LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading

Ask and answer questions about a story!
Retell a story!
Identify character, settings, and events in a story!
Identify words and phrases that suggest feelings!
Explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction books!
Identify who is telling the story in different parts of the text!
Use illustrations and details to describe characters, settings, and events!
Compare/contrast adventures and experiences of characters!
Read prose and poetry!
Ask and answer questions about key details of a story!
Identify the main idea and recall key details!
Describe the connection between people, events, ideas, or information in a story!
Determine and clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a story!
Use text features to find new information in a text!
Distinguish between information given by illustrations and information given by the written text!
Use the illustrations and details to describe key ideas!
Identify the reasons an author gives to support the text!
Identify similarities and differences between two texts that are about the same topic!
Read informational texts!
Recognize the features of a sentence!
Distinguish long and short vowels!
Produce single syllable words by blending sounds!
Isolate and produce initial, medial and ending sounds!
Break a word into individual sounds!
Recognize common consonant digraphs!
Decode one-syllable words!
Use final e and common vowel teams for long vowel sounds!
Understand that every syllable must contain a vowel!
Decode two-syllable words!
Read words with inflectional endings!
Recognize and read irregularly spelled words!
Read with accuracy and fluency!

Writing

Write about an opinion!
Write about a topic!
Write a narrative!
Work with others to strengthen my writing!
Work with others and use digital tools to create writing projects!
Work with others to research for writing projects!
Answer questions from what I know or from new resources!

Speaking/Listening~

Work in a group following proper listening and speaking rules!
Ask and answer questions about important details!
Ask and answer questions when I don't understand!
Describe people, places, things and ideas!
Use pictures to help my description!
Speak clearly to express my thoughts!

Oral Language

Print all uppercase and lowercase letters!
Use common, proper and possessive nouns!
Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns!
Use past, present and future tense verbs!
Use frequently occurring adjectives!
Use determiners!
Use frequently occurring prepositions!
Write complete simple sentences!
Write complete compound sentences!
Capitalize dates and names of people!
Use commas in dates and to separate a series of words!
Spell words correctly!
Spell unknown words phonetically!
Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words!
Understand figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings!
Use new words and phrases that I have learned from listening and reading!

MATH

Answer word problems.
Answer word problems that add three numbers.
Understand how addition and subtraction is related.
Use subtraction to answer an addition problem.
Count on to any number.
Solve addition problems.
Solve subtraction problems.
Say my addition facts to 10.
Say my subtraction facts to 10.
Explain what an equal sign means.
Recognize true and false equations.
Find the unknown number.
Count to 120 beginning from any number my teacher says.
Compare numbers to answer greater than, less than, and equal to questions.
Understand place value. (Tens and Ones)
Add tens and ones.
Find 10 more.
Find 10 less.
Explain and subtract multiples of 10.
Compare objects by length.
Measure lengths of objects using other smaller objects.
Write the time. (digital)
Write the time. (analog)
Read a graph.
Create a graph.
Describe shapes.
Build shapes.
Draw shapes.
Create 2-dimensional shapes.
Create 3-dimensional shapes.
Divide shapes into equal parts.
Understand and explain halves.
Understand and explain fourths.
Understand and explain quarters.

Alhambra Primary School