Grade 3

Grade 3

Song

Standard(s) Addressed

All Songs Music Standards

2.0 CREATIVE EXPRESSION
Creating, Performing, and Participating in Music

Students apply vocal and instrumental musical skills in performing a varied repertoire of music.

Apply Vocal and Instrumental Skills
2.1 Sing with accuracy in a developmentally appropriate range.
2.2 Sing age-appropriate songs from memory.
2.3 Play rhythmic ostinatos on classroom instruments.

R1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary 
Development
Students…apply this knowledge to achieve fluent oral and silent reading. (Students improve fluency as they read lyrics while singing.)

R1.3 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression.
Thinking While You Read R1.6 Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of 
unknown words.

2.0 Reading Comprehension
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material. 
They draw upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed (e.g., generating and responding to essential questions, making predictions, comparing information from several sources).

Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text
R2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text.
R2.3 Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the text.
R2.4 Recall major points in the text and make and modify predictions about forthcoming information.
R2.5 Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in expository text.
Polly Wolly Prefix R1.8 Use knowledge of prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, pre-, bi-, mis-, dis-) and suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful) to determine the meaning of words.
The Writer”s Song W1.0 Writing Strategies
Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions).

Organization and Focus
W1.1 Create a single paragraph:
W1.1a Develop a topic sentence.
W1.1b Include simple supporting facts and details.

Evaluation and Revision
W1.4 Revise drafts to improve the coherence and logical progression of ideas by using an established rubric.

W2.1 Write narratives:
Include well-chosen details to develop the plot.

W2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details to present and support unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
Plural Y and F WOEL1.8 Spell correctly one-syllable words that have blends, contractions, compounds, orthographic patterns (e.g., qu, consonant doubling, changing the ending of a word from -y to -ies when forming the plural), and common homophones (e.g., hair-hare).
Parts of Speech WOEL1.2 Identify subjects and verbs that are in agreement and identify and use pronouns, adjectives, compound words, and articles correctly in writing and speaking.
Talk-Talk Song  
4 Kinds of Sentences Sentence Structure
WOEL1.1 Understand and be able to use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in writing and speaking.
Synonym Antonym Homonym Chant R1.4 Use knowledge of antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine the meanings of words.
Fiction Doodle Dandy R2.6 Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions.

R3.0 Literary Response and Analysis
Students read and respond to a wide variety of significant works of children”s literature.
They distinguish between the structural features of the text and literary terms or elements (e.g., theme, plot, setting, characters).
LS2.1 Include well-chosen details to develop character, setting, and plot.
Angles Song MG2.4 Identify right angles in geometric figures or in appropriate objects and determine whether other angles are greater or less than a right angle.
Parallel and Perpendicular MG2.3 Identify attributes of quadrilaterals (e.g., parallel sides for the parallelogram, right angles for the rectangle, equal sides and right angles for the square).
Triangle Song MG2.2 Identify attributes of triangles (e.g., two equal sides for the isosceles triangle, three equal sides for the equilateral triangle, right angle for the right triangle).
Quadrilateral MG2.3 Identify attributes of quadrilaterals (e.g., parallel sides for the parallelogram, right angles for the rectangle, equal sides and right angles for the square).
Perimeter Area Song MG1.2 Estimate or determine the area and volume of solid figures by covering them with squares or by counting the number of cubes that would fill them.

MG1.3 Find the perimeter of a polygon with integer sides.
Measurement Song MG1.1 Choose the appropriate tools and units (metric and U.S.) and estimate and measure the length, liquid volume, and weight/mass of given objects.
1.4 Carry out simple unit conversions within a system of measurement (e.g., centimeters and meters, hours and minutes).
All Skip Counting Songs (3 Song, etc.) NS2.2 Memorize to automaticity the multiplication table for numbers between 1 and 10.
AF2.2 Extend and recognize a linear pattern by its rules (e.g., the number of legs on a given number of horses may be calculated by counting by 4s or by multiplying the number of horses by 4).