3rd Grade
Curriculum Check Points
Second Nine Weeks
English/Language Arts
Mathematics
All students should know and be able to:
All students should know and/or be able to:
 Continue to practice self-monitoring
comprehension to clarify meaning
 Ask and answer questions during reading
to understand text
 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their
traits, motivations, or feelings)
 Read and comprehend literature, including
informational text
 Describe the relationship between a series
of historical events or scientific ideas
 Comprehends grade level text (N)
 Captures a reader’s interest by setting a
purpose
 Write routinely over extended time frames
(time for research, reflection, and revision)
and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a
day or two) for a range of discipline-specific
tasks, purposes, and audiences
Social Studies
All students should know and be able to:
Explain how Lyndon B Johnson, Thurgood
Marshall, Franklin D Roosevelt , and Eleanor
Roosevelt expanded our rights and freedoms
Explain the geography of Lyndon B Johnson,
Thurgood Marshall, Franklin D Roosevelt , and
Eleanor Roosevelt
Identify character traits of Lyndon B Johnson,
Thurgood Marshall, Franklin D Roosevelt , and
Eleanor Roosevelt
Explain the importance of the basic principles of
a republican form of government and the US as
a representative democracy.
• Use place value and properties of operations for
multi-digit arithmetic
• Use inverse operations to verify answers in all
operations.
• Understand and apply properties of
multiplication and division
Represent and solve problems
involving multiplication and division
Fluently multiply and divide within 100
using appropriate strategies
• Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve
word problems in situations involving equal
groups, arrays, and measurement quantities
• Solve two step word problems using the
four operations and information from graphs
• Identify and explain patterns in arithmetic using the
properties of operations
• Understand the concepts of area and relate area
to multiplication and addition
Ongoing throughout the school year, students should be
able to (1) Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them; (2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively;
(3) Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others; (4) Model with mathematics; (5)
Use appropriate tools strategically; (6) Attend to
precision; (7) Look for and make use of structure; (8)
Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Science
All students should know and be able to:
Investigate the physical attributes of
minerals, rocks, and soils and the effects of
erosion and weathering on rocks and soil
Investigate fossils as evidence of
organisms that lived long ago.