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AAPS 3rd Grade Curriculum

English Language Arts (ELA)


There are three major components of English Language Arts Curriculum.   

Readers Workshop + Strategy Groups

Focus for Reading Instruction in the Upper Grades Includes:

  • Skilled reading across multiple genres

  • Maintaining capacity for interaction with text over extended periods of time

  • Literary analysis

  • Reading for learning within the content areas

  • Reading for critical thinking and values-clarification

  • Word solving for context and morphological understanding

  • Reading from an aesthetic stance, i.e., appreciation and enjoyment

  • Reading from an efferent stance, i.e., to obtain information

Writer's Workshop​

  • ​Personal Narrative – Telling about something that has happened to you.

  • Feature Article – A paper about a topic you’re an “expert” on and writing about that topic for others to learn about it.

  • Poetry – We will write and read various forms of poetry.  

  • Research – Researching then writing an informative piece on a specified topic .

  • Science & Social Studies Content Writing Area – Short writing assignments using their new found knowledge of topics and applying it in informational writing pieces.

  • M-STEP/TEST prep – Writing assignments that are specific to the skills and questions that they will be asked on the 3RD grade M-STEP test.

  • Handwriting- There will be opportunity to practice handwriting including print and cursive throughout the school year.

  • Writer’s Notebook / Journal – We will write in our composition books every day.  Our writer’s notebooks become a very important and special part of our lives.

Word Study

For the 2023/2024 school year, we will implement a new word study curriculum titled "Morpheme Magic". 

  • Students will learn to understand the roles that words play, words and word parts, and their meanings. 

  • Students will become conscious and aware of how language works through this new AAPS curriculum.

Mathematics (Everyday Mathematics)

 

The Ann Arbor Public Schools math curriculum is called Connect Ed; Everyday Mathematics.  It is a rigorous program based on the spiral method of learning.  The basic concept of the program is to expose children at an early age to a wide range of math concepts and thus build conceptual knowledge in all math strands.  The third grade content includes:

Patterns, Money, Calculator Routines, Adding/Subtracting Whole Numbers, Linear Measurements and Area, Multiplication and Division, Place Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals, Geometry, Fractions, Measurement and Data, Probability, M-STEP Practice.

Science, Social Studies, Health, and Project Lead the Way

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Science units studied include:

  • Stick Together

  • Wild Wacky Weather

  • No Place Like Home

  • Let’s Move It (Forces),  

Social Studies topics include:
  • Michigan’s Geography
  • Michigan’s History
  • Michigan’s Government
  • Michigan Economics
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Health Topics include:
  • More info to come
PLTW modules include:
  • More into to come
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