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Academic Milestones

Curious on ways to help support your elementary school student academically and socially at home? We've curated a list of educational and social benchmarks by grade-level, including strategies to partner with your student during each year's transition.

3rd Grade: Educational and Social Benchmarks

3rd Grade

Math:

  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division

  • Multiplying numbers

  • Dividing numbers

  • Understanding place value

  • Solving word problems

  • Fractions

Measurement & data

  • Mass and volume

  • Data on graphs

Shapes

  • Classifying shapes

  • Dividing shapes

Reading & writing

  • Determining meaning of unknown words

  • Understand figurative language and word relationships.

  • Read third grade text fluently

  • Retelling stories

  • Comparing and contrasting texts

  • Engaging with a variety of texts

  • Use basic rules of English grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

  • Writing structured stories

  • Informational pieces

  • Opinion pieces

  • Using technology

  • Presenting information orally

  • Participating in conversations

  • Short research projects

  • Take notes and sort information

Social Development

  • Self-awareness is knowing your emotions, strengths and challenges, and how your emotions affect your behavior and decisions.

  • Self-management is controlling emotions and the behaviors they spark in order to overcome challenges and pursue goals.

  • Help your child understand goal-setting by starting with small goals.

  • Allow your child to overcome challenges independently.

  • Social awareness is understanding and respecting the perspectives of others, and applying this knowledge to social interactions with people from diverse backgrounds.

  • Teach your child to respect others.

Rebekka Whitehead