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Third Grade

  • Description: Building on the Foundational Literacy skills acquired in kindergarten, first and second grade, ELA instruction supports students in the domains of language, reading, speaking and listening, and writing. Students read high quality texts, discuss their interpretation and analysis, and write about their learning. When working with the writing and speaking and listening standards, students engage in reading and research practices as well as focus on the craft and correctness of their language.

    Materials: 

    • CKLA 2nd Edition 
    • Handwriting- Zaner-Bloser

    Tennessee Language Arts Standards

  • Description: The standards for each grade are a progression.Each of the progressions begins in Kindergarten, with a constant movement towards high school standards as a student advances through the grades. There are four main progressions that are composed of mathematical domains/conceptual categories. Third grade focuses on Number and Operations in Base Ten, Number and Operations – Fractions, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Geometry and Measurement and Data.

    Materials: 

    • McGraw Hill - Reveal Math

    Tennessee Math Standards 

  • Description: In third grade, students analyze internal and external structures that function to support survival along with how they adapt to their environment. Students investigate the cause and effect relationships of magnets. Students experiment with static electricity and design a device that converts energy from one form to another. Students investigate and categorize the physical properties of planets. Students synthesize different forms of data to predict and learn about weather patterns, climates, different forms of water, and how different types of clouds all contribute to the weather. Students learn about natural hazards and design and test solutions to minimize the impact of these.

    Materials: 

    • HMH Tennessee Science
    • Mystery Science
    • Generation Genius
    • Picture Perfect STEM
    • PBL Project

    Tennessee Academic Standards for Science 

  • Description: Part 1: Geography and Economics-Third grade students will learn geographical skills, world geography, U.S. and Tennessee geography, as well as the basic role of economics. 

    Part 2: Early American and Tennessee History- Third grade students will learn about the indigenous people of North America, European exploration, early American and Tennessee settlements, and the founding of the Thirteen Colonies.

    Materials: 

    • TN Experience: Geography, Economics, & Early American & TN History-Gallopade.
    • TN History for Kids Booklets

    Tennessee Social Studies Standards

  • Description: The course of instruction in all public schools for kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall include art and music education to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work. All students are engaged in sequential standards-based arts instruction.

    Materials: 

    Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts Education

  • Description: The Tennessee School Counseling Student Standards describe the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that students need to achieve academic success, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. The standards are organized in three broad domains: academic development, social and emotional development, and college and career readiness. These domains promote the attitudes, knowledge, skills, and experiences that enhance the learning process and create a culture of college and career readiness for all students.

    Materials: 

    • Second Step

    Tennessee School Counseling Standards

  • Description: All school libraries shall serve as resources for students, teachers, and community members to strengthen student learning. School library information specialists shall work collaboratively with classroom teachers and school administrators to integrate both curricular concepts and information skills that assist research and other learning activities. The collection and the services of the library shall adequately support the curricular priorities within the school.

    Materials: 

    Tennessee Library Standards

  • Description: The course of instruction in all public schools for kindergarten through grade eight (K-8) shall include art and music education to help each student foster creative thinking, spatial learning, discipline, craftsmanship and the intrinsic rewards of hard work. All students are engaged in sequential standards-based arts instruction.

    Materials: 

    • Quaver

    Tennessee Academic Standards for Fine Arts