Orange County Public Schools Wetherbee Elementary School

Grade Level Expectations

Reading/Language Arts

• Uses text features to predict content and monitor comprehension.
• Uses context clues to infer the meaning of new words, synonyms, antonyms and homophones.
• Understands explicit and implicit ideas and information in texts.
• Knows the difference between fact and opinion.
• Understands the use of comparison and contrast within a selection.
• Knows similarities and differences presented in texts.
• Uses a variety of reference materials to gather information.
• Understands the distinguishing features of literary texts.
• Reads a variety of self-selected and assigned literary and informational texts.
• Makes inferences and draws conclusions regarding story elements.
• Constructs and effectively uses an organizational strategy for writing.
• Constructs a document that is focused on a topic and follows a logical sequence.
• Identifies and uses proper mechanics such as punctuation, capital letters, spelling and paragraph indentation.
• Creates and revises a written piece with an appropriate organizational pattern, transition words, details and a variety of sentence structures.
• Writes for a variety of occasions, audiences and purposes.
• Uses electronic technology to create, revise, retrieve and verify information.
• Listens and responds to a variety of oral presentations such as stories, directions and speeches.
• Listens attentively and responds to speakers.
• Understands the main concept and supporting details in non-print media messages.
• Gives oral presentations for different purposes.

Math

• Models and solves multiplication and division problems.
• Understands that multiplication and division are inverse operations.
• Develops an understanding of fractions and fraction equivalence.
• Read, writes, identifies, models and com-pares common fractions including fractions greater than one.
• Compares and orders fractions, including fractions greater than 1, using models and strategies.
• Uses models to represent equivalent fractions, including fractions greater than 1.
• Describes, analyzes, compares and classifies two dimensional shapes, using sides, angles-including acute, obtuse, and right angles.
• Constructs and deconstructs polygons to make other polygons with up to ten sides.
• Analyzes two-dimensional shapes and identifies symmetry, congruence and reflections.
• Builds draws and analyzes two dimensional shapes to examine and apply congruence and symmetry.
• Creates, analyzes and represents patterns and relationships using words, variables, tables, and graphs.
• Selects appropriate units, strategies, and tools to solve problems involving perimeter.
• Measures objects using fractional parts of linear units such as 1/2, 1/4, and 1/10.
• Tells time to nearest minute, nearest quarter hour, and determines elapsed time, which may include days, weeks, months, and years.
• Represents, computes, estimates and solves problems through hundred thousands.
• Solves non-routine problems by searching for patterns, making tables, charts, or list.
• Creates and analyzes frequency tables, bar graphs, pictographs, and line plots from data collected through observations, surveys, and experiments.

Science

• Explains that stars can be different, and all except the Sun are far away.
• Identifies the Sun as a star that emits light energy.
• Explores the Law of Gravity.
• Investigates that the number of stars that can be seen through telescopes increases dramatically.
• Measures and compares temperature and volume of solids and liquids.
• Compares and measures properties of materials (temperature, volume, mass).
• Describes the changes water undergoes as it changes states through heating and cooling.
• Identifies some basic forms of energy, such as light, heat, sound, electrical, and mechanical.
• Recognizes that energy has the ability to cause motion or create change.
• Demonstrates that light travels in a straight line.
• Demonstrates that light can be reflected, refracted and absorbed.
• Investigate that things that give off light often give off heat.
• Investigates, observes, and explains that heat is produced when one object rubs against another.
• Describes structures in plants and their roles in food production, support, water transport.
• Investigates how plants respond to stimuli.
• Classifies animals into major groups.
• Classifies flowering and non-flowering plants into major groups.
• Describes how animals and plants respond to changing seasons.
• Recognizes that plants use energy from the Sun, air, and water to make their own food.
• Uses tools to make observations and collect data.
• Recognizes that data are collected and interpreted in order to explain an event or concept.
• Scientists use experimental design in order to answer questions.

Social Studies

• Utilizes technology resources to gather information from primary and secondary sources.
• Uses thematic maps, tables, charts, graphs, and photos to analyze geographic information.
• Labels the continents and oceans on a world map.
• Uses maps to identify different types of scale to measure distances between two places.
• Identifies the five regions of the U.S.
• Labels the states in each of the five regions of the United States.
• Investigates how people perceive places and regions differently by conducting interviews, mental mapping, and studying news, poems, legends, and songs about a region or area.
• Describes the climate and vegetation in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
• Explains how the environment influences settlement patterns in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
• Identifies contributions from various ethnic groups to the United States.
• Gives examples of how scarcity results in trade.
• Recognizes that buyers and sellers interact to exchange goods and services through the use of trade or money.
• Explains the purpose and need for government.
• Explains how government was established through the written Constitution.
• Identifies group and individual actions of citizens that demonstrate civility, cooperation, volunteerism, and other civic virtues.
• Describes how government is organized at the local level.
• Recognizes that every state has a state constitution.
• Analyzes primary and secondary sources.
• Recognizes the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land.