In third grade you can expect your child to:

• Work cooperatively and productively with other children in small groups to complete projects
• Understand how choices affect consequences
• Become more organized and logical in her thinking processes
• Build stronger friendships
• Be helpful, cheerful and pleasant as well as rude, bossy, selfish and impatient
• Better understand the consequences of her behavior
• Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends are very important at this stage
• Like immediate rewards for behavior
• Be able to copy from a chalk board
• Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small muscles of the hand have developed
• Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension
• Use prefixes, suffixes root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words
• Multiply single and multi-digit numbers (3 x 4,652)
• Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers (165 / 5)
• Tell time to the half-hour, quarter-hour, five minutes and one minute

LEARN NC for Grade 3

World Map Game

Third Grade Webquest

School-Home Links Reading Kit