Clarkston Community Schools has a "Through-Line" for each grade level across the district. A through-line provides a connection for teaching and learning throughout the year. Integrating and connecting through-lines through learning and assessments such as performance tasks can help to develop a story of learning for our students.
3rd Grade Through-Line: How do we organize our World?
Reading ~Launching Strong Reading Habits: Readers will develop habits to read with stamina, fluency, meaning and attention to print. ~Understanding Characters: Readers develop strategies to connect to characters develop theories about characters and relate the experiences and lessons characters have to their own lives. ~Informational Reading: Readers build on their knowledge of determining importance, synthesizing and text structure in order to learn all they can about informational and narrative informational text. ~Mixed Genre Series Book Clubs: Readers use what they learned about characters to support thier thinking across multiple fictional genres. ~Informational Research Clubs: Readers use a research process to gather information around content area topics with the end work shifting to writing about their research. ~Poetry: Readers use strategies to understand, interpret and reflect about poetry.
Writing ~Launching with True Stories: Students write well elaborated true stories based on their own lives. ~Persuasive Essay: Students write a persuasive essay to convince others to agree and care about their cause. ~Information Writing with Personal Expertise: Students write informative text to examine a topic and convey information and ideas clearly.
Math: Third Grade Critical Content Areas Critical Area 1: Develop understanding of multiplication and division strategies for multiplication and division within 100 Critical Area 2: Develop understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions (fractions with numerator 1) Critical Area 3: Develop understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and of area Critical Area 4: Describe and analyze two-dimensional shapes Third Grade Math Strands Strand 1: Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers Using Place Value ~Solve 2 step word problems using addition and operations ~Represent these problems with an equation for the unknown ~Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding ~Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number between 100-900 ~Mentally subtract 10 or 100 to a given number between 100-900 ~Use place value understanding to round numbers to the nearest 10 or 100 ~Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms bases on place value, properties of addition, and/or relationship between addition/subtraction ~Draw a scaled picture or bar graph to represent data solving one and two step problems "how many more" or "how many less" Strand 2: Multiplication and Division ~Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division ~Understand the properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division ~Multiply and divide within 100 ~Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain the patterns in arithmetic ~Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic ~Represent and interpret data ~Potential Vocabulary: factor, multiple, product, quotient, properties of multiplication, commutative, associative, distributive, partial products, compose/decompose Strand 3: Measurement, Perimeter and Area ~Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate are to multiplication and division ~Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures ~Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division ~Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division ~Multiply and divide within 100 ~Potential Vocabulary: square units (in, ft, cm) linear measurement, linear length, tiling, area model, area, perimeter, rectilinear/compound shapes Strand 4: Fractions ~Develop understanding of fractions as numbers (fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and use the relationship of denominators 2, 4, 8 and 2, 3, 6) ~Reason with shapes and their attributes ~Potential Vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, numerator, denominator, equivalent, area model, linear model, greater than, less than, whole number
Science ~Changes in Motion: Gravity is the force that pulls objects to Earth. Force is push and pull. Relate change in motion is connected to the strength of a force and mass of the object. Speed is the motion of objects in terms of the path and direction. Identify changes in motion and relate to distance the object travels in time. ~Light and Sound: Identify light and sound as forms of energy. Learn about how light travels in a straight path, shadows, and what happens when light travels from water to air. Sound relationship to the source of a vibration. The speed of vibrations (fast/slow) and the connection to sound. ~Structures and Functions of Living Things: Look at the structures and functions of plants and animals. Classification of plants and animals based upon physical characteristics. How plants and animals adapt to environmental changes. ~Earth Materials and Natural Resources: Identify different types of Earth materials. Identify and describe changes in the Earth's surface. Identify and describe the uses of Earth's materials. Identify natural resources. Classify renewable and nonrenewable resources. Recognize that some materials can be recycled. Describe helpful and harmful effects of humans related to natural resources .
Social Studies: Michigan Studies ~Geography: How the five themes of geography can be used to describe Michigan. How people have used, adapted to, and modified the environment of Michigan. ~History: How historians learn about the past. How people and events influenced the early history of Michigan. ~Growth of the State: How Michigan's economy has changed over time. Some of the trends, causes, and consequences of population changes in Michigan over time. ~Economy: What people consider in deciding what to produce and consume in Michigan. How scarcity and choice affect what is produced and consumed in Michigan. How Michigan is part of national and global economies. ~Government: Why there is a state government. The organization of state government in Michigan. The rights and responsibilities of Michigan citizens. ~Public Issues Facing Michigan Citizens: How responsible citizens resolve statewide problems. How people learn about public issues in our state. Why people disagree about the ways to solve problems facing people in Michigan.