Here are some standards that we will be covering throughout the school year.
pa Reading standards
1.1.1.A: Identify the author’s purpose and type, using grade level text.
1.1.1.B: Use word recognition techniques.
1.1.1.D: Demonstrate listening and reading comprehension / understanding before reading, during reading, and after reading through strategies such as think aloud, retelling, summarizing, connecting to prior knowledge and non-linguistic representations.
1.1.1.E: Demonstrate accuracy and automaticity in decoding and oral reading of grade level text.
1.2.1.A: Demonstrate concepts of print
1.2.1.B: Identify the difference between facts and opinions within a text.
1.2.1.C: Identify essential information within and across a variety of texts.
1.2.1.D: Make inferences and draw conclusions citing evidence from the text to support answers.
1.2.1.E: Read and respond to essential content of text.
1.3.1.A: Read, understand, and respond to works of literature.
1.3.1.B: Recognize different types of genres such as poetry, drama, and fiction.
1.3.1.C: Identify literary elements (characters, setting, and plot) in selected readings.
1.3.1.D: Identify literary devices in selected readings (e.g., personification, rhyming, alliteration).
1.7.1.A: Recognize formal and informal language used in speech.
1.1.1.B: Use word recognition techniques.
- Demonstrate phonological awareness through phoneme manipulation.
- Demonstrate knowledge of letter sound correspondence (alphabetic principle) to decode and encode words.
1.1.1.D: Demonstrate listening and reading comprehension / understanding before reading, during reading, and after reading through strategies such as think aloud, retelling, summarizing, connecting to prior knowledge and non-linguistic representations.
1.1.1.E: Demonstrate accuracy and automaticity in decoding and oral reading of grade level text.
1.2.1.A: Demonstrate concepts of print
- Identify text organization and use content to derive meaning from text .
1.2.1.B: Identify the difference between facts and opinions within a text.
1.2.1.C: Identify essential information within and across a variety of texts.
1.2.1.D: Make inferences and draw conclusions citing evidence from the text to support answers.
1.2.1.E: Read and respond to essential content of text.
1.3.1.A: Read, understand, and respond to works of literature.
1.3.1.B: Recognize different types of genres such as poetry, drama, and fiction.
1.3.1.C: Identify literary elements (characters, setting, and plot) in selected readings.
1.3.1.D: Identify literary devices in selected readings (e.g., personification, rhyming, alliteration).
1.7.1.A: Recognize formal and informal language used in speech.
pa language standards
1.4.1.A: Write, dictate or illustrate descriptive poems and stories that include literary elements.
1.4.1.B: Write informational pieces using illustrations when relevant (e.g., descriptions, letters, instructions).
1.5.1.A: Identify and write about one specific topic.
1.5.1.B: Develop content appropriate for the topic.
1.5.1.C: Organize writing in a logical order.
1.5.1.D: Write using adjectives, precise nouns, and action verbs.
1.5.1.E: Revise writing by adding details or missing information.
1.5.1.F: Use grade appropriate conventions of language when writing and editing.
1.7.1.A: Recognize formal and informal language used in speech.
1.4.1.B: Write informational pieces using illustrations when relevant (e.g., descriptions, letters, instructions).
1.5.1.A: Identify and write about one specific topic.
1.5.1.B: Develop content appropriate for the topic.
- Gather and organize information, incorporating details relevant to the topic.
- Write a series of related sentences with one central idea.
1.5.1.C: Organize writing in a logical order.
1.5.1.D: Write using adjectives, precise nouns, and action verbs.
1.5.1.E: Revise writing by adding details or missing information.
1.5.1.F: Use grade appropriate conventions of language when writing and editing.
- Spell common, frequently used words correctly.
- Use capital letters correctly.
- Punctuate correctly.
- Begin to use correct grammar and sentence formation.
1.7.1.A: Recognize formal and informal language used in speech.
pa math standards
2.1.1.A: Demonstrate the relationship between numbers and quantities, including place value, one-to-one correspondence, rote counting, counting by twos to 20, counting by tens and fives and comparing values of whole numbers up to 100.
2.1.1.B: Represent equivalent forms of the same number through the use of pictures and concrete objects (including penny, nickel, dime, and quarter), up to 100.
2.1.1.C: Use concrete objects, drawings, diagrams or models to show the concept of a fraction as part of a whole; use whole numbers and fractions (halves and fourths) to represent quantities.
2.1.1.D: Apply place value concepts and base-ten numeration to order and compare whole numbers up to 100.
2.1.1.E: Describe even and odd numbers as they relate to a number pattern.
2.1.1.F: Select the appropriate operation (addition or subtraction) to solve problems.
2.2.1.A: Apply concepts of addition and subtraction to solve problems up to ten.
2.2.1.B: Demonstrate strategies for addition and subtraction in order to solve single- and double-digit addition and subtraction problems.
2.2.1.D: Estimate values, sums, and differences of quantities and conclude the reasonableness of those estimates.
2.3.1.A: Demonstrate that a single object has attributes that can be measured.
2.3.1.B: Use concrete objects to measure length by repeating and the number of nonstandard or standard units.
2.3.1.C: Tell time on an analog and digital clock to the nearest hour and half hour.
2.3.1.F: Compare concrete objects to determine greater or lesser attributes (length, weight, capacity).
2.4.1.A: Draw conclusions and describe thought process (es) (e.g., think aloud) related to problem solving situations.
2.4.1.B: Use concrete objects to explain precise terms of logic (e.g., all, or, every, none, some, or many).
2.5.1.A: Solve the problem and check if answer makes sense. Explain how problem is solved in grade appropriate contexts.
2.5.1.B: Use appropriate mathematical vocabulary when explaining how to solve a problem.
2.6.1.A: Gather data from surveys and observations within the classroom or homes.
2.6.1.B: Organize and display data using pictures, tallies, charts, bar graphs and pictographs.
2.6.1.C: Describe data displayed in a diagram, graph or table.
2.6.1.D: Answer comparative questions based on representations of data.
2.6.1.E: Draw conclusions and identify patterns based on a comparison to data displayed in a graph.
2.7.1.A: Determine the probability of an event occurring.
2.7.1.B: Predict and explain the outcomes of events.
2.7.1.D: List or graph the possible results of an experiment.
2.7.1.E: Answer questions about predictions and actual outcomes based on data.
2.8.1.A: Use the concept of equality and concrete objects to demonstrate understanding of the commutative and associative properties.
2.8.1.B: Use concrete objects and trial and error to solve number sentences.
2.8.1.C: Recognize, describe, extend, replicate and transfer number and geometric patterns.
2.8.1.D: Use a rule to find a missing addend or symbol to make a number sentence true, with adult assistance.
2.8.1.E: Use concrete objects, symbols and numbers to represent mathematical situations.
2.8.1.F: Describe and answer questions about data from classroom graphs and charts.
2.9.1.A: Name, describe and draw/build 2-dimensional shapes.
2.9.1.B: Identify and draw lines of symmetry.
2.11.1.A: Order whole numbers, 0 to 100, with least to greatest value.
2.1.1.B: Represent equivalent forms of the same number through the use of pictures and concrete objects (including penny, nickel, dime, and quarter), up to 100.
2.1.1.C: Use concrete objects, drawings, diagrams or models to show the concept of a fraction as part of a whole; use whole numbers and fractions (halves and fourths) to represent quantities.
2.1.1.D: Apply place value concepts and base-ten numeration to order and compare whole numbers up to 100.
2.1.1.E: Describe even and odd numbers as they relate to a number pattern.
2.1.1.F: Select the appropriate operation (addition or subtraction) to solve problems.
2.2.1.A: Apply concepts of addition and subtraction to solve problems up to ten.
2.2.1.B: Demonstrate strategies for addition and subtraction in order to solve single- and double-digit addition and subtraction problems.
2.2.1.D: Estimate values, sums, and differences of quantities and conclude the reasonableness of those estimates.
2.3.1.A: Demonstrate that a single object has attributes that can be measured.
2.3.1.B: Use concrete objects to measure length by repeating and the number of nonstandard or standard units.
2.3.1.C: Tell time on an analog and digital clock to the nearest hour and half hour.
2.3.1.F: Compare concrete objects to determine greater or lesser attributes (length, weight, capacity).
2.4.1.A: Draw conclusions and describe thought process (es) (e.g., think aloud) related to problem solving situations.
2.4.1.B: Use concrete objects to explain precise terms of logic (e.g., all, or, every, none, some, or many).
2.5.1.A: Solve the problem and check if answer makes sense. Explain how problem is solved in grade appropriate contexts.
2.5.1.B: Use appropriate mathematical vocabulary when explaining how to solve a problem.
2.6.1.A: Gather data from surveys and observations within the classroom or homes.
2.6.1.B: Organize and display data using pictures, tallies, charts, bar graphs and pictographs.
2.6.1.C: Describe data displayed in a diagram, graph or table.
2.6.1.D: Answer comparative questions based on representations of data.
2.6.1.E: Draw conclusions and identify patterns based on a comparison to data displayed in a graph.
2.7.1.A: Determine the probability of an event occurring.
2.7.1.B: Predict and explain the outcomes of events.
2.7.1.D: List or graph the possible results of an experiment.
2.7.1.E: Answer questions about predictions and actual outcomes based on data.
2.8.1.A: Use the concept of equality and concrete objects to demonstrate understanding of the commutative and associative properties.
2.8.1.B: Use concrete objects and trial and error to solve number sentences.
2.8.1.C: Recognize, describe, extend, replicate and transfer number and geometric patterns.
2.8.1.D: Use a rule to find a missing addend or symbol to make a number sentence true, with adult assistance.
2.8.1.E: Use concrete objects, symbols and numbers to represent mathematical situations.
2.8.1.F: Describe and answer questions about data from classroom graphs and charts.
2.9.1.A: Name, describe and draw/build 2-dimensional shapes.
2.9.1.B: Identify and draw lines of symmetry.
2.11.1.A: Order whole numbers, 0 to 100, with least to greatest value.
pa science standards
3.1.1.A1: Categorize living and nonliving things by external characteristics.
3.1.1.A2: Investigate the dependence of living things on the sun’s energy, water, food/nutrients, air, living space, and shelter.
3.1.1.A5: Identify and describe plant parts and their function.
3.1.1.A9:
3.1.1.B1: Grow plants from seed and describe how they grow and change. Compare to adult plants.
3.1.1.C3: Constancy and change.
3.2.1.A1: Observe and describe the properties of liquids and solids. Investigate what happens when solids are mixed with water and other liquids are mixed with water.
3.2.1.A3: Identify how heating, melting, cooling, etc., may cause changes in properties of materials.
3.2.1.A4: Observe and describe what happens when substances are heated or cooled. Distinguish between changes that are reversible (melting, freezing) and not reversible (e.g. baking a cake, burning fuel).
3.2.1.A5: Constancy and change.
3.2.1.B1: Demonstrate various types of motion. Observe and describe how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects.
3.2.1.B3: Observe and record daily temperatures. Draw conclusions from daily temperature records as related to heating and cooling.
3.2.1.B5: Compare and contrast how light travels through different materials. Explore how mirrors and prisms can be used to redirect a light beam.
3.2.1.B6: Energy.
3.3.1.A4: Identify and describe types of fresh and salt-water bodies (ocean, rivers, lakes, ponds).
3.3.1.A5: Become familiar with weather instruments.
*Standards taken from pdesas.org
3.1.1.A2: Investigate the dependence of living things on the sun’s energy, water, food/nutrients, air, living space, and shelter.
3.1.1.A5: Identify and describe plant parts and their function.
3.1.1.A9:
- Distinguish between scientific fact and opinion.
- Ask questions about objects, organisms, and events.
- Understand that all scientific investigations involve asking and answering questions and comparing the answer with what is already known.
- Plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations.
- Use simple equipment (tools and other technologies) to gather data and understand that this allows scientists to collect more information than relying only on their senses to gather information.
- Use data/evidence to construct explanations and understand that scientists develop explanations based on their evidence and compare them with their current scientific knowledge.
- Communicate procedures and explanations giving priority to evidence and understanding that scientists make their results public, describe their investigations so they can be reproduced, and review and ask questions about the work of other scientists.
3.1.1.B1: Grow plants from seed and describe how they grow and change. Compare to adult plants.
3.1.1.C3: Constancy and change.
- Describe changes that occur as a result of a habitat.
3.2.1.A1: Observe and describe the properties of liquids and solids. Investigate what happens when solids are mixed with water and other liquids are mixed with water.
3.2.1.A3: Identify how heating, melting, cooling, etc., may cause changes in properties of materials.
3.2.1.A4: Observe and describe what happens when substances are heated or cooled. Distinguish between changes that are reversible (melting, freezing) and not reversible (e.g. baking a cake, burning fuel).
3.2.1.A5: Constancy and change.
- Recognize that everything is made of matter.
3.2.1.B1: Demonstrate various types of motion. Observe and describe how pushes and pulls change the motion of objects.
3.2.1.B3: Observe and record daily temperatures. Draw conclusions from daily temperature records as related to heating and cooling.
3.2.1.B5: Compare and contrast how light travels through different materials. Explore how mirrors and prisms can be used to redirect a light beam.
3.2.1.B6: Energy.
- Recognize that light from the sun is an important source of energy for living and nonliving systems and some source of energy is needed for all organisms to stay alive and grow.
3.3.1.A4: Identify and describe types of fresh and salt-water bodies (ocean, rivers, lakes, ponds).
3.3.1.A5: Become familiar with weather instruments.
- Collect, describe, and record basic information about weather over time.
*Standards taken from pdesas.org