Welcome to Third Grade!
3rd Grade Teachers for 2022/2023 School Year
3-312 Ms. Velasquez 3-414 Ms. McGonigle 3-317 Mr. Cercone and Mrs. Szalkowski
3-318 Mrs. Alvarez 3-319 Mrs. O'Connor and Ms. Ahmed
3-318 Mrs. Alvarez 3-319 Mrs. O'Connor and Ms. Ahmed
Third Grade November Benchmarks
Work Habits
- Complete the morning routine in 15 minutes
- Be prepared with materials such as sharpened pencils, correct books, and previous night’s homework
- Copy notes from the board within a given amount of time, including homework for the day
- Complete homework independently
- Pack and unpack their backpacks at school and at home.
- Follow three step instructions, orally.
- Read independently at home for at least 30 minutes a day.
Reading
- Read at a level N independently and be able to answer basic comprehension questions
- Form ideas about characters and be able to support their ideas with evidence from the text.
- Form an inference about a character and support that inference with evidence from the text.
- Identify theme, point of view, text features and graphics, literary elements, and figurative language.
Writing
- Write a 5-sentence paragraph with a main idea (topic) sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a closing sentence that summaries the main idea.
- Include capital letters from beginning sentences and proper nouns and proper punctuation. Paragraphs must begin with an indent.
- Know all sight words up to third grade level
- Write a personal narrative with a clear beginning, middle and end
Math
- Subtract basic facts mentally without manipulatives (0-100)
- Add/subtract with regrouping (0-1,000)
- Know multiplication and division facts (0-10), recognize fact families, and use different strategies to solve
- Identify and apply mathematical vocabulary to written explanations
- Solve multi-step story problems, showing their work and explaining
- Complete the morning routine in 15 minutes
- Be prepared with materials such as sharpened pencils, correct books, and previous night’s homework
- Copy notes from the board within a given amount of time, including homework for the day
- Complete homework independently
- Pack and unpack their backpacks at school and at home.
- Follow three step instructions, orally.
- Read independently at home for at least 30 minutes a day.
Reading
- Read at a level N independently and be able to answer basic comprehension questions
- Form ideas about characters and be able to support their ideas with evidence from the text.
- Form an inference about a character and support that inference with evidence from the text.
- Identify theme, point of view, text features and graphics, literary elements, and figurative language.
Writing
- Write a 5-sentence paragraph with a main idea (topic) sentence, 3 detail sentences, and a closing sentence that summaries the main idea.
- Include capital letters from beginning sentences and proper nouns and proper punctuation. Paragraphs must begin with an indent.
- Know all sight words up to third grade level
- Write a personal narrative with a clear beginning, middle and end
Math
- Subtract basic facts mentally without manipulatives (0-100)
- Add/subtract with regrouping (0-1,000)
- Know multiplication and division facts (0-10), recognize fact families, and use different strategies to solve
- Identify and apply mathematical vocabulary to written explanations
- Solve multi-step story problems, showing their work and explaining
Suggested Third Grade Reading List
Choose from the list of series books below:
Judy Moody
A-Z Mysteries Ramona
Flat Stanley
Magic Tree House
Ghostville Elementary
Horrible Harry
Boxcar Children
Jigsaw Jones
The Littles
Judy Moody
A-Z Mysteries Ramona
Flat Stanley
Magic Tree House
Ghostville Elementary
Horrible Harry
Boxcar Children
Jigsaw Jones
The Littles