August Mastery Skills (Weeks 1-4)
KINDERGARTEN-AUGUST
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Sorting,
• Patterns

Language Kindergarten Skills:

•  Identify 8 basic colors
• Recognize same and different; Spells first name

Reading Kindergarten Skills:

• Read logos and/or signs in environmental print
• Name pictures of common objects and concepts
• Use words to describe location, size, color, and shape

FIRST GRADE -AUGUST
Math First Grade Skills:

• Recognize and numbers 0-100
• Identify 2 dimensional shapes triangle, square, rectangle, circle
• Name the months of the year
• Analyze and interpret data by using more than, less than

Language First Grade Skills:

• Compose drawings/visual images to tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end
• Developing handwriting skills
•  Position paper in order to write in a left to right progression moving from top to bottom on the page
• Write words and sentences legibly using proper spacing
• Compose simple sentences

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Point to words in text when reading aloud matching spoken words to print
• Distinguish between upppercase and lowercase letters
• Make a prediction about narrative or informational text and confirm or revise the prediction

SECOND GRADE -AUGUST
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Recall addition and subtraction facts
• Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers
• Analyze and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Recognize complete and incomplete sentences
• Spell words commonly found in second grade level texts
• Compose simple sentences
• Write words and sentences legibly
• Analyze all sentence types
• (statements and questions)
• Composing all sentence types
• (statements and questions)
• End punctuation
• Capitalization (first word in a sentence and the pronoun I)
• Analyze all sentence types (commands and exclamations)
• Composing all sentence types(commands and exclamations)
• End punctuation
• Capitalization(first word in a sentence and the pronoun I)
• Common nouns

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Initial consonants
• Word families
• Use common spelling patterns to generate new words

THIRD GRADE- AUGUST
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Compose and decompose four-digit whole numbers with representations in words, physical models, and expanded/standard forms
• Add (up to three addends) and subtract four whole digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Compose and decompose four-digit whole numbers with representations in words, physical models, and expanded/standard forms

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Use correct and varied sentence structures – complete thoughts and fragments
•  End punctuation
• Capitalization
• Analyze sentences to determine purpose (declarative, imperative, interrogative, exclamatory)
•  Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Avoid sentence fragments and run-on sentences
• Nouns- uses them correctly (singular, plural, irregular forms, common/proper)

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Create & analyze compound words
• Create & use complex contractions
• Identify the parts of a book
• Add, delete, substitute, or transpose a phoneme to change a spoken word and the initial, medial, and final position
• Continue to blend and segment spoken words in phonemes
• Use inflectional endings to produce and analyze new words
• Generate words into categories
• Parts of a book: title page, table of contents, glossary, and index

September Mastery Skills (Weeks 5-8)
KINDERGARTEN-SEPTEMBER
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Identify and describe qualitative changes (temperature changes - feels hotter)

Language Kindergarten Skills:

•  Positions paper for left to right progression
• Trace and copy letters
• Writes first name
• Holds pencil correctly

Reading Kindergarten Skills: 

• Identify and sort pictures of common words into basic categories
• Demonstrate that print carries meaning for the reader
• Identify antonyms of commonly used words
• Identify front cover and back cover of a book; text features- titles, illustrations, etc.
• Track words from left to right and top to bottom
• Genre (poetry, nursery rhymes)
• Distinguish between lowercase and uppercase letters

 

FIRST GRADE -SEPTEMBER
Math First Grade Skills:

• Identify ordinal positions to tenth
• skip counting by 1's

Language First Grade Skills:

• Compose retellings/stories with a beginning, middle, and end
• Begin to use capitalization (first word in a sentence)
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• The pronoun "I"

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Identify and produce rhyming words orally that include consonant blends and digraphs (flat/splat, trap/snap, sing/ring
• Identify orally beginning, final, and medial sounds in one-syllable words
• Blend and segment the phonemes in words containing 2 to 4 phonemes /b/a/t/=bat
• Add or delete a phoneme to change a spoken word (e.g., add /b/ to "at"=bat or take /k/ from "cat" = at

SECOND GRADE -SEPTEMBER
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers
• Analyze and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction* compose and decompose three-digit numbers with representations in words and physical needs (two-digit only)
• Compare and order three-digit numbers using the symbols <, >, and = and justify reasoning (two-digit only)
• Explain, analyze, and extend repeating and growing patterns
• Use number patterns to skip count by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10'’s
• Model division with the concept of fair shares of sets (even and odd)
• Determine and compare the value of money up to $5.00 using the appropriate symbols for dollars and cents

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Identify subject
• Identify predicate
• Proper nouns
• Capitalization (days, months, holidays)
• Plural nouns

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Drawing conclusion

THIRD GRADE- SEPTEMBER
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Estimate sums and differences of whole numbers to include strategies such as rounding
• Add (up to three addends) and subtract four whole digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Model and identify the inverse relationships of addition and subtraction

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Develop sequential storylines using time order words (first, next, then)
•  Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Topic sentence
• Compose descriptive text using specific details and vivid language
• Compose simple sentences with compound subjects and/or compound predicates
•  Compound sentences
• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage
• Write book titles, movie titles, and titles of poems correctly (capitalize and underline)

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Identify cause and effect as stated in text
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events found in narrative and/or informational text
• Answer literal and inferential questions about main characters, setting, plot, and theme
• Answer literal and inferential questions about characters’ actions, motives, traits, and emotions
• Make connections between self and characters, events, and information in text or among text(s)
• Identify the stated main idea of a narrative text or the topic of an informational text
• Text structure: sequential order, simple cause and effect, simple procedure
• Predict an outcome based on information stated in text and confirm or revise the prediction based upon subsequent text
• Use key words in text(s) to justify predictions/conclusions citing text-based evidence

October Mastery Skills (Weeks 9-12)
KINDERGARTEN-OCTOBER
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Identify and describe qualitative changes (thermometer increase/decrease)
• Identify Penny
• Demonstrate and understanding of positional words
• Identify 2-dimensional shapes
• Trace, cut and manipulate shapes
• Recognize and describe open and closed figures

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Compose oral descriptions of a familiar person, place or thing
• Compose dictated narratives of personal story

Reading Kindergarten Skills:

• Retell a familiar story with book as reference
• Demonstrate an understanding of correct book orientation by holding the book correctly and indicate where to begin reading
• Recognize that sentences in print are made up of separate words
• Point to words in a text when read aloud
• Matches upper and lowercase letters
• Distinguish letters from words

FIRST GRADE-OCTOBER
Math First Grade Skills:

• Identify 2 dimensional shapes -hexagon, trapezoid, rhombus
• Recognize and write numbers 0-100
• Identify the value of coins
• Describe, extend, create repeating patterns
• Use a pattern rule to translate and recognize patterns from one pattern representation to another
• Estimating quantities fewer than or equal to 100

Language First Grade Skills:

• Begin to use nouns
• Begin to use periods in common abbreviations (Ms.Mr.Mrs)
• Begin to use pronouns
• Begin to use capitalization (first word in a sentence), proper nouns, days of the week, months of the year, the pronoun "I"

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Identify, blend, and segment syllables within compound, 2, and 3 syllable spoken words (e.g., clap the syllables in "by-cy-cle)
• Identify and count the number of syllables within spoken words
• Blend and segment the sounds in spoken words containing initial and final blends
• Identify and use title page, title, author, illustrator, and table of contents or a book
• Make prediction about narrative or informal text and confirm or revise the prediction

SECOND GRADE-OCTOBER
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Determine and compare the value of money up to $5.00 using the appropriate symbols for dollars and cents
• Justify addition and subtraction of two- and three-digit whole numbers with and w/out regrouping
• Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Singular possessive nouns
• Action verbs
• Verb tense

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Short vowels
• Syllabication types to decode words
• Determine cause and effect relationships
• Add, delete, substitute, or begin to transpose a phoneme to change a spoken word in the initial, medial, and final position - (final consonants only)
• Context clues
• Answer literal and simple inferential questions about main characters, settings, and events
• Make predictions

THIRD GRADE-OCTOBER
Math Third Grade Skills: 

• Model multiplication using arrays, equal-sized groups, area models, and equal-sized moves on a number line
• Add (up to three addends) and subtract four whole digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Use number properties to develop multiple algorithms and to solve problems: Associative, Zero, Identity
•  Model division with successive or repeated subtraction, partitioning, and sharing

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Topic sentence
• Publishing/Sharing: publish writing formally and informally using a variety of media
• Verb tense – changing from one tense to the other; Identify subject and predicate (simple and complete)
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Functional texts: labels, directions, shopping lists
• Nouns: plural ; Verbs: helping verbs and irregular verbs
• Identify subject and predicate (simple and complete)
• Compose simple sentences with compound subjects and/or compound predicates
• Compound sentences
•  Underlining/italics – titles of books, movies, poems

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Continue to use knowledge of vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and r-controlled letter (ex: /oa/ - road, /ea/ - read, /oi/ /oy/, er-fern, ir-bird, ur-turn)
• Use inflectional endings to predict and analyze new words –s, -es, -ed, -ing
• Use reference materials to determine the meaning of pronunciation/ABC order of unknown words-dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, electronic dictionary, teacher or peer as a resource
• Parts of a book
• Manipulate & analyze the root words and affixes
• Identify simple fact and opinion
• Multiple meaning words
• Synthesize information stated in the text with prior knowledge and experience to draw a conclusion
• Identify stated causes and effects as stated in text
• Text structure: sequential order, description, simple cause and effect, simple procedure

November Mastery Skills (Weeks 13-16)
KINDERGARTEN-NOVEMBER
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• None Listed

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Trace and draws recognizable shapes
• Reproduces a visual pattern
• Traces, copies, and generates letters
• Distinguishes letters from other symbols

Reading Kindergarten Skills:

• Locates the first and last letter of a word
• Names printed letters of the alphabet
•  Identify rhyming words in response to an oral response
• Break spoken sentences into individual words
• Generate a group of spoken words that begin with the same sound
• Recognize the beginning sounds in words
• Color words
• Recites the alphabet

FIRST GRADE-NOVEMBER
Math First Grade Skills:

• Explore congruent shapes
• Identify symmetrical objects and lines of symmetry

Language First Grade Skills:

• Letter, thank you notes, and invitations
• Functional text (labels, directions, shopping lists)
• Begin to use commas
• Begin to use verbs
• Developing handwriting skills. Position paper in order to write in a left to right progression moving from top to bottom on the page. Write first and last name legibly. Write lowercase and uppercase letters legibly. Write words and sentences legibly using proper spacing.

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Identify and sort pictures and words into basic categories
• Identify and use antonyms
• Text features- titles, illustrations, heading, graphs, etc.
• Parts of a book-title page, title, author, illustrator, table of contents, etc.
• Text structures-sequential order and description
• Genres - fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Interpret text through moving, drawing, speaking, acting, or singing
• Retelling the correct sequence of events in narrative and/or informational text

SECOND GRADE--NOVEMBER
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Justify addition and subtraction of two- and three-digit whole numbers with and w/out regrouping
• Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Subject- verb agreement
• Spell words commonly found in second grade
• Write words and sentences legibly
• Helping/irregular verbs
• Helping/irregular verbs
• Apostrophes in contractions

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Blend and segment spoken words into syllables into phonemes
• Identify and begin to generate words into categories
• Antonyms
• Identify simple fact and opinion
• R-controlled vowels
• Sequential order of story events
• Compare and contrast

THIRD GRADE--NOVEMBER
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Model division with successive or repeated subtraction, partitioning, and sharing
• Create, describe, extend growing and repeating patterns with physical materials and symbols including numbers
• Add (up to three addends) and subtract four whole digit numbers with and without regrouping
• Describe, compare, analyze, and classify two-dimensional shapes, sides, and angles
• Create three-dimensional shapes, prisms, and pyramids from two-dimensional nets and create two-dimensional nets from prisms and pyramids

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Letters, thank-you notes, invitations
• Adjectives: possessives, comparative, superlative
• Article adjectives
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage
• Apostrophes (contractions and possessives)
• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Use inflectional endings to predict and analyze new words – root words, and affixes ( –s, -es, -ed, -ing)
• Use word recognition skills for multi-syllabic words
• Retell a story orally and in writing, answer literal and inferential questions about characters, setting, plot (problem), resolution, characters’ actions, motives, traits, and emotions
• Synthesize information stated in the text with prior knowledge and experience to draw a conclusion
• Predict an outcome based on information stated in text(s) and confirm or revise the prediction based upon subsequent text
• Identify stated causes and effects as stated in text
• Use key words in text to justify predictions
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification, idioms
• Use context to determine the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words
• Use reference materials to determine the meaning of pronunciation/ABC order of unknown words – dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, electronic dictionary, teacher or peer as a resource
• Figurative language: simile, metaphor, personification, idioms
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events found in narrative and/or informational text
• Determine relationships among words organized in categories
• Identify stated main idea of a narrative text or the topic of an informational text
• Write summaries that contain the main idea of the reading selection & the most significant details
• Answer & generate questions about purposes for reading-author’s purpose
• Predict an outcome based on information stated in text(s) and confirm or revise the prediction based on text

December Mastery Skills (Weeks 17-18)
KINDERGARTEN-DECEMBER
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Counting sets of objects 0-20
• Count forward to 20 and backwards from 10
• Identify the nickel

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Speak in complete sentences

Reading Kindergarten Skills:

• Use illustrations to discuss main idea
• Parts of a book – title page, title, author, illustrator
•  Identify favorite passages
• Compose visual images (picture based on text)

FIRST GRADE-DECEMBER
Math First Grade Skills:

• Explain part-whole relationships (fractions)
• Identify and classify 3D figures cube, rectangular prism, sphere, cone, pyramid, and cylinder

Language First Grade Skills:

• Reports
• Compose oral and written descriptions of a familiar person, place, or thing
• Compose and analyze sentences with a variety of purposes (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory)
• Recognize complete and incomplete sentences

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Make simple inferences based on information from the narrative and/or informational text
• Predictions
• Genres-fiction, nonfiction, and poetry
• Compose visual images based on text
• Identify and use synonyms

SECOND GRADE-DECEMBER
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Justify addition and subtraction of two- and three-digit whole numbers with and w/out regrouping
•  Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers
•  Analyze and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Coordinating conjunctions
• Compose compound sentences (compound subjects and predicates)

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Prefixes and root words
• Table of contents
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events found in narrative or informational text
• Draw pictures of positional words

THIRD GRADE-DECEMBER
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Create three-dimensional shapes, prisms, and pyramids from two-dimensional nets and create two-dimensional nets from prisms and pyramids
• Explain and describe the process of decomposing, composing, and transforming polygons; Identify and model representations of fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths and eighths)
• Add (up to three addends) and subtract four whole digit numbers with and without regrouping
•  Identify and model representations of fractions (halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths and eighths)
• Determine the value of missing quantities and variables with equations or number sentences and justify the process used
• Create models for the concept of equality, recognizing that the equal sign denotes equivalent terms such that 4 + 3 = 7, 4 + 3 = 6 + 1, or 7 = 5 + 2

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage – commas 
• Letters, thank-you notes, invitations
• Reports
• Publishing/Sharing: publish writing formally and informally using a variety of media
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Periods in common abbreviations (ex: titles of address, days of the week, months of the year)
• Reading Third Grade Skills:
• Use context to determine the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events found in narrative and/or informational text
• Determine relationships among words organized in categories
• Identify stated main idea of a narrative text or the topic of an informational text
• Answer & generate questions about purposes for reading-author’s purpose
• Predict an outcome
• Write summaries that contain the main idea of the reading selection & the most significant details

January Mastery Skills (Weeks 19-22)
KINDERGARTEN-JANUARY
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Apply mathematical language (too many, more/less than, etc)
• Count by 2’s to 10

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• None Listed

Reading Kindergarten Skills: 

• Differentiate between letter, word, and sentence
• Blend and segment the onset and rime of spoken words
• Match all consonant and short vowel sounds to the appropriate letters
•  Articulate phonemes correctly
• Understand the alphabetical principle which means as letters and words change so do the sounds in words
• Blend phonemes orally to make a word

FIRST GRADE-JANUARY
Math First Grade Skills:

• Addition and subtraction 0-18
• Find equal money amounts with different coin combinations up to $0.25
• Sequence 2 digit numbers using the terms "before" "after" and "in between" using 2 digit numbers

Language First Grade Skills:

• Begin to use adjectives
• Begin to use apostrophes (contractions)
• Begin to use appropriate end punctuation

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Demonstrate use of hard and soft g and c
• Read words derived from common word families
• Begin to use common spelling patterns to make new words
• Use inflectional endings to produce new words.
• Identify simple compound words
• Identify simple contractions correctly
• Compose visual images based on text

SECOND GRADE-JANUARY
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Justify addition and subtraction of two and three digit numbers with and w/out regrouping
•  Round up to three-digit numbers to the nearest hundreds
• Recognize and identify polygons according to the number of sides (rhombus, square, triangle, trapezoid, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and decagon)
• Describe the effects of composition and decomposition of polygons when smaller shapes are substituted for a larger shape or a larger shape is substituted for smaller ones
•  Identify and classify three-dimensional figures according to characteristics (cone, pyramid, and cylinder)

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Compose descriptive text containing specific details
• Write words and sentences legibly
• Periods in common abbreviations (address, days, months)
• Capitalization (titles and initials)
• Pronouns (subject, singular, plural)
• Spell words commonly found in second grade
• Commas in a series
• Colons in notation of time
• Adjectives (possessive, comparative, superlative)

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Medial consonant/blends & clusters in final position
• Create contractions correctly
• Homonyms
• Syllables 3 or more
• Suffixes/root words
• Answer literal and simple inferential who, what, when, where, why, how, or what if questions
• Answer literal and simple questions about characters’ actions, motives, traits, emotions

THIRD GRADE-JANUARY
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Estimate and measure length using fractional parts to the nearest half-inch in the English System
• Measure capacity, weight/mass, and length in both English and Metric Systems of measurement

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage – commas 
• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Publishing/Sharing: publish writing formally and informally using a variety of media
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Commas – dates, series, addresses, greetings, closings, quotations, direct address
• Colons (in notation of time)
• Compose informational text and at least three supporting details
• Use Standard English grammar to compose or edit
• Analyze sentences to determine purpose (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory)
• Pronouns (subject/object pronouns, singular/plural pronouns, and singular possessive pronouns)
• Compose simple sentences with compound subjects and/or compound predicates, compound sentences

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Continue to use knowledge of vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and r-controlled letter (ex: /oa/ - road, /ea/ - read, /oi/ /oy/, er-fern, ir-bird, ur-turn)
• Use inflectional endings to predict and analyze new words –s, -es, -ed, -ing and root words/affixes
• Use word recognition skills for multi-syllabic words
• Use syllabication types
• Answer literal and inferential questions about main characters, setting, plot, and theme
• Predict an outcome based on information stated in text and confirm or revise the prediction based upon subsequent text
• Text structures
• Identify and use synonyms, antonyms, and homophones

Con
February Mastery Skills (Weeks 23-26)
KINDERGARTEN-FEBRUARY
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Develop multiple representations for addition
• Count by 5’s and 10’s to 100
• Ordinal numbers first –tenth
• Create a clock and identify minute and hour hands
• Count to 50
• Write and recognize numbers to 20
• Estimate quantities to 20
• Create models of sets of objects 0-20
• Recognize the clock and calendar as units of time

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Compose drawings and orally describe compositions
• Compose drawings used to dictate personal narrative
• Recognize and record some beginning and ending sounds in words
•  Spell first and last name

Reading Kindergarten Skills:

• Recognize number words
• Identify, blend, and segment syllables
• Read some sight words in language experience texts
• Answer literal who, what, where questions
• Make simple inferences about narrative and/or informational texts

FIRST GRADE-FEBRUARY
Math First Grade Skills:

• Compare and order 2 digit numbers using more,  less, greater than, less than, equal to, <, >, =
• Find the sums of 3 single digit addends (2+1+3=6)
• Formulate, explain, a generalize patterns within and across addition and subtraction
• Count by different units when given a group of objects using 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's

Language First Grade Skills:

• Begin to use articles and coordinating conjunctions
• Planning- use thinking maps to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting- put thoughts on paper using words and sentences
• Revising- revise composition by clarifying and adding details
• Editing- edit for capitalization and punctuation
• Publishing- share compositions by displaying, retelling, and/or reading ideas

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Identify dialogue in connected text
• Identify and use homonyms
• Identify and use roots and affixes to decode and understand words

SECOND GRADE-FEBRUARY
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Describe the effects of composition and decomposition of polygons when smaller shapes are substituted for a larger shape or a larger shape is substituted for smaller ones
• Select appropriate tools and units, estimate, and measure:- length = inch, foot, yard, centimeter, meter, capacity = ounce, cup, pint, quart, gallon, liter, weight = ounce, pound, gram, kilogram

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Articles
• Correctly write thank you
• Commas (dates, greetings, closings)
• Quotation marks
• Underlining/italics (titles of books and movies)

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Vowel digraphs/diphthongs
• Use inflectional endings to produce or new words
• Determine the relationship between pairs or words
• Multiple meaning words
• Captions and charts
• Answer literal and simple questions about main characters, settings, and events
• Main idea
• Tone and mood

THIRD GRADE-FEBRUARY
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Develop and use methods to find perimeter of polygons and to solve problems involving perimeter
• Model and identify the inverse relationships of multiplication and divisions; Model multiplication using arrays, equal-sized groups, area models, and equal-sized moves on a number line
• Model division with successive or repeated subtraction, partitioning, and sharing
• Analyze, predict, and model the number of different combinations of two or more objects and relate to multiplication

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage – commas 
• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Publishing/Sharing: publish writing formally and informally using a variety of media
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Underlining/italics – titles of books and movies
• Adverbs – avoid double negatives 
• Adjectives – possessive, comparative, superlative 
• Articles and coordinating conjunctions
• Quotation marks - quotations, titles of poems
• Verbs- helping verbs and irregular verbs
• Nouns – singular, plural (including irregular forms), common, proper, possessives
• Prepositions
• Verb Tense – conjugation and purpose for past, present, and future
• Compose a simple persuasive sentences and/or text 

 

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Use context to determine the meaning of unfamiliar or multiple-meaning words
• Use reference materials to determine the meaning of pronunciation/ABC order of unknown words – dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, electronic dictionary, teacher or peer as a resource
• Synthesize information stated in the text with prior knowledge and experience to draw a conclusion
• Predict an outcome based on information stated in text
• Write summaries that contain the main idea of the reading selection and the most significant details
• Use context to determine the simple figurative meaning – simile, metaphor, idioms, personification of words
• Synthesize information stated in the text with prior knowledge and experience to draw a conclusion (
• Write summaries that contain the main idea of the reading selection and the most significant details
• Identify the stated cause and effect in text
• Answer literal & inferential questions about characters
• Text structures: sequential order, description, simple cause and effect, simple procedure
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events
• tinue to use common spelling patterns to make new words
• Use word recognition skills for multi-syllabic words
• Identify stated main idea of a narrative text or the topic of an informational text
• Identify important things from text and examine from more than one point of view
• Answer and generate questions about purposes for reading
• Use reference materials to determine the meaning of pronunciation/ABC order of unknown words – dictionary, glossary, thesaurus, electronic dictionary, teacher or peer as a resource
• Identify simple fact and opinion
• Answer and generate questions about purposes for reading
• Answer literal & inferential questions about characters

March Mastery Skills (Weeks 27-29)
KINDERGARTEN-MARCH
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Compose and decompose 2-digit numbers up to 20
• Recognize the dime
• Subtraction
• Demonstrate understanding of fractions

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Writes last name legibly without a model
• Compose class report/charts about familiar topic

Reading Kindergarten Skills: 

• Retell a familiar story without book including beginning and end
• Produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt
• Recognize the final and some medial sounds in spoken words
• Generate a group of spoken words that end in the same sound
• Segment phonemes orally within a spoken word

FIRST GRADE-MARCH
Math First Grade Skills:

• Determine the value of like coins up to $1.00
• Use nonstandard units(paper clips, unifix cubes, etc.) and standard  units(inches, centimeters) to measure length
• Compare weight of objects using a balance scale with and without nonstandard units
• Compare and estimate capacity of various containers in nonstandard units
• Tell time to the hour and half-hour intervals using both digital and analog clocks

Language First Grade Skills:

• Planning- use thinking maps to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting- put thoughts on paper using words and sentences
• Revising- revise composition by clarifying and adding details
• Editing- edit for capitalization and punctuation
• Publishing- share compositions by displaying, retelling, and/or reading ideas

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Begin to use knowledge of vowel digraphs, diphthongs, and rcontrolled letter-sound correspondences to decode unknown words.  Vowel Digraphs: /oa/ea/  Diphthongs: /oi/oy/ou/ow/ew/  R-controlled: er, ir, ur, ar, or
• Generate the sounds from all the letters and letter patterns and blend those sounds into recognizable words.  Consonant blends: /fl/tr/sl/sm/sn/bl/gr/str/ Consonant digraphs: /sh/wh/ch/th/ng/ck/  Short Vowel Patterns:CVC  Long Vowel Patterns CVCe, CV

 

 

SECOND GRADE-MARCH
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Select appropriate tools and units, estimate, and measure:  length = inch, foot, yard, centimeter, meter; capacity = ounce, cup, pint, quart, gallon, liter; weight = ounce, pound, gram, kilogram
• Read and write time to the hour, half-hour,
• Quarter-hour, and five minute intervals using digital and analog clocks

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Compose informational text with a main
• Idea and supporting details-planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing/sharing
• Commas in addresses
• Prepositions

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Read 200 or 300 high frequency and/or irregularly spelled words in connected text. (90 to 100 words per minute)
• Clusters

THIRD GRADE-MARCH
Math Third Grade Skills:

• Analyze, predict, and model the number of different combinations of two or more objects and relate to multiplication
• Compare data and interpret quantities represented on tables in different types of graphs (line plots, pictographs, and bar graphs)
• Make predictions and solve problems based on the information

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Editing: Edit paragraphs using a general rubric – grammar usage, punctuation, and sentence structure, edit for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and word usage – commas 
• Revising: Revise paragraphs for organization to add details and to clarify ideas
• Spell words commonly found in third grade level text
• Publishing/Sharing: publish writing formally and informally using a variety of media
• Planning: Use a variety of graphic organizers to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting: Transfer thoughts from graphic organizers and simple outlines into paragraphs
• Interjections
• Generate questions and use multiple sources to locate answers

 

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Text structures: sequential order, description, simple cause and effect, simple procedure
• Arrange in sequential order a listing of events
• Read 300-400 high frequency and/or irregularly spelled words in connected text

April Mastery Skills (Weeks 30-33)
KINDERGARTEN-APRIL
Math Kindergarten Skills:

• Investigate three-dimensional figures
•  Understand and apply symmetry
• Measure length, weight, and capacity with non-standard units
• Determine and describe length, mass and capacity

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Compose class report/charts about familiar topic
• Functional texts (labels, notes)
• Begin to recognize and use end punctuation in shared writing
• Begins to recognize and use capital letters in shared writing
• Spells some sight words

Reading Kindergarten Skills: 

• Blend letter sounds in one-syllable words
• Begin to recognize common word families
• Read some words from common word families
• Recognize some high frequency words in texts (color and number words)
• Read some sight words; understand and explain the meaning of common prefixes (un-, re-, dis-)
• Understand explain the meaning of common suffixes (-s, -es, -ed, -ing)
• Begin to recognize word relationships

FIRST GRADE-APRIL
Math First Grade Skills:

• Find the value of mixed coins up to $1.00
• Identify place value of a given digit in a two and three digit numbers
• Compose and decompose 2 digit numbers with representations in words and physical models (expanded notation)
• Compare a whole to fractional parts by dividing a whole into fractional parts (1/2, 1/4, 1/3) using drawing and manipulatives
• Understand and represent fractional parts of a group or set by using models drawings and numerical representations

Language First Grade Skills:

• Planning- use thinking maps to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting- put thoughts on paper using words and sentences
• Revising- revise composition by clarifying and adding details
• Editing- edit for capitalization and punctuation
• Publishing- share compositions by displaying, retelling, and/or reading ideas

Reading First Grade Skills:

• The student will use reference materials to find, to determine the meaning of to pronounce or to spell unknown words (personal dictionary, picture dictionary)
• Answer and generate who, what, when, where, why, and how questions
• Answer and generate questions about characters, settings, and events

SECOND GRADE-APRIL
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Read and write time to the hour, half-hour, quarter-hour, and five-minute intervals using digital and analog clocks
• Tally, record, interpret, and predict outcomes based on given information
• Create line graphs, bar graphs, and pictographs using real data
• Justify addition and subtraction of two- and three- digit numbers with and w/out regrouping
•  Compose and decompose three-digit numbers with representations in words and physical modes
•  Compare and order three-digit numbers using the symbols <, >, and = and justify reasoning
• Explain, analyze, and extend repeating and growing pattern

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Adverbs
• Reports
• Functional texts (labels, directions, shopping lists)
• Drafting (transfer thoughts from graphic organizers into sentences and paragraphs)

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Guide words
• Genres
• Problem and solution and paraphrasing
• Compose visual images

THIRD GRADE-APRIL
Math Third Grade Skills: 

• Review all for MCT2

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Review all for MCT2

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Review all for MCT2

May Mastery Skills (Weeks 34-36)
KINDERGARTEN-MAY
Math Kindergarten Skills: 

• Recognize quarter
•  Collect and organize data
• Determine attributes of objects (length, area, mass, volume)
• Construct graphs using real objects
• Interpret graphs

Language Kindergarten Skills: 

• Writes letters/words on lined paper
•  Copies words, phrases, sentences
• Writes with correct spacing

Reading Kindergarten Skills: 

• Use pictures to cue reading
• Utilize word wall, posters, and resources in class to identify and spell words
• Text structures- sequential order
• Genres- fiction/nonfiction, poetry
• Identify and discuss main character, setting, and major events
• Retell a familiar story without book including beginning, middle, and end
• Retell 2-3 steps in the sequence of events in text shared with the student

FIRST GRADE-MAY
Math First Grade Skills:

• Model situations and solve equations that require addition and subtraction of whole number; use objects pictures and symbols
• Find a particular date on a calendar
• Gather data, construct, and interpret simple bar graphs and pictographs
• Make prediction and collect data, and compare results

Language First Grade Skills:

• Planning- use thinking maps to generate and organize ideas
• Drafting- put thoughts on paper using words and sentences
• Revising- revise composition by clarifying and adding details
• Editing- edit for capitalization and punctuation
• Publishing- share compositions by displaying, retelling, and/or reading ideas
• Writes a paragraph from left to right margin indenting the first sentences

Reading First Grade Skills:

• Read 100 to 200 high frequency and/or irregularly spelled words.  A first grader should read approximately 40-60 correct words per minute by the end of first grade.

SECOND GRADE-MAY
Math Second Grade Skills:

• Justify addition and subtraction of two- and three- digit numbers with and w/out regrouping
• Compose and decompose three-digit numbers with representations in words and physical modes
• Compare and order three-digit numbers using the symbols <, >, and = and justify reasoning
• Explain, analyze, and extend repeating and growing patterns
• Round up to three-digit numbers to the nearest hundred
• Model situations and solve equations that involve the addition and subtraction of whole numbers
• Analyze e and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction
• Model multiplication problems by drawing, writing explanations, and using repeated addition
• Multiply facts 0 - 5e and generalize the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction

Language Second Grade Skills:

• Revising (revise sentences/paragraphs for organization to add details, and clarify ideas)
• Editing (edit for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
• The student will generate questions and use one source to locate the answers – planning, drafting, revising, editing, publishing/sharing

Reading Second Grade Skills:

• Identify favorite passage

 

THIRD GRADE-MAY
Math Third Grade Skills: 

• Review all for MCT2

Language Third Grade Skills:

• Review all for MCT2

Reading Third Grade Skills:

• Review all for MCT2

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