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.
- Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.
- Decode words with common Latin suffixes.
- Decode multi-syllable words.
- Read grade appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
1.2 Reading Informational Text
- Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
- Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text; refer to text to support responses.
- Explain how a series of events, concepts, or steps in a procedure is connected within a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
- Explain the point of view of the author.
- Use text features and search tools to locate and interpret information.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade level text, distinguishing literal from non-literal meaning as well as shades of meaning among related words.
- Use information gained from text features to demonstrate understanding of a text.
- Describe how an author connects sentences and paragraphs in a text to support particular points.
- Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
- Acquire and use accurately grade appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly 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
- Determine the central message, lesson, or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.
- Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text, referring to text to support responses.
- Describe characters in a story and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
- Explain the point of view of the author.
- Refer to parts of texts when writing or speaking about a text using such terms as chapter, scene, and stanza and describe how each successive part builds upon earlier sections.
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in grade level text, distinguishing literal from non-literal meaning as well as shades of meaning among related words.
- Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies and tools.
- Acquire and use accurately grade appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships.
- Read and comprehend literary fiction 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, definitions, details, and illustrations, as appropriate.
- Create an organizational structure that includes information grouped and connected logically with 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.
- Introduce the topic and state an opinion on the topic.
- Support an opinion with reasons.
- Create an organizational structure that includes reasons linked in a logical order with a concluding statement or section.
- Use a variety of words and sentence types 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.
- Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
- Organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally, using temporal words and phrases to signal event order; provide a 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.
- Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research, applying grade-level reading standards for literature and informational texts.
- With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
- With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing (using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
- Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
- Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
- Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
1.5 Speaking and Listening
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate detail.
- Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details; speak clearly with adequate volume, appropriate pacing, and clear pronunciation.
- Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
- Create engaging audio recordings of stories or poems that demonstrate fluid reading at an understandable pace; add visual displays when appropriate to emphasize or enhance certain facts or details.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English when speaking, based on Grade 3 level and content.
MATH
PA Core Standards
2.1 Numbers and Operations
- Apply place-value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
- Explore and develop an understanding of fractions as numbers.
2.2 Algebraic Concepts
- Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
- Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
- Develop multiplication and division fluency.
- Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
2.3 Geometry
- Identify, compare, and classify shapes and their attributes.
- Use the understanding of fractions to partition shapes into parts with equal areas and express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole.
2.4 Measurement, Data, and Probability
- Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of temperature, liquid volume, mass, and length.
- Tell and write time to the nearest minute and solve problems by calculating time intervals.
- Solve problems and make change involving money using combinations of coins and bills.
- Represent and interpret data using tally charts, tables, pictographs, line plots, and bar graphs.
- Determine the area of a rectangle and apply the concept to multiplication and to addition.
- Solve problems involving perimeters of polygons and distinguish between linear and area measures.
SOCIAL STUDIES
PA Academic Standards
5.0 Civics and Government
- Explain the purposes of rules, laws, and consequences.
- Explain rules and laws for the classroom, school, and community.
- Define the principles and ideals shaping local government: Liberty/Freedom, Democracy, Justice, Equality
- Identify key ideas about government found in significant documents: Declaration of Independence, United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, Pennsylvania Constitution
- Identify state symbols, national symbols, and national holidays.
- Identify personal rights and responsibilities.
- Identify the sources of conflict and disagreement and different ways conflict can be resolved.
- Identify leadership and public service opportunities in the school, community, state, and nation.
- Describe how citizens participate in school and community activities.
- Identify the roles of the three branches of government.
- Identify how laws are made in the local community.
- Identify services performed by the local governments.
- Identify positions of authority at school and community.
- Explain the purpose for elections.
- Explain how an action may be just or unjust.
- Identify individual interests and explain ways to influence others.
6.0 Economics
- Define scarcity and identify examples of resources, wants, and needs.
- Identify needs and wants of people.
- Identify examples of natural, human, and capital resources.
- Explain what is given up when making a choice.
- Identify reasons why people make a choice.
- Identify goods, services, consumers, and producers in the local community.
- Identify competing sellers in the local market.
- Identify types of advertising designed to influence personal choice.
- Define price and how prices vary for products.
- Describe the effect of local businesses opening and closing.
- Identify private economic institutions.
- Identify characteristics of the local economy.
- Identify goods and services provided by the government.
- Identify examples of government involvement in local economic activities.
- Define tax and explain the relationship between taxation and government services.
- Identify local examples of specialization and division of labor.
- Identify examples of trade, imports, and exports in the local community.
- Explain why people work.
- Identify different occupations.
- Identify tangible and intangible assets.
- Define saving and explain why people save.
- Identify the role of banks in our local community.
7.0 Geography
- Identify how basic geographic tools are used to organize and interpret information about people, places and environment.
- Identify and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.
- Identify the physical characteristics of places and regions.
- Identify the basic physical processes that affect the physical characteristics of places and regions.
- Identify the human characteristics of places and regions using the following criteria: Population, Culture, Settlement, Economic activities, Political activities
- Identify the effect of the physical systems on people within a community.
- Identify the effect of people on the physical systems within a community.
8.0 History
- Identify the difference between past, present and future using timelines and/or other graphic representations.
- Identify fact, opinion, multiple points of view, and primary sources as related to historical events.
- Conduct teacher guided inquiry on assigned topics using specified historical sources. (Reference RWSL Standard 1.8.3 Research)
- Identify the social, political, cultural, and economic contributions of individuals and groups from Pennsylvania.
- Identify historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to Pennsylvania history.
- Identify and describe how continuity and change have impacted Pennsylvania history: Belief systems and religions, Commerce and industry, Technology, Politics and government, Physical and human geography, and Social organizations
- Identify and describe how conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations have impacted the history and development of Pennsylvania. Ethnicity and race, Working conditions, Immigration, Military conflict, Economic stability
- Identify and describe the social, political, cultural, and economic contributions of individuals and groups in United States history.
- Identify and describe historical documents, artifacts, and places critical to United States history.
- Identify and describe how continuity and change have impacted U.S. history. Belief systems and religions, Commerce and industry, Technology, Politics and government, Physical and human geography, Social organizations
- Identify and describe how conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations have impacted the history and development of the US.
- Ethnicity and race, Working conditions, Immigration, Military conflict, Economic stability
- Identify the elements of culture and ethnicity.
- Identify the importance of artifacts and sites to different cultures and ethnicities.
- Compare and contrast selected world cultures.
- Identify conflict and cooperation among groups and organizations from around the world.