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Give your child a smart start with What Your Third Grader Needs to Know What should your child learn in the third grade How can you help him or her at home This book answers these important questions and more offering the specific shared knowledge that thousands of parents and teachers across the nation have agreed upon for American third graders Featuring sixteen pages of full-color illustrations a bolder easier-to-follow format and a thoroughly updated curriculum What Your Third Grader Needs to Know is designed for parents and teachers to enjoy with children Hundreds of thousands of children have benefited from the Core Knowledge Series This edition featuring a new Introduction gives todayrsquos generation of third graders the advantage they need to make progress in school and to establish an approach to learning that will last a lifetime In this book yoursquoll discover bull Favorite poemsmdashold and new from the traditional rhyme ldquoFor Want of Nailrdquo to Lewis Carrollrsquos whimsical poem ldquoThe Crocodilerdquo bull Literaturemdashincluding Native American stories African folktales European fairy tales classic myths from ancient Greece stories from ancient Rome and more bull Learning about languagemdashthe basics of written English including sentence structure parts of speech and a first look at writing a report or letter bull World and American history and geographymdashjourney down the great rivers of Europe Africa Asia and Australia visit ancient Rome and experience the earliest days of America with the Pilgrims and Native Americans bull Visual artsmdashan introduction to masterworks by Rembrandt Henri Matisse Mary Cassatt and others with full-color reproductions and fun do-it-yourself activities bull Musicmdashthe fundamentals of appreciating reading and making music plus great composers instruments and sing-along lyrics for songs such as ldquoBicycle Built for Twordquo and ldquoHersquos Got the Whole World in His Handsrdquo bull Mathmdashstimulating lessons ranging from counting money to solving division problems numbers through graphs and the metric system bull Sciencemdashfascinating discussions on the natural world the cycles of life the human body and its systems and the environment with accompanying activities and stories about famous scientists such as Copernicus and Alexander Graham Bell.



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