The following are the grade level objectives your child will be studying this year. Practicing these objectives at home is a great idea.
Reading Objectives
Know and apply grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Literature
Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
Informational Text
Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within text.
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or in technical procedures in a text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Literature
Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
Informational Text
Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within text.
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or in technical procedures in a text.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Explain how specific images contribute to and clarify a text.
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Math objectives
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
Add and subtract within 20.
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication,
Understand place value.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract (regrouping, carrying a ten).
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
Relate addition and subtraction to length.
Work with time and money.
Represent and interpret data (graphs, tally charts).
Reason with shapes and their attributes (2D and 3D).
Add and subtract within 20.
Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication,
Understand place value.
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract (regrouping, carrying a ten).
Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
Relate addition and subtraction to length.
Work with time and money.
Represent and interpret data (graphs, tally charts).
Reason with shapes and their attributes (2D and 3D).
Writing objectives
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Write opinon pieces.
Write informative/explanatory texts.
Write narratives.
Write opinon pieces.
Write informative/explanatory texts.
Write narratives.
Science objectives
Structure and Properties of Matter
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Process that Shape the Earth
Engineering Design
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems
Process that Shape the Earth
Engineering Design
Social Studies objectives
Use historical thinking to understand the past.
Use geograhic representations (maps) to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
Understand how regions are created from common physical and human characteristics.
Understand how human activities help shape the Earth's surface.
Understand the effects of human-enviornment interactions.
Explain why people create governments.
Understand values and principles of American constitutional democracy.
Describe the structure of government in the United States and how it functions to serve citizens.
Explain important rights and how, when, and where American citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by participating in government.
Use fundamental principles and concepts of economics to understand economic acitivity in a market economy.
Use geograhic representations (maps) to acquire, process, and report information from a spatial perspective.
Understand how regions are created from common physical and human characteristics.
Understand how human activities help shape the Earth's surface.
Understand the effects of human-enviornment interactions.
Explain why people create governments.
Understand values and principles of American constitutional democracy.
Describe the structure of government in the United States and how it functions to serve citizens.
Explain important rights and how, when, and where American citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by participating in government.
Use fundamental principles and concepts of economics to understand economic acitivity in a market economy.