1. What to Expect in 3rd Grade

2. Topics Accountability and Responsibility CMS Grading Scale
Math, Literacy Social Studies, and Science Curriculum
EOG’s
Read to Achieve

3. Accountability
Going into 3rd grade is equivalent to going into Middle School and High School.
Students have more responsibility and are held accountable for their work and actions.
Establish, practice, and enforce expectations and consequences.
Students who take responsibility for their mistakes can learn the true value of personal accountability.

5. Responsible students take ownership of their actions by exhibiting the following:
Follow school and classroom rules.
Be respectful to everyone and everything.
Communicate in a careful and respectful manner with teachers, peers, and administrators.
Avoid making excuses for their behavior.
Take charge in own learning: listen, participate.
Complete the assigned work in a timely manner.
Turn in all homework.

6. Parent involvement has been identified as one of the most important ways to improve education.
“When students are motivated and take responsibility for their education, the source of that motivation is almost always the child’s family/parent”. Wisconsin Education Association Council
Establish a daily routine at home.
Create a positive attitude toward learning.
Celebrate the success of learning; don’t focus on failures.
Attend parent-teacher conferences; maintain constant communication with teacher.

7. Parent involvement has been identified as one of the most important ways to improve education.
Establish high expectations.
Discuss what happens in school and classroom.
Have your child read aloud to you every night.
Make sure that your child arrives at school on time and consistently attends school.
Make sure homework is completed; support your child during homework.
Sign your child’s agenda everyday.

8. CMS Grading Procedures
If a students receives less than an 85% on a common assessment students will be re-taught the material then will demonstrate “mastery” by retaking any failed formal assessment. The re-test grade will replace the original grade.
Follow consequences for “cheating” as outlined in the Rights and Responsibilities Handbook.
The minimum grade received on any assignment is a 50.

9. CMS Grading Scale
93 – A B
77 – 84 C
70 – 76 D
0 – F

10. Literacy Curriculum Whole Group Instruction:
Follow Common Core Standards
- main idea – context clues – author’s purpose – text organization – figurative language – sentence structure – text features
Balanced Literacy:
Independent Reading, Supported Reading, Word Work, Writing

11. Student Will Write Daily as well as…
Writing Curriculum
The writing curriculum is based on Lucy Calkins
Student Will Write Daily as well as…
Establish habits of independent writers throughout the writing process
Create and learn to use resources, and apply them to independent
writing
Develop writing stamina in a productive, quiet writing space
Collaborate and respond respectfully and thoughtfully
Understand where writers get their ideas (i.e. notebooks, conversations, personal experiences, mentor texts, etc.)
Explore exemplary writing (mentor texts and student models)
Explore topics and ideas they find meaningful (prewriting)
Compose a first draft (drafting)
Extend and rework selected writing (revising)
Edit and proofread their work (editing)

12. Math Curriculum
Instruction based on Common Core Standards using the Investigations math program:
Adding and subtracting two, three, and four digit numbers
Multiplication and Division
Fractions
Measurement
Students will be introduced to various strategies to help solve word problems.
Dreambox

13. Social Studies Curriculum
Harcourt Social Studies: People Who Make a Difference
Citizens and Government
Our Different Roles
People and Communities Over Time
Our Geography
People and Economics
People and Technology
People Shape Communities

14. Science Curriculum Scientific Method & Science Notebooks Matter Energy
Earth/Moon/Sun
Earth Systems, Structure & Processes
Structure & Function of Living Organisms
Ecosystems
Force & Motion
Human Body

17. EOG’s
The North Carolina End-of-Grade Tests are designed to measure student performance on the goals, objectives, and grade-level competencies specified in the Common Core State Standards.
The EOG will assess language arts and math.
The EOG will last two days, approximately three hours each day.

18. Read to Achieve
The North Carolina General Assembly’s Read to Achieve Program is part of the Excellent Public Schools Act.
The goal of the Read to Achieve program is to ensure that every student reads on at least a third grade reading level before the end of third grade.
Students may show proficiency in reading by passing one of five assessments:
Beginning of Grade (BOG)
Measures of Academic Progress (MAP)
Text Reading and Comprehension (TRC)
End of Grade (EOG)

19. The fifth assessment is the Read to Achieve Portfolio
The fifth assessment is the Read to Achieve Portfolio. Throughout the year students will be given three reading passages per standard. Students must show mastery of each standard by a grade of seventy percent (70%) or above.
Students unable to show proficiency in one of the above listed assessments will be required to attend a summer reading camp.
This is how the Read to Achieve law was implemented during the school year . There may/may not be adjustments during the year.