3rd Grade Skills

Reading/Vocabulary Skills:

§         Setting

§         Predicting

§         Compare and Contrast

§         Theme

§         Author's purpose

§         Character

§         Draw conclusions

§         Cause and effect

§         Sequence

§         Context clues

§         Graphic sources

§         Fact & opinion

§         Main idea & supporting details

§         Steps in a process

§         Summarizing

§         Text structure

§         Reading Genre (fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, folktale, play, biography)

§         Phonics

§         Compound words

§         Vocabulary words

















English Skills:

§         Complete sentences

§         Types of sentences (statement, command, question & exclamation)

§         Subjects and predicates

§         Run on sentences

§         Nouns (common, proper, singular and plural, & possessives)

§         Verbs (present, past, & future time, verb be (am, is, are, was were), helping verbs, irregular verbs, & contractions)

§         Pronouns

§         Quotation Marks

§         Adjectives, Articles, Adverbs, & To, Two, Too

§         Proofreading




















Math Skills:

§         Place value up to 10,000 in standard, written and expanded form

§         Addition and subtraction (2 & 3 digit with and without regrouping)

§         Comparing and ordering numbers

§         2D/flat shapes

§         Number and shape patterns

§         Perimeter

§         Symmetry

§         Congruence

§         Two and three digit addition & subtraction problems (with and without regrouping)

§         Rounding to nearest 10 or 100

§         Estimating sums & differences

§         Count money up to $5.00

§         Make change from a $1.00

§         Solve story problems

§         Solve graphing problems

§         Identify fractions

§         Equivalent fractions

§         Compare fractions

§         Order fractions 

§         Add/subtract fractions with like denominators

§         Telling time

§         Elapsed time

§         Calendar

§         Measurement

§         Multiplication