CORE CONNECTIONS
Kindergarten–8th
Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
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Kindergarten THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Kindergarten Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING NONFICTION KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
2. With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. 4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) CCSSW K.1 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is...).
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Kindergarten: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21 Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.K.1 Choose what’s important
Map a story. Tell what are the important people and events. Tell what you like about it and why.
Map a story. Tell what are the important people and events. Tell what you like about it and why.
Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make science picture glossary
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make science picture glossary
Social Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about recommended: Black History—Barack Obama Make social studies word-picture page or chart
read, experience, draw, write/tell about recommended: Black History—Barack Obama Make social studies word-picture page or chart
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing CCSSW.K.3 argument
Write letters Place words in sequence Write persuasive sentence
Write letters Place words in sequence Write persuasive sentence
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Terms: Journal
Focus: Terms: Journal
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Kindergarten: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature CCSSRL.K.1 Identify important information
COMPARE Choose the better answer to a question
COMPARE Choose the better answer to a question.
Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make science picture page or book
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make science picture page or book
Social Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about --Recommended—Black History Make social studies word-picture page or chart
read, experience, draw, write/tell about --Recommended—Black History Make social studies word-picture page or chart
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud
Word Knowledge Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing CCSSW.K.3 opinion
Write words Write or arrange words in sentence Write about a person you like—tell why.
Write words Write or arrange words in sentence Write about a place you like—tell why
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Terms: Journal
Focus: Terms: Journal
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Kindergarten: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature CCSSRL.K.1 Support Answers
Illustrate a story map. Put number of page on which you find the information for the map.
Illustrate a story map. Put number of page on which you find the information for the map.
Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make picture page, chart or display
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make picture page, chart or display
Social Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Recommended—Black History Month—complete an exhibit about what you learned
read, experience, draw, write/tell about Make picture page, chart, or display
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing CCSSW.K.3 opinion
Write sentences about important person—tell why that person is important. Illustrate your sentences to show what’s important.
Write/arrange sentences Illustrate the sentences to show what’s important—what the idea is they state.
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Terms: Journal
Focus: Terms: Journal
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Kindergarten: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.K.1 Evaluate importance of information
Tell what happens in a story—just three events that are most important. Tell what message the writer is telling with those events.
Identify a choice a character makes in a story. Tell whether you think it is a good choice—and support your opinion.
Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about read, experience, draw, write/tell about
Social Science CCSSRI.K.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write/tell about read, experience, draw, write/tell about
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing CCSSW.K.3 opinion
Build words with letters Write sentences
Build words with letters Write sentences
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Terms: Journal
Focus: Terms: Journal
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Kindergarten: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature CCSSRL.K.1 Answer with evidence
Identify a choice a character makes in a story. Tell whether you think it is a good choice—and support your opinion. Tell which story you read this quarter is your favorite. Tell why you like it.
Science CCSSRI.K.2 Summarize
Tell about one science topic you learned. Write about it and illustrate it.
Social Science CCSSRI.K.2 summarize
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned about one topic this quarter.
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
Students Read aloud with increased fluency.
Word Knowledge Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list
Phonics: Identify sight words when reading Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status.
Writing CCSSW.K.1 opinion
Tell what you learned about writing. Explain why it’s important to write clearly.
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Make a math guide/booklet.
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Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core First Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING NONFICTION KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. 1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
2. Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
3. Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
4. Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
5. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.
5. Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS 7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its
characters, setting, or events.
6. Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) CCSSW1.1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
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First Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.1.1 Analyze, then infer
Tell what is most important in a story or history – can relate to Black History Characters/People What they do Tell how you used pictures as well as words to figure out answers. Then infer a trait of a character/person. Support your inference with evidence.
Tell what is most important in a story or history—can relate to Black History Characters/people What they do Tell how you used pictures as well as words to figure out answers. Then infer a trait of a character/person. Support your inference with evidence.
Science CCSSRI.1.1 Locate information
read, experience, draw, write about --tell what the most important words are; put them in a picture page or chart
read, experience, draw, write about --tell what the most important words are; put them in a picture page or chart
Social Science CCSSRI.1.1 locate information Evaluate importance
read, experience, draw, write about --recommended—Black History—President Obama Tell why he is important.
read, experience, draw, write about --recommended—Black History—President Obama Tell why he is important.
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.1.4 Sight words Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing Opinion write journal (ongoing)
Write sentences about what you like about this week’s reading—explain why.
Write sentence with period . Tell what you like about this week’s science. Explain why you like it.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus Terms Math Journal
Focus Terms Math Journal
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First Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature CCSSRL.1.1 Analyze, then infer
Tell what is most important in a story or history. Can relate to Black History. Characters/persons What they do Then tell what the message is that the writer wants to tell you through the story/history—and support your answer with examples from the story
Tell what is most important in a story: Can relate to Black History Characters/persons What they do Then tell what the message is that the writer wants to tell you through the story/history—and support your answer with examples from the story.
Science CCSSRI.1.1 Locate information Evaluate information
read, experience, draw, write about --tell what the most important words are; put them in a picture page or chart
read, experience, draw, write about --tell what the most important words are; put them in a picture page or chart
Social Science CCSSRI.1.1 Locate information Evaluate information
read, experience, draw, write about --recommended—Black History—an important event or person—explain why learning this is important. What is a biography?
read, experience, draw, write about --recommended—Black History—an important event or person—explain why learning this is important. What is a biography (Option: Write/draw one)
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.1.4 Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status. Identify sight words when reading
Writing Opinion
Write sentence with question mark Tell why knowing punctuation is important.
Write sentences with period, question mark, pronoun Tell why each of these helps people communicate.
MATH Practice standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus Terms Math Journal
Focus Terms Math Journal
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First Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature CCSSRL.1.2 Summarize
Make a story map, then summarize the story. Then infer the message or moral that the writer wants you to understand. (recommended—include fable as reading.) Explain how a story book is different from a nonfiction book.
Make a story map, then summarize the story. Then infer the message or moral that the writer wants you to understand. (recommended—include fable or folktale as reading.)
Science CCSSRI.1.2 Summarize
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea. Make word-picture chart or page
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea Make word-picture chart or page
Social Science CCSSRI.1.2 summarize
Summarize what you have learned about Black History—make a booklet, display, presentation. Start by listing the features of a nonfiction book. Then organize your book or display.
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea Make word-picture chart or page
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.1.4 Sight words Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing opinion
Write or make picture story that supports a message or moral.
Write or draw story that supports a message or moral.
MATH
Focus Terms Math Journal
Focus Terms Math Journal
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First Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.1.2 Summarize, identify theme/message
Summarize a story. Tell why the author wrote it—what is the lesson the writer wants you to learn?
Summarize a story. Tell why the author wrote it—what is the lesson the writer wants you to learn?
Science CCSSRI.1.2 summarize
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea. Make word-picture chart or page
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea Make word-picture chart or page
Social Science CCSSRI.1.2 summarize
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea. Make word-picture chart or page
read, experience, draw, write about Write and draw a summary Then identify the central idea Make word-picture chart or page
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.1.4 Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing opinion
Write or draw story that supports a message or moral. Write or illustrate a story that supports a message or moral.
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus Terms Math Journal
Focus Terms Math Journal
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First Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature CCSSRL.1.2 Summarize, identify theme/message
Illustrate a story – show its elements (characters, events, place –setting) and the theme/message of the writer. Explain/demonstrate how to figure out what the writer wants you to learn from the story.
Science CCSSRI.1.2 summarize
Make a poster or booklet or page that tells/shows what you have learned about learning science. Explain how you use a big question to learn about a topic.
Social Science CCSSRI.1.2 summarize
Make a poster or booklet or page that reports on a social studies topic you have learned. Explain how after you learn about a topic you can summarize the most important ideas and facts.
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
Students Read aloud with increased fluency.
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.1.4 Sight words Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Identify sight words when reading Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status.
Writing opinion
Write about a topic you have learned (relates to Content learning). Explain what information is important (relates to opinion writing).
MATH Practice Standard 2—think quantitatively and abstractly
Make a math guide/booklet.
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Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Second Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING NONFICTION
KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
2. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
2. Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
5. Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) CCSSW2.1. Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
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Second Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.2.1 Infer with evidence
How do you read a story? Ask students to take an active role in explaining how to read a story—how to use evidence to make logical inferences. Include: Identify, infer motives Make predictions; infer message or moral
How does a writer communicate a message through a story? Chart a story or event—show the people, setting, actions Explain how the writer uses those parts of the story to communicate an idea.
Science CCSSRI.2.5 Use text features to find ideas and information
Guided by a big question use text features to read, experience, draw, write about Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features to read, experience, draw, write about Make vocabulary glossary
Social Science CCSSRI.2.5 Use text features to find ideas and information
Guided by big question, use text features to read, experience, draw, write about RECOMMENDED: FOCUS ON BLACK HISTORY Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by big question, use text features to read, experience, draw, write about RECOMMENDED: FOCUS ON BLACK HISTORY Make vocabulary glossary
Fluency Rate, comprehension, expression
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.2.4 Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing opinion
Explain what you like about a story—tell how what the writer included helped you make inferences.
Explain what you like about a story—tell how what the writer included helped you figure out the message
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Terms Math Digest
Focus Terms Math Digest
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Second Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature CCSSRL.2.2 Analyze different kinds of stories
Compare/contrast kinds of stories (such as fable, realistic fiction, folktale)
Tell what they have in common (elements of fiction and theme/moral)
Tell how each kind is special
Compare/contrast kinds of stories (such as fable, realistic fiction, folktale)
Tell what they have in common. Tell how each kind is special
Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Make vocabulary glossary
Social Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph RECOMMENDED; FOCUS ON BLACK HISTORY Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph RECOMMENDED: FOCUS ON BLACK HISTORY Make vocabulary glossary
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
Students Reading aloud with increased fluency.
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.2.4 Sight words Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status. Identify sight words when reading
Writing opinion
Write opinion about a nonfiction book—what the writer did that helped you learn
Write opinion about a nonfiction book—what the writer did that helped you learn
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Terms Math Digest
Focus Terms Math Digest
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Second Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature
5. Describe the overall structure of a story,
including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes
the action.
Make story map—for different kind of story—choose a different kind for each week. Include elements of fiction Use to determine writer’s message/moral.
Make story map—for different kind of story—choose a different kind for each week. Include elements of fiction Use to determine writer’s message/moral.
Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs; then summarize
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize Make vocabulary glossary
Social Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs; then summarize
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize Make vocabulary glossary
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.2.4 Include sight words and phrases from Fry high frequency list. Infer from context
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing opinion
Write opinion sentences with periods, question marks, exclamation marks
Write opinion paragraph with periods, question marks, exclamation marks
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Terms Math Digest
Focus Terms Math Digest
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Second Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.2.2
NARRATE Narrate a story, including the most important events. Draw and write captions to show the story.
SUMMARIZE Summarize a story.
Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs; then summarize
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize to answer: what is the main idea? Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize to answer: what is the main idea? Make vocabulary glossary
Social Science CCSSRI.2.2 Identify main topic of multiparagraph text and individual paragraphs; then summarize
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize to support the main idea Make vocabulary glossary
Guided by a big question use text features and paragraph structure to identify main topic of text and each paragraph Then summarize to support the main idea Make vocabulary glossary
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.2.4 Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Phonics: Sight Words: DIBELS/STEP:
Writing opinion
Write an extended response. Write an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Terms Math Digest
Focus Terms Math Digest
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Second Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature CCSSRL.2.2
Explain how to read a story— Structure Message Give examples of different fiction genres. Tell how they are alike; tell what they have in common.
Science CCSSRI.2.5 Multi-paragraph text
Using a nonfiction book as a mentor text, make an individual booklet or contribute a paragraph to a class book about a topic. Include text features. Can be culminating project for unit—answering the BIG question.
Social Science CCSSRI.2.5 Multi-paragraph text
Using a nonfiction book as a mentor text, make an individual booklet or contribute a paragraph to a class book about a topic. Include text features. Can be culminating project for unit—answering the BIG question.
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
Students Read aloud with increased fluency.
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.2.4 Include sight words from Fry high frequency list.
Phonics: Assess DIBELS/STEP and Sight Word status. Identify Sight Words when reading.
Writing opinion
Write how to write an opinion—your own writer’s guide.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Make a math guide/booklet.
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Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Third Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
2. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) Note: This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading CCSSW3.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
Provide reasons that support the opinion.
Use linking words and phrases (e.g., because, therefore, since, for example) to connect opinion and reasons.
Provide a concluding statement or section.
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.3.1 Infer with evidence and Writer’s Craft and Structure In preparation for ISAT, read comprehensively
How do you read a story? Guide students to clarify their strategies to read a story. What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it. Analyze causes and effects, problem + solution Infer feelings, traits, predictions. Figure out the theme
How do you read a story What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it. Analyze causes and effects, problem and solution, turning point. Infer feelings, traits, predictions. Figure out the theme
Science 5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions.
How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions.
Social Science 5. Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Collect information to respond to BIG question. Recommended: Focus on Black History
Use nonfiction text features to collect information to respond to big question—recommended—focus on black history. Analyze how headings and illustrations clarify meaning.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.3.4 Classify vocabulary
Figurative language Antonym synonym
Writing opinion
Outline then write extended response Outline then write extended response
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to problem solving
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to writing an extended response
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature CCSSRL.3.2 Determine central message and Writer’s Craft and Structure In preparation for ISAT, read comprehensively
How do you read a poem? Guide students to clarify their strategies to interpret a poem. Include analysis of use of figurative or descriptive language in stories.
How to answer questions: Explain how to choose the best answer to analytic and inferential questions: Identify genre identify kinds of questions Infer meaning of a word from context Analyze author’s purpose and techniques
Science 3. Describe the steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect
Students analyze technical text—directions for a science experiment or directions on a procedure such as measurement.
Make your own guide to reading nonfiction.
Social Science 2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Students respond to questions based on ISAT stems, responding with text-based evidence. Recommended: Relate to Black History
Make your own guide to figuring out the main idea of a nonfiction passage. Recommended: Relate to Black History
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.3.4 Analyze word patterns
Root/base word, suffix, prefix Infer from context.
Writing opinion
Write an extended response Write directions: how to write an extended response
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature 5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to communicate the lesson or theme.
Science CCSSRI.3.1 Analyze
Skills: Analyze kinds of questions. Topic:
Skills: Outline a non-fiction passage—ideas and supporting information. Topic:
Social Science CCSSRI.3.1 Analyze
Skills: Analyze kinds of questions. Topic:
Skills: Outline a non-fiction passage—ideas and supporting information. Topic:
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.3.4 Analyze word patterns
Words of hope Words about reading.
Writing opinion
Write a poem or letter Write about a topic—opinion paragraph or poem.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you Analyze to solve them? Math Digest
Math Digest
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.3.2 Summarize and infer theme
Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story – choose a genre to analyze.. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to communicate the lesson or theme.
Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story – choose a different genre to analyze. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to communicate the lesson or theme.
Science CCSSRI.3.2 Analyze ideas
Reading Skills Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Reading Skills Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main idea “your way”. Topic:
Social Science CCSSRI.3.2 Analyze ideas
Reading Skills Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Reading Skills Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main idea “your way”. Topic:
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.3.4 Analyze word patterns Infer from context
Identify contractions in reading. Make a contractions chart.
Identify possessives in reading. Make a “guide” to writing with possessives.
Writing opinion
Outline a story that communicates a position; emphasis on maintaining a main idea or theme
Write the story.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Third Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature CCSSRL.3.2 Summarize and infer theme
Make a guide to reading a story. Use it to read an unfamiliar story. Make a genre chart: give examples of the different genres you have read. List features of each kind of genre.
Science CCSSRI.3.2 Analyze ideas
Write a report: What have I learned about science this quarter?
Social Science CCSSRI.3.2 Analyze ideas
Write a response to the big question of the unit or quarter.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.3.4 Analyze word patterns Infer from context
Make a guide to interpreting multi-meaning words in context.
Writing opinion
Write a guide to writing to communicate a position—opinion or moral.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.
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4th
Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Fourth Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION
KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
3. Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
5. Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) Note: This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading CCSSW4.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which related ideas are grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details..
Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases (e.g., for instance, in order to, in addition).
Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
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Fourth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.4.1 Infer with evidence and Writer’s Craft and Structure In preparation for ISAT, read comprehensively
How do you read a story? Guide students to clarify their strategies to read a story—feature one genre. What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it. Analyze problem and solution Infer feelings, traits, predictions. Figure out the theme
How do you read fiction—include different genre (e.g., Tall Tale; realistic fiction) What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it. Analyze causes and effects, problem and solution, turning point. Infer feelings, traits, predictions. Figure out the theme?
Science CCSSRI.4.3
Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Analyze a text and data relating to one focus area of Science; including technical directions such as how to carry out an experiment.
Analyze a text and data relating to one focus area of Science; including technical directions such as how to carry out an experiment.
Social Science 5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
How do you read nonfiction? Recommended: Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.4.4
Analyze word patterns and use
Root/base word, suffix, prefix Emphasize science terms.
Make science glossary—relate to graph, data interpretation, other key elements of science.
Writing opinion
Outline extended response; pair to compare the support provided; adjust outline.
Outline then write extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to problem solving
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to writing an extended response
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Fourth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature Comprehensive
How do you read a poem? What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it.
How to answer questions: demonstrate how to choose the best answer to analytic and inferential and evaluative questions based on a poem or story (including extended response)
Science CCSSRI.4.2 How do you read nonfiction?
How do you read nonfiction?
Analyze a text, diagram, data table, and graph data relating to one focus area of Science
How do you read nonfiction?
Analyze a text, diagram, data table, and graph data relating to one focus area of Science
Social Science 5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Analyze a text, identify its structure, use the text to respond to a big question. Recommended: Relate to Black History
Respond to ISAT-stem aligned questions about nonfiction texts. Recommended: Relate to Black History
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.4.4 Analyze word structure
Synonym, antonym Emphasize science terms.
How do you figure out the meaning of a word? Structure Context
Writing Opinion
Write extended response.
Write guide to writing an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
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Fourth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama
Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Make a chart of the parts of fiction and then analyze a story. Then tell how the writers of different genres use techniques to communicate the lesson or theme.
Science 2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Respond to a big question. Identify the main idea of each paragraph in a science passage; then infer the central idea of the entire passage.
Respond to a Big question. Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas.
Social Science 3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or
concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Illustrate or make timeline or diagram of a social science passage.
Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.4.4 Analyze word structure Infer from context
Words of hope Make word list for the writer of an opinion—to use in writing.
Writing Opinion
Write a poem or letter Write about a topic—opinion paragraph or poem.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you Analyze to solve them? Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Fourth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama
Make a chart of the parts of a story. Then tell how the writer uses techniques to communicate the lesson or theme. Then add dialogue to it.
Add dialogue to a story or dramatize it.
Science 5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Use structure of text to Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Reading Skills Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main idea “your way”. Topic:
Social Science 5. Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Use structure of text to Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Use structure of text to Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.4.4
Identify contractions in reading. Make a contractions chart.
Identify possessives in reading. Make a “guide” to writing with possessives.
Writing CCSSW.4.2 opinion
Outline a story emphasis on maintaining a theme Write the story.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Math Digest—What are the big ideas you learned from this week’s problems?
Focus: Math Digest—What are the big ideas you learned from this week’s problems?
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Fourth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature Set Goals Make a guide to reading a story. Use it to read an unfamiliar story.
Science CCSSRI.4.2 Read closely, analyze
Write a summary of one topic you learned this quarter. Add questions and give your summary and questions to another student.
Social Science CCSSRI.4.2 Read closely, analyze
Outline, illustrate, and then write captions and sections of a report on a topic you have learned—respond to the BIG question.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.4.4
Identify/use multi-meaning words.
Writing CCSSW.4.2 opinion
Improve the story.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.
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5th
Grade
THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Fifth Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION
KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
2. 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.
2. Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
3. Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
3. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
5. Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
5. Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
6. Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.
6. Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Writing: Opinion (CPS Framework Assessment Specification) Note: This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading CCSSW5.1. Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Introduce a topic or text clearly, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure in which ideas are logically grouped to support the writer’s purpose.
Provide logically ordered reasons that are supported by facts and details.
Link opinion and reasons using words, phrases, and clauses (e.g., consequently, specifically). Provide a concluding statement or section related to the opinion presented.
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Fifth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature CCSSRL.2. 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.
How do you read a story? Guide students to clarify their strategies to read a story—feature one genre. What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it. Analyze problem and solution Infer feelings, traits, predictions. Figure out the theme
How do you read a story—different genres. How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described? Explain how a series of scenes, fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story
Science How do you read nonfiction?
Use text features to locate information to respond to analytic questions. Then use text structure to summarize.
Use text features to locate information to respond to analytic questions. Then use text structure to summarize.
Social Science How do you read nonfiction?
How do you read nonfiction? Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
How do you read nonfiction? Have students “think out loud” about how to analyze a nonfiction text. Focus on text features this week, ask analytic questions. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Figurative language Antonym synonym
Writing opinion
Outline extended response; pair to compare the support provided; adjust outline.
Outline then write extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to problem solving
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to writing an extended response
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Fifth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature Comprehensive
How do you read a poem? What strategies do you use to: Analyze author’s purpose and techniques the writer uses to accomplish it.
Explain and demonstrate (use ISAT “stems” ) how to choose the best answer to analytic, inferential, and evaluative questions
Science Nonfiction reading strategies
Use text features to locate information. Then use text structure to summarize.
Evaluate answers to text-based questions: which is best?
Social Science Nonfiction reading strategies
Use text features to locate information to respond to analytic questions. Then use text structure to summarize.
Evaluate answers to text-based questions: which is best?
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Root/base word, suffix, prefix Explain and demonstrate how to respond to questions: infer from context; structure of word
Writing opinion
Write extended response.
Write guide to writing an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
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Fifth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature 5. Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.
Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Compare and contrast different genres. Analyze author’s craft.
Science CCSSRI.5.2 Summarize
Analyze a science passage—main idea of each paragraph; central idea of the passage.
Respond to a BIG question based on reading and data analysis.
Social Science CCSSRI.5.2 Analyze a topic
Skills: Analyze kinds of questions. Topic:
Skills: Outline a non-fiction passage—ideas and supporting information. Topic:
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Words of hope Opinion words—list them then use in writing.
Writing Opinion
Write a poem or letter Write about a topic—opinion paragraph or poem.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you think strategically to solve them? Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Fifth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature Theme (CCSSR2) and structure (CCSSR5)
Explain central message or lesson of a story. Analyze features of legends, myths, folktales (e.g. heroes, quests.)
Explain how two different stories or poems communicate the same theme. Identify how a narrator’s perspective influences how events are described.
Science CCSSRI.5.2 Analyze a topic
Reading Skills Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Reading Skills Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main idea “your way”. Topic:
Social Science CCSSRI.5.2 Analyze a topic
Reading Skills Answer a BIG question. Collect and include facts and your own ideas. Topic:
Reading Skills Support a big idea—write about the same topic you read, tell the main idea “your way”. Topic:
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge Analyze word structure and use
Identify contractions in reading. Make a contractions chart.
Identify possessives in reading. Make a “guide” to writing with possessives.
Writing opinion
Outline a story --emphasis on maintaining a theme
Write the story.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Fifth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature comprehensive
Contrast poetry and prose. Summarize reading “repertoire”—genres you know, skills you use to read them, how and why you read them.
Science Summative assessment
Write report on a topic you have learned.
Social Science Summative assessment
Write report or create booklet or display about a topic you have learned.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge Analyze word structure and use
Write a guide to figuring out the meaning of words. Make a grammar guide.
Writing opinion
Write a guide to writing an opinion.
MATH Summative assessment
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.
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6th
Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Sixth Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION
KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
2. Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
3. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Writing: Argument (CPS Framework Specification) This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading CCSSW6.1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
Establish and maintain a formal style. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
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Sixth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a story? How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
How do you read a story—different genres. How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
Science How do you read nonfiction?
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question.
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question. Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension.
Social Science How do you read nonfiction?
Synthesize information from two different texts, using structure of the texts to find information relevant to the question. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension. Identify main idea and supporting information. Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Figurative language Etymology
Writing argument
Outline extended response; pair to compare the support provided; adjust outline.
Outline then write extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to problem solving
Focus: Short response Extended response My own guide to writing an extended response
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Sixth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a poem? Emphasize author’s craft and structure and theme or message. Compare and contrast poetry and prose.
Explain and demonstrate (use ISAT “stems” ) how to choose the best answer to analytic, inferential, and evaluative questions about a poem, story, nonfiction
Science Reading strategies
How do you read directions?
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems)
Social Science Reading strategies
How do you use information from two different sources to respond to a question (see ISAT sample) Recommended: Focus on Black History with a BIG question.
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems)
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Write guide with examples: Root, prefix, suffix, compound words
Write guide: How to figure out word meaning from context and/or structure.
Writing argument
Write extended response.
Write guide to writing an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
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Sixth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature 5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Analyze writer’s choices—why did the writer include characters, actions, events, descriptions, narrator..
Science Analyze, summarize
How do you use text features, graphics, and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Respond to a BIG question through research: How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Social Science Analyze, summarize
How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Respond to a BIG question through research. How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Words of hope argument writer’s phrases—list to use in writing opinion
Writing argument
Write a poem or letter Outline, then write an argument.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you Analyze to solve them? Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Sixth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature 5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Make a chart of the different genres and techniques that writers use in each. Include techniques a reader uses to interpret each genre.
Read two different texts in different genres developing the same theme. Compare how each writer develops the theme.
Science 6. Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Social Science 6. Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.6.4
Make content area glossary. Make content area glossary.
Writing
Outline then write an argument Outline a report based on the content research.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Sixth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature Summative
Write a guide to reading different genres.
Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Social Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.6.4
Make a thesaurus for literary terms.
Writing
Write a guide to writing a report.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.
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7th
Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Seventh Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS
1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
1. Cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
2. Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
3. Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).
3. Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
5. Analyze how a drama’s or poem’s form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning.
5. Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.
6. Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
6. 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.
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS 8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,
assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
Writing: Argument (CPS Framework Specification -- aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading) CCSSW7.1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Introduce claim(s), acknowledge alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically.
Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), reasons, and evidence.
Establish and maintain a formal style.
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
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Seventh Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a story? How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
How do you read a story—different genres. How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
Science comprehensive
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question. Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension.
Social Science comprehensive
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims. Recommended: relate to Black History
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question. Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension. Recommended: relate to Black History
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem or speech
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Figurative language Etymology
Writing argument
Outline extended response; pair to compare the support provided; adjust outline.
Outline then write extended response.
MATH Math Practice Standard 1: Analyze the problem, then solve it.
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use? Recommended: emphasize graphs
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use? Recommended: emphasize graphs
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Seventh Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a poem? Emphasize author’s craft and structure and theme or message. Compare and contrast poetry and prose.
Explain and demonstrate (use ISAT “stems” ) how to choose the best answer to analytic, inferential, and evaluative questions about a poem, story, nonfiction
Science Reading strategies
How do you read directions? Relate to science content students need for ISAT such as how to interpret a graph.
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems)
Social Science Reading strategies
How do you use information from two different sources to respond to a question (see ISAT sample) Recommended: relate to Black History
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems) Recommended: relate to Black History
Fluency This week’s read-aloud: This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.7.4 Structure and usage
Write guide with examples: Root, prefix, suffix, compound words
Write guide: How to figure out word meaning from context and/or structure.
Writing Argument
Write extended response.
Write guide to writing an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use? Recommended: emphasize graphs
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use? Recommended: emphasize graphs
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Seventh Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature CCSSRL.7.5 Analyze writers’ choices
Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Compare and contrast different genres.
Science CCSSRI.7.2 Summarize, synthesize
How do you use text features, graphics, and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Respond to a BIG question through research: How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Social Science CCSSRI.7.2 Summarize, synthesize
How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Respond to a BIG question through research. How do you use text features and structure to respond to questions and summarize?
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.7.4
Words of hope Words about progress
Writing argument
Write a poem or letter Write a poem or a letter
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you Analyze to solve them? Math Digest
Words about progress
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Seventh Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 ISAT Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.7.1
Make a chart of the different genres and techniques that writers use in each. Include techniques a reader uses to interpret each genre.
Read two different texts in different genres developing the same theme. Compare how each writer develops the theme.
Science research
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Social Science research
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.7.4
Make content area glossary. Make content area glossary.
Writing Expository/explanatory
Locate and collect information for a report. Outline a report based on the content research.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think abstractly and quantitatively
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Seventh Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature Summative assessment
Write a guide to reading different genres.
Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Social Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Make a thesaurus for literary terms.
Writing
Write a guide to writing a report. Contrast it to writing an argument.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think analytically and quantitatively
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.
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8th
Grade THIRD QUARTER LEARNING PRIORITIES
Common Core Eighth Grade Literacy Standards Emphasized
READING LITERATURE READING INFORMATIONAL TEXT/NONFICTION
KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS KEY IDEAS AND DETAILS 1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from text. 1. Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of
what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text.
2. Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.
3. Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.
3. Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., comparisons, analogies, or categories).
CRAFT AND STRUCTURE CRAFT AND STRUCTURE 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including analogies or allusions to other texts.
5. Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.
5. Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.
6. Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.
6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.
INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS 8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,
assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
Writing: Argument (CPS Framework Specification-- This emphasis aligns with the ISAT Extended Response to a Reading) 8.1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence. • Introduce claim(s), acknowledge and distinguish the claim(s) from alternate or opposing claims, and organize the reasons and evidence logically. • Support claim(s) with logical reasoning and relevant evidence, using accurate, credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text • Use words, phrases, and clauses to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among claim(s), counterclaims, reasons, and evidence. • Establish and maintain a formal style. • Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the argument presented.
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Eighth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 20-21
Week 20 Week 21
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a story? How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
How do you read a story—different genres. How does the writer accomplish purpose—not simply to entertain but what is the message the writer wants you to gain from the story or poem? How does the narrator’s point of view influence how the events are described?
Science comprehensive
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question.
How do you read nonfiction? Use text features and structure to organize response to Big Question. Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension.
Social Science
Synthesize information from two different texts, using structure of the texts to find information relevant to the question. Recommended: Relate to Black History
Analyze how illustrations and headings support comprehension. Identify main idea and supporting information. Recommended: relate to Black History
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Figurative language Etymology
Writing argument
Outline extended response; pair to compare the support provided; adjust outline.
Outline then write extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Eighth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 22-23
Week 22 Week 23
Reading Literature comprehensive
How do you read a poem? Emphasize author’s craft and structure and theme or message. Compare and contrast poetry and prose.
Explain and demonstrate (use ISAT “stems” ) how to choose the best answer to analytic, inferential, and evaluative questions about a poem, story, nonfiction
Science Reading strategies
How do you read directions?
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems)
Social Science Reading strategies
How do you use information from two different sources to respond to a question (see ISAT sample) Recommended: relate to Black History
How do you choose the best answer to a text-based question (use ISAT stems) Recommended: relate to Black History
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.8.4
Write guide with examples: Root, prefix, suffix, compound words
Write guide: How to figure out word meaning from context and/or structure.
Writing argument
Write extended response.
Write guide to writing an extended response.
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
Recommended: Comprehensive Math Problem Solving Across the Areas of Math What is the question asking me to figure out? What strategy and operations will I use?
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Eighth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 24-25
Week 24 Week 25
Reading Literature CCSSRL.8.5
Analyze story development of theme
Analyze Analyze questions: What is it asking, how do I figure out the answer?
Analyze Compare and contrast different genres.
Science CCSSRI.8.2
Skills: Analyze kinds of questions. Topic:
Skills: Outline a nonfiction passage. Identify techniques the writer uses. Topic:
Social Science CCSSRI.8.2
Skills: Analyze kinds of questions. Topic:
Skills: Outline a nonfiction passage. Identify techniques the writer uses. Topic:
Fluency Recommended: Model reading/thinking aloud with a poem.
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.8.4 Word structure and usage
Words of hope Words about progress
Writing CCSSW.8.1 argument
Write a poem or letter Write a poem or a letter
MATH Practice Standard 1: analyze problem, then solve it
Analyze ISAT—What kinds of problems does it include? How do you Analyze to solve them?
Focus: Math Digest
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Eighth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Weeks 26-27
Week 26 Week 27
Reading Literature CCSSRL.8.5
Analyze story development of theme
Make a chart of the different genres and techniques that writers use in each. Include techniques a reader uses to interpret each genre.
Read two different texts in different genres developing the same theme. Compare how each writer develops the theme.
Science research
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Social Science research
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Respond to a BIG question through research.
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge CCSSRI.8.4
Make content area glossary. Make content area glossary.
Writing CCSSW.8.1 Expository/explanatory
Locate and collect information for a report. Outline a report based on the content research.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think quantitatively and abstractly
Focus: Math Digest
Focus: Math Digest
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Eighth Grade: Third Quarter Learning Priorities Week 28
Week 28
Reading Literature Summative assessment
Write a guide to reading different genres.
Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Social Science Summative assessment
Complete report
Fluency
This week’s read-aloud:
Word Knowledge
Make a thesaurus for literary terms.
Writing
Write a guide to writing a report. Contrast it to writing an argument.
MATH Practice Standard 2: think analytically and quantitatively
Focus Make math booklet –the math I’ve learned this quarter.