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Third Grade in North Carolina
North Carolina public schools are overseen by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. This is the Third Grade view of one honest K-12 platform, from the state capital of Raleigh to the smallest district in between.
Schools across North Carolina
State capital
Raleigh
Schools statewide, from the capital to every district beyond it.
Serving schools in
Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, Winston-Salem, and Fayetteville
and the towns in between — the small schools, not only the big ones.
What Third Grade looks like here
The pivot from learning-to-read to reading-to-learn; the first year of state standardized testing in most states, and the first taste of academic independence.
Third grade is where a real gradebook-of-record starts to matter -- assignments, categories, and a term grade a parent watches; exact-integer weights, no float drift.
From the lower-elementary fluency grades into upper elementary; independence and the first testing arrive together.
Standards
The academic standards Third Grade follows in North Carolina
North Carolina adopts its own academic standards; the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction is the authority that sets what a public school teaches. Below are the real, currently listed North Carolina standards documents for Grades 3-5, by subject, with a link to each one so you can read it at the source. We write our own free Third Grade materials to align with them; we are not the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, and we are not endorsed, approved by, or affiliated with it.
English Language Arts
North Carolina Standard Course of Study for English Language Arts (2018)
L.1— Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking; demonstrate proficiency within the appropriate grade band grammar continuum.L.3.1— Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking; demonstrate proficiency within the 2-3 grammar continuum.L.3.2— Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing; demonstrate proficiency within the 2-3 conventions continuum.
327 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Mathematics
North Carolina Standard Course of Study 4th Level Math Standards (2019)
MP.1— Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.MP.2— Reason abstractly and quantitatively.MP.3— Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
86 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Science
NORTH CAROLINA STANDARD COURSE OF STUDY K-12 Science, Fourth Grade (2023)
ESS.3.1(see the source document for the full text)ESS.3.1.2(see the source document for the full text)ESS.3.1.3(see the source document for the full text)
77 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
We cite the standard codes and link the source document; the full text is published there.
Social Studies
North Carolina Standards for American History (2021)
3.B.1— Understand how values and beliefs of individuals and groups influence communities.3.B.1.1— Explain how the values, beliefs, and cultures of various indigenous, religious, racial and other groups contribute to the development of local communities and the state.3.B.1.2— Compare values, beliefs, cultural practices and traditions of various groups living in local and regional communities.
93 individual standards from this document are catalogued in the source corpus for this band; the examples above are a small sample.
Example standards are quoted verbatim under CC BY 3.0 US attribution; read them in full in the source document.
Standard codes and text are drawn from the Common Standards Project / Achievement Standards Network (ASN) corpus, republished by D2L Corporation (CC BY (per-document; see each cell.document.license)). 3rd-party aggregator copy, NOT an authoritative state publication. Verify against each document's own source before treating as authoritative. We do not present this as an authoritative crosswalk; each state agency’s own publication, linked above, is the authority.
Honest by default
The school stays the FERPA custodian of student records; a rep-scoped view reads zero grade rows at the database engine. Money, pricing, and checkout are honest-off on this page, and any school count above is an NCES Common Core of Data reference figure, never a claim of adoption in North Carolina.
Where these numbers come from
Data from the NCES Common Core of Data, 2023-2024. Schools may have opened or closed since publication.
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