ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA)
PA Core Standards
READING
1.1 Foundation Skills
- Utilize book handing 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 emergent- reader text with purpose and understanding.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- With prompting and support, identify the main idea and retell key details of text.
- With prompting and support, answer questions about key details in a text.
- With prompting and support, make a connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
- Identify parts of a book (title, author) and parts of a text (beginning, end, details).
- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
- Answer questions to describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
- With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- With prompting and support, identify basic similarities and differences between two texts (read or read aloud) on the same topic.
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple-meaning words and phrases based upon grade-level reading and content.
- Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
1.3 Reading Literature
- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details.
- Answer questions about key details in a text.
- With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
- Name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
- Recognize common types of text.
- Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
- Make connections between the illustrations and the text in a story (read or read aloud).
- Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown or multiple- meaning words and phrases based upon grade-level reading and content.
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading, and being read to, and responding to texts.
- Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
LANGUAGE ARTS
1.4 Writing
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/ explanatory texts.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to focus on one specific topic.
- With prompting and support, generate ideas and details to convey information that relates to the chosen topic.
- Make logical connections between drawing and dictation/writing.
- With prompting and support, illustrate using details and dictate/write using descriptive words.
- Demonstrate a grade- appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces on familiar topics.
- Form an opinion by choosing between two given topics.
- Support the opinion with reasons.
- Make logical connections between drawing and writing.
- Demonstrate a grade- appropriate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose narratives that describe real or imagined experiences or events.
- Establish who and what the narrative will be about.
- Describe experiences and events.
- Recount a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
- 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, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
- With guidance and support, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing or in collaboration with peers.
- Participate in individual or shared research projects on a topic of interest.
- With guidance and support, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- Write routinely over short time frames.
1.5 Speaking and Listening
- Participate in collaborative conversations with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.
- Share stories, familiar experiences, and interests, speaking clearly enough to be understood by all audiences using appropriate volume.
- Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and
- ideas clearly.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking, based on kindergarten level and content.
MATH
PA Core Standards
2.1 Numbers and Operations
- Know number names and write and recite the count sequence.
- Apply one-to-one correspondence to count the number of objects.
- Apply the concept of magnitude to compare numbers and quantities.
- Use place value to compose and decompose numbers within 19.
2.2 Algebraic Concepts
- Extend the concepts of putting together and taking apart to add and subtract within 10.
2.3 Geometry
- Identify and describe two- and three- dimensional shapes.
- Analyze, compare, create, and compose two- and three-dimensional shapes.
2.4 Measurement, Data, and Probability
- Describe and compare attributes of length, area, weight, and capacity of everyday objects.
- Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PA Academic Standards
5.0 Civics and Government
- Explain the purpose of rules.
- Explain the need for rules.
- Define respect for self and others.
- Demonstrate responsibilities in the classroom.
- Identify significant American holidays and their symbols.
- Identify responsibilities at school.
- Identify a problem and discuss possible solutions.
- Identify classroom projects/activities that support leadership and service.
- Explain responsible classroom behavior.
- Identify the role of adults in authority at home or in school.
- Identify roles of fire fighters, police officers, and emergency workers.
- Identify and explain behaviors for responsible classroom citizens.
- Identify conflict in the classroom.
- Identify how students can work together.
6.0 Economics
- Identify how scarcity influences choice.
- Identify family wants and needs.
- Identify choices to meet needs
- Identify a choice based on family interest.
- Identify goods and consumers.
- Identify advertisements that encourage us to buy things.
- Identify currency and how it is used.
- Identify products produced in the region or state.
- Identify the specialized role performed by each member of the family.
- Identify individual wants and needs.
- Identify individuals who volunteer in the community.
- Identify goods and services provided by local businesses
7.0 Geography
- Interpret a simple map of a known environment.
- Describe the location of places in the home, school, and community to gain an understanding of relative location.
- Describe the characteristics of homes and businesses located in the community to gain an understanding of physical features.
- Identify land and water forms.
- Describe how weather affects daily life.
- Identify local bodies of water and landforms to gain an understanding of their impact on the local community.
8.0 History
- Identify chronological sequence through days, weeks, months, and years (calendar time).
- With guidance and support, differentiate facts from opinions as related to an event.
- Explain how to locate information in a source.
- Identify people in authority.
- Examine photographs of documents, artifacts, and places unique to Pennsylvania.
- Demonstrate an understanding of conflict.
- Identify American people related to national holidays.
- Identify documents and artifacts important to the classroom community.
- Demonstrate an understanding of time order.
- Explain how cultures celebrate.
- Identify different celebrations of different cultures from around the world.
- Demonstrate an understanding of conflict and cooperation.