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    Nevada 3rd Grade Curriculum & Standards Guide

    How Nevada's third grade standards line up with Third Grade.

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    Nevada standards

    Math

    Nevada Academic Content Standards in Mathematics

    Common Core · adopted 2010

    Common Core, adopted in 2010 as the Nevada Academic Content Standards, so Grade 3 math matches Third Grade. Nevada's document numbers each standard under its domain with no cluster letter, so the national 3.OA.D.8 is standard 8 under 3.OA (3.OA.8).

    Official standards

    English Language Arts

    Nevada Academic Content Standards for English Language Arts

    Common Core · adopted 2010

    Common Core, adopted in 2010; the standards document was reformatted in April 2025. Grade 3 ELA matches Third Grade, with codes such as RI.3.2.

    Official standards

    Science

    Nevada Academic Content Standards for Science (NVACSS)

    National science standards · adopted 2014

    Nevada adopted the national science standards in 2014 with the same Grade 3 expectations and codes (for example 3-LS4-1), so Grade 3 science matches Third Grade.

    Official standards

    Social Studies

    Nevada Academic Content Standards for Social Studies

    State standards informed by the national social studies framework

    Revised in 2018 and cites the C3 Framework. The Grade 3 theme is 'Movement Around Our World': trade, migration and people's rights and responsibilities around the globe, with codes such as SS.3.13. Nevada history, Native peoples of Nevada and state and local government come in Grade 4.

    Official standards

    Standard-by-standard crosswalk

    See every national third grade standard matched to Nevada's own codes.

    • Math: 37 same · 0 close · 0 partly · 0 not in Grade 3
    • English Language Arts: 90 same · 0 close · 0 partly · 0 not in Grade 3
    • Science: 18 same · 0 close · 0 partly · 0 not in Grade 3
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    Grade 3 differences

    1. In Nevada

      Social studies: children investigate how governments have responded to migration and immigration, and how migration has affected conflicts around the world (SS.3.11, SS.3.14). Third Grade does not teach these.

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Week 16 (immigration): add one example of a government welcoming or limiting newcomers, and one example of people who moved because of a conflict.

    2. In Nevada

      Social studies: children examine major world history events to see how discrimination against racial and ethnic groups led to movements for social justice (SS.3.15).

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Week 21 (citizens' rights and responsibilities): add a short study of one movement for equal rights, in the U.S. or another country, and what it changed.

    3. In Nevada

      Social studies: children analyze the cultural contributions that different migrant groups have made to Nevada's history (SS.3.13).

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Week 16 (immigration): research two groups who came to Nevada and what they contributed; Week 17 (state project): choose Nevada.

    4. In Nevada

      Social studies: Nevada sets rules, laws and trade on a world scale: the rules, laws and authorities that keep people safe in societies around the world (SS.3.19), and producing goods and trading between countries (SS.3.24, SS.3.25).

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Week 13 (movement and trade): trace one everyday product to the country it came from; Week 19 (local government): compare one local rule or law with a rule in another country.

    5. In Nevada

      Social studies: children define personal information and decide what is appropriate to share or keep private (SS.3.28).

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Week 21 (citizens' rights and responsibilities): add a lesson on keeping personal information private online and in person.

    6. In Nevada

      Social studies: Nevada's Grade 3 year (SS.3.1 to SS.3.28) has no standards on local government, the three branches, voting, U.S. regions or Native peoples. Nevada history, Native peoples of Nevada and Nevada state and local government come in Grade 4 (for example SS.4.13, SS.4.17, SS.4.20).

      Suggested swap in Third Grade

      Social Studies Weeks 6, 10-12, 19, 20 and 22 (Native peoples; U.S. geography, regions and Native nations; local government; three branches; voting): teach them as written. They go beyond Nevada's Grade 3 year and give a head start on Grade 4.

    Grade 3 public-school test

    Smarter Balanced Assessment (SBAC)

    Given in grades 3-8 in English language arts and mathematics, aligned with the Nevada standards.

    About this test

    Shown for context. Homeschool testing rules are separate; see below.

    Homeschool rules

    Check your state's current homeschool rules with its education department. Nevada homeschool page

    Sources

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