By the end of third grade, you can expect your child

to:
o Work cooperatively and productively with other
children in small groups to complete projects
o Understand how choices affect consequences
o Become more organized and logical in her thinking
processes
o Build stronger friendships
o Be more influenced by peer pressure because friends
are very important at this stage
o Like immediate rewards for behavior
o Be able to copy from a chalkboard
o Be able to write neatly in cursive because the small
muscles of the hand have developed
o Read longer stories and chapter books with
expression and comprehension of the theme
o Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words and other
strategies to identify unfamiliar words
o Multiply and divide single- and multi-digit numbers
o Know the products of all one-digit numbers by
memory
o Tell time to the nearest quarter- and half-hour and to
five minutes and one minute, using AM and PM
o Be able to conduct week(s)-long interviews and
research projects and write on a topic
o Use linking words such
as because, therefore, since, for
example, also, another, and, more, and but to show
sequence, contrast, and causation
o Be prepared for a discussion, having read or studied
required material