Here’s tonight’s line-up:  Introduction to Grade Level Expectations  Outlining Activities Planned  Information about FCAT

 3 rd Grade Frameworks  Importance of Agenda  Organization/Independence  Birthdays

Mad Science – October Read-A-Thon-November Tampa Zoo - Spring

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test 3 rd Grade Reading and Math Tentative Testing Window: March 9-19

 Purpose – to measure students’ achievement in constructing meaning from a wide variety of texts  60% of the test will contain literary text  40% of the test will contain informational text  Includes two, sixty minute reading tests  All items multiple choice

 Reading selections will represent a range of reading ability within the grade  Will include reading levels appropriate for both the beginning and end of the grade  Each passage will range between words, with an average of 350 words per passage  Average of 6-8 passages  Average of questions

Leah cried as she pointed to the creature on the shore she and Matt paddled toward the riverbank Leah cried as she pointed to the creature on the shore. She and Matt paddled toward the riverbank.

SAMPLE ONE - Adult The complex boundaries between orderly and chaotic behavior had unsuspected regularities that could only be described in terms of the relation of large scales to small. The structures that provided the key to nonlinear dynamics proved to be fractals. SAMPLE TWO - Child Leah cried as she pointed to the creature on the shore. She and Matt paddled toward the riverbank. Matt and Leah are in a a. sailboat b. car c. canoe d. train

 Macmillan-McGraw Hill Reading Series – weekly selections build phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency  Explicit instruction of reading strategies  Independent Reading – practice phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency  Science & Social Studies reading material – further enhance reading instruction and develop strategies for informational texts  FAIR Testing – to assess all areas of reading  Unit Benchmark Tests – to monitor phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension skills

 Monitor your child’s agenda for assignments  Provide time for you child to read at home (15-30 minutes daily)  Listen to your child read and read with your child  Discuss the stories that are read with your child  Visit the public library to check out books  Have your child become an active participant in the Accelerated Reader program  Have your child go online to

 Purpose – to measure students’ achievement in the five strands of mathematics *Number sense, concepts, and operations *Measurement *Geometry & Spatial Sense *Algebraic Thinking *Data Analysis & Probability  Includes two, sixty minute math tests  All items multiple choice

 Most are assessed in a problem solving context  Example: Fiona measured four items. The pencil was 6 inches long, the paper was 12 inches long, the length of the book was 1 foot, and the length of the scissors was 8 inches. Which item had the shortest length? A. The pencil B. The paper C. The book D. The scissors

 Harcourt Brace Math Series  Harcourt Brace FCAT Practice Workbook  Morning seatwork  Supplemental materials  Explicit instruction of problem solving strategies

 Monitor your child’s agenda and daily assignments  Use flashcards to study math facts (addition, subtraction, multiplication)  Let your child help with chores at home (for example: cooking-measurement)  Have your child go online to Harcourt’s website –

Science – click on “for students” enter class code: jansing3 click on pupil edition grade 3 Social Studies – username: osceolaschool3 password: learner Math – students have a unique username & password Reading – click on “for students” enter class code: jansing2008 click on student edition 2009