LANGUAGE ARTS

READING
∙   Listens to stories
∙   Uses prior knowledge, pictures and titles to predict meaning
∙   Uses context clues, word structure and phonics to identify and understand words
∙   Uses problem solving strategies such as re-reading or reading on
∙   Recognizes high-frequency words in texts
∙   Hears sounds in words
∙   Blends sounds to form words
∙   Identifies rhyming words
∙   Reads independently
∙   Retells and discusses stories
∙   Summarizes stories
∙   Identifies the main idea from text
∙   Identifies supporting information
∙   Reads for information to perform task
∙   Selects materials or reads for pleasure and information
∙   Uses simple reference material to obtain information

WRITING
∙   Uses brainstorming, drawing, mapping, listing, and discussion to plan ideas
∙   Uses classroom resources to gather information
∙   Writes independently
∙   Organizes text with a beginning, middle, and end
∙   Uses knowledge and experience to support writing
∙   Participates as the teacher revises his/her own text for ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and/or sentence fluency
∙   Applies basic editing skills (capitalization and punctuation)
∙   Writes using legible handwriting
∙   Uses classroom charts and personal dictionary to correct spelling errors
∙   Develops a bank of words that are consistently spelled correctly
∙   Responds to the writing of others with relevant comments, compliments, or questions related to meaning
∙   Shares writing with teacher, peers, and/or someone at home to receive feedback
∙   Writes for familiar occasions, audiences and purposes
∙   Writes in a variety of genres (realistic, fantasy, and traditional stories, explanations, recounts, and reports)
∙   Writes in a variety of forms (messages, lists, letters, notes, logs, journal entries)
∙   Uses basic computer skills (mouse, keyboarding)

LISTENING, VIEWING, AND SPEAKING
∙   Listens for a variety of purposes (directions, main idea, pleasure, following rules)
∙   Uses conversation to communicate to others
∙   Retells details of information heard
∙   Determines the main idea in non-print communication
∙   Recognizes nonverbal cues (eye contact, smiles, hand gestures)
∙   Speaks clearly and at appropriate volume
∙   Asks questions to seek answers
∙   Speaks effectively in conversation with others

LANGUAGE
∙   Displays a phonemic awareness by discriminating sounds in words and by recognizing and rhyming sounds
∙   Recognizes conventional patterns of language
∙   Understands that word choice can shape ideas, feelings, and actions
∙   Identifies and uses repetition, rhyme, and rhythm in oral language and written text
∙   Recognizes a variety of mass media

LITERATURE
∙   Recognizes rhymes, rhythm and patterned structures in texts
∙   Identifies stories, fables and folktales
∙   Identifies story elements: setting, plot, character, problem and solution
∙   Distinguishes between fiction and nonfiction
∙   Uses prior knowledge to respond to a work of literature

MATHEMATICS

NUMBER SENSE, CONCEPTS AND OPERATIONS
∙   Associates verbal names, written word names, and standard numerals with whole numbers from 0-100 using language experiences and
    manipulative
∙   Counts orally to 100 or more by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
∙   Understands the relative size of whole numbers between 0-100
∙   Knows place value of a designated digit in whole numbers to 100
∙   Uses objects to represent whole numbers or commonly used fractions (halves or thirds) and relates these numbers to real-world
     situations
∙   Selects the appropriate operation to solve specific problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers
∙   Provides and justifies estimates for real-world quantities

MEASUREMENT
∙   Uses and describes basic measurement concepts including length, weight, digital and analog time, temperature, and capacity
∙   Uses standard (centimeter or inch) and nonstandard units (links or blocks) in measuring real quantities
∙   Uses direct (measured) and indirect (not measured) comparisons to order objects according to some measurable characteristics
    (length, weight)
∙   Estimates lengths, widths, time intervals, and money to compare them to actual measure within customary or metric systems

GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE
∙   Understands and describes the characteristics of basic two and three dimensional shapes
∙   Understands basic concepts of spatial relationships, symmetry, and reflections

∙   Uses objects to perform geometric transformations (slides and turns)
∙   Uses real-life experiences and physical materials to describe, classify, compare, and sort geometric figures (squares, rectangles,   triangles, circles, cubes, rectangular solids, spheres, pyramids, cylinders, and prisms) according to the number of faces, edges and bases
∙   Plots and identifies positive whole numbers (0-100) on a number line

ALGEBRAIC THINKING
∙   Describes a variety of classification schemes and patterns related to physical characteristics and sensory attributes (rhythm,
    sound, shapes, colors, numbers, similar objects, similar events)
∙   Recognizes, extends, generalizes, and creates a wide variety of patterns and relationships using symbols and objects
∙   Understands that symbols can be used to represent unknown quantities in expressions, equations, and inequalities
∙   Uses informal methods to solve real-world problems requiring simple equations that contain one variable

DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY
∙   Displays solutions to problems by generating, collecting, organizing, and analyzing data using simple graphs and charts
∙   Displays data in simple model to use the concepts of range and mode
∙   Discusses a reasonable prediction for a large group using data from a small group
∙   Understands basic concepts of chance and probability
∙   Predicts which simple event is more likely, equally likely, or less likely to occur
∙   Participates in simple experiments to answer class questions; collects appropriate information, and interprets the results using graphical displays of information (line graphs, pictographs, and charts)

SCIENCE

GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE INTEGRATED INTO MATH AND LANGUAGE ARTS:

∙   nature of matter
∙   energy
∙   force and motion
∙   processes that shape the earth
∙   processes of life
∙   how living things interact with the environment
∙   nature of science

SOCIAL STUDIES

GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS ARE INTEGRATED INTO MATH AND LANGUAGE ARTS:

∙   history
∙   geography
∙   civics/government
∙   economics