Reading
The student will show a growing ability to:
- Read and/or listen to gain meaning using a variety of strategies
- Understand story structure, including Plot, Setting, Problem, Resolution, Main characters, Main Events
- Analyze characters
- Compare and contrast
- Predict
- Draw conclusions
- Sequence
- Summarize
- Identify main ideas and supporting details
- Use resource materials
- Apply these skills to a variety of genres, including:
-Historical fiction
-Fantasy and/or Science Fiction
-Historical documents and/or speeches. |
Writing and Language Arts
The student will show a growing ability to:
- Write to convey meaning
- Edit for correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization
- Select and develop a focused topic
- Create stories from their own imagination
- Organize their ideas into paragraphs
- Apply these skills to a variety of genres including:
-Personal narrative
-Persuasuve letter and/or essay
-Biographical sketch |
Math
The student will show a growing ability to:
- Understand place and value
- Add and subtract with regrouping
- Multiply using two-digit factors
- Divide using two-digit factors
- Add/subtract fractions and decimals
- Use problem solving strategies
- Communicate mathematical ideas
- Reason mathematically
- Estimate
- Understand geometric concepts
- Measure using standard and metric units
- Analyze data, statistics, and probability
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Social Studies
The student will show a growing understanding of local history through the study of:
- Native Americans
- Explorers
- Colonial Life
- Revolutionary War
- Selected events of significance in the development of New York State
Science
The student will show a growing ability to apply scientific process and skills in the study of:
- Plants and Animals
- Electricity and Magnetism
- Weather
- States of Matter
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