rQA CURRICULUM

Third Grade

LANGUAGE ARTS

The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for English language arts and reading in grade 3 ‎are organized into seven integrated strands:‎

• Developing and sustaining foundational language skills
• Comprehension
• Response
• Multiple genres
• Author’s purpose and craft
• Composition
• Inquiry and research ‎
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MATH

The primary focal areas in Grade 3 are place value, operations of whole numbers, and ‎understanding fractional units. These focal areas are supported throughout the mathematical ‎strands of number and operations, algebraic reasoning, geometry and measurement, and data ‎analysis.‎

SCIENCE

In this course, the student will explore forces and motion, magnets, states of matter, and energy transfer. The student will have many opportunities to test hypotheses, experiment, and make real-world connections. 

The student will also explore variation and change, such as plant and animal structures and cycles, land resources, weather patterns, and the solar system. Again, the student will have many opportunities to test hypotheses, experiment, and make real-world connections.

sOCIAL STUDIES

In this course, the student will explore maps and geography, the characteristics of a community, ‎and early American communities and settlers. The student will examine the government of the ‎United States with a focus on each branch. In this course, the student will focus on the themes of ‎community through citizenship, travel, technology, culture, and diversity. The student will be ‎introduced to the basics of economics, including supply and demand, spending and saving, and ‎local economies.‎

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