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Third Grade 

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Overview of Third Grade Learning Objectives

This section provides a summary of the key third grade learning objectives for reading, language arts, and math. The third grade language arts and math curriculum correlate to state standards.

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Third grade is a year of highly visible progress in reading, writing and language arts. By the end of third grade language arts, students should:

• Learn the importance of pre-writing strategy

• Understand the formula for the writing process

• Learned how to write for a particular audience

• Developed an expanded vocabulary to create more in-depth sentences

• Read with fluency, with focus on comprehension

• Third grade is also a year of visible math skill development. By the end of third grade math, students should:

• Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers by a single-digit number

• Understand and work with simple fractions and decimals

• Be able to manipulate and read basic graphs

• Understand the concepts of area and perimeter

• Be able to apply math to everyday activities

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