Third grade

Introduction Third grader Jonathan sat at his desk anxiously fidgeting his right leg and tapping his pencil vigorously on the desk. His mind raced trying to remember all the things his teacher had taught him this year plus the review they had yesterday and all of last week. He looked around the room for familiar words and grammar posters but they had all been covered with newspaper or taken down altogether. He looked to his left for the Word Wall yet all he saw were pictures of fruit, cheese…

A scope and sequence of a given grade is the framework for which teachers based their year’s lessons on. The scope and sequence must take into account where the average given students cognitive development has reach to focus the material on concepts that they are ready for. For this paper, I choose to take a deeper look at a third grade scope and sequence. Third graders are generally eight years of age they have reach a point in their lives that they becoming more active in school and…

Third Grade Curriculum Audit of the Writing Curriculum: Russell Elementary A curriculum audit is a systematic evaluation of the curriculum structures, processes, and products in a given subject or domain. This audit includes demographic overview of the population of Russell Elementary, provides an analysis of data for prioritizing curricular needs, identifies strengths and weaknesses of the third grade standard based instruction, describes the planning, evaluation, and instructional processes,…

During third grade, Children are really growing up. They have now experienced a couple years of elementary school and have learned the basic milestones of being children. My shadow took place within Mrs. Stevens’ third grade classroom. When I arrived the students were working within four different groups focused on the world-class outcome of creating meaning strategically in reading, writing, listening and speaking. The first group was working on vocabulary words that were written on cards, the…

(2014) states that our country is now planning how many prison beds they will need by looking at third grade reading scores. All of these factors contribute to a future crisis. If the country is looking at third grade reading levels, they assume that children will not overcome those educational obstacles. There are several questions that we have to look at before labeling a child, classroom, and grade into failure. We want our students and population to succeed. Therefore, we have to start…

Gianna was observed during the afternoon in her third grade class. At the start of the observation, Gianna was asked to sit at a back table as the class prepared for a timed test. Gianna got up and took her test with her as she headed to the back table. When the test began, Gianna appeared focused and attentive. Once finished, she placed her pencil on the table and looked around the room as she cleaned her glasses. Mrs. Cartwright, Gianna’s third grade teacher, walked by and instructed her to…

PREPARATION Topic: Spelling Lesson: Third Grade Spelling Big Idea: Spelling gives students the ability to understand how to spell correctly and a strategy for memorizing spelling words. Standards: 1.2.3.F Determining the meaning of words/phrases as they are used in grade level texts ELP.1.L.1-3.1 Follow oral simple directions with visuals or nonvisual support Objectives: The students will be able to recognize and read grade-appropriate spelling words. The students will be…

most people, the third grade was a highly intense time. This was the period in which you had to decipher between wanting to learn how to multiply or learn how to divide first. Or for me the most difficult decision may have been choosing between kickball and tetherball during recess. But I had an issue of seeing adults doing things and if it was simple I would do them too. For me as a child I had what many considered an old sold. This old sold came to haunt me in the third grade. I had to learn…

Third grade soccer is my earliest memory of embarrassment. My remembrance coming from the conversation with one of my teammates asking which grade I was in. The simple response of “third grade” had resulted in a patter of laughter. My mispronunciation of the word “third” turned the grade into a matter of feces. That is when I began to be self-conscious of my speech. I had been in the English as a Second Language program throughout elementary school, and in the fifth grade I realized my biggest…

Third grade, a year most of us don't recall. A year too inadequate for our young brains to recollect every moment in great detail -- especially when far more memorable events exist in life. Remarkably, I remember a simple day in third grade during recess. Simpe for other, but vital for me. The playground -- a heaven for my friends and I. While at least at that time it seemed like a heaven. Miles filled of perfect green, swings, basketball courts and geodesic domes. An abundances of kids…