Grading Policy
Grading Scale:
All grades recorded, using formative and summative assessments and progress monitoring, are given equal value and averaged at the end of each nine-week grading period. The TSC percentage scale is:
90-100% A
80-89% B
79-70% C
69-60% D
59 -0% F
- If your child receives a D or F on a paper they will need to correct it and turn the paper in again. Sometimes they will be able to correct the paper with help from an adult at school. At other times, the work will need to be corrected at home and returned. All work with a letter grade on it is recorded in the grade book. Practice work marked with a smiley face or check mark is looked over but not included as part of your child’s grade.
Reading Standards...Reading Literature and Reading Informational Text: Students will be graded and assessed upon the Indiana Standards using the Language Arts Curricula Mapping Guide (copy will be in principal’s office) using skill papers, workbook pages, tests, and oral assessments. Children will be also instructed upon grade level plus at their independent reading level development.
Reading Standards...Foundational Skills: Students will understand print concepts and become aware of phonological awareness (produce rhyming words; syllables; know, identify, and isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds). These will be assessed using the weekly phonics test.
Writing: Students with guidance and support, will begin to write and differentiate opinion pieces, informative explanatory texts, and narrative texts. A third grade curriculum and rubric is being created with a scope and sequence instruction using the 6 Traits and Lucy Calkins Writing Models. . A Spelling test will be given throughout the school year. And Language tests will be given as well. Writing grades will be reflected on each quarter's report card.
Language: Students (through scope and sequence) will demonstrate conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. The skills developed in this area: recognize and use all parts of speech (nouns, possessives, verbs, adjectives, conjunctions, and prepositions); create sentences using correct conventions.
Math: Students will be instructed and evaluated on: Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Measurement and Data; Number and Operations in Base Ten; and Geometry. Grades will be based on worksheets, returned weekly homework, and written and oral tests using common BGE assessments. A Fluency addition program will be incorporated and assessed on the strategy taught.
Science, Social Studies, and Health: Students will be introduced and assessed quarterly by a participatory grade as each unit is completed (teacher discretion) in Physical Science; Earth/Space Science; Life Science; and Science, Engineering, and Technology. Social Studies units (History; Civics/Government; Geography; and Economics) will be introduced and assessed in participation and in writing projects. Health units will be integrated throughout the school year.