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3rd Grade
Reading
- Compare and contrast
- Cause and effect
- Main idea, sequence and details
- Predict, infer, conclude and summarize
- Analyze story elements
- Evaluate fact and nonfact
- Dictionary skills
- Vocabulary development
- Critical reading and thinking
- Graphic organizers
Writing
- Basic grammar, punctuation and spelling
- Prewriting techniques
- Editing, revision and publishing
- Organizing ideas and expanding topic
- Narrative and How to
- Reading/Writing Workshop
- Cursive handwriting
Mathematics
- Basic Operations (addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division)
- Problem solving, logic and word
problems
- Place value, estimating and rounding
- Time and money
- Data, graphs and probability
- Customary measurement
- Geometry
- Fractions and decimals
- Using calculators and manipulatives
Science - Natural World
- Scientific Process
- Matter, gravity, and force
- Magnetism
- Rocks, soil and atmosphere
- Renewable and non-renewable resources
- Organism needs, habitats, ecosystem and
life cycle
- Simple machines
- Solar System
Social Studies
- History: Communities old and new
- Geography: Map skills, continents and
oceans
- Economics: Independence and business
- Government: Structure of local
government
- Culture: Multicultural study
- Citizenship and Responsibility
- Current events
Special Subjects/Classes
- Music
- Physical education
- Chapel
- Library
- Spanish
- Computer
- Bible study
4th Grade
Reading
- Reading Workshop
- Independent reading
- Guided reading
- Literature groups
- Analyze story elements
- Predict probable future outcomes
- Draw logical conclusions
- Locate information within a book and
from outside sources
- Critical reading and thinking
- Respond to various forms of literature
Writing
- Writing workshop
- Prewriting, rough drafts, editing,
revision and publishing
- Use the correct subject, object and
possessive form of pronouns
- Recognize correct regular and irregular
verb tense
- Use a variety of writing styles
- Appropriate capitalization, punctuation
and spelling
- Manuscript and cursive handwriting
Mathematics
- Addition, subtraction, multiplication
and division
- Estimation and graphing
- Fractions and decimals
- Patterns and Measurement
- Using calculators
- Problem solving
- Geometry
- Word problems
- Logic and probability
- Number sense/Mental math
Science
- Scientific Process
- Life Science – Plants, animals and
ecosystems
- Physical Science – Matter and
energy
- Earth Science – Oceans, lakes,
weather and space
- Health – Human growth and
development, nutrition, safety, environmental health and drugs/tobacco/alcohol
Social Studies
- Map and globe skills
- Texas regions
- Texas Native Americans
- Texas History/Government
- Multi-Cultural Texas
- Economics
- Current events
Special Subjects/Classes
- Music
- Physical education
- Chapel
- Library
- Spanish
- Computer
- Bible study
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