Language Arts Requirements

• Interested in being read to
• Able to converse about what is being read
• Able to hold a pencil
• Has a beginning interest in sounds and letters

Language Arts Requirements

• Knows letters and their sounds
• Able to write letters
• Usually used by children in first grade

Reading Requirements

• Recognize upper and lower case letters
• Write upper and lower case letters
• Identify the sounds of the letters

Math Requirements

• Has completed the Age 4-5 level or another kindergarten program
• Recognizes and understands numbers 1-20
• Can write the numbers 1-20
• Usually used by children in first grade

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend simple picture books
• Able to write simple sentences independently
• Usually used by children in second grade

Reading Requirements

• Read short and long vowel spellings
• Recognize common blends and digraphs
• Read R-controlled vowels
• Read and comprehend simple early readers
• Write simple sentences independently

Math Requirements

• Knows addition and subtraction facts to 10
• Understands place value to the tens
• Can add and subtract two-digit numbers
• Usually used by children in the second grade

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend chapter books on a 3rd or early 4th grade reading level
• Can answer comprehension questions about a chapter in a journal
• Able to write three or four sentences on a topic
• Usually used by children in third grade

Math Requirements

• Can add and subtract three-digit numbers
• Able to interpret pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots
• Understands place value to 1000
• Usually used by children in the third grade

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend chapter books at a 4th or 5th grade reading level
• Able to write an organized paragraph
• Usually used by children in fourth grade

Math Requirements

• Can add and subtract four-digit numbers
• Able to multiply fluently within 100
• Can identify, create, and compare simple fractions
• Able to explain and find perimeter and area of simple polygons
• Usually used by children in the fourth grade

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend novels at a late 5th or 6th grade reading level
• Able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic
• Usually used by children in fifth grade

Math Requirements

• Understands place value to 1,000,000 and to .001
• Able to mulitply multi-digit numbers (526 × 62)
• Can complete long division with remainders (6213 <span style="font-family:serif;">÷</span> 4)
• Can add, subtract, multiply, and simplify fractions

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend novels at a late 6th or 7th grade reading level
• Able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic
• Familiar with the five-paragraph essay
• Usually used by children in the sixth grade

Math Requirements

• Able to mulitply fractions, including mixed numbers, and divide unit fractions
• Able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimal numbers to the hundredths place
• Can graph points with positive-number coordinates on a coordinate plane
• Able to find the volume of rectangular prisms

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend novels at a late 7th or 8th grade reading level
• Able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic
• Familiar with the five-paragraph essay
• Usually used by children in the seventh grade.

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read and comprehend novels at an 8th or 9th grade reading level
• Able to write multiple paragraphs on a topic
• Can write a five-paragraph essay
• Usually used by children in the eighth grade

Language Arts Requirements

• Able to read books and texts at a high school reading level
• Experience writing a five-paragraph essay
• Usually used by students in the 9th or 10th grade
• Familiar with the conventions of poetry and short stories
• Able to understand, interpret, and apply figurative language techniques in reading and writing
• Some basic experience with creative writing