Mathematics
Number and Operations in Base Ten - Students will: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
Science
Concepts of Physical Science (SB1, SB2, SB3, SB4) The student demonstrates an understanding of the structure and properties of matter by classifying matter according to physical properties (i.e., color, size, shape, weight, texture, flexibility).
English Language Arts
Reading Standards for Informational Text Craft and Structure
Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others.
Writing: English Language Conventions: Students write using Standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level. Sentence Structure: Use correct and varied sentence types (simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex) and sentence openings to present a lively and effective personal style.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Interpret figurative language, including similes and metaphors, in context.
Mathematics
Number Sense: Understand and apply numbers, ways of representing numbers, and the relationships among numbers and different number systems.
Demonstrate an understanding of fractions as rates, division of whole numbers, parts of a whole, parts of a set, and locations on a real number line.
English Language Arts
Listening and Speaking: Skills, Strategies, and Applications: Students deliver focused, coherent presentations that convey ideas clearly and relate to the background and interests of the audience. Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication: Use precise language, action verbs, sensory details, appropriate and colorful modifiers (describing words, such as adverbs and adjectives), and the active (I recommend that you write drafts.) rather than the passive voice (The writing of drafts is recommended.) in ways that enliven oral presentations.
Science
Regulation and Behavior
Enduring Understanding: Organisms respond to internal and external cues, which allow them to survive.
Senses help humans and other organisms detect internal and external cues. (Level: Essential)
English Language Arts
Comprehension of Informational Text Determine and analyze important ideas and messages in informational texts
Explain relationships between and among ideas such as comparison/contrast, cause/effect, sequence/chronology
Writing Conventions: Students learn to master writing conventions through exposure to good models and opportunities for practice. Writing conventions include spelling, punctuation, grammar and other conventions associated with forms of written text. They learn the purpose of punctuation: to clarify sentence meaning and help readers know how writing might sound aloud. They develop and extend their understanding of the spelling system, using a range of strategies for spelling words correctly and using newly learned vocabulary in their writing. They grow more skillful at using the grammatical structures of English to effectively communicate ideas in writing and to express themselves. Grade Level Indicator: Grammar and Usage: Use all eight parts of speech (e.g., noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, adjective, conjunction, preposition, interjection).
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Spell correctly.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., telegraph, photograph, autograph).
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Fluency
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Conventions of Standard English
Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on Grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., precede, recede, secede).
Reading Standards for Informational Text Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.
Reading: Read with understanding and fluency. Apply reading strategies to improve understanding and fluency.
Identify structure (e.g., description, compare/contrast, cause and effect, sequence) of nonfiction texts to improve comprehension.
Comprehend and apply standard English USAge in oral and written language
Apply consistent and appropriate use of the person, number, and case of pronouns; pronoun/antecedent agreement; special pronoun problems such as who - whom, and incomplete constructions; active and passive voice; and verbal and verbal phrases
Apply knowledge of grammar concepts and skills to control oral and written language
Compose simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences using independent, dependent, restrictive, and nonrestrictive clauses; transitions; conjunctions; and appropriate punctuation to connect ideas
Reading Standards: Foundational Skills Phonological Awareness
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.