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Math • English Language Arts • Science • Social Studies Physical Education • World Language • The Arts What your child will learn in Parent Guide Grade 3 Grade 3 What your child will learn English Language Arts Reading Comprehension • Find important details in a story and tell what the story is mostly about • Determine the main idea and key supporting details when reading • Make predictions and draw conclusions when reading • Distinguish fact from opinion • Understand cause and effect • Retell a story, including the setting, main characters, and all key events • Describe what a story is mainly about using important details • Make predictions and draw conclusions using clues in the text • Tell whether a statement is fact or …show more content…

lationships in contexts • Create and represent patterns using words, tables, graphs, and symbols Measurement and Geometry • Describe, compare, and analyze properties of polygons • Understand and apply the concepts of congruence and symmetry • Understand and use attributes of 2- and 3-dimensional figures to solve problems • Use appropriate units, strategies and tools to solve problems involving perimeter • Solve measurement problems involving fractional parts of linear units and capacity units Data, Statistics and Probability • Organize, display, and analyze data using various representations to solve problems What your child will do • Verify a conclusion using algebraic properties • Express mathematical relationships using number sentences/equations • Find the missing values in simple multiplication and division equations • Describe or extend (including finding missing terms) geometric and numeric patterns • Recognize polygons and be able to identify examples based on geometric definitions • Determine if two figures are congruent based on size and shape • Identify the line of symmetry in a two-dimensional design or shape • Calculate the perimeter of shapes made from polygons • Choose reasonable units of measure, estimate common measurements using benchmarks, and use appropriate tools to make measurements • Measure length to the nearest centimeter or half inch • Solve problems requiring the addition and subtraction of lengths • Measurements that use mixed

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