Students will be able to:

• read with understanding and fluency
• read strategically to construct meaning
• recognize words automatically
• read with fluency and accuracy with a variety of materials at appropriate levels of difficulty
• select and use appropriate reading strategies to construct meaning
• activate prior knowledge
• determine the most important ideas and themes
• ask questions of themselves, the authors, and the texts
• create visual and other sensory images during and after reading
• draw inference
• retell or synthesize what they have read
• utilize a variety of fix-up strategies to repair comprehension
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• uses schema
• infers
• questions
• determines importance in text
• monitors comprehension
• visualizes
• synthesizes
• retelling

• Emphasis on "Think Aloud" strategies

• Reading a variety of genres: fiction, biographies, nonfiction, and poetry
• Fluency development through "Read and Relax"
• Decoding strategies, emphasized during daily challenge time
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Students will be able to:

• read and understand literature representative of various societies, eras, and ideas
• identify literary elements and understand their influence on a text’s meaning
• identify literary techniques and understand their influence
• read and interpret both fiction and nonfiction
• relate literature to their own experiences
• read and interpret literature representing both unique and universal human experiences
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Students will be able to:

• write to communicate for a variety of purposes
• use cognitively appropriate planning strategies
• establish focus, organize ideas, and provide relevant details
• use of language effectively in order to achieve clarity of thought and expression
• use revision strategies and proofread for accuracy of conventions
• write in a variety of modes for a variety with teacher guidance
• write in a variety of modes for a variety of audiences and purposes
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Students will be able to:

• demonstrate and apply a knowledge and a sense of numbers, including numeration and operations
• demonstrate and apply numeration and operations including addition, subtraction, and multiplication
• recognize and create patterns, ratios, and proportions
• estimate, make and use measurements of objects, quantities and relationships
• determine acceptable levels of accuracy in measurements
• use algebraic and analytical methods to identify and describe patterns and relationships in data, solve problems and predict results
• use geometric methods to analyze, categorize and draw conclusions about points, lines, planes and space.
• organize, describe and make predictions from existing data
• formulate questions, design data collection methods, gather and analyze data and communicate findings
• determine, describe and apply the probabilities of events
• Problem Solve
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• Introduction of problem solving strategies

• Number sense, comparison of numbers using <, >, and =
• Place value (up to 100,000 place)
• Estimation (rounding to the nearest 100,000)
• Estimation with addition
• Addition with trades
• Addition with money
• Estimation with subtraction
• Subtraction with regrouping
• Subtraction with money
• Basic addition/subtraction facts
• Mental math practice

Trimester 2

• Problem solving strategies
• Geometry (1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional objects)
• Identify 16 basic polygons
• Ability to subdivide, combine and transform known polygons

• Multiplication
• Use of arrays and repeated addition
• Mastery of basic multiplication facts (2s, 5s, 9s, and 10s)
• Introduction of basic multiplication facts (3s, 4s, 6s, 7s, and 8s)

• Linear measurement
• Standard/metric units of measurement

• Area/Perimeter measurement
• Mental math practice

Trimester 3

• Problem solving strategies

• Volume measurement
• Capacity, weight, temperature, and time measurement
• Division
• Use of arrays and repeated subtraction
• Mastery of basic division facts (2s, 5s, 9s, and 10s)
• Introduction of division facts (3s, 4s, 6s, 7s, and 8s)
• Graphing
• Probabilty

Students will be able to:

• know and understand the concepts, principles and processes of scientific inquiry
• know and apply the concepts, principles and processes of technological design
• understand the fundamental concepts, principles and interconnections of the life, physical and earth/space sciences
• understand the relationships among science, technology and society in historical and contemporary contexts
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Students will be able to:

• understand political systems, with an emphasis on the United States
• understand responsibilities of citizens
• understand the structures and functions of the political systems
• apply the skills of historical analysis and interpretation
• understand the development of significant political events
• understand the development of economic systems
• locate, describe and explain places, regions and features on the Earth
• understand world geography and the effects of geography on society, with an emphasis on the United States
• compare characteristics of culture as reflected in language, literature, the arts, traditions and institutions
• understand the roles and interactions of individuals and
  groups in society

• Introduction of communities
• Emphasis on changes with the community
• Emphasis on the 7 systems of all communities
• Chicago

• Communities
• Japan

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Students will be able to:

• listen and speak effectively in a variety of situations
• select and use appropriate listen strategies to construct meaning
• interpret verbal and nonverbal messages to construct appropriate responses
• use contextual cues to select verbal and nonverbal strategies in formal speaking situations
• use contextual cues to select verbal and nonverbal strategies in informal speaking situations
• monitor and to correct listening and speaking strategies in formal and informal situations
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