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Creates pictures and/or text for poems, journals,
stories
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Uses literary forms in dictations
(e.g., Once upon a time…)
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Role plays ways people use writing in their work
•
Shows some awareness of audience
•
Writes first and last name
Prewriting
•
Uses pictures to explore and develop ideas
•
Uses ideas from literature
•
Participates in brainstorming activities
•
Begins to discuss ideas with others
Drafts
•
Dictates or records stories, poetry, etc.
•
Creates text with drawing, writing, or dictation
Revises
•
Shares works with others
•
Adds detail or descriptive words to picture
and/or text
Edits
•
Accepts suggestions from adults and peers
Publishing
•
Begins to select best work to be published
•
Works as part of a group to publish a combined
work (e.g., class book)
Evaluating/Analyzing Self
•
Reads and discusses own work
•
Begins to see self as a writer
•
Begins to recognize seven-trait terms (Ideas,
Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice,
Organization, Conventions, Presentation)
•
Recognizes and identifies changes in drawings
and writings over time
Evaluating/Analyzing Others
•
Offers positive feedback after listening to the
writing of peers
•
Listens while others share
MATH
Number Sense and Operations
•
Reads, writes, names, represents, orders,
and counts (forward and backward) numbers
up to 100, or to a minimum of 30, using 1-1
correspondence and concrete materials
•
Compares two or more sets of objects (up to
10 in each set) using mathematical language
such as more than, less than, or equal to and
understands that larger numbers describe sets
with more objects than smaller numbers
•
Demonstrates an understanding of conservation
of numbers using concrete materials and
providing a logical explanation
•
Investigates patterns by counting by 2’s, 5’s,
and 10’s to 30 or more using concrete objects
•
Indicates the ordinal position of an ordered set
of objects or pictures (first through third)
•
Represents equivalent forms of the same
number up to 10 or more with concrete
materials (2 beans + 7 beans is the same as 4
beans + 5 beans)
•
Computes and understands basic addition
and subtraction facts through 10 with or without
concrete materials
•
Makes reasonable estimates and is able to
explain the reasonableness of a solution
•
Uses tools such as calculators, models, or
concrete materials to investigate patterns and
other mathematical problems
•
Determines strategies to solve problems and
provides evidence of reasoning
•
Uses concrete materials to explore the concept
of parts to whole
Algebraic Concepts
•
Identifies, explains, and extends simple
repeating patterns using concrete materials
•
Sorts, classifies, identifies, and orders objects
by size, number, and other attributes
Data Analysis and Probability
•
Develops a two-question survey and gathers
data through counting or tallying
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Nobel Learning Curriculum Reference Guide
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