates, and addresses.
A Recognize correct capitalization and end punctuation within context.
A Identify the correct use of commas with dates, addresses, items in a series, and the greeting and closing of a friendly letter.
A Choose the correct formation of contractions and plurals within context.
A Rearrange and identify words in alphabetical order (e.g., lists, telephone directory). 
A Recognize usage errors occurring within context (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words: to, too, two, there, their, they’re).
A Identify declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentence by recognizing appropriate end-marks.
A Select the simple subject and predicate of a sentence.
A Select the best way to combine sentences in order to provide syntactic variety within context. 
A Select the compound sentence that correctly combines two simple sentences.
A Identify correctly (or incorrectly) spelled words in context.
MATHEMATICS
Third Grade
Number and Operations
The student will identify, represent, order, and compare numbers and compute and solve problems.
Key  
A Count by 10’s, 100’s, or 1,000’s.
A Represent whole numbers to 9,999 with models.
A Identify whole numbers as odd or even.
A Identify the place value of a given digit up to thousands.
A Represent whole numbers up to 10,000 in expanded form (e.g., 1,000’s + 100’s + 10’s + 1’s).
A Connect written and pictorial representations of fractions with denominators up to ten.
A Compare fractions with numerators of 1 and denominators up to 10.
A Recognize the value of combinations of coins and bills up to $5. 
A Determine the correct change from a transaction that is less than $1.00. 
A Compare and order whole numbers up to 9999 using the appropriate symbol (i.e., <, >, and =). 
A Solve real-world problems using addition or subtraction of whole numbers.
A Add and subtract efficiently and accurately with single-digit whole numbers.
A Add efficiently and accurately with two- and/or three-digit whole numbers.
A Subtract efficiently and accurately with two- and/or three-digit whole numbers.
A Use estimation to select a reasonable solution in problem solving (addition and subtraction only). 
A Use the multiplication facts 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10 efficiently and accurately.  
Algebra
The student will sort and classify objects; create, extend, and describe patterns; and represent number sentences with words, objects, and pictures.
A Sort objects by two attributes.
A Identify the rules by which objects or numbers have been sorted. 
A Extend repeating and growing numerical or geometric patterns.
A Represent repeating geometric patterns as repeating numerical patterns.
A Determine the output number for a particular input number given a one-operation function rule involving addition or subtraction.
A Solve open sentences that involve addition and subtraction of whole numbers zero to twenty.
A Connect open sentences to real-world situations.
Geometry
The student will identify, describe, and create basic shapes and describe relative positions and directions.
A Name two-dimensional geometric figures (e.g., rectangle, square, triangle, circle, cube, cylinder, sphere, and cone).
A Name three-dimensional geometric figures (e.g., rectangle, square, triangle, circle, cube, cylinder, sphere, and cone).
A Recognize geometric figures that are the same size and shape.
A Identify the line of symmetry in a two-dimensional design or shape.
A Use appropriate mathematical language to find a point on a grid using whole number coordinates. 
A Identify the result of a transformation that has been applied to a simple two-dimensional geometric shape (i.e., flips or slides).
Measurement
The student will apply measurement concepts of time, length, weight, capacity, and temperature.
A Solve real-world problems using a calendar.
A Solve real-world problems involving addition and subtraction of one- or two-digit measurements.
A Use estimation to determine if a length measurement is reasonable.
A Measure length to the nearest centimeter and inch.
A Find the perimeter of a rectangle on a grid.
A Select an appropriate standard unit to measure length. 
A Solve real-world problems involving elapsed time to the half-hour.
A Read thermometers with Fahrenheit and Celsius scales (positive whole number temperatures). 
A Read and write time at five-minute intervals.
A Read and write time to the nearest hour, half-hour, and quarter-hour.
Data Analysis and Probability
The student will make simple graphs using concrete objects and pictures and describe events as likely or unlikely.
A Interpret pictographs.
A Interpret bar graphs.
A Determine whether an event is certain, possible, or impossible.
A Determine the most likely, least likely, or equally likely outcomes in simple experiments (i.e., spinner, number or color cube).
A Select all possible outcomes of a simple experiment (i.e., spinner, coin toss, number or color cube).
A Solve real-world problems in which data is represented in tables.
SCIENCE
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