education standards

Explain how all people, not just official leaders, play important roles in a community.

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Comprehension and Collaboration: Pose questions that connect the ideas of several speakers and respond to others' questions and comments with relevant evidence, observations, and ideas.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Phonics and Word Recognition: Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g., roots and affixes) to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Support an argument that differences in the apparent brightness of the sun compared to other stars is due to their relative distances from Earth.

Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Communicate scientific ideas about the way stars, over their life cycle, produce elements.

Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Craft and Structure: Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Key Ideas and Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: 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).

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.

Select or choose music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Text Types and Purposes: Provide a conclusion that follows from and reflects on the narrated experiences or events.

Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

Represent data in graphical displays to reveal patterns of daily changes in length and direction of shadows, day and night, and the seasonal appearance of some stars in the night sky.

Develop and use a model of the Earth-sun-moon system to describe the cyclic patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun and moon, and seasons.

Explain how cultural patterns and economic decisions influence environments and the daily lives of people in both nearby and distant places.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.

Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.