Proficient in Reading:
Elementary 27% | Middle 27% | High 28%
Distinguished in Reading:
Elementary 17% | Middle 24% | High 18%
Proficient in Math:
Elementary 28% | Middle 27% | High 30%
Distinguished in Math:
Elementary 11% | Middle 20% | High 18%
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Kentucky School Report Card
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School Name
Bowling Green Independent School District

THIRD GRADE

Below are the Mastery Learning Targets, or priorities for all third grade students to be successful when they advance to fourth grade. Mastery (M) of these skills means the student has met the grade-level standard and is independently performing on grade level. Mastery takes time to develop and may take the full school year.

READING

  • Read and correctly spells words with prefixes and suffixes encountered in grade-level texts.

  • Reads irregularly spelled words and words with multiple syllables.

  • Reads grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words fluently.

  • Reads and understands grade level text with ease, self-correcting as needed.

  • Asks and answers questions and makes inferences to better understand what is read.

  • Explains the theme, lesson learned, or moral of a text using evidence.

  • Describes characters in the story and how they affect the events.

  • Determines the meaning of literal and nonliteral words and phrases as used in text (including idioms, hyperboles, similes, and metaphors).

  • Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

  • Asks and answers questions and makes inferences to better understand what is read.

  • Explains the central idea of a text using specific details.

  • Identifies visual features of a non-fiction text and explains how they contribute to the text.

  • Explains the relationship between information presented in two or more informational texts on the same topic using relevant details from each text.

  • Independently applies comprehension strategies and background knowledge to understand and analyze complex fiction and nonfiction texts.

HANDWRITING

  • Forms cursive letters, words, and sentences with a model.

WRITING/COMPOSITION

  • Composes organized pieces that support an opinion with reasons and elaborated details.

  • Composes informational pieces that introduce a topic and develop it with organized facts, definitions, and details across paragraphs.

  • Composes narratives that establish a situation, organize events, and develop experiences with dialogue, actions, thoughts, and feelings.

  • Uses adjectives and adverbs correctly.

  • Uses conjunctions to connect ideas, phrases, and words.

  • Produces simple, compound, and complex sentences.

  • Uses correct capitalization, punctuation, and possessives in writing.

MATH

  • Interprets and demonstrates multiplication expressions using models.

  • Solves word problems involving multiplication or division within 100 using drawings and equations.

  • Multiplies within 100.

  • Divides within 100.

  • Solves two step word problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

  • Rounds whole numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

  • Adds within 1,000.

  • Subtracts within 1,000.

  • Divides a whole into equal parts to represent a fraction.

  • Finds and shows a fraction on a number line.

  • Recognizes fractions that are equal in size as equivalent fractions.

  • Compares fractions using the <, >, = symbols.

  • Solves word problems involving time.

  • Creates and reads scaled graphs.

  • Finds the area of a figure.

SOCIAL STUDIES

  • Asks compelling questions about interactions between groups.

  • Analyzes a variety of sources reporting on the same event.

  • Writes a detailed answer to a question using evidence from a text or other sources.

  • Writes an argument with reasons and evidence to address a local, regional or global problem.

SCIENCE

  • Conducts investigations of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object.

  • Asks questions about electric and magnetic interactions.

  • Creates and analyzes life cycle models.

  • Explains how animals form groups and work together to survive.

  • Analyzes characteristics of organisms to understand some traits are inherited and some are learned.

  • Draws conclusions about plants and animals based on fossil evidence.

  • Understands how trait variation of species provide advantages for survival.

  • Designs graphs to show weather conditions.

  • Describes climates in different regions of the world.

  • Makes a claim about a solution that reduces the impact of severe weather.