Iggie's House

Age 7-9: Concept 4 - Relationships: Unit 3

Summary of Skills

• Analyze characters, including their traits, relationships, actions, and changes. (Language Arts)
• Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate. (Language Arts)
• Choose the correct irregular verb when used in a sentence. (Language Arts)
• Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to experience and gain knowledge. (Language Arts)
• Connect life experiences with the life experiences and cultures of others. (Language Arts)
• Develop drafts. (Language Arts)
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts. (Language Arts)
• Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writings. (Language Arts)
• Explain and describe new vocabulary in own words. (Language Arts)
• Generate ideas for writing by using prewriting techniques such as drawing and listing key thoughts. (Language Arts)
• Identify contractions and use them in writing. (Language Arts)
• Identify fact and opinion statements. (Language Arts)
• Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (Language Arts)
• Make inferences and draw conclusions. (Language Arts)
• Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products. (Language Arts)
• Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand or interpret text. (Language Arts)
• Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays. (Language Arts)
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text. (Language Arts)
• Recognize the story problem(s) or plot. (Language Arts)
• Record knowledge of a topic in various ways such as by drawing pictures. (Language Arts)
• Respond to events and characters in stories. (Language Arts)
• Revise selected drafts for varied purposes, including to achieve a sense of audience, precise word choices, and vivid images. (Language Arts)
• Use basic capitalization and punctuation correctly, such as capitalizing names and first letters in sentences, using periods, question marks, and exclamation points. (Language Arts)
• Use more complex capitalization and punctuation with increasing accuracy such as proper nouns, abbreviations, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks. (Language Arts)
• Use verbal and nonverbal communication in effective ways such as making announcements, giving directions, or making introductions. (Language Arts)
• Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain. (Language Arts)
• Write sentences using plural and singular subjects and check for subject verb agreement. (Language Arts)
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization. (Language Arts)
• Write to communicate with a variety of audiences. (Language Arts)
• Write to discover, develop, and refine ideas. (Language Arts)
• Write to record ideas and reflections. (Language Arts)
• Write with more proficient spelling of inflectional endings, including plurals and verb tenses. (Language Arts)
• Recognize the story problem or plot. (LA) (Science)
• Identify examples of responsible citizen participation in society and social environments. (Social Studies)
• Identify historical figures and events associated with various cultural traditions and holidays celebrated around the world. (Social Studies)
• Identify individuals of diverse cultures and describe their contributions to society. (Social Studies)
• Identify the absolute and relative location of communities. (Social Studies)