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Readingidentify and analyze main ideas, supporting ideas, and supporting details
identify imagery, figurative language (e.g., personification, metaphor, simile, hyperbole), refrain, rhythm, and flow when responding to literature
identify and use homophones, synonyms, and antonyms for given words in text
predict information based on title, topic, genre, and prior knowledge
identify organizational patterns of compare and contrast, argument and support, chronological order, logical order, cause and effect, and classification
use prefixes, root words, and suffixes to identify words in text
read for a variety of purposes, including to answer literal, inferential, or evaluative questions using evidence from literary or informational text
identify explicit information and infer implicit information relating to main idea in nonfiction, fiction, and other literary genres, using details, sequence of events, cause and effect relationships, and problem and solution
Writing
revise writing to improve fluency, content (descriptive words and phrases), organization and style, to match purposes with audience
provide a sense of closure
acknowledge and use appropriate resources to gather information from reference works (e.g., books, periodicals, electronic information, dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedia, atlases, almanacs, magazines, and newspapers)
use organizational features of printed text, such as table of contents and bibliography, to locate relevant information, to obtain and organize information and thoughts
recognize the difference between primary and secondary sources
vary sentences by structure (declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory), order, and complexity (simple, complex, compound)
use present, past, future, regular and irregular verb tenses to match intended meaning
use appropriate forms of positive, comparative, and superlative adjectives and adverbs
edit for punctuation, spelling, fragments, and run-on sentences
identify and use subjects (simple and compound), pronouns, predicates (simple and compound), modifiers (words and prepositional phrases), adjectives and adverbs and recognize that a word performs different functions according to its position in the sentence
recognize the difference in summarizing, paraphrasing, and plagiarizing
form singular, plural, and possessive nouns
use and recognize correct punctuation, including semicolons, apostrophes, and quotation marks
Math
explain the process of multiplication and division, including situations in which the multiplier and the divisor are both whole numbers and decimal fractions
use words, pictures and/or numbers to show that division of whole numbers can be represented as a fraction (a/b = a ˜ b)
analyze, explain and apply estimation strategies in working with quantities, measurement, computation and problem solving
model percentages on 10 by 10 grids to understand percentage
identify and analyze congruent figures and the correspondence of their vertices, sides, and angles
analyze and explain the relationship of the circumference of a circle, its diameter, and pi
estimate the area of fundamental geometric plane figures
use formulas to find area of polygons, including triangles and parallelograms
compute the circumference of a circle using a formula
use milliliters, liters, fluid ounces, cups, pints, quarts and gallons to measure capacity
estimate the volume of simple geometric solids in cubic units
derive and apply the formula for the volume of a cube and a rectangular prism using manipulatives
determine and justify the mean, range, mode, and median of a set of data
compare and contrast multiple graphic representations (such as bar, circle, and line graphs) for a single set of data and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each
read, write, order and compare place value of decimal fractions
model multiplication and division of decimal fractions by another decimal fraction
add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with like and unlike denominators
compare one unit to another within a single system of capacity measurement
compute the volume of a cube and a rectangular prism using a formula
investigate expressions by substituting numbers for the unknown
Science
demonstrate examples of physical changes by manipulating common household/classroom items (tearing or cutting paper/aluminum foil) and separating mixtures
investigate common materials to determine if they are insulators or conductors
explain why scientists use classification in the study of living things
compare and contrast animal cells and plant cellsrecognize that offspring can resemble parents in inherited traits and learned behavior
identify beneficial microorganisms and explain why they are beneficial
explain the role of technology and human intervention in the control of constructive and destructive processes including seismological studies, flood control, dams, levees, and storm drain management
investigate current and static electricity
identify and explain how surface features are caused by constructive processes such as deposition (deltas, sand dunes), earthquakes, volcanoes and faults
describe and illustrate surface features caused by destructive processes such as erosion (water, rivers, oceans, wind), weathering, impact of organisms, earthquakes and volcanoes
investigate the properties of a substance before, during and after a chemical reaction to find evidence of change
discuss what a gene is and the role genes play in the transfer of traits
demonstrate how animals are sorted into groups (vertebrates, invertebrates) and how vertebrates are further sorted into groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)
demonstrate that the mass of an object is equal to the sum of its parts by manipulating and measuring different objects made of many parts
Science
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/explorations/bug/level1/interactive.htm
Classification!!!!
Social Studies
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm
Underground Railroad