Welcome to Third Grade!
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Purpose of the Guide
Students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools follow the state of North Carolina’s expectations for what every student will know and be able to do by the end of their current grade level. This guide is designed to help you support your child by understanding those expectations, provide everyday activities to reinforce their learning at home and partner with their teachers throughout the school year.
This guide includes…Key Skills for Reading and Math
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- Understand the most important things your child should know and be able to do by the end of the school year.
Questions to Ask Your Child
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- Engage in conversations with your child using these suggested reading and math questions.
Topics to Discuss with the Teacher
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- Find sample questions and topics you might want to talk about with the teacher related to reading and math skills.
Learning Activities
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- Explore some easy ways you can support your child’s learning important reading and math concepts and skills.
Words to Know
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- Learn some important words and acronyms used at school to “speak the same language”.
Helpful Resources to Practice Skills at Home
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- Click the link to access a collection of reading and math resources aligned to your child’s grade level.
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Quarter 1
Quarter 1
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
What does it look like?
How Can I Help Support At Home?
As your child learns to read new words and understand the meaning of those words, help him/her keep track of them in his/her own dictionary. Your child can write them down, draw pictures to illustrate the words or the definitions, or write sentences with the words. Pick a “special word of the week” for your child to practice writing and using when speaking.
Watch and Apply: Watch a movie or television show with the child. While watching, take note of words used that the child may not know or use often. Add these words into meaningful conversations with the child (e.g., When the word pasteurized is used in an episode, point out the pasteurized milk and juice in the refrigerator).
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Read second grade level texts with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
What Does It Look Like?
How Can I Help Support?
Two to Read: Take turns reading a sentence, paragraph, or page at a time while listening to each other.
Coach to Fluent Reading: Draw attention to punctuation while reading and have the child reread to increase fluency after discussing the punctuation. Watch Coach to Fluent Reading.
Coach to Fluent Reading: Draw attention to punctuation while reading and have the child reread to increase fluency after discussing the punctuation. Watch Coach to Fluent Reading.
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Quarter 2
Quarter 2
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Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
What does it look like?
How Can I Help Support At Home?
When reading fiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
When reading nonfiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
Ask your child to find a word that they don’t know, and help them figure out what it means.
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Organize information and ideas around a topic to plan and prepare to write.
What does it look like?
Helping Your 3rd Grader with Research
How Can I Help Support at Home?
Help your child organize his/her thoughts by planning what he/she wants to write. Using sticky notes or a graphic organizer will provide a visual way to accomplish this.
Encourage your child to write about a topic important to them. Have them include an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Model writing in everyday life. Encourage your child to make a list, write a “thank you” note, write a product review, or write instructions about how to take care of a plant or a pet.
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Quarter 3
Quarter 3
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including words that affect meaning and tone.
What does this look like?
Helping with unfamiliar vocabulary
How Can I Help Support at Home?
When reading fiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
When reading nonfiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
Ask your child to find a word that they don’t know, and help them figure out what it means.
2. With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing, with consideration to task and purpose.
What does this look like?
How Can I Help Support at Home?
Help your child organize his/her thoughts by planning what he/she wants to write. Using sticky notes or a graphic organizer will provide a visual way to accomplish this.
Encourage your child to write about a topic important to them. Have them include an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Model writing in everyday life. Encourage your child to make a list, write a “thank you” note, write a product review, or write instructions about how to take care of a plant or a pet.
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Quarter 4
Quarter 4
- Use information gained from illustrations and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text.
What does this look like?
How Can I Help Support at Home?
When reading fiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
When reading nonfiction books, ask your child questions such as these.
Ask your child to find a word that they don’t know, and help them figure out what it means.
2. With guidance and support from adults, use digital tools and resources to produce and publish writing (using word processing skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
What does this look like?
What Should a Third Grader's Writing Look Like?
How Can I Help Support at Home?
Help your child organize his/her thoughts by planning what he/she wants to write. Using sticky notes or a graphic organizer will provide a visual way to accomplish this.
Encourage your child to write about a topic important to them. Have them include an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion.
Model writing in everyday life. Encourage your child to make a list, write a “thank you” note, write a product review, or write instructions about how to take care of a plant or a pet.
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Quarter 1
Quarter 1
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Multiply and divide whole numbers using multiples of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
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Video: Multiply and divide whole numbers Video
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Students use fact families and the relationship between multiplication and division to solve problems.
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Online Activity - Missing Factors
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Online Game- Math Surpass Missing Factor]
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Printable Activity - Find the Unknown Number
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Students solve one-step, real-world multiplication and division story problems
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Online Activity - Thinking Blocks Multiplication and Division
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Printable Activity - Solving Word Problems Involving the Word “Each”
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Quarter 2
Quarter 2
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Use additional, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve problems
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Video Students use various strategies to solve addition (up to 3 digit + 3 digit) word problems.
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Online Game - How Far From 100?
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Online Game - Close to 1,000
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Video Students use various strategies to solve subtraction (up to 3 digit - 3 digit) word problems.
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Online Activity - Thinking Blocks Addition and Subtraction Printable Game - Out of This World Operations
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Printable Activity - Two-Step Word Problem Practice
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Video Understand fractions as numbers.
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Quarter 3
Quarter 3
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Fractions as Numbers
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Video Students divide shapes or area models into equal-size parts.
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Online Activity - Fractions Splat
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Printable Activity - Three in a Row
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Video Students represent fractions less than 1 whole on a number line.
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Length Models: Printable Activity - Fraction Match Up
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Video Students represent fractions greater than 1 whole on a number line.
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Printable Activity - I Have, Who Has
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Printable Activity - Where’s the Point?
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Quarter 4
Quarter 4
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Compare and find equivalent fractions
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Solve problems involving measurement
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[Video] Students use area models and number lines to find and represent equivalent fractions
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Online Game - Fraction Cookie Game
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Online Activity - Fraction Bars
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[Video] Students use models to compare fractions that refer to the same-size whole and have the same numerator or the same denominator.
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Printable Activity - Finding Equivalent Fractions
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Printable Activity - Fraction Mystery Puzzles
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[Video] Students use models to compare fractions that refer to the same-size whole and have the same numerator or the same denominator.
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Online Game: Finding Elapsed Time: Online Activity
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