What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated):

What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series)

Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Third Grader Needs to Know
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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 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 todayâ€™s 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 youâ€™ll discover
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â€¢ Favorite poemsâ€”old and new, from the traditional rhyme â€œFor Want of Nailâ€ to Lewis Carrollâ€™s whimsical poem â€œThe Crocodileâ€
â€¢ Literatureâ€”including Native American stories, African folktales, European fairy tales, classic myths from ancient Greece, stories from ancient Rome, and more
â€¢ Learning about languageâ€”the basics of written English, including sentence structure, parts of speech, and a first look at writing a report or letter
â€¢ World and American history and geographyâ€”journey 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
â€¢ Visual artsâ€”an introduction to masterworks by Rembrandt, Henri Matisse, Mary Cassatt, and others, with gorgeous reproductions and fun, do-it-yourself activities
â€¢ Musicâ€”the fundamentals of appreciating, reading, and making music, plus great composers, instruments, and sing-along lyrics for songs such as â€œBicycle Built for Twoâ€ and â€œHeâ€™s Got the Whole World in His Handsâ€
â€¢ Mathâ€”stimulating lessons ranging from counting money to solving division problems, numbers through 100,000, graphs, and the metric system
â€¢ Scienceâ€”fascinating 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

Country	USA
Author	E.D. Hirsch Jr
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Revised, Updated
EISBN	9780553394689
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Bantam
Manufacturer	Bantam
NumberOfPages	528
PublicationDate	2015-08-25
Publisher	Bantam
ReleaseDate	2015-08-25
Studio	Bantam

What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated): Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education (The Core Knowledge Series)

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