§         Apply an integrated strategy for word identification and continue to expand reading vocabulary.

§         Read text using self-monitoring comprehension strategies.

§         Make a variety of meaningful, relevant connections to text.

§         Make, and support with evidence, assertions about texts.

§         Analyze texts and respond with higher levels of thinking about a story and extend understanding.

§         Analyze texts to identify literary elements.

§         Read and understand essential content of information texts.

§         Read independently for enjoyment.

§         Refine use of revising and editing with peers: revise, proofread, and edit own work.

§         Independently use the writing process for extended personal narratives and create pieces, working on dialogue and description.

§         Use a variety of ways to develop and enrich informative paragraphs.

§         Learn persuasive writing techniques in paragraphs, letters, editorials, and literary response.

§         Use legible handwriting with uniform size and spacing.

§         Learn assigned spelling words to be accountable for correct spelling across the curriculum.

§         Apply rules for using prefixes and suffixes.

§         Give oral report that expresses opinions and defines point of view using notes and outline.

§         Explain reasoning behind an answer.

§         Follow multi-step directions.

§         Learn study skills and test taking strategies.

§         Begin using electronic research skills.

§         Use multiple resources, note taking, and outlining to write an original report with introduction and conclusion.

§         Learn bibliography skills.

§         Follow capitalization and punctuation rules learned previously.

§         Apply correct usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in final drafts of compositions.

§         Vary sentence structure by using compound sentences.

§         Use commas with phrases and clauses.

§         Review parts of speech and basic parts of a sentence.

§         Write to a persuasive prompt.

§         Find the factors of a number.

§         Know place value to billions, trillions.

§         Know place value to hundredths, thousandths.

§         Determine whether number sentences are true or false.

§         Understand the function and placement of parentheses in number sentences.

§         Convert between fractions, decimals, mixed numbers, and percents.

§         Find common denominators.

§         Write and solve number sentences with variables.

§         Rename numbers written in exponential notation.

§         Compare, order, add, and subtract integers and fractions.

§         Round decimals to a given place.

§         Measure to nearest 1/16 of an inch.

§         Apply and explain problem solving strategies.

§         Write algebraic expressions to represent situations.

§         Use formulas to find areas of rectangles, polygons, circles, and bases of prisms.

§         Distinguish between circumference and area of a circle.

§         Understand the concepts of area and volume of a figure.

§         Plot ordered pairs on a one-quadrant coordinate grid.

§         Identify and use maximum, minimum, median, mode, and mean for a data set.

§         Interpret mystery line plots and graphs.

§         Understand and use tree diagrams to solve problems.

§         Discuss major events of the Revolutionary War.

§         Describe the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the structure of the U. S. government.

§         Identify landforms and bodies of water in the U. S.

§         Explain the differences among the middle, northwest, and southwest regions.

§         Analyze reasons for and results of the westward expansion.

§         Explain the essential role of elections and voting in our changing society.

§         Identify current events that impact upon the United States.

§         Discuss basic human needs.

§         Relate eating habits to growth and development.

§         Recognize emotional and physical changes as related to human growth and development.

§         Learn the differences between communicable and non-communicable diseases, including AIDS.

§         Discuss decisions and consequences relating to drugs, alcohol, and tobacco.

The Physically Educated Person:

§         Has learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities.

§         Is physically fit.

§         Does participate regularly in physical activity.

§         Knows the implications of and benefits from involvement in physical activity.

§         Values physical activity and its contribution to a healthful lifestyle.

§         Locate appropriate materials in all library collections.

§         Use appropriate reference sources, both print and electronic.

§         Collect, evaluate, and organize information.

§         Research and report on several topics. Write a full bibliography.

§         Use various non-print resources to retrieve and present information.

§         Demonstrate appropriate behavior with print and electronic resources.

§         Enjoy various forms of literature, including different genres of fiction.

§         Identify color values (tints, shades).

§         Identify analogous and monochromatic color schemes.

§         Use primary sketches and pre-planning to assist in making choices and improving ideas.

§         Construct a non-functional form using additive methods.

§         Apply the concepts of one-point perspective to a drawing that creates the illusion of three-dimensions.

§         Apply various aspects of pigment color theory (shades, tints, values, monochromatic, analogous) to achieve a creative solution to a visual problem.

§         Associate artworks from Paleolithic times to the Renaissance, with a historical time period based on stylistic characteristics, the use of materials and techniques, and/or other visual evidence present in the artworks.

§         Write a detailed description about the subject matter of an artwork.

§         Learn about European composers.

§         Recognize and accompany songs using I and V chords.

§         Awareness of C, F and G scales.

§         Awareness of accidentals (sharp, flat and natural signs).

§         Learn about American folk music styles.

§         Perform rhythms that include dotted eighth note.

§         Perform more advanced melodic and rhythmic ostinatos.