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Recall of experience
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Listing
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Jotting
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Free writing
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Drawing
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Graphic organizers
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Visuals
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Generate ideas and gather information from a
variety of sources including personal
experiences, literature, and interviews
Drafts
•
Refer to prewriting activities while writing rough
draft
•
Draft fluently for extended periods of time
•
Write complete phrases, sentences, and
thoughts
•
Focus on content, not convention
Revises
•
Recognize the need to improve and adjust a
rough draft
•
Reread writing to self to check for clarity
•
Conference with peer or teacher
•
Listen to audience response and considers
change in text
•
Change or add language to enhance text
and style
•
Adjust text to reflect the seven-traits model of
effective writing
Edits
•
Correct common errors including spelling,
punctuation, grammar, and capitalization
•
Use dictionary, thesaurus, technology, and
other available references independently to
improve writing
•
Make appropriate editing changes
independently
•
Understand and use proofreading marks
Publishing
•
Consistently reflect on own writing to
determine a plan for improvement
•
Maintain writing portfolio
Evaluating/Analyzing Self
•
Read and discuss own work
•
See self as a writer
•
Use the seven traits to reflect on and improve
writing
•
Assess progress and set writing goals for
own writing
•
See writing as an ongoing process
Evaluating/Analyzing Others
•
Use the seven-traits model as criteria to assess
writing
•
Offer specific constructive feedback to others
based on the seven-traits model of writing
•
Review writing of authors to analyze effective
writing
•
Reflect on writing of other authors to improve
own writing
•
Articulate the qualities that make a piece of
writing effective
•
Listen while others share
MATH
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Write and interpret numerical expressions
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Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in
numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions
with symbols
•
Write simple expressions that record
calculations with numbers, and interpret
numerical expressions without evaluating them
Analyze patterns and relationships
•
Generate two numerical patterns using two
given rules; identify apparent relationships
between corresponding terms; form ordered
pairs consisting of corresponding terms from
the two patterns, and graph the ordered pairs
on a coordinate plane
Understand and use problem solving
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Identify, choose, apply, and justify problem
solving strategies
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Demonstrate mathematical reasoning
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Solve Prime Factorization
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Express a whole number as a product of its
prime factors
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Understand the place value system
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Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit
in one place represents 10 times as much as it
represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of
what it represents in place to its left
•
Explain patterns in number of zeros of the
product when multiplying a number by powers
of 10
•
Read, write, and compare decimals to
thousandths
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Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit
in one place represents 10 times as much as it
represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of
what it represents in the place to its left
•
Read, write, and compare decimals to
thousandths
•
Read and write decimals to thousandths
using base-ten numerals, number names, and
expanded form
•
Compare two decimals to thousandths based
on meanings of the digits in each place, using
>, =, and < symbols to record the results of
comparisons
•
Use place value understanding to round
decimals to any place
The Number System
Understanding, identifying and writing positive
and negative integers
•
Read/Write/Identify positive & negative integers
•
Add and subtract positive and negative integers
•
Compare positive and negative integers
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Perform operations with multi-digit whole
numbers and with decimals to hundredths
•
Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers
using the standard algorithm
•
Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers
with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit
divisors
•
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to
hundredths, using concrete models or drawings
and strategies
•
Explain the similarities and differences between
the base 10 number system and other number
systems that do or do not use place value
•
Estimate (operations) with decimals
Number and Operations – Fractions
Use equivalent fractions as a strategy to add and
subtract fractions
•
Add and subtract fractions with unlike
denominators by replacing given fractions with
equivalent fractions to produce equivalent sum/
difference of fractions with like denominators
•
Solve word problems of fractions referring to
same whole, including unlike denominators;
use benchmark fractions and number sense of
fractions to estimate mentally
•
Recognize, name, write, reduce, and order
fractions
•
Estimate (operations) with fractions
Apply and extend previous understandings of
multiplication and division
•
Interpret a fraction as division of numerator by
denominator; solve word problems involving
division of whole numbers leading to answers in
form of fractions or mixed numbers
•
Apply and extend previous understandings of
multiplication to multiply a fraction or whole
number by a fraction
•
Interpret the product (a/b) × q as a parts of a
partition of q into b equal parts; equivalently, as
the result of a sequence of operations a × q ÷ b
•
Find the area of rectangle with fractional
side lengths by tiling it with unit squares of
appropriate unit fraction side lengths, and show
area is same as would be found by multiplying
the side lengths
•
Interpret multiplication as scaling
•
Compare the size of a product to the size of one
factor on the basis of the size of the other factor,
without performing the indicated multiplication
•
Explain why multiplying a given number by
a fraction greater than 1 results in a product
greater than the given number
•
Solve real world problems involving
multiplication of fractions and mixed numbers
•
Apply and extend previous understandings
of division to divide unit fractions by whole
numbers and whole numbers by unit fractions
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