Parent tool kitParent Tool Kit is a great resource to see the rate your child should be growing socially, emotionally, physically and academically in 3rd grade. They provide lots of tips and ideas on how to teach important life lessons to your child at home. Click on the green icon for a link to their website.
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Language arts
■ Reading stories and poems aloud uently, without pausing to gure out what each word means |
mathamatics
■ Reasoning about shapes (e.g., all squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares) ■ Finding areas of shapes, and relating area to multiplication (e.g., why is the number of square feet for a 9-foot by 7-foot room given by the product 9 × 7?) |
Writing
■ Independently conducting short research projects that build knowledge about various topics ■ Spelling correctly and consulting dictionaries to clarify meanings of words |
Participation■ Asking and answering questions about information he or she hears from a speaker or while participating in classroom discussions, offering appropriate elaboration and detail that build on what others have said
■ Distinguishing the literal and nonliteral meanings of words, such as something’s shy and cold shoulder |