Third Grade Objectives
- Correct penmanship habits and proper use of tools
- To form manuscript letters correctly
- Alphabetical order
- The common sounds of the 70 common phonograms
- Common spelling rules
- Rules of syllabication
- Over 500 new high frequency words
- Correct formation of letters in cursive, both lower case and capital
- How to join cursive letters when writing a word
- How to identify the direct object, predicate adjective or nominative, and an indirect object
- About verb tenses: present, past, and future in the simple and the perfect
- About different types of conjunctions
- The difference between transitive, intransitive, and linking verbs
- Find the meaning of a word, the part of speech, and irregular spellings in the dictionary
- Use a thesaurus to enhance word choice in writing
- To use rhyming and alliteration patterns in creative writings
- Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
- Use words with multiple meanings
- Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
- Classify spelling words according to parts of speech
- Form noun plurals and possessives; capitalize proper nouns
- Identify prepositional phrases in sentences
- Write complete sentences
- Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
- Classify sentences as simple, compound, and complex
- Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adjectival elements
- Use descriptive words and phrases to elaborate with adverbial elements
- Diagram basic sentence elements
- Common inflectional forms, -s and –es with nouns, -ed and –ing with verbs, -er and –est with adjectives
- Common suffixes, e.g., -able, -ous, -ly, -ion, -ive, -ment, -ful
- Common prefixes, e.g., re-, un-, pre-, post-, tri-, sub-, dis-
- Common roots, e.g., ject, tend, quest, tele-, mem-, cord, vict, tract
- Common prepositions
- The forms of common irregular verbs, e.g., go, going, went, gone
- What is a subject and what is a predicate
- How to begin and end a written sentence
- How to add descriptive words to a sentence
- How to use proof reader marks
- To identify and create rhyming and alliteration patterns
- Identify common homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
- Use words with multiple meanings
- Identify the beginning and end of a sentence in print
- Write complete sentences
- Classify sentences as declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory
- Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adjective questions—Which one? What kind? How many?
- Use descriptive words and phrases to answer the adverb questions—How? When? Where? Why?
