Reading
Phonics
• Use knowledge of common
and less common (-eigh, ought, etc.) word patterns
• Use knowledge of lettersound relationships
• Know and use vowel
digraphs, consonant blends,
and endings when reading
• Use word patterns to decode
more complex words (i.e.
chunking)
Language Arts
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Social Studies
Health &
Science
Writing
Completes two writing
assessments:
• Spontaneous report tied to
a content area
• Process narrative/personal
experience
Geography
Map Skills
• Read and use a grid, world,
state, product, physical,
political, and agricultural
map
• Label the compass rose with
ordinal and cardinal
directions
• Use cardinal and ordinal
directions to determine a
location on a map
• Given a simple map, label the
title, compass rose,
landforms, bodies of water,
and construct a map key
• Label the countries of North
America: U.S., Canada,
Mexico, Greenland, and
Central America
• Use an atlas to locate an
assortment of maps
Measurement and
technology - FOSS
• Use various
measuring tools
Has experience in the
following writing
modes/types:
• Story, reflections, and
journal
• Letters
• Stories/narratives
• Poetry
• Persuasion
• Summary
• Informative report
• Directions/Instructions
• Research paper
Math
Numeration
• Read and write numbers using words,
numerals, pictures, number lines, arrays,
expanded forms, and symbolic renaming
• Count by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, 10’s, 25’s and 100’s
• Apply place value concepts to whole
numbers less than 10,000
• Compare and order whole numbers less than
10,000
• Identify fractional parts of a collection
• Read and order fraction parts ½, 1/3,1/4
• Count and make change up to $10.00 using
a collection of coins and one dollar bills
Use the writing process:
plan, revise, edit, and
publish
Write for a variety of
audiences and purposes
Apply phonetic principles to
writing
Use new vocabulary in
writing
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Reading
Language Arts
Grade 3 Content Map
Social Studies
Health &
Science
Comprehension
• Recognize and use grade
level high frequency words
• Begin to independently
participate in literature
circles
• Use cues to read for
meaning:
1. Pictures, graphs, and
diagrams
2. Prior knowledge and
context
3. Information in the story
4. Titles and headings
5. Language structure
6. Self-correction
strategies: rereading,
reading on, and chunking
Use 6 traits to learn about
writing:
• Content/ideas
• Organization
• Word choice/usage
• Sentence sense/variety
• Voice
• Conventions/mechanics
Globe Skills
• Label continents, oceans, and
hemispheres
• Locate and define equator,
North and South Pole
Rocks - FOSS
• Break rock molds,
test for calcite to
understand that
objects are made
of more than one
material
• Group minerals
according to
properties
• Observe and
describe changes
when mixed:
vinegar and
calcite
• Use the properties
of minerals to
determine which
are found in
granite
• Use the scratch
test or vinegar to
show different
physical and
chemical
properties in rocks
• Identify the
technology used
by geologist
(interview,
speaker, or video)
Determine the meaning of
words and phrase in context
• Context clues
Categorize words
Figurative language
Synonyms and
antonyms
Analogies
• Word structure
Regular and irregular
plural forms
Possessive forms
Contractions
Compound words
Adding an affix
Root words
• Word reference
Parts of a book
Dictionary definitions
An entry from a word
reference
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Vocabulary
• Define and draw a picture of
the following: canyon, desert,
forest, gulf, hill, island,
jungle, lake, mesa, mountain,
ocean, plain, plateau, river,
and tundra
Math
Operations and Computation
• Use addition and subtraction in everyday
situations and solve one and two step word
problems
• Know addition, subtraction, and
multiplication facts
• Solve double and triple digit addition and
subtraction problems with regrouping in a
horizontal and vertical format
• Estimate sums to 10, 100, and 1,000 and
differences to 10 and 100
• Solve number stories using positive and
negative integers
• Multiply without context 5x9, in context
products up to 100
• Divide with divided up to 45 and divisors
up to 5
• Interpret remainders in division problems
• Use fractions to represent quantities when
solving problems (less than one and mixed
numbers) show these quantities with
shaded representation
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Reading
Language Arts
Comprehension: Shared,
Guided, Literature Circles,
Textbooks and Independent
Reading
• Identify and analyze
characters, setting, events,
problem, solution, and
theme
• Interpret and summarize
stories and events
• Recognize comprehension
breakdowns and self
corrects
• Organize information or
events logically and identify
first, next, and last events
• Paraphrase information
found in nonfiction
materials
• Identify main ideas and
supporting details
• Recognize cause/effect and
compare & contrast
• Predict and draw
conclusions
• Determine where
information can be found in
a text
• Strategies for different texts
and different purposes
• Select appropriate material
and adjusts reading
• Set own purpose for reading
Speaking and Listening
• Present information to the
class
• Listen to others and asks
open-ended questions
• Follow written and oral
directions
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Social Studies
General
• Demonstrate knowledge of
the relationship among
country and state
• Compare/contrast urban,
rural, and suburban within
context of U.S.
Health &
Science
Crayfish – FOSS
• Understand and
care for the basic
needs for crayfish
to survive
• Observe how
crayfish respond
to internal and
external cues
• Record the life
stages of crayfish:
producing new
members,
molting, and
regeneration
• Explain crayfish
connections
between living
and non-living
things in their
environment
Math
Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
• Recognize, extend, describe, and create
patterns and relationships
• Show = “means” same as
• Use notations to represent math thinking
• Understand function and placement of
parenthesis in number sentences
• Understand use of <, >, = with addition and
subtraction
• Use identity, commutative and associative
properties to solve equations
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Reading
Language Arts
Vocabulary
• Build word knowledge
(prefixes, suffixes,
antonyms, synonyms,
homonyms)
• Build vocabulary through
content and literature
• Begin to recognize similes,
alliteration, and metaphor
Spelling
Spell frequently used words
correctly:
• In their writing
• From their reading and
content areas
Fluency
• Apply sentence punctuation,
inflection/voice, orally in
various print formats
independently and with
others
Handwriting
• Write legibly for self and
audience
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Social Studies
Human Growth
and Development
Human Body
FOSS
Skeletal and
Muscular Systems
Regions
Map Skills
• Know the location of regions
in the U.S.
• Label on a map the states,
capitals, important cities, and
landforms using physical,
political, and agricultural
maps
Economy
• Understand how area
landforms and natural
resources influence the
economy in the U.S.
Culture
• Know regions of interest
• Understand impact of culture
and environment on areas of
interest
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Health &
Science
Math
Geometry
• Identify right angles, 2D, 3D shapes and
symmetric figures
• Create and identify 2 D shapes by combing
or decomposing other shapes
• Match shapes of single motion geometry
(slide, flip, and turn)
• Use a coordinate system to find locations on
maps and to represent points and simple
figures with coordinates using letters and
numbers
• Identify, draw, and name line segments,
parallel and intersecting lines, and rays
• Identify cube and square pyramid shapes
from their flat patterns
• Draw lines of symmetry
• Find volume of rectangular prisms
Science Process
• Use KWL for
science
investigations
• Use and know
basic science
equipment in
theme
• Use questioning to
further
investigations
• Record and use
science data to
develop
explanations
• Know examples
of men and
women who have
made important
science and
technology
contributions
• Use vocabulary in
the theme
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Reading
Literature
• Identify author and
character’s point of view
• Identify the characteristics
of different genre, including
fantasy, folk tales and
adventure literature
• Recognize and use literary
devices
• Identify pros and cons of
informational text
• Uses literal, interpretive,
and applied levels of
interpretation
• Uses critical thinking to
respond to, to write about,
and to discuss literature
• Makes connections between
previous experiences and
reading selections
• Tells about and uses
background knowledge
• Makes predictions and
defends them
• Asks, answers, and produces
• Questions about what is read
• Evaluate the author’s word
choice, use of language,
effectiveness, and purpose
Language Arts
Grade 3 Content Map
Social Studies
Health &
Science
History
• Examine the historical
perspective of each region
(including Native Americans)
• Know that all aspects of
Native American life are
determined by location;
Artic, Sea, Plains, Woods,
and Desert
• Examine regional history
through time, continuity, and
change
• Know appropriate Native
American leaders
Science Inquiry
• Follow the
scientific method
with
investigations
• Communicate
results of
investigations
written and/or oral
• Explain and
support results of
investigations
Measurement and Reference Frames
• Tell and show time to nearest minute and
translate from analog to digital clock and
vice versa
• Compare time in multiples of 15
• Measure line segments to nearest ¼ inch
and centimeter
• Know and use appropriate units of measure
for length, weight, capacity, and
temperature
• Compare attributes of length, volume, and
weight by observation or when given actual
measurements
• Estimate with non standard units
• Make measure conversions within a system
• Read a thermometer to the nearest 5 degrees
F or C
• Find area and perimeter
Books
• Food Chains and
Webs
• Plan and Animal
Life Cycles
• Human Body
Module
Data and Chance
• Find minimum, maximum, mean, median,
mode, and range
• Collect and organize data in a bar graph,
chart, or table translating data from one to
the other
• Work with data in real world situations and
determine what data to collect, when, and
how to use it
• Draw conclusions based on interpretations
of data in graphs, tables, charts, and Venn
Diagrams
• Understand and use the language of
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Vocabulary
• Know vocabulary related to
theme of regions
Suggested Field Trips
Milwaukee Museum
Environmental Education
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Math
Reading
Language Arts
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Social Studies
Health &
Science
Math
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probability
Determine if the occurrence of future events
are more, less, equally likely to occur
Understand area model of probability and
solve simple spinner problems
Predict outcomes of an event - flipping a
coin
Describe the number of combinations for
choosing 2 out of 3 items
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