Third Grade

Curriculum Guide

9-WEEK BENCHMARK DOCUMENT

PACING FOR THE YEAR

Theme 1

• Back to School
• Off to Adventure!

Theme 2

• Celebrating Traditions

Theme 3

• Genre Focus:  Poetry
• Incredible Stories
• Genre Focus:  Trickster Tales

Theme 4

• Mythology and Fable (division created)
• Animal Habitats
• Genre Focus:  Biography

Theme 5

• Voyagers
• Genre Focus:  Nonfiction (division created)
• Genre Focus:  Fairy Tales

Theme 6

• Smart Solutions

Resource Documents

Program Documents

• Comprehensive, School-Wide Literacy Program
• Literacy Teaching/Learning Model
• Houghton-Mifflin Model
• Four-Block and Houghton Mifflin

Federal Publications

• Put Reading First
• Focus on Fluency

Virginia Documents

• Grade 3 Reading Blueprint
• Grade 5 Writing Blueprint
• Grade 3 Curriculum Framework
• Sample Lessons, Oral Language
• Sample Lessons, Reading
• Sample Lessons, Writing

Montgomery County Documents

• 3rd Grade SOL Card
• Phonics Card
• HM Expanded Spelling Word List
• 3rd Grade High Frequency Word List
• Rivet Word Game Brochure
• Reading Structures
• Reading Strategies, expanded from DOE
• Writing Approaches
• Writing Strategies
• Oral Language Strategies
• Resource Suggestion Sheet
• 1st Grade High Frequency Word List
• 2nd Grade High Frequency Word List

Elementary Curriculum Guide