1. Welcome to Curriculum Night

2. Third Grade English/Language Arts
Key Features of the ELA Standards:
Students should be progressing in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and using language.
Teachers use Readers’ Workshop and Writers’ Workshop to teach mini-lessons and encourage interaction among students about the text and their writing.
Third Grade Reading Genres Focus: Characters in Series Fiction, Biographies, Informational Nonfiction
Third Grade Writing Genres Focus: Narratives, Persuasive Pieces, Expository Pieces, Learning Journals, Essays
Third Grade Spelling: Word Study Program

3. Third Grade Math The Major Concepts that will be Taught:
Number and Operations in Base 10 (numbers up to 1000)
Place value and Estimating
Fluency in adding & subtracting
Building Relationships Between Multiplication and Division (Numbers up to 10)
Strategies for solving problems
Fact Families
Properties of Multiplication and Division
Commutative, Associative, Identity, Zero
Distributive will be taught as decomposing
Patterns and Problem Solving
Emphasis on multistep problems

4. Third Grade Math Continued
Geometry and Area/Perimeter
Emphasis on quadrilaterals
Representing and Comparing Fractions
Emphasis on basic benchmark fractions
Equivalent Fractions with pictures only
Measurement
Elapsed time
Customary capacity and weight
Inches to the fourth inch
Graphing
Bar Graphs
Pictographs

5. Third Grade Science Physical Science: Earth Science: Life Science:
Forces and Motion- change in speed, compare speeds, earth’s gravity
Properties and Change in Matter – air takes up space, compare solid, liquid, and gas, changes when heating and freezing
Energy Conservation – Friction
Earth Science:
Earth in the Universe – sun, planets, and moons
Earth, Systems, Structures, and Processes – shadows, saltwater vs. freshwater, landforms *Related Field Trip to Grandfather Mountain and Linville Caverns in October
Life Science:
Structures and Functions of Living Organisms – skeletal system, muscular system, skin protection
Ecosystems – plant stages, plant needs, soil properties

6. Third Grade Social Studies
Third grade students will study 5 organizational strands:
History - how events and ideas influence history, use history to understand the context of people, events and places
Geography - 5 themes of geography
Civics and Government - local government, citizenship *Related Field Trip to Concord Administrative Offices in September
Economics and Financial Literacy - a location's effect on the market economy, entrepreneurship
Culture - visibility of diverse cultures in our region

7. Cabarrus County Grading Scale for Standards-Based Assessments:
4=Exceeds Grade Level Standard (Mastery of 4th Grade Standards or Exemplar Work)
3=Meets Grade Level Standard (Goal for Most Students)
2=Progressing Toward Grade Level Standard
1=Limited Progress Toward Grade Level Standard

8. Report Card Reminders:
The levels just shown do NOT correlate with letter grades and should never be thought of that way.
Mastery Levels are used K-5 throughout Cabarrus County.
The report card will not have a place for every single objective as that is too overwhelming. The standards that will have the most impact on students to be the ones included on the report card.
Please note that Standards-Based Grading will not show on the Parent Portal. To keep up with your child’s progress, please focus on graded work that comes home.

9. Planned Testing
BOY Screening Tools (all reviewed in-depth at 1st Quarter Conferences):
Reading 3D (State Mandated)
Fluency (Dibels)
Timed Comprehension (Daze)
Untimed Oral Comprehension Level (TRC)
Mastery Connect Online Reading and Math Testing (County Mandated)
Beginning of Grade READING Test (BOG) based on EOY Skills (State Mandated)
iReady online Reading Test (County Mandated)—Oct.

10. Testing Continued
Additional Measurements of Progression Throughout Year
2nd iReady Online Program Assessment of Reading
2nd Reading 3D—Jan.
2nd Mastery Connect Reading and Math
Standards-Based Assessments (graded work sent home)
Teacher Observations (shared as needed)
EOY Assessments
3rd iReady Assessment (only as needed for RtA)
3rd and Final Reading 3D—Apr.
End of Grade Tests (EOG) on Reading and Math--May

11. Read to Achieve Legislation
Third Graders must show reading proficiency by end of year (or have a good cause exemption*).
TEN Assessment Opportunities for Proficiency (2018/19):
Reading BOG (1 opportunity)
Reading 3D Comprehension Test—TRC (3)
iReady Online Assessment in Reading (2)
Mastery Connect Online Reading Tests (2)
Reading EOG (1)
Read to Achieve Alternative Assessment (1)
*Students with a special circumstance such as just entering America.

12. Each student must pass only one of the ten assessments!

13. Read to Achieve Legislation Cont.
Students who are not meeting proficiency with assessments will be given extra help through interventions in reading to meet their needs.
If a student still does not show proficiency after all the opportunities, parents will be able to choose between sending the child to the Cabarrus County Reading Camp during the summer or having the child repeat third grade.
Camp is free for students required to attend. Transportation and meals are provided during the four Monday-Thursday weeks in July. Students who still need to meet the Read To Achieve Legislation will be retested at the end of the camp.

14. See you at First Quarter Conferences!