- Is taught 5 hours per week.
- Can decode multi-syllable words using prefixes, suffixes, affixes, base words, letter patterns and word families.
- Uses glossaries and dictionaries to find word meanings.
- Builds vocabulary through wide reading and uses own words in their own writing.
- Reads familiar grade level text accurately, using appropriate pacing, phrasing, and expressing at 110+ words per minute.
- Predicts or infers about text content and can support with evidence from text.
- Creates mental images during reading.
- Summarizes what they've read and can give evidence from the text.
- Compares and contrasts information within and between texts.
- Recognizes and explains cause and effect relationships in fiction and non-fiction texts.
- Generalizes about common characteristics of genres.
- Understands the difference between fact and opinion.
- Can give evidence from texts to support answers to questions about text material.
- Identifies reading strengths and weaknesses and selects targets on which to work (with teacher assistance).
Writing
- Pre-writes with detail; drafts in multiple paragraphs; revises by adding and deleting; edits using a checklist.
- Writes to learn, to tell a story, to respond to literature, to explain.
- Writes multi-paragraph narratives, summaries, procedures.
- Selects a topic, provides detail and elaboration (anecdotes, facts, descriptions, reasons, examples, scenarios, etc.)
- Develops characters, settings, and events in narratives.
- Writes a variety of beginnings and endings.
- Uses interesting and effective words.
- Uses a variety of sentence beginnings, lengths, and structures.
- Spells grade-level, high-frequency words correctly.
- Uses grade-level spelling patterns correctly: affixes and plurals, double consonants, unusual vowel patterns.
- Uses resources to find correct spelling for unknown words
- Capitalizes person's title and all proper nouns.
- Uses commas in dates, between city/state, in series, and in compound sentences
- Uses apostrophe in possessive nouns.
- Uses period after an abbreviation.
- Uses complete sentences and paragraphs.
- Uses correct homophones and correct verb tense.
Math
- Is taught 5 hours per week.
- Solve single-and-multi-step word problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers.
- Represent a problem situation using words, numbers, pictures, physical objects, or symbols.
- Read, write, compare, order and represent numbers to 10,000 to the nearest 10, hundred, and thousands.
- Fluently an accurately add and subtract while numbers with regrouping.
- Determine the questions being asked by a problem.
- Understand conceptually what multiplication and division are (repeated adding or equal sharing)
- Quickly recall multiplication and division facts using 1,2,5, and 10.
- Estimate, measure and compare weight, capacity, and mass using appropriate US customary and metric Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- Begin working with fractions and with denominators of 2-12 (not including 11)
- Measure temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- Fluently and accurately multiply up to three-digit numbers by on- and two-digit numbers.
- Multiply by 10, 100, and 1,000.
- Measure and calculate perimeter of quadrilaterals.
Science
Topics: Plant Growth, Chemical Tests, Rocks and Minerals
Goals: Apply to both 2nd and 3rd grade.
- Thinks systematically about how the parts of object, plants, and animals are connected and work together.
- Explains how observations can lead to new knowledge and new questions about the natural world.
- Follows a plan to carry out a scientific investigation and draw conclusions.
- Distinguishes between direct observations and simple inferences.
- Describe problems that people in different cultures around the world have had to solve and how they have done it.
- Selects appropriate tools and materials to solve a specific problem (for example, building the tallest tower with blocks)
- Explores the basic properties of motion and force.
- Sorts and compares objects by their properties (size, weight, color, etc.)
- Understands about solid, liquid, and gas states of matter.
- Understands that heat, light, motion, electricity and sound are all forms of energy
- Explores the movement of the sun and how it affects shadows.
- Explores how shadows can be used to tell the time of day.
- Understands that water can shape land.
- Measures and record changes in weather.
- Interprets graphs of weather conditions.
- Describes the life cycle of a common type of plant and a common type of animal.
- Learns how ecosystems support life, how ecosystems change over time, the consequences of rapid changes, and ways that humans change ecosystems.
- Understand that there are variations among the same kinds of plants and animals and that they may evolve over time some may cease to exist.
Social Studies
General Topic: Cultural Contributions
- Explores the varied backgrounds of people living in Washington and the rest of the US, esp. Native Americans.
- Uses maps and globes to find regions of North America.
- Understands how the environment affects cultural groups and how the groups affect the environment.
- Discusses cultural similarities and differences.
- Understands how laws, values, and customs affected the way Native Americans built homes, etc.
- Writes a paper or makes a presentation drawing a conclusion using at least two clear examples about a tribe and how they lived or traded.
- Knows the location of the 50 US states and the physical and cultural characteristics of each region.
- Understands that the cultural traditions in North America have their roots in other parts of the world.
- Understands key ideals of unity and diversity.
- Explores forms of communication, literature, the arts, and games in the US and compares them to cultures in Mexico and Canada. (Write lesson plan based on cultural celebrations, portfolio)
- Compares traditions, beliefs, and values of cultural groups in North America.
- Completes a graphic organizer listing resources on various cultures, including title and author for each source.
