Here are priority standards that we will focus on this year:

Reading Foundations

• Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Reading Literature

• Ask and answer Who, What, Where, When, Why and How questions.
• Retell stories (including fables and folktales).
• Determine the central message, lesson, or moral of stories, fables, and folktales.
• Describe characters (character traits).
• Describe how characters respond to events and challenges.

Reading Information

• Ask and answer Who, What, Where, When, Why and How questions. 
• Identify the main idea of a multi-paragraph text.
• Identify the focus of paragraphs in a text.
• Tell how ideas are connected.

 

Reading includes three parts: decoding (saying the words), fluency (smooth, expressive reading), and comprehension.

Decoding strategies include:

• Getting your mouth ready
• Looking for chunks you know (ex. "at")
• Looking for picture clues
• Think about the story.  What word would be make sense?
• Does it look right?
• Does it sound right?
• Does it make sense?

 

Comprehension strategies include:

• Schema and making connections
• Visualizing/sensory images
• Questioning/wondering
• Inferring
• Determining importance
• Synthesizing

Second Grade High Frequency Word List

Updated: September 1, 2017

 

about	clothes	its	show	today
across	color	just	sky	together
after	done	keep	start	try
almost	dear	know	something	under
always	door	little	sure	until
any	draw	mother	take	use
anything	drink	much	tell	which
around	each	next	than	while
ask	father	once	think	wish
become	found	only	their	won’t
been	four	open	them	work
before	gave	pick	there	world
behind	goes	read	these	would
both	high	right	think	write
buy	home	room	they’re	year
can’t	I’m	school	those	yesterday
close	it’s	should	though	you’re

First Grade High Frequency Word List

Updated: September 1, 2017

  

all	came	didn’t	again
away	have	don’t	because
back	help	eat	could
big	next	from	does
her	now	give	every
over	one	good	laugh
this	some	make	many
want	then	of	new
who	was	out	night
with	what	saw	very
when	why	were	walk
Additional First Grade Words
an	by	do	love
had	how	his	put
did	best	get	but
him	too	that	two
has	our	if	say
or	run	us	find
as	jump

Kindergarten High Frequency Word List

 Updated: September 1, 2017

 

 

a	dad	and	day
I	he	are	down
no	in	come	into
am	it	for	looking
at	look	got	she
can	mom	here	they
go	my	not	went
is	on	play	where
like	up	said	will
me	we	you	your
see	the	to

 

 

Current focus:  Getting Startesd


Priority standards that we will focus on this year in writing include:

* Write opinion pieces that include:  stating an opinion, giving reasons and examples to support your opinion, including linking words (such as and, also, because, ...).

 * Write informational pieces that include: introducing the topic, telling facts and definitions, words that tell order (first, next, then, after that, finally, ...) and a wrap-up (ending).

 * Write narrative pieces that recount an event (or series of events) and include: details that describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, words to signal order (first, next, then, after than, later, finally, ...), and a wrap-up sentence that provides a sense of closure.

Priority standards that we will focus on this year in speaking and listening include:

* Participate in collaborative conversations in small and large groups.

 * Follow agreed upon rules for discussion.  For example, listen when other are speaking, look at the speaker, agree or disagree respectfully, etc.

* Build on others' talk.  For example, add an additional detail or example to something another person said.

* Ask for clarification and further explanation.  For example, "Can you tell me how you got this answer?"

Priority standards that we will focus on this year in math include:

Numbers & Operations in Base Ten 

* Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

* Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of the comparisons.

* Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

* Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method.  Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

* Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Operations & Algebraic Thinking

* Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

* Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.  By the end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Measurement & Data

* Measure the length of an object twice, using different units for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit chosen.

* Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

* Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units.  For example, by using drawings (such as drawings of rulers) and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

* Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

* Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. 

* Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories.  Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information represented in a bar graph.

Geometry

* Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.  Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

* Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc. and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths.  Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

We focus heavily on practice 1.

Practice 1:

Make sense of problems, and persevere in solving them.

Practice 2:

Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

Practice 3:

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Practice 4:

Model with mathematics.

Practice 5:

Use appropriate tools strategically.

Practice 6:

Attend to precision.

Practice 7:

Look for and make use of structure.

Practice 8:

Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.