Recognize individuals have responsibilities to the group whether as a leader or as a member.

Describe the unique features of one's nuclear and extended families.

Recognize that cooperation is necessary in working with a group to complete a task.

Employ a variety of strategies to decode words and expand vocabulary.

Understand and apply the alphabetic principle.

Develop critical speaking skills essential for effective communication.

Employ a variety of strategies to generate story ideas.

Evaluate own and others’ writing using a simple classroom rubric.

Define and narrow a research question appropriate to grade level and ability.

Deliver an oral report that demonstrates a gathering of information.

Recognize the relationship of actions and consequences.

Follow simple directions in a short informational text.

Recognize that a variety of graphics can support informational text.

Recognize the ability of media to inform, persuade, and entertain.

Employ a variety of basic reading comprehension strategies.

Identify basic literary elements.

Apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to problem solving, including estimation, and reasonableness of the solution.

Move flexibly between concrete and abstract representations of mathematical ideas in order to solve problems, model mathematical ideas, and communicat...

Read and interpret the language of mathematics and use written/oral communication to express mathematical ideas precisely.

Use technologies/manipulatives appropriately to develop understanding of mathematical algorithms, to facilitate problem solving, and to create accurat...

Compare and order whole numbers to 100.

Use multiple representations (including groups of ten) to model two-digit addition and subtraction.

Understand that addition and subtraction are inverse operations.

Recognize, describe, and draw geometric figures.

Use non-standard units in linear measurement.