•
Use correct initial sound in inventive spelling
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Recognize and name period and question
mark
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Write upper case and lower case
independently, attending to form
•
Understand naming and action words
•
Spell age-appropriate high frequency words
located within grade level appropriate text
Ideas
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Use pictures to express ideas
•
Generate ideas for writing based on personal
experiences
Word Choice
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Manipulate environmental print
Sentence Fluency
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Understand concept of sentence
Presentation
•
Begin to use parameters of space and line
placement within written work
Styles/Audiences
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Draw or write for self or teacher
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Share writing with others
•
Create pictures and/or text for invitations, thank
you notes, captions, labels
•
Create pictures and/or text for poems, journals,
stories
•
Use literary forms in dictations
(e.g., Once upon a time…)
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Role play ways people use writing in their work
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Show some awareness of audience
•
Write first and last name
Prewriting
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Use pictures to explore and develop ideas
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Use ideas from literature
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Participate in brainstorming activities
•
Begin to discuss ideas with others
Drafts
•
Dictate or record stories, poetry, etc.
•
Create text with drawing, writing, or dictation
Revises
•
Share works with others
•
Add detail or descriptive words to picture
and/or text
Edits
•
Accept suggestions from adults and peers
Publishing
•
Begin to select best work to be published
•
Work as part of a group to publish a combined
work (e.g., class book)
Evaluating/Analyzing Self
•
Read and discuss own work
•
Begin to see self as a writer
•
Begin to recognize seven-trait terms (Ideas,
Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice,
Organization, Conventions, Presentation)
•
Recognize and identify changes in drawings
and writings over time
Evaluating/Analyzing Others
•
Offer positive feedback after listening to the
writing of peers
•
Listen while others share
MATH
Counting and Cardinality
Number names and the counting sequence
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Count to 100 by ones and by tens
•
Count by 2’s beginning from a given number
within the known sequence
•
Write numbers from 0 to 20; represent a number
of objects with a written numeral 0-20
•
Read, write, name, represent, order, and count
to 100
•
Indicate ordinal position of an ordered set of
objects, pictures, (1st-3rd) or numbers
Count to tell the number of objects
•
Understand the relationship between numbers
and quantities; connect counting to cardinality
•
When counting objects, say the number names
in the standard order, pairing each object with
one and only one number name and each
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number name with one and only one object
•
Understand that the last number name said tells
the number of objects counted; the number
of objects is the same regardless of their
arrangement or the order in which they were
counted
•
Understand that each successive number name
refers to a quantity that is one larger
•
Count to answer “how many?”
•
Skip counting by 2’s and 5’s to 100 using
concrete objects
Compare numbers
•
Identify whether the number of objects in one
group is greater than, less than, or equal to the
number of objects in another group
•
Compare two numbers between 1 and 10
presented as written numerals
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Understand addition, and understand subtraction
•
Represent addition and subtraction with objects,
fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds,
acting out situations, verbal explanations,
expressions, or equations
•
Solve addition and subtraction word problems,
and add and subtract within 10
•
Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10
into pairs in more than one way
•
For any number from 1 to 9, find the number
that makes 10 when added to the given number
•
Fluently add and subtract within 5
•
Make reasonable estimates and explain the
reasonableness of a solution
•
Use tools such as calculators, models, or
concrete materials to investigate patterns and
other mathematical problems
•
Identify, explain, and extend simple pattern-
making and sorting
Number and Operations in Base Ten
Work with numbers to gain foundations
for place value
•
Compose and decompose numbers from 11
to 19 into ten ones and some further ones and
record each composition or decomposition by
a drawing or equation; understand that these
numbers are composed of ten ones and one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine
ones
Measurement and Data
Describe and compare measurable attributes
•
Describe measurable attributes of objects,
such as length or weight; describe several
measurable attributes of a single object
•
Directly compare two objects with a measurable
attribute in common, to see which object has
“more of”/“less of” the attribute, and describe
the difference
•
Use non-standard measurement tools to
estimate and measure
•
Compare two or more temperatures to
determine hotter and colder
•
Compare the capacity of two or more containers
to determine which holds the most or the least
Classify objects
•
Classify objects into given categories; count the
numbers of objects in each category and sort
the categories by count
Data Analysis
•
Develop a two question survey and gather data
through counting or tallying
•
Construct simple charts, picture graphs, and bar
graphs using paper/pencil or concrete objects
to display data
•
Interpret data in concrete or pictorial graphs
and share conclusion
Time and Money
•
Describe the passage of time through
mathematical vocabulary and in-depth study of
the calendar – days of the week, date, months
of the year
•
Use a digital and analog clock to tell time to the
nearest hour
•
Recognize name and values of pennies, nickels,
dimes, and quarters
•
Determine the value of a set of pennies, nickels,
and dimes that is 10 cents or less
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