Third grade final review for reading and social studies

Reading
- Students are to study the vocabulary words from the following reading stories.


A. Officer Buckle and Gloria
B. Pepita Talks Twice
C. Nate the Great
D. Allie's Basketball Dream
E. The Olympic Games
F. Turtle Bay
G. Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome

H. Wild shots, They are my life.

I. Little Grunt and the Big Egg

J. Rosie: A visiting dog 'story

K. Coyote places the stars

L. I'm in charge of celebrations

M. Rocking and rolling

N. Visitors from space

These words are define in your child's reading notebooks. Students should also know what the following words mean: antonyms, synonyms, homonyms and be able to give examples. they have notes in their notebooks. They can also use their phonics book to study this.


-Student should know *
- different types of literacy forms : definition and examples.
-narrative elements
-main idea
-author's purpose

- fact and opinion

- prediction

-making inferences

- summarizing

- drawing conclusions

- sequence

- compare and contrast

- cause and effect

* These skills will be tested through the use of reading passages.


Social Studies


- Students should study all the notes that they have in their notebooks. Specially the vocabulary words and their definition as well as the end of section / chapter questions.


Students should be able to label the component of a map and explain
- what is the use of a  map key?
-why do maps have symbols?
 -name the 7 continents
-name the 4 oceans
- Geographical terms
-  Why is George Washington and Benjamin Franklin important to history

- voting qualifications

- Capital vs. Capitol

- Who the state and local leaders are.

- How the Declaration of Independence came about, when and who was involved. 

There will also be a DBQ. Students will answer short questions on several  images and then one main questions involving all images and knowledge of social studies.