- 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:
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
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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:
Language Third Grade Skills:
Reading Third Grade Skills:
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:
Language Third Grade Skills:
Reading Third Grade Skills: