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Reading
1st Quarter Reading
Establish Daily Five Routines
Assess for Fluency and Reading Comprehension
Referring to text for details and to make inferences
Figuring out the Main Idea of passage
Summarizing important details of a passage
Figuring out the Theme of a passage
Working in small groups
2nd Quarter Reading
Small group instruction
Novel Studies
Reading Non Fiction for understanding
Basics of Researching for information
Writing-Informational and Research Writing
3rd Quarter Reading
Small Group Instruction on targeted Reading Skills-Inferencing, Summarizing, Comparing and Contrasting Stories, Text Features and Text Structure
Language Skills
Novel Studies/Literature Circles
Reading Non Fiction and Fiction
Math
1st Quarter
place value to the millions, rounding numbers, fluency with multiplication/addition/subtraction, two digit by two digit multiplication,
2nd Quarter
Long Division, Division with remainders, multi step problem solving, Angles/polygons, naming and measuring angles, rotations, rotational symmetry, triangles (naming and determining area/perimeter), transformations, arrays, estimation of products, multi-step word problems, Metric measure (length, distance, area, volume, capacity, mass, and temperature).
3rd Quarter numeric/geometric patterns, functions, graphs, coordinate plane, graphing a function, line graphs, fraction identification, comparing fractions, fractions w/ like and unlike denominators, data and probability, multiplication of fractions, relating fractions to decimals
4th Quarter Three dimensional figures, decimals (comparing and ordering, identifying on the number line, adding/subtracting, estimation w/decimals and fractions), US Customary System (length, weight, volume, capacity, time, and temperature).
Reading
1st Quarter Reading
Establish Daily Five Routines
Assess for Fluency and Reading Comprehension
Referring to text for details and to make inferences
Figuring out the Main Idea of passage
Summarizing important details of a passage
Figuring out the Theme of a passage
Working in small groups
2nd Quarter Reading
Small group instruction
Novel Studies
Reading Non Fiction for understanding
Basics of Researching for information
Writing-Informational and Research Writing
3rd Quarter Reading
Small Group Instruction on targeted Reading Skills-Inferencing, Summarizing, Comparing and Contrasting Stories, Text Features and Text Structure
Language Skills
Novel Studies/Literature Circles
Reading Non Fiction and Fiction
Math
1st Quarter
place value to the millions, rounding numbers, fluency with multiplication/addition/subtraction, two digit by two digit multiplication,
2nd Quarter
Long Division, Division with remainders, multi step problem solving, Angles/polygons, naming and measuring angles, rotations, rotational symmetry, triangles (naming and determining area/perimeter), transformations, arrays, estimation of products, multi-step word problems, Metric measure (length, distance, area, volume, capacity, mass, and temperature).
3rd Quarter numeric/geometric patterns, functions, graphs, coordinate plane, graphing a function, line graphs, fraction identification, comparing fractions, fractions w/ like and unlike denominators, data and probability, multiplication of fractions, relating fractions to decimals
4th Quarter Three dimensional figures, decimals (comparing and ordering, identifying on the number line, adding/subtracting, estimation w/decimals and fractions), US Customary System (length, weight, volume, capacity, time, and temperature).