Algebraic Goals
(Relationships & representations &
operations)
Students will be able to:
• Know how to recognize, create,
and extend patterns of objects
SCIENCE
Key Concepts Emphasized at
Third Grade
• Systems
• Change
• Cycle
Key Units Taught at Third
Grade
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Structures of Life
Water
Electricity and Magnetism
Solar System (optional)
Process Skills Learned
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Advanced Organizing
Observing
Controlling Variables
Communicating
Students will be able to:
• Increase his/her understanding of
the concept “change”
• List changes in our world
• Investigate the characteristics of
water
• Demonstrate ways to change water
to new forms
• Describe an event which shows a
change in matter
• Explain water quality and options
for recycling
• Develop the concept of “cycle”
through electricity
• Design an experiment to
demonstrate the parts and
functions of a complete circuit in
two different ways
• Control variables within the
experiment to demonstrate an
open circuit
• Name the parts of a complete
circuit
• Increase understanding and use of
the concept “system”
• Explain magnetic properties
• Increase understanding of the
interrelationships of parts of a
system
• Describe living behaviors
• Demonstrate and explain planetary
revolution and rotation
• Develop a model of the solar
system
• Observe and list characteristics of
each planet and other objects in
our solar system
• Name and list the planets of our
solar system
SOCIAL STUDIES
Major Units or Themes Studied
• Maps and Globes
• Native American History and
Culture
• Cultural stories, influence, music
and art
Students will be able to:
• Explain the basic elements of maps
and globes
• Learn the eight directions on maps
and globes
• Apply directions on a map
• Read and apply map legends
• Memorize, locate and spell the
major oceans, continents and
hemispheres
• Memorize key map and globe
vocabulary
• Identify characteristics of the four
major Native American cultures of
North America
• Show knowledge of Native
American signs, persons, groups
and events
• Show understanding of significant
Native American vocabulary
• Understand Native American
culture through comparing and
contrasting attributes of four major
regions of North America
• Identify significant Native
American figures and events in a
historical context
• Explain how geographical
influences impacted Native
American culture
apply to the learning and performance of physical activities
• Safe and regular participation in physical activity
• Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of life-long physical
fitness
• Responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in
physical activity settings
Students will be able to:
• Throw with mature form (opposition, follow through) to a stationary
target
• Catch with two hands
• Kick a stationary ball with mature form
• Foot dribble with control and hand dribble while moving
• Strike a manipulative
• Volley to a stationary object
• Dramatize fundamental rhythmic patterns
• Static balance with control (scales, stability ball, head stand)
• Fundamental forward and backward tumbling/weight transfer
• Demonstrate proper use of equipment; maintain body control in
general and personal space
• Recognize the components of fitness
• Identify daily activities that use each component of fitness
• Know that food provides nutritional content and energy
• Recognize various movement activities found on the activity pyramid
• Describe nutritional habits affecting overall health, and growth/
development
• Relate physical fitness components used to perform age-appropriate
activities (chores, jobs, play)
• Use safety principles when performing appropriate activities (chores,
exercise, stretching, playing)
• Participate in fitness testing
Physical Education
Physical wellness goals
• Competency in motor skills and
fundamental movement needed
to perform a variety of physical
activities
• Understanding of movement concepts,
principal strategies, and tactics as they
Camas School District
841 N.E. 22nd Avenue
Camas, WA 98607
camas school district
a guide to
third grade
curriculum
READING
Reading Strategy Goals
Students will be able to:
• Read words containing complex letter
patterns using multi-syllable decoding
• Reread a paragraph or sentence to
establish meaning
• Use context clues, prior knowledge
and illustrations for meaning
• Read aloud showing understanding of
punctuation
• Begin to read a variety of genres,
styles and topics
• Select books to fulfill own purposes
• State the main idea of a passage
• Self-correct using knowledge of
language structure and sound-symbol
relationships
• Integrate new vocabulary in own communications
Reading Response Goals
Students will be able to:
• Use writing which reflects an understanding of a text
• Identify simple literary devices
• Recall events and characters from text
• Follow written instructions
• Interpret stories through role-playing
• Continue to identify cause and effect
in a text
• State main idea of an informational
passage
• Begin to understand the author’s
purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to
entertain, to persuade)
• Interpret information from graphs,
charts, diagrams and tables
• Begin to use content for personal connections and analogies
• Continue to use and understand index,
table of contents, dictionary, glossary,
maps, text as an information resource
(i.e., books, dictionary, encyclopedia,
computer manual)
• Read aloud unpracticed grade-level
texts at a rate of 100-120 words correct per minute
Third Grade Reading
Benchmarks to be Assessed
• Can recall sequential events from a
story
• Can recall and describe story elements
• Can discuss an author’s purpose and
style
• Can show evidence of applying phonetic strategies when attacking new
vocabulary in a grade-level passage
• Can show evidence of understanding,
summarizing and applying sequential
directions
• Can identify the main idea from third
grade level reading material
• Can make meaningful connections between grade-level literature and prior
knowledge/personal experiences
• Can draw conclusions from what is
read
• Can summarize the events, information or main ideas from an informational text
Dear Parents:
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This document provides an overview of the adopted
district curriculum in Language Arts, Mathematics,
Science and Social Studies. As a guide, it is intended to
highlight the most essential learning targets for students.
More detailed curriculum guides are available for each of
the major discipline areas. Please ask your principal if you
are interested in examining these materials. The Camas
School District curriculum is also reviewed and frequently
updated. Comments, suggestions and editing notes
may be given to any principal or sent to the Curriculum
Department, Camas School District, 841 N.E. 22nd
Avenue, Camas, WA 98607.
WRITING
Goals for What the Writer Does
Students will be able to:
• Use proper manuscript writing
position
• Use correct letter formation
(introduction of cursive)
• Commence writing without assistance
• Continue to check written work for
complete thought and then revise
• Begin to use outside resources to
extend vocabulary
Goals for What the Writing
Should Show
Students will be able to:
• Write cohesive sentences (subject/verb
agreement)
• Begin ability to restate a question as
part of an answer
• Use basic paragraph structure
• Correctly organize the five main parts
of a letter
• Recognize and begin to use a main
idea with supporting details in writing
• Sequence ideas logically—developing
a sense of beginning, middle and end
• Use time, setting and more than one
character in a story
• Use proper punctuation and
capitalization, commas in letters and a
series, commas in dates and locations
• Begin to use quotation marks
• Produce writing which continues to
reflect the author’s personality
• Identify and repair sentence fragments
Goals for the Use of Writing
Students will be able to:
• Write about experiences
• Write about observations (compare
and contrast)
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• Convey information from a variety
of sources (independent expository
writing)
• Write for a variety of purposes and
audiences (informative paragraphs,
daily journals, math story problems,
recording of descriptive science
investigations, friendly letters)
Third Grade Writing
Benchmarks to be Assessed
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Completes a simple expository paper
Writes two experiential narratives
Produces two fictional narratives
Writes a friendly letter
Writes a short biography
Writes a thank you letter
SPEAKING
Through a variety of classroom activities,
students will be able to practice oral
communication skills in these five
categories:
• IMAGINING—communication which
casts the participant in imaginary
situations and includes creative
behaviors such as role-playing,
fantasizing, speculating, dramatizing,
theorizing, and storytelling
• SHARING FEELINGS—communication
which expresses and responds
to feelings and attitudes such as
exclaiming, expressing a state or an
attitude, commiserating, disagreeing
and appropriately rejecting
• INFORMING—communication that
seeks information; for example stating
information, questioning, answering,
justifying, naming, pointing out an
object, demonstrating, explaining, and
acknowledging
• CONTROLLING—communication acts
which are intended to control behavior; for example, commanding, offering, suggesting, permitting, warning,
prohibiting, contracting, refusing,
bargaining, justifying, and persuading
• RITUALIZING—communication that
serves primarily to maintain social
relationships and interactions, such as
greeting, taking leave, interrupting,
participating in culturally appropriate speech modes and demonstrating
culturally appropriate amenities
Third Grade Speaking Goals
Students will be able to:
• Present a written project in an oral
manner
• Contribute thoughts or ideas in a large
group
• Provide oral reading demonstrations
• Appropriately express feelings
MATH
Number Sense Goals
(Numeration, computation, & estimation)
Students will be able to:
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Read and write numerals to 100,000
Count by 3s, 4s, and 6s
Read and write number words to 100
Recognize concrete, pictorial and
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symbolic representations of fractional
numbers
Recognize, build, compare and order
sets that contain 0 to 1,000 elements
Identify the place value and value of a
digit in numerals through 6 digits
Use manipulatives, diagrams and symbols to demonstrate and describe the
process of addition and subtraction, to
the thousands place with or without
regrouping
Recall multiplication facts up to 54
(6X9) using manipulatives, diagrams
and symbols
Multiply up to 3 digits by 1 digit
Use mental math, a calculator or estimation as appropriate to the problem
Estimate, then count the number
of objects in a set (0 to 1,000), and
compare the estimate with the actual
number
Round numbers to the nearest hundred
Compare and order whole number
values to 1,000,000
Understand the commutative, associative and identity properties of addition
on whole numbers
Measurement Goals
(Attributes & dimensions, approximation &
precision, systems & tools)
Students will be able to:
• Know how to measure length using
inches, feet, yards, centimeters and
meters
• Read and write the days of the week
and months of the year
• Read and write both money notations
($, ¢)
• Count and record collections of coins
and bills up to $10
• Recognize the value of bills up to $200
• Make purchases and change up to $10
• Create and recognize that a given
value of money can be represented in
many different ways
• Read digital standard clocks and write
time to the nearest minute, using
12-hour notation
• Tell time on an analog clock
• Relate days to years
• Estimate and measure the passage of
time, using standard units: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years
• Understand that measurement is approximate
• Know how to estimate, to predict, and
to determine when measurements are
reasonable
• Know appropriate units of measure for
time, money, length, area and perimeter
• Communicate and apply terms of direction, such as north or south and east or
west, and relate to maps
• Relate temperature to everyday situations
• Estimate, read and record temperature
to the nearest degree
• Place objects in order based on their
weight
Geometry Goals
(Shape & dimension, relationships &
transformations)
Students will be able to:
• Identify and name lines and line
segments
• Understand the concept of parallel
• Know and use attributes of 2-D shapes
and sizes to identify, name and sort
geometric shapes
• Know how to construct simple 2-D
shapes using appropriate tools
• Understand how geometric shapes and
objects in the surrounding environment
are related
• Use attributes and properties to identify,
name and compare polygons
• Find the area of a square or rectangle
• Understand concepts of symmetry,
congruence and similarity
• Name and locate coordinates
• Read bar graphs
• Get information from a picture or model
Probability and Statistics Goals
(Chance, data analysis, prediction & inference)
Students will be able to:
• Collect data using measuring devices
• Analyze and interpret data
• Describe the likelihood of an outcome
using such terms as more likely, less
likely, chance
• Make a simple survey
• Obtain new information by performing arithmetic operations on data
• Conduct a probability experiment, choose
an appropriate recording method, and
draw conclusions from the results
• Use tables, tally charts, line plots, or bar
graphs to display data