Grade 3
“Third grade is a great year of academic growth. Students move from being concrete thinkers to becoming more open to abstract concepts. They will learn multiplication and will begin writing in organized paragraphs.”
Goals for a Grade 3 Student
- Continue building a strong academic foundation and study routine
- Practice social skills by interacting with family members, teachers, and classmates
- Expand on previous knowledge and apply newly-learned information
English Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 3 in English:
✓ Read with comprehension, phrasing and attention to punctuation
✓ Use personal stories and experiences to make meaning
✓ Recognize and use different forms of text, such as oral, written, and visual
✓ Read medium-level chapter books with expression
✓ Read independently for up to 30 minutes
✓ Summarize a story’s plot, setting and characters
How Your English Tutor Will Help:
✓ Practice writing in complete sentences and with a central idea
✓ Revise work by adding description and detail, and editing work for punctuation, spelling and grammar
✓ Introduce writing strategies with clear beginning, middle and end
✓ Practice using paragraphs to organize ideas using a variety of sentence forms
✓ Read, summarize and analyze student’s writing
Mathematics Curriculum
Expectations of a Grade 3 in Math:
✓ Understand place value into the thousands
✓ Know basic addition and subtraction including regrouping
✓ Multiply up to three-digit numbers and divide by two digits
✓ Create and solve fractions and decimals
✓ Divide objects into equal parts using fractions
✓ Measure using weight, temperature, length and perimeter
How Your Math Tutor Will Help:
✓ Make real life connections to numbers and counting
✓ Practice visualizing math concepts for a realistic understanding
✓ Familiarize student with mathematical vocabulary
✓ Challenge student to justify mathematical ideas and decisions
✓ Develop mental math strategies
✓ Begin to teach algebra
