ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA)
PA Core Standards
READING
1.1 Foundation Skills
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Identify the main idea of a multi paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
- Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- Describe the connection between a series of events, concepts, or steps in a procedure within a text.
- Use various text features and search tools to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade level text including multiple-meaning words.
- Explain how graphic representations contribute to and clarify a text.
- Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
- Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
- Acquire and use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade level reading and content, choosing from a range of strategies and tools.
- Read and comprehend literary nonfiction and informational text on grade level, reading independently and proficiently.
1.3 Reading Literature
- Recount stories and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
- Ask and answer questions such as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
- Acknowledge differences in the points of views of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
- Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
- Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
- Use information from illustrations and words, in print or digital text, to demonstrate understanding of characters, setting, or plot.
- Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story by different authors or from different cultures.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing from a range of strategies and tools.
- Acquire and use grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific 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 clearly.
- Identify and introduce the topic.
- Develop the topic with facts and/or definitions.
- Group information and provide a concluding statement or section.
- 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 or texts.
- Identify the topic and state an opinion.
- Support the opinion with reasons that include details connected to the opinion.
- Create an organizational structure that includes reasons and includes a concluding statement.
- Use a variety of words and phrases to appeal to the audience.
- 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 a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters.
- Include thoughts and feelings to describe experiences and events to show the response of characters to situations.
- Organize a short sequence of events, using temporal words to signal event order; provide a sense of closure.
- Choose words and phrases for effect.
- With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
- 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.
- 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.
- Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
- Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
- Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.
- Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
- Add drawings or other visual displays to presentations when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking, based on Grade 2 level and content.
MATH
PA Common Core Standards
2.1 Numbers and Operations
- Use place-value concepts to represent amounts of tens and ones and to compare three digit numbers.
- Use place-value concepts to read, write, and skip count to 1000.
- Use place-value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract within 1000.
2.2 Algebraic Concepts
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction within 100.
- Use mental strategies to add and subtract within 20.
- Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
2.3 Geometry
- Analyze and draw two and three-dimensional shapes having specified attributes.
- Use the understanding of fractions to partition shapes into halves, quarters, and thirds.
2.4 Measurement, Data, and Probability
- Measure and estimate lengths in standard units using appropriate tools.
- Tell and write time to the nearest five minutes using both analog and digital clocks.
- Solve problems and make change using coins and paper currency with appropriate symbols.
- Represent and interpret data using line plots, picture graphs, and bar graphs.
- Extend the concepts of addition and subtraction to problems involving length.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PA Common Core Standards
5.0 Civics and Government
- Explain the purposes of rules and their consequences in the classroom and school community.
- Explain the importance of rules in the classroom and school community.
- Define fairness in working with others.
- Explain why school rules are written and posted.
- Describe citizens' responsibilities to the state of Pennsylvania and the nation.
- Identify state symbols.
- Identify and explain the importance of responsibilities at school at home and the community.
- Identify a problem and probable solution.
- Identify community projects/activities that support leadership and public service.
- Explain responsible community behavior.
- Identify the role government plays in the community (education, transportation).
- Identify local government leaders.
- Identify other types of services provided by local government.
- Identify positions of authority at school.
- Describe situations in the state or nation when having an elected official represent the people is beneficial.
- Identify and explain behaviors for responsible school citizens and possible consequences for inappropriate action.
- Identify different forms of media.
- Define taxes and why they are paid.
- Identify the responsibilities of voters after the vote.
- Explain examples of conflict in the community, state, and nation.
- Identify ways that countries can work together.
- Explain why nations need to work together for peace.
- Identify the different types of media.
- Explain how a community reaches compromise.
6.0 Economics
- Identify scarcity of resources within the school community.
- Identify community wants and needs.
- Explain how choice has consequences.
- Identify a choice based on community interest.
- Identify goods, services, consumers, and producers in the local community.
- Differentiate between markets and competition.
- Define personal choice as related to buying an item.
- Explain how demand for a consumer good impacts price.
- Identify the impact on a community when a business closes.
- Describe the role of financial institutions as related to consumers’ financial needs.
- Identify examples of an economic system.
- Identify local examples of specialization of work.
- Identify products that come from many different countries.
- Identify buyers and sellers and how their wants and needs are addressed.
- Explain how money earned by individuals is used to meet needs and wants.
- Different how different job skills impact earnings.
- Describe the roles of local businesses.
- Describe money saving behaviors.
- Describe the qualities that may be necessary to complete a task.
- Explain the responsibilities of a business owner.
- Identify how saving for a purchase occurs over time.
- Describe why people save money in the local bank.
7.0 Geography
- Identify how basic geographic tools are used to organize information.
- Describe regions in geographic reference using physical features.
- Identify the physical characteristics of places.
- Identify the basic physical processes that affect the physical characteristics regions.
- Identify the effect of local geography on the residents of the region (food, clothing, industry, trade, types of shelter, etc.).
- Identify how environmental changes can impact people.
8.0 History
- Read and interpret information on simple timelines.
- Identify documents relating to an event.
- Apply sources of historical information.
- Read and interpret information on simple timelines.
- Identify documents relating to an event.
- Apply sources of historical information.
- Identify groups and organizations and their contributions to the United States.
- Explain why cultures have commemorations and remembrances.
- Explain the significance of historical documents on world history.
- Identify how cultures have commemorations and remembrances.
- Identify global issues that require cooperation among nations