Summary of Skills
Age 7-9 - Concept 4: Relationships
Unit 1: The Rain Forest [S]
Language Arts
- Discuss the effects of an author's word choice.
- Recognize and comprehend figurative language.
Science
- Ask and answer questions about organisms, objects, and events.
- Compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and their environments.
- Construct reasonable explanations and draw conclusions using information and prior knowledge.
- Identify characteristics of living organisms.
- Identify the external characteristics of different kinds of plants and animals that allow their needs to be met.
- Identify uses of natural resources.
- Observe and record the functions of plant parts.
Social Studies
- Cite ways people modify the physical environment to meet their needs and explain the consequences.
- Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
- Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence.
- Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their families and communities.
- Identify natural resources and cite ways people conserve and replenish natural resources.
- Interpret maps, charts, and pictures of locations.
Unit 1: One Day in the Tropical Rain Forest [LA]
Language Arts
- Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process.
- Comprehend and examine an author's decisions and word choice.
- Demonstrate learning through productions and displays such as murals, written and oral reports, and dramatizations.
- Develop drafts.
- Develop vocabulary by listening to and discussing both familiar and conceptually challenging selections read aloud.
- Develop vocabulary through reading.
- Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts.
- Discuss the effect of an author's choices for nouns, verbs, modifiers, and specific vocabulary to help the reader comprehend a narrative or expository text.
- Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writings.
- Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words.
- Generate ideas for writing by using prewriting techniques such as drawing and listing key thoughts.
- Identify the musical elements of literary language, such as metaphor.
- Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard.
- Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
- Locate and discuss examples of an author's use of specific word choice.
- Make predictions about events in text.
- Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products.
- Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.
- Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
- Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
- Recognize the story problem(s) or plot.
- Represent text information in different ways - including story maps, graphs, and charts.
- Respond to stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding: discussion (speculating and questioning), writing, movement, music, art, and drama.
- Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying.
- Retell or act out the order of important events in stories.
- Revise selected drafts to achieve a sense of audience, make precise word choices, and create vivid images.
- Use editing to check and confirm correct use of conventions.
- Use multiple sources including print, technology, and experts, to locate answers to questions.
- Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
- Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain.
- Write to communicate with a variety of audiences.
- Write to discover, develop, and refine ideas.
Science
- Ask and answer questions about organisms, objects, and events.
- Classify and sequence organisms, objects, and events based on properties and patterns.
- Compare and give examples of the ways living organisms depend on each other and their environments.
- Recognize the story problem or plot. (LA)
Social Studies
- Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence.
- Identify the absolute and relative location of communities.
- Interpret maps, charts, and pictures of locations.
Unit 2: Government and the People [SS]
Social Studies
- Analyze and evaluate the effects of responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
- Compare the roles of public officials including mayor, governor, and president.
- Demonstrate responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
- Describe how governments establish order, provide security, and manage conflict.
- Evaluate relationships between people and their government.
- Evaluate rules and laws and suggest appropriate consequences for noncompliance.
- Explain how selected customs, symbols, and celebrations reflect an American love of individualism, inventiveness, and freedom.
- Explain the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations such as Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving.
- Identify and describe attributes of responsible citizenship.
- Identify and explain the functions of local governmental bodies and elected officials.
- Identify functions of governments.
- Identify historical people who have exemplified good citizenship.
- Identify national patriotic symbols.
- Identify responsible courses of action in given situations and assess the consequences of irresponsible behavior.
- Identify some governmental buildings in the community, state, and nation and explain their importance.
- Identify some governmental services in the community such as libraries, schools, and parks and explain their value to the community.
- Identify ways that public officials are selected, including election and appointment to office.
- Recognize and demonstrate examples of the elective process.
- Recognize examples of responsible citizen participation in society and social environments.
Unit 2: The Whipping Boy [LA]
Language Arts
- Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate.
- Clarify and support spoken messages using appropriate props.
- Connect experiences and ideas with those of others.
- Discuss meanings of words and develop vocabulary through meaningful/concrete experiences.
- Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within a text.
- Explain and describe characters in own words.
- Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking, such as using subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and correct tense.
- Identify the musical elements of literary language, such as rhymes.
- Identify the setting of a story.
- Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard.
- Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
- Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products.
- Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.
- Read aloud with fluency and expression.
- Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
- Recognize and comprehend figurative language.
- Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
- Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written messages.
- Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
Social Studies
- Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
- Compare the roles of government leaders.
- Describe how governments establish order, provide security, and manage conflict.
- Identify functions of governments.
- Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their communities.
- Locate several sources of information about a given period or event.
Unit 3: Connected Cultures [SS]
Science
- Describe how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation.
- Explain how science and technology have changed the ways in which people meet basic needs.
- Identify uses of natural resources.
Social Studies
- Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
- Compare similarities and differences between self and others.
- Describe similarities and differences among families in different communities.
- Describe the contributions of cultures to your communities.
- Identify historical figures and events associated with various cultural traditions.
- Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their families and communities.
- Identify the contributions different cultures have made to society.
- Obtain information about a topic using a variety of visual sources such as pictures, graphics, television, maps, computer software, literature, reference sources, and artifacts.
Unit 3: Iggie's House [LA]
Language Arts
- Analyze characters, including their traits, relationships, actions, and changes.
- Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate.
- Choose the correct irregular verb when used in a sentence.
- Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to experience and gain knowledge.
- Connect life experiences with the life experiences and cultures of others.
- Develop drafts.
- Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts.
- Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writings.
- Explain and describe new vocabulary in own words.
- Generate ideas for writing by using prewriting techniques such as drawing and listing key thoughts.
- Identify contractions and use them in writing.
- Identify fact and opinion statements.
- Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions.
- Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products.
- Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand or interpret text.
- Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.
- Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
- Recognize the story problem(s) or plot.
- Record knowledge of a topic in various ways such as by drawing pictures.
- Respond to events and characters in stories.
- Revise selected drafts for varied purposes, including to achieve a sense of audience, precise word choices, and vivid images.
- Use basic capitalization and punctuation correctly, such as capitalizing names and first letters in sentences, using periods, question marks, and exclamation points.
- Use more complex capitalization and punctuation with increasing accuracy such as proper nouns, abbreviations, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
- Use verbal and nonverbal communication in effective ways such as making announcements, giving directions, or making introductions.
- Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists to record, letters to invite or thank, and stories or poems to entertain.
- Write sentences using plural and singular subjects and check for subject verb agreement.
- Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
- Write to communicate with a variety of audiences.
- Write to discover, develop, and refine ideas.
- Write to record ideas and reflections.
- Write with more proficient spelling of inflectional endings, including plurals and verb tenses.
Science
- Recognize the story problem or plot. (LA)
Social Studies
- Identify examples of responsible citizen participation in society and social environments.
- Identify historical figures and events associated with various cultural traditions and holidays celebrated around the world.
- Identify individuals of diverse cultures and describe their contributions to society.
- Identify the absolute and relative location of communities.