Learning Targets

* = Can be Extended

Trimester 1
Literature
- When reading independently, use key details from the text to ask and answer questions, retell the story, demonstrate understanding of the central message/lesson, and describe characters, settings and major events.*

Informational Text
- When reading independently, use key details from the text to ask and answer questions, identify the main topic, retell, and describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information.*

Foundational Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Language
- Know and apply the conventions of grade-level spelling when writing.
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases and demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Writing
- With prompting and support, plan and organize for the appropriate type of writing (Narrative, Informative and Opinion writing-Write Tools procedures and structures)

Math
- Add & subtract within 20 to solve word problems (within 12)
- Add & subtract within 20 using various strategies (within 12)
- Demonstrate fluency for addition within 10
- Demonstrate fluency for subtraction within 10
- Understand the meaning of the equal sign & determine if equations involving addition & subtraction are true or false*

Life Science
- Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.

-Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
-Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like,their parents.*

Social Studies
- Name the current president of the USA*
- Name patriotic symbols of the USA*

Trimester 2
Literature
- When reading independently, use key details from the text to ask and answer questions, retell the story, demonstrate understanding of the central message/lesson, and describe characters, settings and major events.*
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information and identify who is telling the story at various points.*
- Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, settings and events and to compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.*

Informational Text
- When reading independently, use key details from the text to ask and answer questions, identify the main topic, retell, and describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas or pieces of information.*
- Know and use various text features (e.g. headings, table of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key information/facts and distinguish between information provided by pictures/illustrations & information provided by words.
- Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas, identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g. in illustrations, descriptions or procedures), and identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.*

Foundational Skills
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Language
- Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases and demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Writing
- With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.*
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization and punctuation when writing or speaking.
- Know and apply the conventions of grade-level spelling when writing.
- Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.*

Math
- Add & subtract within 20 to solve word problems.*
- Add & subtract within 20 using various strategies.*
- Demonstrate fluency for addition within 10.*
- Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20.*
- Determine if a number is even or odd.
- Tell and write time in hours.
- Read and write numerals up to 120.
- Write a numeral to represent a number of objects.*
- Show an understanding that a two-digit number represents amounts of tens and ones.
- Tell and write time to the half hour.*
- Count the value of mixed coins up to $1.*
- Show the value of mixed coins up to $1.*

Physical Science - Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.*
- Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.*
- Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.*
- Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.*

Social Studies
- Distinguish between needs and wants.
- Name a famous American.*