At the end of third grade students should be able to demonstrate mastery on the following:
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Read fiction and expository text with fluency and comprehension
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Read longer selections and chapter books independently
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Use context clues and other strategies to read unfamiliar words
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Summarize main points from fiction and informational text
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Interpret fiction to identify theme or message
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Distinguish cause and effect, fact and opinion, main idea, and supporting details
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Infer word meaning from taught root words, suffixes, and prefixes
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Use reference materials to locate information
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Correctly spell studied words
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Elaborate using descriptions and language patterns in own writing
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Use all aspects of the writing process in producing own compositions and reports
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Independently edit and revise own writing
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Write a variety of works and discuss with others
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Use place value through 999,999 to order, compare, read, and write numbers
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Compose and decompose numbers
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Use fraction names and symbols to construct and compare fractional parts or sets including equivalent fractions
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Use addition and subtraction in problem situations fluently
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Know and use multiplication and division fact families through 12x12
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Use models to solve division problems
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Estimate solutions to addition and subtraction problems
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Round whole numbers to the nearest ten or hundred
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Identify
and use patterns in tables, charts, graphs, number lines, geometry, and
multiplication and division fact families to solve problems
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Use lists, tables, and charts to express patterns and relationships between sets of numbers
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Use formal geometry vocabulary such as symmetry, edge, vertex, angle, side, etc
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Recognize congruency and symmetry
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Locate whole numbers, halves, and fourths on a line
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Tell time to the nearest minute
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Select and use standard units of length, area, weight, and capacity to solve problems
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Use a thermometer to measure temperature
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Solve problems by collecting, organizing, displaying, and interpreting sets of data with pictographs and bar graphs
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Use data to describe the likelihood of events
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Solve
multi-step problems using a plan and appropriate problem solving
strategies and communicate about the mathematics through informal
language
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Use logical reasoning