Grade 3 Mathematics

Comprehending Texts

• Main idea of a paragraph
• Non-fiction text features
• Retrieve facts from non-fiction

Creating and Communicating

• Group ideas into paragraphs
• Narrative with beginning, middle and end

Data and Probability

• Bar charts
• Collect data with surveys

Financial Literacy

• Make amounts and give change

Geometry and Measurement

• a.m., p.m. and the 12-hour clock
• Grams, kilograms, litres and millilitres
• Line symmetry
• Right angles and turns
• Tell the time to the minute

Language Conventions

• Articles and determiners
• Commas in lists
• Conjunctions
• Contractions
• Irregular plurals
• Past and present tense
• Pronouns
• Subject–verb agreement
• Suffixes -ing, -ed and -er

Language Foundations: Decoding

• Decode multi-syllable words
• Decode words with prefixes and suffixes

Number and Computational Fluency

• 3, 4 and 8 times tables
• Column addition without regrouping
• Compare and order numbers to 1,000
• Compare fractions with the same denominator
• Count in 50s and 100s
• Mental strategies with three-digit numbers
• Place value: hundreds, tens and ones

Patterning

• Number patterns and pattern rules

Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

• Alphabetical order and dictionaries
• Compound words
• Synonyms and shades of meaning