ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA)
PA Core Standards
READING
1.1 Foundation Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- Identify the main idea and retell key details of text.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- Use various text features and search tools to locate key facts or information in a text.
- Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic.
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts, including words that signal connections and relationships between the words and phrases.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content.
- Read and comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
1.3 Reading Literature
- Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
- Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading or range of text types.
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Use illustrations and details in a story to describe characters, setting, or events.
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content.
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts, including words that signal connections and relationships between the words and phrases.
- Read and comprehend literature on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
LANGUAGE ARTS
1.4 Writing
- Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information.
- Identify and write about one specific topic.
- Develop the topic with two or more facts.
- Group information and provide some sense of closure.
- Choose words and phrases for effect.
- Demonstrate a grade appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Write opinion pieces on familiar topics.
- Form an opinion by choosing among given topics.
- Support the opinion with reasons related to the opinion.
- Create an organizational structure that includes reasons and provides some sense of closure.
- Use a variety of words and phrases.
- Demonstrate a grade appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events.
- Establish who and what the narrative will be about.
- Include thoughts and feelings to describe experiences and events.
- Recount two or more appropriately sequenced events using temporal words to signal event order and provide some sense of closure.
- Use a variety of words and phrases.
- Demonstrate a grade appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
- With guidance and support, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing including in collaboration with peers.
- Participate in individual or shared research and writing projects.
- With guidance and support, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
1.5 Speaking and Listening
- Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
- Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.
- Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
- Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.
- Add drawings or other visual displays when sharing aloud to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking, based on Grade 1 level and content.
MATH
PA Core Standards
2.1 Numbers and Operations
- Extend the counting sequence to read and write numerals to represent objects.
- Use place-value concepts to represent amounts of tens and ones and to compare two digit numbers.
- Use place-value concepts and properties of operations to add and subtract within 100.
2.2 Algebraic Concepts
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction within 20.
- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
2.3 Geometry
- Compose and distinguish between two and three-dimensional shapes based on their attributes.
- Use the understanding of fractions to partition shapes into halves and quarters.
2.4 Measurement, Data, and Probability
- Order lengths and measure them both indirectly and by repeating length units.
- Tell and write time to the nearest half hour using both analog and digital clocks.
- Represent and interpret data using tables/charts.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PA Academic Standards
5.0 Civics and Government
- Explain the purposes of rules in the classroom and school community.
- Explain the importance of rules in the classroom.
- Define equality and the need to treat everyone equally.
- Explain the importance of written rules and laws.
- Describe students’ responsibilities in the school and community.
- Identify national symbols.
- Identify and explain the importance of responsibilities at school and at home.
- Identify a problem and attempt to solve with adult or peer assistance.
- Identify school projects / activities that support leadership and public service.
- Explain responsible school behavior.
- Identify the roles of local government (fire, police, etc.).
- Identify the services of local government.
- Identify the value of fire fighters, police officers and emergency workers in the community.
- Identify positions of authority in the classroom community.
- Identify situations in the school or community when it is beneficial to have an elected official represent the people.
- Identify and explain behaviors for responsible classroom citizens and possible consequences for inappropriate action.
- Explain how information/news is conveyed to the public.
- Provide examples of taxation.
- Describe situations where voting eases conflict.
- Identify ways to avoid conflict.
- Describe how classrooms can work together.
- Identify different means of receiving information/news.
- Explain how a classroom community reaches compromise
6.0 Economics
- Identify scarcity of resources within the family.
- Identify classroom wants and needs.
- Identify choice based on needs versus wants.
- Identify a choice based on classroom interest.
- Identify goods, consumers, and producers.
- Identify advertisements that encourage us to buy things based on want rather than need.
- Explain the role of money in determining price.
- Identify the impact on a community when a business opens.
- Define an economic system at the individual level.
- Identify examples of goods and services.
- Identify products produced in the United States.
- Identify specialization of work in the community.
- Describe how individuals differ in their wants and needs and why people buy and sell things.
- Identify individuals who work for wages in the community.
- Identify different jobs and the purpose of each.
- Identify businesses and their corresponding goods and service.
- Identify ways to earn money.
- Describe what tools (tangible assets) are necessary to complete a task.
- Identify buyers and sellers (people) buy and sell things.
- Explain the need to save money.
7.0 Geography
- Identify geographic tools.
- Describe places in geographic reference in physical features
- Identify physical characteristics in the community and region.
- Identify the basic physical processes that affect the physical characteristics of places.
- Identify the local climate and how it determines the way people live.
- Describe how lakes, rivers, and streams impact people.
8.0 History
- Demonstrate an understanding of chronology.
- Identify a problem or dilemma surrounding an event.
- Identify sources of historical information.
- Identify groups of people who contribute to a community.
- Identify symbols, slogans, or mottos that are representative of the state.
- Identify holiday and cultural celebrations in a community and why they are celebrated.
- Identify historical conflict in the community.
- Identify Americans who played a significant role in American history.
- Identify American landmarks and their significance.
- Identify examples of change.
- Identify conflict and describe ways to cooperate with others by making smart choices.
- Explain why cultures celebrate.
- Explain the importance of world landmarks.
- Identify holidays and ceremonies of selected world cultures.
- Describe examples of conflict and cooperation in the classroom community.