Grade Level Concept Map

Campus:		Kerr Elementary			Grade:	3		School Year:		2007-2008
	1st Six Weeks		2nd Six Weeks	3rd Six Weeks			4th Six Weeks		5th Six Weeks		6th Six Weeks
Reading Skills	Listening to text read aloud, reading independently, vocabulary, references, compare/contrast, comprehension, classify, categorize, read across genres (fiction and nonfiction), summarization, character analysis, setting and plot, parts of book, responding to text		Comprehending text, retell & act out key events, determining fact and opinion, vocabulary, identifying setting and problem, decoding, characterization, main idea versus details, making graphic organizers, identifying theme, connecting texts, making inferences, word meaning, prefixes/suffixes	Vocabulary, determining character feelings, context clues, comprehending text, drawing conclusions, making inferences, sequencing, author’s purpose, writing a character description, summarization, literary terms, researching with library books and electronic sources, cause and effect, genre variety and features			Predicting, compare/contrast, identifying character feelings and emotions, identifying conflict, fluency in oral reading, word I.D., summarizing, comprehending text, cause and effect, responding to reading/ music/movement organizers, analyze genre features		Drawing conclusions, making inferences, comprehending text, interpreting information, sequencing events, cause and effect, main idea and details, context clues, vocabulary, evaluating a story and character actions, writing a summary, point of view, figurative language, poetry		Making inferences, drawing conclusions, compare across cultures, sequencing events, determining fact and opinion, comprehending text, parts of a book, connecting ideas and categorizing, text variety, using schema
Language Arts	Purpose for listening, write to record ideas and reflections, capitalization and punctuation, publish pieces of writing, topic knowledge		Dictionary skills, writing for different purposes, following the writing process, developing drafts, nouns and verbs, oral language	Writing about experiences to communicate, word processing for publishing, author’s purpose, accurate spelling, editing			Following steps of the writing process: editing, composing meaningful text, spelling proficiency, homophones		Writing for a variety of audiences, grammar, irregular plurals, and spelling, organizing writing with outlines, student evaluation of writing		Respond constructively to other’s writing, monitor own growth, continue writing process, proficient penmanship
Spelling	Multi-syllabic words, rules, synonyms and antonyms, ABC Order		Rules, words with: ar, ear, c and k, s and c, ck and k; learning Science and S.S. vocabulary	Words with: j and g, g and gu, ge and dge, ch and sh, ch and tch, contractions, homophones			Letters that make different sounds, oi and oy, or, vowel sounds, spelling in context		Consonant blends: l, r, s, th; months of the year, using noun-verb agree., orthographic patterns		Compound words, contractions, word endings (past, present, plural)
Math	Using patterns, real life application, place value, addition and subtraction facts, compare and order numbers, problem solving, skip counting, patterns, odd/even, fact families, number lines, reasonableness, correct operation		Money, geometry: lines, line segments; addition and subtraction facts, problem solving, multiplication with pictorial models, rounding, telling time, using graphs, temperature, mathematical language and symbols	Multiplication facts, beginning division, representing data using different types of graphs, estimation, problem solving, patterns, making generalizations, fact families, geometry: symmetry and congruence			Continue learning multiplication facts, division, problem solving, reasonableness, determining symmetry and congruence, linear measurement, 3-D figures, finding perimeter and area, justifying answers		Solving multi-step word problems, multiplication, division, explain observations (journals) , fractions, probability, finding perimeter and area		Multiplication and division word problems, determining reasonableness, estimation, equivalent fractions, weight/mass measurement, capacity
Social Studies	Communities, timelines, map skills, explorers		Citizenship, government	Pilgrim unit, cultural celebrations			Inventors, myths, folk tales		Inventors, map skills, landforms		Economics, Historical figures
Science	Lab safety, scientific process, matter		Ecosystems, plants, and habitats	States of Matter: solid, liquid, gas; properties of matter			Solar System		Earth science, natural resources, soil		Simple Systems: types, force and motion