1. WELCOME TO
THIRD GRADE

2.  Increased research skills using books and internet
 Sites available through third grade home page
 Cooperative learning as well as independent assignments
 Writing skills and content reading comprehension
improved
 Ongoing assessment for both group and individual work
 Library and Computer Lab facilitate curriculum agenda

3.  Animations, photographs and illustrations
 Adjustable reading levels
 Narrated videos
 Used in classroom and at home
 Podcast enabled – MP3 format
 Lessons correlated to Berkeley Science Standards

4.  Enhance classroom learning and special projects
 Focus to incorporate technology into curriculum
 Students build technology and keyboarding skills
 Use state-of-the-art hardware and software
(Web 2.0 applications)

5.  Most projects are rubric – based
 Students earn points in each category
 Empowers students to take charge of their
progress

6.  Shift from learning to read to reading to learn
 Exposure to a variety of genres
 Comprehension and analysis of text
 Responding to text, Literature Circles
 Self-selected reading

7.  D.E.A.R. time and at-home reading
 Buccaneer Book list
 Long term and short term goals
 Student conferences with teacher
 Assessment of independent reading

8.  Name a career where an employee is asked to
list ten to fifteen words in a column without
using spell check or any other resource
 Spelling is a tool used to communicate in
writing.

9. Friday test - 100% correct
 1. always
 2. correctly
 3. usually
 4. transfer
 5. writing

10.  I allwayes spell my words correktly on
my Friday test, but it ushualey dosent
transfir to my daily writeing

11.  Not an isolated subject
 Students use tools & resources to spell words
 Transfer into daily writing
 Student accountability
 Dictation assessment

13. RUBRICS
Score 1-5
*Rubrics cover
3-4 important
strands of each
trait.
*Students score
anonymous
stories before
being scored
themselves.

14.  Grammar (varied lessons, games, practice)
 Wordly Wise – two week rotation
 At-home practice can be found online

15.  Research-based curriculum
 How students learn
 Extensively researched and field
tested
 Basic facts
 Everyday Math employs a variety of techniques to
help children develop their "fact power“
 Supplemental activities provided

16.  Computation
 Variety of dependable and
understandable methods
 Includes traditional & alternative
algorithms
 Students encouraged to invent and share
their own operational procedures

17.  Alternative Algorithms

18.  Benefits:
 Motivation to solve problems
 Different learning styles addressed with problem-
solving options
 Become more adept at changing problems into easy-
to-solve equivalent problems.
30-17 is equivalent to 30-10-7.
 Explaining algorithms with others increases skill level

19.  Providing multiple avenues for solving problems
 manipulatives, tools, spoken and written words,
pictures, diagrams, and symbols
 Individual, partner, and small group activities
 Encourage risk-taking
 Repeated exposure to concepts and skills
 Frequent opportunities for review and practice

20.  Teaches and assesses problem-solving
and communication skills in real-world
situations
 Engages students and promotes reasoning
and communication

22.  "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your
shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
You're on your own. And you know what you know. And
YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You'll Go!)
 "Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
— Dr. Seuss

23. Questions?