Mandatory requirements from the Department of Education for promotion to 4th grade:
Students must score above a Level 1 on the Florida Standardized Assessment.
In grade three, students will build important reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. They will think, talk, and write about what they read in a variety of articles, books, and other texts. The following are a list of standards students will be learning in reading and math determined by the Florida State Standards.
Reading:
- Describe characters in a story and how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Determine the central message or lesson of a story.
- Refer to parts of stories or poems when speaking about a text (e.g. chapter, scene, and stanza) and describe how they build on one another.
- Describe the connection between parts of a text (e.g. compare/contrast, cause/effect and first/second/third).
- Explain how illustrations show what is being told in the story.
- Ask and answer questions to show understanding of a text.
- Compare and contrast two different stories with the same topic.
- Determine the point of view of a narrator or character in a text or story.
- Use information from illustrations and words in a text to show understanding (e.g. where, when, why, how).
- Compare and contrast books from a series.
- Define and explain 3rd grade vocabulary on a given topic.
- Use text features and search tools to locate information on a given topic.
- Find the main idea and details in a story.
- Apply phonics skills and context clues to decode and understand words.
- Read with accurate fluency to support comprehension.
Math:
- Identify patterns in addition and multiplication tables and explain them.
- Be fluent with multiplication and division facts.
- Determine the unknown number in a multiplication or division problem.
- Solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
- Fluently add and subtract whole numbers to 1,000.
- Round whole numbers to nearest 10 or 100.
- Create and understand different types of charts and graphs.
- Recognize, understand and explain equivalent fractions.
- Understand and represent fractions as a number on the number line.
- Measure lengths using rulers to the nearest quarter inch and represent it on a line plot.
- Describe, compare and draw shapes based on their attributes.
- Divide shapes into parts with equal area and express the area of each part as a fraction.
- Measure areas by counting unit squares.
- Solve real word problems involving area and perimeter using various strategies.
- Solve word problems that require measurement and estimates of liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of measurement.
- Tell time to the nearest minute and solve word problems involving addition/subtraction of time intervals using a model.