Poppy

Age 7-9: Concept 3 - Cycles: Unit 1

Summary of Skills

• Analyze characters' actions and the consequences. (Language Arts)
• Ask and answer relevant questions. (Language Arts)
• Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process: planning and drafting, rereading for meaning, revising to clarify, and refining writing with guided discussion. (Language Arts)
• Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to expand knowledge. (Language Arts)
• Connect experiences and ideas with those of others. (Language Arts)
• Describe a character in own words. (Language Arts)
• Develop vocabulary by listening to and discussing both familiar and conceptually challenging selections. (Language Arts)
• Discuss an author's choices for nouns, verbs, modifiers, and specific vocabulary, which help the reader comprehend a text or make the text more interesting. (Language Arts)
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts among texts. (Language Arts)
• Explain new concepts and information in own words. (Language Arts)
• Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking and writing, such as using subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and correct tense. (Language Arts)
• Identify synonyms and antonyms of words. (Language Arts)
• Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (Language Arts)
• Locate and discuss examples of an author's use of punctuation. (Language Arts)
• Locate and discuss examples of the author's use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader. (Language Arts)
• Make inferences and draw conclusions. (Language Arts)
• Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences). (Language Arts)
• Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays. (Language Arts)
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions. (Language Arts)
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text. (Language Arts)
• Recognize distinguishing features of familiar genres. (Language Arts)
• Represent text information in different ways, including story maps, graphs, and charts. (Language Arts)
• Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying. (Language Arts)
• Summarize events in a passage. (Language Arts)
• Use correct punctuation in own writing. (Language Arts)
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to draw connections between literature and one's own life. (Language Arts)
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages. (Language Arts)
• Use resources, references, and context to build word meaning. (Language Arts)
• Use structural cues such as prefixes and suffixes to recognize words, for example, un- and -ly. (Language Arts)
• Use structural cues to recognize words such as compound, base words, and inflections such as -s, -es, -ed, and -ing. (Language Arts)
• Use technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose. (Language Arts)
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization. (Language Arts)
• Conduct investigations using simple tools. (Science)
• Examine food chains in nature. (Science)
• Identify characteristics of living organisms. (Science)
• Recognize cause and effect relationships. (Science)
• Compare similarities and differences between self and others. (Social Studies)
• Describe the interdependence among people in a community. (Social Studies)
• Evaluate rules and laws and appropriate consequences for noncompliance. (Social Studies)
• Interpret maps and pictures of locations. (Social Studies)