Grade 3 English and Maths Canada (Ontario) curriculum, by strand

Algebra

• Coding: repeats and loops
• Number patterns and pattern rules

Composition

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

Comprehension

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

Data

• Bar charts
• Collect data with surveys

Financial Literacy

• Make amounts and give change

Foundations of Language: Word Reading

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

Language Conventions: Grammar

• Articles and determiners
• Commas in lists
• Conjunctions
• Past and present tense
• Pronouns
• Subject–verb agreement

Language Conventions: Spelling

• Contractions
• Irregular plurals
• Suffixes -ing, -ed and -er

Number

• 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
• Multiplication facts for 2 to 8
• Place value: hundreds, tens and ones

Spatial Sense

• 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

Vocabulary

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