Reading
Science
Writing
- Analyze and describe story elements of literary text
- Use textual evidence to compare and contrast the characteristics that distinguish a variety of literary and informational texts.
- Make and confirm/modify predictions and inferences with text evidence
- Self-monitor comprehension by recognizing when meaning is disrupted and apply strategies to clarify, confirm, or correct.
- Determine author’s purpose(s) and describe how author’s perspective influences text.
- Summarize and analyze a literary text and/or media, using key details to explain the theme.
- Select and apply knowledge of context clues and text features to determine meaning of unknown words.
- Identify and apply knowledge of organizational patterns to comprehend informational text(s) (e.g., sequence, description, cause and effect, compare/contrast, fact/opinion).
- Construct and/or answer literal, inferential, and critical questions and support answers with explicit evidence
- Multiply multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm
- Divide 4-digit numbers by 2-digit divisors
- Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
- Compare whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers and decimals
- Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
- Multiply and divide fractions
- Form ordered pairs from a rule
- Convert units of measure
- Geometry and volums
- Data analysis and graphing
Science
- Scientific method
- Heredity and ecosystems
- Motion, energy, and heat
- The weather cycle and weather
- Design and function of technology
Writing
- Use prewriting activities and inquiry tools to generate ideas, organize information, guide writing, and answer questions.
- Generate a draft that develops a clear topic, strong thesis, body, conclusion, and appropriate transitions
- Compose paragraphs with grammatically correct sentences of varying length, complexity, and type.
- Revise to improve and clarify writing
- Proofread and edit writing recursively for format and conventions of standard English (e.g., spelling, capitalization, grammar, punctuation, syntax, semantics).
- Publish a legible document, and apply formatting techniques (e.g., indenting, paragraphs, title).
- Use precise word choice .
- Personal Narative
- Fiction
- Poetry
- Informative/Explanatory
- Opinion
- Geography and Regional characteristics of the United States
- Early life in the Easters and Western hemispheres
- European exploration and colonization of America
- Spanish and English exploration
- Forms and functions of government
- The 13 colonies and transatlantic slavery
- American Revolution