Reading
Attitudes and Habits
- Engages in and shares self-initiated readings and writings in a variety of ways
- Reads a variety of genres: fiction, nonfiction, folktales, biographies
- Reads outside of the school day the number of minutes set by the classroom teacher
Vocabulary and Phonics
- Develops and uses new vocabulary for reading, speaking, and writing
- Uses language context, base, and compound words, prefixes, and suffixes to determine the meaning
- Uses glossary/dictionary and context to find meanings of unknown words
- Uses word relationships, such as synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
- Uses resources to help with spelling and decoding (i.e. Quickword™ handbook, word walls, dictionaries, try it slips, priority word list, etc.)
Comprehension
- Marks up the text (using highlighters or Post-it© notes)to aid understanding
- Understands what is read
- Predicts and makes appropriate adjustments during reading
- Summarizes fiction text using characters, setting, problem, major events, solutions, and endings
- Reads non-fiction text and identifies the topic, main ideas, and relevant supporting details through guided practice
- Thinks and reads to distinguish between fact and opinion, fact and fiction, and to determine writer’s point of view
- Uses appropriate rate of reading
- Skims to get overview
- Scans for specific information
- Rereads to aid understanding
- Adjusts rate to match level of text difficulty
- Makes text-to-text comparisons, compares fiction to nonfiction(makes connection text to text, text to self, text to world)
- Rereads and self corrects to aid understanding
- Participates in sustained silent reading time
Study Skills
- Asks questions of self during reading Uses journaling and “think marks” to prepare for a discussion about text
- Uses encyclopedias (electronic and text)
- Uses parts of a book (table of contents, index, copyright, etc.)
- Uses maps, diagrams, charts, tables, timelines and illustrations
- Uses note taking to answer questions about a research topic through guided practice
- Writes reports using factual information
- Uses strategies to activate prior knowledge
- Uses strategies to gain meaning from expository (nonfiction)text Uses library resources to locate information
- Studies material outside of school to prepare for tests
- Uses an assignment notebook to keep organized and up to date
Language Arts
Listening
- Enjoys stories and poems
- Obtains information
- Follows directions
- Evaluates information
Speaking
- Responds to stories heard or read
- Participates in group discussions
- Retells and discusses text
- Participates in dramatizations, choral readings, reader's theater
- Communicates information in organized manner- sequenced detail Speaks in front of group
Writing
Mechanics of Writing
- Identifies spelling words and uses spelling patterns
- Spells priority words (1-90) correctly in written work
- Writes complete sentences
- Writes paragraphs related to a topic that are organized, uses a variety of sentence structures, and appropriately uses indention
- Uses capitalization appropriately for sentences, for proper nouns, sentences and titles
- Uses punctuation appropriately including periods, commas, apostrophes and quotation marks
- Uses proofreading to correct errors
Written Forms
Uses a variety of written forms such as the following: journal entries, reports, stories, poems/rhymes, letters /notes, directions, summaries, posters, personal narrative
Writing Process Stages
Planning
- Identifies audience and purpose
- Brainstorms ideas
- Determines format
Rough Draft
- Develops ideas
- Uses format to get their ideas on paper in a fluent manner
Revising
- Interacts with a fellow student to revise how the writing sounds
Rereads
- Changes awkward or choppy sentences
- Avoids incomplete sentences
- Checks whether purpose has been met
- Checks for spelling, capitalization, punctuation and grammar
- Changes repeated or plain words
- Works to improve organization of piece
- Works to make piece lively, smooth, and developed
Editing
- Interacts with a fellow student to edit
- Checks if the writing is ready for others to read Checks C.U.P.S. (Capitalization, Usage, Punctuation, Spelling)
Publishing Activities
- Projects are shared in a final form
- Publishes regularly
USE OF 6 TRAITS OF WRITING
Ideas
- Connects ideas and pictures (main idea/one topic only/using prewriting)
- Gets the message across (main idea)
- Chooses interesting details Focuses on staying on the topic
Organization
- Builds up details/beginning, middle, end
- Writes a strong lead
- Stays on topic
- Wraps Up – writing a strong ending
Word Choice
- Avoids repetition - adjectives
- Uses a variety of verbs and adjectives
- Reads as a source for new words/using context clues/similes
Voice
- Compares author’s voice
- Uses words to describe author’s voice
- Expresses your own voice
- Improves your voice
Sentence Fluency
- Creates fluency by combining choppy sentences
- Uses a variety of sentence starters
Conventions
- Understands punctuation/differentiates between statements and questions
- Uses editor’s marks
- Finds missing capitals
- Spots careless errors/spots sight word errors
Presentation - Presents completed work to the class or teacher
Mathematics
Mathematical Processes
- Communicates mathematical thinking, both orally and in writing, by using numbers, words and pictures
- Solves story problems
Number Operations and Relationships
- Understands place value to ten thousand
- Solves addition problems
- Solves subtraction problems
- Solves division problems
- Reads, writes, and compares fractions
Geometry
- Identifies, describes, and compares two and three-dimensional figures
- Understands geometry vocabulary
Measurement
- Counts, compares and makes change to $10.00
- Investigates measurements of area and perimeter
- Tells time to the minute
- Identifies appropriate units of measurement for length, elapsed time and capacity
Statistics and Probability
- Collects and displays data in graphs and tables
Algebraic Relationships
- Chooses correct operation (+, -, =, >, <, x, ÷) to write an equation
Social Studies
Citizenship
- Develops responsibility for activities at home and school
- Develops an awareness of decision-making skills and be able to makes appropriate choices
- Recognizes why we elect community leaders and how public leaders are elected
Geography
- Locates and identifies the continents and oceans of the world
- Uses directions to find places relative to a specific location on a map or globe
- Interprets legends and basic map symbols
- Locates the equator, prime meridian, and hemispheres on a map or globe Is introduced to the concept of latitude and longitude
Communities
- Learns the concept of goods and services
- Learns how communities help people to meet their basic needs and wants
- Studies different kinds of communities and the types of problems those communities face
- Recognizes the ways that location, climate, weather, and resources help to determine the type of community that will exist
Cultural Heritage
- Develops a strong sense of pride in their local community and an appreciation for communities unlike their own
Current Events
- Studies significant current events in the community, state, nation, and world
Native Americans
- Studies the four major Native American groups and their migration across the United States
- Becomes aware of the interdependence of these four groups and their environment
Science
Earth Science
Changes on Earth
- Identifies Earth’s layering from crust to core
- Describes how surface is slowly and quickly shaped and reshaped by way of weathering, erosion and deposition
- Describes volcanoes and earthquakes Identifies renewable and nonrenewable natural resources
- Identifies methods of conservation of resources
Solar System
- Identifies what daily and seasonal cycles tells us about our Earth, Moon and Sun
- Explains rotation and revolution of the Earth
- Explores day and night, seasons, moon phases, and eclipses
- Identifies stars and seasonal constellations
- Describes the Earth’s place in the universe and solar system
- Identifies different characteristics of planets in our solar system
Life Science
Plants and Animals
- Compares and classifies plants
- Identifies plant structural adaptations
- Explains how new plants resemble those extinct types from long ago
- Identifies types of ecosystems worldwide and describes the structure and function of ecosystems
- Explains energy transfer in ecosystems
Physical Science
Matter
- Identifies states of matter
- Identifies the qualitative and quantitative properties of matter
- Identifies physical and chemical changes and their differences
- Explains heat absorption or radiation during changes
- Explores kinds of physical changes, including dry and solute/solvent mixtures
Forces and Motion
- Identifies ways in which the motion of an object can be described, changed and measured
- Identifies forces of friction and gravity
Energy
- Identifies kinds of energy
- Explores energy conversion from one kind to another and from potential to kinetic
Sound
- Explains how sound travels
- Identifies attributes of sound and light waves
- Understands production of sound waves, electromagnetic spectrum, reflection, refraction, absorption, and optical tools
Media and Technology
- Identifies and defines basic computer technology
- Demonstrates proper care and correct use of media equipment
- Saves and backs up files on a computer hard drive, storage medium, or file server
- Identifies common types of computer software
- Demonstrates how to open and run a software program
- Creates, saves, retrieves, and deletes electronic files
- Incorporates graphics and pictures in a document
- Understands basic word processing terminology
- Produces a document using a word processing program (Microsoft Word)
- Edits a word processing document to produce a finished product
Reading/Language Arts
Attitudes and Habits
- Reads outside of school day at least 20 minutes five times per week
- Reads and appreciates fantasy, folktales, authors, mysteries and biographies
- Responds in a variety of written and oral ways to reading material
Vocabulary and Phonics
- Uses language context, base, and compound words, prefixes and suffixes to determine the meaning
- Uses word relationships - synonyms, antonyms and homonyms
- Develops and uses new vocabulary for reading, speaking, and writing
- Uses Try It Slips, Priority Word list, dictionaries, etc.
Comprehension
- Marks up the text (using highlighters or Post-it® notes) to aide understanding
- Makes predictions using facts, verifies or changes predictions as new information is added
- Retells and discusses reading material Summarizes narrative (fiction) text using characters, setting, problems, major events and resolution
- Summarizes expository (nonfiction) text by identifying the topic, main idea, and relevant supporting details
- Compares and contrasts selections, understands sequence of event, and draws conclusions
- Uses appropriate rate of reading
- skims to get overview
- scans for specific information
- rereads to aide understanding
- adjusts rate to match level of text difficulty
- Thinks and reads to distinguish between fact and opinion, fact and fiction, and to determine writer's point of view
- Uses journaling and “think marks” to prepare for discussion about material read
- Asks questions of self during reading
- Sustains self during an extended silent reading time
Study Skills
- Uses glossary and dictionary to understand entry words and guide words
- Uses parts of a book (table of contents, copyright, etc.)
- Uses an encyclopedia (electronic and text)
- Uses maps, diagrams, charts, tables, time lines, and illustrations
- Uses library resources to locate information
- Takes notes to answer questions about a research topic
- Writes a report using factual information
- Uses strategies to activate prior knowledge (i.e. K-W-L)
- Uses strategies to gain meaning from expository (nonfiction)text (i.e. Think-Aloud, K-W-L)
- Makes specific preparations to take test
- Follows oral and written directions
- Uses an assignment notebook to keep organized and up-to-date
- Studies material outside of school to prepare for tests
Listening
- Enjoys stories and poems
- Obtains information
- Follows directions
- Evaluates information
Speaking
- Speaks in front of group
- Communicates information in organized manner – sequenced detail
- Responds to stories heard or read
- Participates in group discussions
- Retells and discusses text
- Participates in dramatizations, choral readings, Reader’s Theater
Writing
Mechanics of Writing
- Uses Priority Words (1-150) and other spelling words correctly in writing
- Writes three indented paragraphs related to a topic that are organized, are consistent, appropriate to topic, purpose, and audience
- Uses a variety of sentence structures, display subject-verb agreement
- Uses capitalization appropriately for proper nouns, sentences, and titles
- Uses punctuation appropriately including periods, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks
- Uses proofreading to correct errors
Written Forms
- Personal narrative
- Tales and stories
- Poems
- Research writing
- Biography
Writing Process Stages
Planning
- Identifies audience and purpose
- Brainstorms ideas
- Determines format
Rough Draft
- Chooses appropriate format
- Selects appropriate details
- Organizes details into appropriate form
- Focuses and develops topic
- Checks whether there is a variety of sentence lengths
- Critiques peer drafts
Revising
- Rereads
- Revises sentences
- Makes the subject/verb agree and pronoun/reference agree
- Checks whether purpose has been met
- Checks for consistency of verb, tense, point of view
- Checks repeated or plain words
- Checks for use of transition words
- Checks whether voice comes through in piece of writing
- Organizes thoughts in coherent paragraphs
Editing
- Checks for correct capitalization, usage, punctuation, spelling
- Interacts with a peer to check for completion and accuracy
- Edits to see if the writing is ready for others to read
- Publishing Activities
- Publishes in a final form
- Shares writing
Mathematics
Mathematical Process
- Communicates mathematical thinking, both orally and in writing, by using numbers, words or pictures
- Analyzes and solves simple and more complex story problems
Number Operations and Relationships
- Understands and applies strategies for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Solves one and two-step problems
- Rounds and estimates whole numbers
- Reads, writes and orders fractions and decimals
- Reads, writes, and identifies place value of numbers to millions
Geometry
- Identifies, describes, and compares two and three-dimensional figures
Measurement
- Counts, compares and makes change to $10.00 using a collection of coins and dollar bills
- Understands and solves area
- Understands and solves perimeter
- Determines and compares elapsed time
- Tells time to the minute
Statistics and Probability
- Reads, uses and draws conclusions from the data in graphs and tables
Algebraic Relationships
- Applies patterns to determine relationships
- Recognizes equalities and inequalities using <, >, and =
- Solves equations with variables
Social Studies
- Understands the major features of Wisconsin maps, world maps, globes, graphics, diagrams, and photographs
- Understands the geographic features of Wisconsin and the forces which shaped them
- Understands the Native American culture of Wisconsin
- Shows an understanding of European exploration in Wisconsin
- Understands differences that exist in environment and lifestyles in various geographic settings in Wisconsin
- Understands the major industries in Wisconsin - from past to present
- Understands government at the local, state and national level in our country
Science
Earth Science
Rock Cycle
- Understands how rocks tell us about the past, present, and future formation of Earth
- Identifies igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks
- Describes the rock cycle
Earth’s Science
- Understands how the Earth’s surface is shaped and reshaped by way of weathering, erosion, and deposition
- Explores volcanoes and earthquakes
Water Cycle and Weather
- Explores hurricanes and tornadoes
- Explores how the Earth’s water affects weather
Earth’s Cycles
- Explores how daily and seasonal cycles tells us about our Earth, Moon, and Sun
- Understands the rotation and revolution of the Earth
- Explores day and night, seasons, moon phases, and eclipses
- Identifies stars and constellations
Life Science
Plants and Animals
- Explores how grouping makes it easier for scientists to show relationships and identify organisms
- Identifies some characteristics scientists use to classify: number of cells and cell structure, habitats, and nutrient/energy acquisition
- Identifies plant structure that enables plants to make their own food and reproduce
Ecosystems
- Identifies how living and non-living things interact with each other and with their environment
- Describes energy transfer in ecosystems
- Recognizes constant changes in a balanced system
- Recognizes changes cancel each other out
Human Body
- Identifies how organ systems provide cells of the human body with nutrients
- Studies the following systems: skeletal, muscular, and nervous system
- Becomes familiar with the respiratory, circulatory, and digestive systems
- Explains how the body can defend itself against disease-causing organisms
Physical Science
Matter
- Identifies the states of matter
- Identifies qualitative and quantitative properties of matter
- Explores density, buoyancy, physical and chemical changes
Heat
- Understands thermal heat
- Compares heat vs. temperature
- Identifies types of heat transfer
- Describes convection
Electricity and Magnetism
- Studies electrical charges, static electricity, electric currents and circuits
- Studies magnetic fields, electromagnets, generators
Sound and Light
- Identifies how light and sound travels
- Identifies attributes of sound and light waves
- Explores production of sound waves, electromagnetic spectrum, reflection, refraction, absorption
- Explores optical tools
Force and Motion
- Describes ways in which the motion of an object can be described, changed, and measured
- Identifies forces of fraction, gravity, kinetic, and potential energy
Simple Machines
- Describes how simple machines make work easier
- Identifies simple machines
- Identifies complex machines
Media and Technology
- Identifies and defines basic computer technology
- Demonstrates proper care and correct use of media equipment
- Saves and backs up files on a computer hard drive, storage medium, or file server
- Identifies common types of computer software
- Demonstrates how to open and run a software programs
- Creates, saves and retrieves electronic files
- Incorporates graphics and pictures in a document
- Identifies and defines basic word processing terminology
- Produces a document using a word processing program (Microsoft Word)
- Edits a word processing document to produce a finished product
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