Language Arts Standards include:

• Reading/Literature
  
• Read for a variety of purposes in different kinds of texts.
  
• Increase existing sight vocabulary.
  
• Recognize explicit main idea, details, sequence of events, and cause-effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
  
• Recognize implicit main ideas, details, sequence of events, and cause-effect relationships in fiction and nonfiction.
  
• Identify characters' actions, motives, emotions, traits, and feelings
  
• Draw conclusions, makes predictions, compares-contrasts, and makes generalizations.
  
• Demonstrate comprehension when reading a variety of literary forms.

Writing

• Use examples from literature to create individual and group stories.
  
• Use correct spelling for frequently used sight vocabulary.
  
• Begin using cursive handwriting, focusing on letter formation, spacing and legibility.
  
• Write a short topical paragraph.
  
• Communicate ideas by using the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revision, editing, publishing
  
• Use available technology to assist in writing.

Mathematics Standards include:

• Apply estimation strategies beginning with front-end estimation and simple compatible numbers to predict appropriate results.
  
• Identify and writes fractions
  
• Recognize properties of geometric shapes and recognize and name solid figures.
  
• Identify geometric relations, geometric transformations, and lines of symmetry.
  
• Measure using appropriate instruments and appropriate units, length, capacity, weight/mass, time, and temperature.
  
• Tell time to the minute and measure elapsed time, and time before and after the hour.
  
• Determine and estimate amounts spent, change received, and equivalent amounts.
  
• Translate words to numerals and numerals to words up to 9,999.
  
• Round two-, three-, and four-digit numbers to the nearer ten, hundred, or thousand.
  
• Employ problem-solving strategies.
  
• Solve one- and two-step word problems.
• Relates concrete and pictorial models to multiplication and division.

Science Standards include:

• Ask questions, classifies objects and events, communicates with others, makes inferences and predictions.
  
• Actively engage in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on science activities and experiences.
  
• Describe heat and movement of heat by conduction, convection and radiation.
  
• Test and observe movement of heat through a gas or liquid.
  
• Identify and compare simple machines and how they work.
  
• Recognize and describe basic life processes.
  

Social Studies Standards include:

• Recognize rights, duties and responsibilities of a U.S. citizen.
  
• Explain the difference among making laws, carrying out laws, and determining if laws have been violated.
  
• Identify the governmental bodies that perform these functions at the local, state, and national levels.
  
• Explain how opportunity cost, scarcity, and price influence economic decision-making.
  
• Describe physical characteristics of land forms and bodies of water.
  
• Compare the impact of climate, landforms, human and natural resources, transportation and communication on the location, growth and development of different communities.
  
• Illustrate data in a variety of graphic forms.

For a full list of the curriculum standards used in 3rd grade, visit www.glc.k12.ga.us