Master's Specialist III - 3rd Grade

The Specialist III (Third Grade) Program encourages students to use their multiple intelligences while preparing them to successfully pass the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT), which is administered towards the end of the school year. This allows students the opportunity to show the array of knowledge and skills they have developed over their school careers. Language arts is a part of an integrated and interdisciplinary curriculum at Kid’s Community College Charter School. The curriculum in third grade includes reading, spelling, writing process, research, book report writing, oral dramatic activities, and cursive handwriting instruction.

Some of the objectives of the language arts program include expanding the students’ written and spoken vocabularies, comprehending and responding to written material, discerning the main idea and summarizing what is read, writing concise paragraphs and coherent stories, and applying the rules of grammar. One book report is required per month, using books that are at or above the third grade reading level and reasonable material for that child’s reading ability.

Reading of various genres is required. Core words in spelling are the most frequently used words in writing. Students are accountable for these words in all written assignments including paragraph writing, expository writing and creative writing. The language arts program is enriched with the use of computers and supplemental instruction. Third grade level math works to make students aware of how mathematics is connected to their daily lives. The program continues beyond basic math to continue moving students through the transitional and abstract stages of thinking.

Additional concepts studied include geometry, measurement, estimation and problem solving.