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English E/W.3.1 The student will use effective communication skills in group activities.
- Listen attentively by making eye contact, facing the speaker, asking questions, and paraphrasing what is said.
- Ask and respond to questions from teachers and other group members.
- Explain what has been learned.
E/W.3.2 The student will present brief oral reports.
- Speak clearly.
- Use appropriate volume and pitch.
- Speak at an understandable rate.
- Organize ideas sequentially or around major points of information.
- Use clear and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
E/W.3.4 The student will use strategies to read a variety of printed materials (nonfiction, fiction, poetry).
- Preview and use text formats.
- Set a purpose for reading.
- Apply meaning clues, language structure, and phonetic strategies.
- Reread and self-correct when necessary.
E/W.3.5 The student will demonstrate comprehension of a variety of printed materials.
- Set a purpose for reading.
- Make connections between previous experiences and reading selections.
- Make, confirm, or revise predictions.
- Ask and answer questions.
- Organize information or events logically.
- Use information to learn about new topics.
- Write about what is read.
E/W.3.6 The student will continue to read a variety of fiction and nonfiction selections.
- Identify the characteristics of biographies and autobiographies.
- Compare and contrast the lives of two persons as described in biographies and/or autobiographies.
E/W.3.7 The student will write descriptive paragraphs.
- Develop a plan for writing.
- Focus on a central idea.
- Group related ideas.
- Include descriptive details that elaborate the central idea.
- Revise writing for clarity.
- Edit final copies for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
E/W.3.8 The student will write stories, letters, simple explanations, and short reports across all content
areas.
- Use a variety of planning strategies.
- Organize information according to the type of writing.
- Revise writing for specific vocabulary and information.
- Edit final copies for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Use available technology.
E/W.3.10 The student will record information from print and nonprint resources.
- Use dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference books.
- Use videos, interviews, and cassette recordings.
- Use available technology.
Social Studies
HSS.3.2 The student will describe the discovery of the Americas by Columbus and
other European explorers and also the first permanent Spanish, French, and English settlements in North America, with emphasis on the people (explorers and their sponsors), their motivations, the obstacles they encountered, and the successes they achieved.
HSS.2.9 The student will identify examples of the extension of the privileges and responsibilities of
citizenship in American history and identify the contributions of individuals and groups, including Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
HSS.1.2 The student will understand through biographies and stories the deeds for which our nation honors leaders from the past, including a variety of political, scientific, social, and military leaders, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington Carver, Jane Addams, and John Paul Jones.
HSS.K.1 The student will understand that history relates to events and people of other times and places by identifying examples of past events in legends and historical accounts, including Paul Revere's ride and the stories of Johnny Appleseed, Booker T. Washington, and Betsy Ross; identifying examples of interesting Americans through exposure to of important people of the past, including George Washington, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, and Davy Crockett;
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