All Standards
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AL 1
Demonstrate number sense by comparing, ordering, and expanding whole numbers through 9999.
• Comparing numbers using the symbols
• Identifying the place value of any digit within a four-digit number
• Writing a four-digit number in words and locating it on a number line
• Determining the value of a number written in expanded notation to the ten-thousands place
Example: 3,000 + 400 + 20 + 1 = 3,421
• Rounding whole numbers to the nearest ten and hundred and money values to the nearest dollar
3298
AL 1
Demonstrate number sense by comparing, ordering, rounding, and expanding whole numbers through millions and decimals to thousandths.
• Relating percents to parts out of 100 by using equivalent fractions and decimals
• Determining the value of a digit to thousandths
3308
AL 1
Demonstrate word recognition skills, including structural analysis.
Example: structural analysis--prefixes, suffixes, root words
• Producing common word parts
• Reading multisyllable words
• Reading compound words, contractions, possessives, and inflectional endings
3317
AL 1
Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge, including recognition of multiple-meaning words.
• Identifying word "chunks" or parts
Example: mark, remark, or able in remarkable
• Recognizing inflected endings
Examples: ed, ing
• Identifying possessives and contractions
3322
AL 10
Apply mechanics in writing, including capitalization of proper nouns and titles of people and appropriate end marks, abbreviations, and commas with dates.
• Identifying friendly letter parts and related punctuation marks
• Using apostrophes with contractions and possessives
• Underlining or italicizing book titles
• Using commas to separate items in a series, in a physical address, and before the conjunction in a compound sentence
3315
AL 10
Demonstrate knowledge of grammar and usage concepts, including subject-verb agreement with a compound subject; present, past, and future verb tenses; forms of adjectives; forms of nouns; and subject, object, and possessive pronouns.
• Writing sentences without the use of double negatives
• Identifying homonyms, homophones, and homographs
Examples:
-homonym--as in a bat and a ball, a bat in a cave
-homophone--as in a bear in a forest, a bare spot in the lawn
-homograph--as in a bass in a lake, a bass singing voice
• Using irregular verbs in writing
• Using adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, nouns, and verbs in writing
• Demonstrating correct use of prepositions and interjections
3325
AL 11
Demonstrate knowledge of subject-verb agreement with simple subjects and correct usage of regular and irregular verb forms.
Examples:
subject-verb agreement--she walks, they walk
regular verb form--like, liked, liked
irregular verb form--draw, drew, drawn
• Differentiating among helping, linking, and action verbs
• Demonstrating correct use of nouns, pronouns, conjunctions, adjectives, and adverbs
3321
AL 11
Recognize nouns, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, and adjectives in written texts.
• Demonstrating use of nouns, verbs, pronouns, conjunctions, adjectives, and verb tenses in writing
• Demonstrating use of subject-verb agreement in writing
• Demonstrating use of forms of adjectives in writing
3316
AL 12
Recognize data as either categorical or numerical.
Examples: categorical-gender, race, languages spoken, genre; numerical-age, height, weight
• Comparing related data sets
3303
AL 2
Write money amounts in words and dollar-and-cent notation.
• Identifying equivalent units of money
3304
AL 2
Solve addition and subtraction problems, including word problems, involving two- and three-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
• Estimating sums and differences by using compatible numbers, front-end estimation, and rounding
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• Demonstrating computational fluency in addition and subtraction
3299
AL 2
Demonstrate reading vocabulary knowledge of compound words.
• Using structural analysis to develop meaning
Examples: prefixes, suffixes, root words
• Drawing semantic maps
• Recognizing new synonyms and antonyms
• Spelling correctly compound words, phonetically regular words, contractions, and possessives, including using dictionary to check spelling
3311
AL 2
Use a range of strategies, including drawing conclusions such as opinions about characters based on their actions and summarizing passages, to comprehend fifth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
• Determining sequence of events in recreational reading materials
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Distinguishing fiction and nonfiction
• Using sentence structure and context to determine meaning
• Using prior knowledge and experience to interpret meaning
• Skimming passages to obtain primary message
• Inferring motive of characters
3323
AL 3
Use a wide range of strategies, including distinguishing fiction from nonfiction and making inferences, to comprehend fourth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
Examples: novels, short stories, poetry, trade books
• Skimming passages to get significance of passage
• Summarizing passages to restate information
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using knowledge of sentence structure and context to enhance comprehension
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using vocabulary knowledge to enhance comprehension
• Reading fluently with expression and attention to punctuation
• Drawing conclusions to determine content not directly stated
• Asking and answering questions
• Relating events, ideas, and characters to prior knowledge and specific life experiences
3318
AL 3
Use a wide range of strategies, including using context clues and predicting outcomes, to comprehend third-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
Examples: stories, trade books, poems
• Reading fluently 110-120 words per minute
• Identifying literary elements and devices
Examples: characters, similes
• Determining sequence of events
• Distinguishing fiction from nonfiction
• Using sentence structure to assist in comprehension
• Drawing conclusions to determine authors' intent
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using vocabulary knowledge to construct meaning
• Relating main ideas to prior knowledge and specific life experiences
• Previewing and predicting to anticipate content
• Utilizing text features to gain meaning
• Using prior knowledge and experience
3312
AL 3
Solve word problems that involve decimals, fractions, or money.
• Solving word problems involving elapsed time
3309
AL 3
Multiply whole numbers with and without regrouping using single-digit multipliers.
• Applying concepts of multiplication through the use of manipulatives, number stories, arrays, repeated addition, or problem situations
• Applying basic multiplication facts through 9x9 by using manipulatives, solving problems, and writing number stories
• Recognizing properties of multiplication
3300
AL 4
Divide whole numbers using two-digit dividends and one-digit divisors.
• Recognizing division as repeated subtraction
3301
AL 4
Locate population shifts due to geographic, economic, and historic changes in the Western Hemisphere.
Examples:
- geographic-floods, hurricanes;
- economic-crop failures
- historic-disease, war
• Identifying human and physical criteria used to define regions
Examples:
- human-city boundaries, school district lines;
physical-hemispheres, regions within continents or countries
3296
AL 4
Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including retelling information, using context clues, and making inferences to identify main idea, to comprehend third-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Using sentence structure to assist in comprehension
• Distinguishing main idea from details
• Summarizing passages to demonstrate understanding
• Utilizing text features to gain meaning
Examples: titles, headings, glossary, boldface, index, table of contents, maps, charts, tables
• Using vocabulary knowledge to enhance comprehension
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding
• Following simple written directions
• Ordering by importance or chronology
3313
AL 4
Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend fifth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events
• Determining cause and effect
• Distinguishing fact from opinion
• Using previewing and predicting skills to determine content
• Using sentence structure and context to determine word meaning
• Using prior knowledge and experience to interpret meaning
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding
Examples: rereading, accessing prior knowledge and experiences
• Using expanded vocabulary to determine word meaning
• Recognizing persuasive techniques
• Skimming passages to get significance of passage
• Using reference materials
3324
AL 5
Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
• Determining sequence of events in informational and functional text
• Distinguishing fact from opinion in informational text
• Summarizing passages to demonstrate understanding
• Comparing and contrasting to extend meaning
• Using self-monitoring for text understanding, including rereading and adjusting rate and speed of reading
• Using text features to gain meaning
Examples: titles, headings, glossary, boldface, index, table of contents, tables, charts, graphs
• Previewing to anticipate content
• Using note-taking skills, including highlighting and outlining
• Detecting obvious bias in informational text
• Recognizing persuasive techniques in informational text
Examples: bandwagon, snob appeal
3319
AL 5
Identify national and international trading patterns of the United States.
• Differentiating between producers and consumers and imports and exports
Examples:
- producers-suppliers, sellers;
- consumers-buyers;
- imports-coffee from Colombia, pineapples from Hawaii
- exports-corn from Iowa
3297
AL 6
Use coins to make change up to $1.00.
• Determining monetary values of sets of unlike coins and bills up to $5.00
3302
AL 6
Solve problems, including word problems, that involve addition and subtraction of four-digit numbers with and without regrouping.
• Estimating sums and differences of whole numbers by using appropriate strategies such as rounding, front-end estimation, and compatible numbers
• Adding and subtracting decimals and money amounts
3305
AL 7
Solve problems, including word problems, involving the basic operations of multiplication and division on whole numbers through two-digit multipliers and one-digit divisors.
• Estimating products and quotients of whole numbers by using appropriate strategies such as rounding, front-end estimation, and compatible numbers
• Identifying information needed to determine the appropriate operation to solve a problem
• Demonstrating computational fluency in multiplication and division fact families through 12
3306
AL 7
Write a number sentence for a problem expressed in words.
3310
AL 7
Compare fictional characters and events to real-life experiences.
Example: relating hardships faced by early settlers in literature to hardships faced by families today
3314
AL 8
Recognize equivalent forms of commonly used fractions and decimals.
Examples: ¼ = .25, ¼ of a dollar = $.25 (25 cents)
3307
AL 9
Respond in writing to open-ended questions.
• Utilizing bullets to organize major details and ideas to support a topic
3320