Grade guides · Usually ages 8 and 9

What children usually learn in Grade 3

What the year usually covers, subject by subject, in our own words from the curriculum you choose, with games that practise it.

Curriculum: United States · Ontario · British Columbia · England

Math

  • Multiplying and dividing within 100, and knowing the facts by heart by the end of the year 3.OA
  • Rounding, and adding and taking away within 1000 3.NBT
  • Fractions as numbers, fractions that are the same amount, and comparing them 3.NF
  • Telling the time to the minute, and measuring weight and how much a container holds 3.MD
  • Area by counting squares and multiplying, and the perimeter round a shape 3.MD
  • Patterns in the times tables, and bar graphs with a scale 3.OA, 3.MD

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Reading

  • Reading longer words with prefixes and suffixes RF.3.3
  • The lesson of a story, and how a character's actions move it on RL.3.2, RL.3.3
  • The main idea of an information text, and the details that support it RI.3.2
  • Writing opinions with reasons, explanations with facts, and stories with dialogue W.3.1 to W.3.3
  • Short research: gathering facts from books and notes W.3.7, W.3.8
  • Nouns, verbs and adjectives, and punctuating speech L.3.1, L.3.2

Practise it with

Science

  • Balanced and unbalanced forces, patterns in motion, and magnets 3-PS2
  • Life cycles, and animals living in groups 3-LS1, 3-LS2
  • Traits passed on from parents, fossils, and how living things fit their habitat 3-LS3, 3-LS4
  • Weather records, climates around the world, and keeping safe in bad weather 3-ESS2, 3-ESS3
  • Fair tests with measured results 3-5-ETS1

Practise it with

Geography

  • Maps of different scales, and choosing the map for the question D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Regions of their own country: the land, the climate, and how people live there D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Rivers from source to mouth, and how water shapes the land D2.Geo, 3-5
  • How people use and change the land where they live D2.Geo, 3-5
  • Using clues to find a place, and checking a claim about it D2.Geo, 3-5

Practise it with

History

  • Their own community's history, and the people who shaped it D2.His, 3-5
  • Timelines with dates, and how long ago D2.His, 3-5
  • Who made a source, and what it shows D2.His, 3-5
  • Why something happened, and what came of it D2.His, 3-5
  • Local government, and how rules are made D2.Civ, 3-5

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Where this comes from

Written in our own words from the documents below. It says what the year usually covers; it is not the official text, which the curriculum's own pages hold.

  • Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy (2010), by National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Next Generation Science Standards (2013), by NGSS Lead States
  • College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013), by National Council for the Social Studies

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