Grade 3 Full-Time Advanced Academic Program (AAP) Progress Report Alignments
Information for Parents and Guardians
This document identifies the Program of Studies (POS) content that aligns to each progress report standard, with noted extensions for students receiving Advanced Academic services. The left-hand column indicates the grade level POS, and the right-hand column notes the intended POS extension. Students receiving advanced math will be instructed at the grade level above POS, which is noted in this document. Health, art, music, physical education, and world languages are instructed using the grade level POS.
Language Arts
Listens and speaks for specific purposes
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Listen attentively by making eye contact, facing the speaker, etc.
- Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars
- Ask clarifying questions and take notes when listening to a speaker
- Develop listening/oral communication skills
Ask, respond to questions from teachers, other group members
- Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars
Explain what has been learned
- Understand and encapsulate the speaker’s main points
- Articulate understanding of a reading to a partner.
Use language appropriate for context
- Use specific vocabulary communicate ideas
Increase listening and speaking vocabularies
- Use specific vocabulary communicate ideas
- Use word origins and stems to expand vocabulary
Speak clearly
- Participate in group discussions as a listener and a speaker in seminars
- Develop listening/oral communication skills
Use appropriate volume and pitch
Speak at an understandable rate
Organize ideas sequentially around major points of information
- Develop skills of argument formulation in persuasive communication
Use contextually appropriate language, vocabulary to communicate ideas
Locates and uses information from a variety of sources
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Use word reference resources
- Use reference books to determine meaning, pronunciation, and origin of words and word stems
Use encyclopedias, other reference books, including online materials
- Use reference materials including online encyclopedias, thesauruses, and glossaries
Use tables of contents, indices, and charts
- Organize information using diagrams, charts, and graphs
Identify appropriate resources
- Use reference materials including online encyclopedias, thesauruses, and glossaries
Understand the difference between plagiarism and using your own words
Reads with accuracy and fluency
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Use knowledge of regular and irregular vowel patterns
Decode regular multisyllabic words
- Use a variety of word recognition skills
- Increase number of known words
Apply meaning clues, language structure, and phonetic strategies
- Increase vocabulary development by applying the knowledge of Greek and Latin stems to the English language
- develop linguistic competency
Read with fluency and accuracy
- Use expression, rhythm, and phrasing
Reads with understanding
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Use knowledge of homophones
Use knowledge of roots, affixes, synonyms, and antonyms
- Use a variety of word recognition skills
Use context to clarify meaning of unfamiliar words
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Use the words around an unknown word to figure out its meaning
- Use text, word parts, knowledge of stems and word origins to figure out unfamiliar words
Develop vocabulary by listening, reading, discussing variety of texts
Use vocabulary from other content areas
Make connections between experiences and reading selections
- Use reading strategies such as predicting, questioning, and connecting to own experiences
- Draw consequences and implications from text for application in the real world.
Make, confirm, or revise predictions
- Use reading strategies such as predicting, questioning, and connecting to own experiences
Compare and contrast settings, characters, and events
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Compare and contrast internal and external influences on settings, characters, and events over time
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature
Identify the author’s purpose
Ask and answer questions about what is read
- Respond to and question the answers of peers
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature
Identify the problem and solution
- Consider long and short term consequences of solutions
- Develop analytical and interpretive skills in literature
Identify the main idea
- Identify a concept or “Big Idea” that supports interdisciplinary connections e.g., change
- State the main ideas or themes of the story
Identify supporting details
Use reading strategies to monitor comprehension
Differentiate between fiction and nonfiction
Identify the author’s purpose
Use prior and background knowledge as context for new learning
- Use reading strategies such as predicting, questioning, and connecting to own experiences
Preview and use text features
- Use text features including headings, graphs, and table of contents
Ask and answer questions about what is read
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Summarize and encapsulate important ideas
Draw conclusions based on text
- Employ a variety of strategies to include: determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives
- Develop reasoning skills in the language arts
- Understand the concept of change to analyze literature
Summarize major points found in nonfiction materials
- Summarize and encapsulate important ideas
Draw conclusions about text
- Employ a variety of strategies to include: determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives
- Understand cause and effect and its relationship to consequences and implications within a text
- Understand the concept of change to analyze literature
- Understand the concept of change in the language arts
- Develop reasoning skills in the language arts
Identify the main idea
- Begin to summarize and encapsulate important ideas
Identify the supporting details
- Understand classifications of details to make generalizations within a text
Compare, contrast the characteristics of biographies, autobiographies
Monitor comprehension throughout the reading process
Identify new information gained from reading
- Use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions and considering multiple perspectives
- Understand the concept of change in the language arts
Writes with purpose, clarity, and expression
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Identify the intended audience
Use a variety of prewriting strategies
- Select topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
Write a clear topic sentence focusing on the main idea
Write a paragraph on the same topic
- Group ideas related to the topic
Organize information according to the type of writing
- Select topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Develop persuasive writing skills
Include details that elaborate the main idea
- Use description, details, and examples that support the main idea
Review writing for clarity of content using specific vocabulary and information
- Revise based on peer review, teacher feedback, and self evaluation by adding, deleting, and changing information
- Synthesize author techniques to improve or create a new piece of writing
- Complete various pieces of writing using a three-phrase revision process based on peer review, teacher feedback, and self-evaluation
Construct questions about the topic
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Conducts authentic research by applying skills of questioning, information gathering, data analysis, and synthesis
Collect and organize information about a topic in a short report
- Select a topic and develop a plan for writing for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Develop persuasive writing skills
Use available technology for reading writing
Edits for usage and mechanics in own writing
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Learn and use cursive style
Use complete sentences
- Develop sentences into paragraphs
Use transition words to vary sentence structure
Use the word I in compound subjects
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Develop linguistic competency
Use past and present verb tense
- Develop linguistic competency
Use singular possessives
- Develop linguistic competency
Use commas in a simple series
Use simple abbreviations
Use apostrophes in contractions with pronouns and possessives
- Develop linguistic competency
Use the articles A, An and The correctly
- Develop linguistic competency
Use correct spelling for frequently-used words
Edit writing for capitalization and punctuation
Use nouns and pronouns correctly
- Develop linguistic competency
Social Studies
Explains how the people and events of the past have influenced the present
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Explain how contributions of Ancient Greece/Rome influence the present
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and how things change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information
Practice Social Studies skills: contributions of Ancient Greece & Rome
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and how things change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Explain how contributions of Ancient China/Egypt influence the present
- Apply abstract concepts such as systems, cause and effect, and how things change over time to understand the impact of the past on the present
- Apply skills of historical analysis and historical interpretation to primary and secondary sources of information
Practice Social Studies skills relating to Ancient China and Egypt
- Analyze historical issues using elements of reasoning (purpose, point of view, implications/consequences, evidence/data, inferences, concepts/ides, assumptions
- Compare and contrast ancient civilizations with attention to defining features of geography, history and culture
- Analyze similarities and differences among cultural groups studied
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Reads maps and understands the impact of geography on culture
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Locate Greece, Rome, China, and Egypt
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Describe the physical & human characteristics of Ancient Greece & Rome
- Develop an understanding of how physical and human characteristics defined daily life in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Explain: Ancient Greeks/Romans/Chinese/Egyptians adapt to environment
- Develop an understanding of how physical and human characteristics defined daily life in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Compare the climate, water features, and land of China and Egypt
- Analyze similarities and differences among groups studied
- Develop an understanding of ancient civilizations, with attention to defining features of geography, history, and culture
Practice Social Studies skills: Ancient Greece, Rome, China & Egypt
- Analyze similarities and differences among groups studied
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems
- Develop reasoning skills with application to social studies
Position and label the 7 continents & 5 oceans to create a world map
Use the Equator and Prime Meridian to identify the four hemispheres
Locate specific places on a simple letter-number grid system
- Use maps to locate information and compare and contrast land areas
Read and construct maps, tables, graphs and/or charts
Recognizes the structure of government and the relationship between rules, laws and becoming a good citizen
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Explain the purpose of rules and laws
- Apply the concept of systems to the principle of government
- Develop an understanding of the concept of systems and of structure, function, and pattern as key system elements
Explain basic purposes of government: make, carry out, enforce laws
- Apply the concept of systems to the principle of government
- Develop an understanding of the concept of systems and of structure, function, and pattern as key system elements
- Analyze how human civilizations develop and sustain themselves as a collection of interdependent systems
Explain that government protects the rights & property of individuals
Practice Social Studies skills: rules, laws and governments
- Develop an understanding of the concept of systems and of structure, function, and pattern as key system elements
Describe the individual rights to life, liberty, happiness & equality
Identify the contributions of important Americans
Recognize that Veterans Day & Memorial Day honor people who served
Describe how people can serve their community, state, and national
- Develop a sense of responsibly for creating community
Practice Social Studies skills related to principles of government
- Create generalizations about the principles of government
Recognize that Americans are a people of diverse ethnic origins
- Analyze similarities and differences among ethnic groups studied
Practice Social Studies skills: U.S. diversity & unification under government
- Develop interpersonal and social group process skills
Understands economic concepts and the impact of economics on culture
3 rd Grade POS
AAP 3 rd Grade Extensions
Explain how producers use resources to produce goods and services
- Describe how producers have used natural, human, and capital resources in the past and present
Practice Social Studies skills: Use of resources in ancient times
- Describe how producers have used natural, human, and capital resources in the past and present
Practice Social Studies skills relating to specialization
Identify examples of economic choice and explain opportunity cost
Mathematics
Extensions in Mathematics:
• Build new mathematical knowledge through problem solving
• Solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts
• Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems
• Monitor and reflect on the process of mathematics problem solving
• Make and investigate mathematical conjectures
• Develop and evaluate mathematical arguments
• Organize and consolidate mathematical thinking through communication
• Communicate mathematical thinking coherently to teachers and peers
• Analyze and evaluate the mathematical thinking and strategies of others
• Use the language of mathematics to express mathematical ideas precisely
• Recognize and use connections among mathematical ideas
• Recognize and apply mathematics in contexts outside of mathematics
• Create and use representations to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas
• Select, apply, and translate among mathematical representations to solve problems
• Use representations to model and interpret mathematical phenomena
Represents numbers accurately and demonstrates an understanding of number relationships
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Identify place value for each digit in a whole number through millions
Compare two whole numbers expressed through millions
Round whole numbers expressed through millions
Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers
Represent equivalent fractions
Identify the division statement that represents a fraction
Read/write/represent/identify decimals expressed through thousandths
Round to the nearest whole number, tenth, and hundredth
Compare the value of two decimals
Given a model, write the decimal and fraction equivalents
Computes numbers with fluency and makes reasonable estimates
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Estimate sums, differences, products, & quotients of whole numbers
Add, subtract, and multiply whole numbers
Divide whole numbers, finding quotients with & without remainders
Solve single-step & multistep problems with whole numbers
Determine common multiples and factors including LCM and GCF
Add and subtract fractions having like and unlike denominators
Add and subtract with decimals
Solve problems involving addition/subtraction of fractions & decimals
Measures with accuracy and makes reasonable estimates of measurements
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Estimate and measure weight/mass and describe results
Identify equivalent measurements between units of weight/mass
Estimate and measure length and describe results
Identify equivalent measurements between units of length
Estimate and measure liquid volume and describe results
Identify equivalent measurements between U.S. customary units
Determine elapsed time in hours and minutes
Analyzes characteristics and properties of geometric figures and demonstrates an understanding of spatial relationships
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Identify & describe points/lines/line segments/ rays/angles
Identify representations of intersecting/parallel/perpendicular lines
Investigate congruence of plane figures after geometric transformation
Recognize images of figures resulting from geometric transformations
Define polygon
Identify polygons with 10 or fewer sides
Uses data to describe, interpret, and predict events
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Predict the likelihood of an outcome of a simple event
Represent probability as a number between 0 and 1, inclusive
Collect, organize, display, and interpret data
Represents situations and mathematical relationships using algebraic symbols
3 rd Grade AAP POS
Recognize, create, and extend numerical and geometric patterns
Recognize and demonstrate the meaning of equality
Investigate and describe the associative property