Hunter's Creek Elementary School

Reading

Reading skills are taught and practiced for 90 minutes every day. The reading skills that are taught are based on the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards. Students will be assessed at the end of each unit on these standards. Students will have reading homework every day.

Reading Skills

Some of the important skills that students will work on are:

• Text Organization
• Central Message
• Theme
• Making Generalizations
• Analyzing Characters
• Drawing Conclusions
• Sequencing
• Making Inferences
• Comparing & Contrasting
• Story Structure
• Making Claims
• Text Features
• Connecting illustrations to text
• Perspective
• Summarizing

Writing/Language Arts

Written communication skills are strongly emphasized in the third-grade. Informative, argumentative, and narrative writing will be worked on throughout the year, and mastering grammar conventions will be one of our goals this year.

Language Arts / Writing Skills:

• Narrative, Expository and Argumentative Writing
• Paragraph structure
• writing with supporting evidence and elaboration
• Grammar
  • Sentence formation
  • Correct punctuation
  • Grade-level grammar
  • Cursive Writing

• Read a Variety of Texts: Build an at-home library of children’s stories, non-fiction texts, magazines, recipes, comics, etc.
  
  
• Choose Appropriate Books: Help your child pick books that are not too hard but not too easy.
  
  
• Read to Your Child Every Day: Model good reading strategies to your child by reading a few minutes each day.
  
  
• Have Your Child Read to You Every Day: Spend 15-20 minutes listening to your child read to you before they are tired.
  
  
• Talk About It: Ask your child questions about what they read.
  
  
• Have them retell the story in their own words including a description of the characters and setting and what happens in the book (beginning, middle, end, problem, solution).
  
  
• Practice Text Tracking: If your child is an early reader, encourage them to point to each word.
  
  
• Reread Favorite Books: Repeat favorite books over and over to build reading fluency.
  
  
• Reading Apps: Download reading apps for your device.
  
  
• Practice Decoding Strategies: If your child is having trouble figuring out a word, remind them of the following strategies:
  • Eagle Eye-Look at the pictures for clues.
  • Lips the Fish-Get your lips ready and say the first sound.
  • Stretchy Snake-Stretch out the sounds and then shrink them back together.
  • Chunky Monkey-Look for chunks in the word that you know and then blend the words together.
  • Skippy Frog-Skip the word and then go back and re-read.
  • Tryin’ Lion-Try it again.
  • Helpful Kangaroo-Ask for help!

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Click the button below to access the Florida B.E.S.T. ELA standards.

Math

Math skills are taught and practiced for 60 minutes every day. The math skills that are taught are based on the Florida B.E.S.T. Standards and will be assessed at the end of each unit on these standards. Third-grade students are expected to be fluent with their multiplication facts. Students will be tested on these facts until they prove they are multiplication masters!

Math skills:

Some of the important skills that students will work on are:

• Pre-Algebra
• Fractions
• Geometric Figures
• Place Value
• Elapsed Time
• Multiplication and Division
• Area and Perimeter
• Multi-Step Word Problems
• Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction
• Measurement

Click the button below to access the Florida B.E.S.T. Math standards.

Science

• Scientific Process
• Earth and Space
• Living Organisms
• Matter Energy

Social Studies

• US Regions / States
• Citizenship
• Current Events
• North America
• Maps
• Multicultural (Asia)

Health

• Health Promotion
• Disease Prevention
• Responsible Behavior
• Character Education

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