South Union Elementary
Kindergarten Grade Level Expectations
4th / 6 Weeks
Subject Area / Learning Goal
Reading
Understands print contains the message and shows
an interest in books/ reading.
 I can identify the main topic of a non-fiction
text.
 I can identify the main details that support
the main topic.
I can describe how two different texts are alike and
different.
I can describe why things happen in a text.
I can describe the order of events that happens in a
text.
I can tell the difference between asking and
answering questions about key details in a story.
I can identify the reasons an author gives to
support points in a text.
I can recognize the difference between fiction and
non-fiction text.
Identifies High –Frequency Words such as ,look,
out, off, take, can, here, they, went, was, your,
who, friend, there
Language Arts /Writing
Create a drawing and use writing to represent their
thoughts and experiences.
 I can use illustrations and writing to tell my
reader about something interesting that
has happened.
 I can tell my reader the events that
happened.
 I can tell my reader the order of events in
which they happened.
 I can tell my reader the reaction to what
happened.
 I can respond to questions about my writing
to make my writing more detailed.
Begins to show an interest in writing by using
known letters or symbols or their own graphic to
express their idea
 I can use adjectives to describe something I
What you can do at home to help your child
Read with your child at home; take regular trips to
the Public Library. Ask your child questions about
the characters, settings and events of the stories.
Discuss roles of the author and illustrator.
Discuss how characters, events and ideas are alike
and different from two different texts.
Discuss reasons that cause events in the text.
Discuss order of events using first, next, then and
finally when discussing what you and your child
have read.
Ask your child about the key details of a story.
Encourage your child to ask questions about key
details.
Discuss what the authors want you to learn from a
text and why it is important.
Discuss the possibility and reasons that characters
and events are or are not real.
When reading with your child look for words in the
text, play a game to see how many you can find.
Continue with first set of flash cards and add 2nd set
of sight word flash cards.
Encourage your child to draw and explain their
topic while writing about their picture. Ask your
child about their writing and to encourage them to
use more details in their writing.
Encourage them to write letters to grandma, help
with the grocery list, Make birthday cards for
relatives. Practice locating capital letters and
punctuation of sentences. Use and identify
am writing or speaking about.
 I can print uppercase and lowercase letters
and identify and record using letters
sounds.
 I can use verbs to write about actions.
 I can use proper nouns when writing about
people and places.
I can isolate and pronounce the beginning, middle,
an ending sound in spoken words. I can blend
sounds to make words. I can identify rhyming
words when listening to words when read out
loud.
Math
Represent addition and subtraction
 I can represent addition and subtraction
problems within 5.
Decompose numbers
 I can show a set of 5 using two different
colored objects.
Measurement
 I can describe characteristics while
comparing objects.
Measurement
 I can classify objects and place them into
groups according to their characteristics
and then compare those groups.
Geometry
 I can describe the location of an object.
Geometry
 I can name 2D shapes.
 I can identify and make 2D shapes.
adjectives when speaking and writing.
Say word sounds slowly and have your child blend
the sounds to make the word. Say words that
rhyme and have your child identify the words that
rhyme.
Ex: I have three pieces of candy and my mom gave
me 2 more pieces. How many do I have now?
Ex: I have 5 pieces of candy. Now I have three. How
many did I eat.
(decomposing) 5=2+3 2+3=5
Ex: I have 5 crayons. 2 are red and 3 are blue.
Ex: I have 4 red crayons and 1 blue crayon. How
many crayons do I have?
Ex: A feather is light and a car is heavy.
Ex: My dad’s shoe is longer than my shoe.
(longer, shorter, more, less, taller, shorter, heavier,
lighter)
Have your child sort objects into groups according
to their characteristics.
Ex: feather, piece of paper, book, toy, stuffed
animal.
Have your child use the describing words (above,
below, beside, in front of, behind, next to) when
describing the location of an object.
Have your child name, identify and make the
following shapes.
square, circle, triangle, rectangle, hexagon
Other things you can do to ensure your child’s success: A good night’s sleep – 10 hours is the
recommendation for 5-6 year olds, a healthy breakfast, positive discussions about school and
their accomplishments.
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South Union Elementary
1st Grade Level Expectations
4th/6 weeks
Subject Area/Learning Goal
Reading
I can identify long vowel sounds in words 9a,
e, I, o, u)
I can recognize familiar words that make up
compound words
I know words that end with an e that make
the vowel say it’s name-example late. The e
at the end makes the a say it’s name.
I can identify the author’s purpose for writing
a story and identify reasons the author gives
to support their purpose.
I can use text features to help find
information and facts from a book.
I can retell a story by sequencing the events
I can identify the main idea of a story
I can ask and answer questions about key
details in a story
I can compare and contrast the adventures
and experiences of characters in stories.
Language Arts/Writing
I can write about something interesting that
has happened.
I can write about an event and include two
or more events in the order they happened,
including details that are important to this
event.
I can use signal words to let my readers know
the order that things happened.
I can create a conclusion for my writing that
lets my reader know it is finished.
Math
I can count numbers to 120.
I can represent numbers 11-19 with a ten
and some ones.
What you can do at home to help your child
A long vowel is a vowel that says it’s own name. Example:
cake, bike, street, boat, use. Circle the long vowel and see
how many other words you can come up with.
Snap your fingers to each part of the compound word.
Examples: Cowboy, sandbox, backpack, football, baseball,
sunflower, railroad, rattlesnake.
Use magnetic letters to create words that end with the
letter e that make the vowel say it’s name- bike, like,
make, lake, poke, pole, mule, Pete, Zeke
Read a story and decide if the author wrote it for
entertainment or to provide information.
Look through different books from the library and locate
the glossary and table of contents.
After reading a story, fold a sheet of paper into 3 parts.
Draw what happened first, next, and last.
Discuss or draw a picture of what the story is mostly
about.
Use sticky notes to write questions before, after, and
during reading the three little pigs.
Read “The Three Little Pigs” and then read “The True Story
of the Three Little Pigs.” Compare and contrast the wolf in
this story.
Have your child write about something they did during
recess.
Have your child use their writing piece about recess and
make sure they include 2 or more details about what they
did during that time.
Have your child use their writing piece about recess and
make sure they include order words first, next, then, and
last.
Make sure your child writes a conclusion to sum up their
recess story. Example: I had so much fun at recess with
my friends!
Give your child a number to start at (not 1) and count to
120 from that number.
Use one pretzel stick (to represent the group of ten) and
cheerios (to represent the ones) to have your child show
the number you say.
I can show that in adding 2 digit numbers,
you add ones to ones and tens to tens.
Example: 25 + 13= Add the ones 5 + 3= 8. Add the tens 20
and 10= 30. 30 + 8= 38
I can choose a strategy to solve subtraction
problems with multiples of 10 up to 90
Example: 40-10= 30 ( 4 groups of 10 and take away 1
group of 10)
I can determine the operation to solve word
problems with unknowns
I can use strategies to solve addition and
subtraction problems.
I can identify the unknown- addend in a
subtraction problem.
Joe had 5 apples. His dad gave him some more. Now he
has 8 apples. How many apples did his dad give him?
If you know 8 + 3= 11, then 3 + 8= 11 (“switcheroo”)
I can put 3 objects in order by length and
compare them.
For example, subtract 10 – 8 by finding the number that
makes 10 when added to 8. (If we know 8 + 2=10, then 108= 2)
When you are in the car, give your child the number 24.
Ask them what is two less than that number. (Model
counting on) Use other numbers.
Use addition and subtraction number flashcards to play a
game with your child.
Use shoes and have your child put them in order by length
from shortest to longest.
I can tell time to the hour and half hour using
analog and digital clocks.
Ask your child the time at different parts of the day. Talk
about the day’s events and what time they happen.
I can represent and organize data with up to
3 categories (e.g. tally, chart, bar graph)
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Create a tally graph or bar graph of favorite ice cream.
(Ask your friends and family.)
I can count back from a given number and
how it relates to subtraction.
I can add and subtract fluently within 10.
South Union Elementary
2 Grade Level Expectations
nd
4th / 6 weeks
Reading
I can state the lesson and main details of a
story.
I can describe the main characters.
I can compare and contrast characters.
I can explain the characters, setting or plot
using information from illustrations and
words in print.
I can change my voice to show different
characters.
I can read at a just right speed.
Read Little Red Riding Hood. Discuss the lesson and draw
the details of the story.
Read a favorite book. Draw each character. Put
descriptive words around the character.
After reading a book, pick two characters. Create a VennDiagram and write ways they are different and the same.
Read If You Give A Mouse a Cookie. Look at the pictures
for more information about the characters and the plot.
Discuss.
Read Jack and the Beanstalk. Change your voice to match
the characters while you’re reading.
Practice reading one page of a story. The parent models
reading too fast, too slow and just right. Then the student
can read just right. (we sound like we talk).
Language Arts
I can select a topic, develop an opinion, and
provide reasons to support my opinion.
I can identify the meaning of homographs
(spelled the same but has different meanings).
I can identify the meaning of antonyms.
I can identify the meaning of synonyms.
I can read and write word endings with -ed and –
ing.
Math
I can solve one-step word problems with
numbers within 100.
I can solve two-step word problems with
numbers within 100.
I can fluently add within 20.
I can fluently subtract within 20.
I can fluently add and subtract 2-digit
numbers.
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Write a paragraph that tells your opinion about school.
Draw both pictures for the different homographs: duck, bat,
pitcher, ring, fly, float, fair.
Brainstorm 5 antonyms from the weekly spelling list.
Develop a list of synonyms, where the words are different but
have same meaning. Write them out on cards and play
memory (example: happy, glad; pretty, beautiful)
Take any book and search for words that have –ed and –ing.
Allow your child to show you how they would solve:
I have 57 Snickers and 32 Twix. How many candy bars do I
have?
I had 74 pieces of garbage. I threw 48 pieces away. How many
pieces do I have left to throw away?
See if they have a new way they are solving the problems this
Unit.
Allow your child to show you how they would solve:
Mrs. Tursi has 45 cookies and Mrs. Patten 32 cookies. They put
them in a box. Then they gave 28 cookies away. How many
cookies do they have left?
Parents will say an addition problem. The child will draw dots.
Count the dots to find your answer.
Parents will say a subtraction problem. The child will draw
dots. They will cross off the number being subtracted.
Roll a dice two times to create a two-digit number. Roll it again
two times to make another two-digit number. Add them
together. Repeat for subtraction.
South Union Elementary
3 Grade Level Expectations
rd
4th/6 weeks
Reading
Common Core Standards
I can identify the sequence of major events
in a story.
What You Can Do at Home to Help Your Child
After your child reads a story to you, ask them to retell the
story making sure to include only the major events in the
order they happened. Remind them that a major event is
so important that without it the story would change.
I can explain how the illustrations in a story
Ask your child to explain how the picture helps them
support the message that is conveyed by the understand the mood, the characters, or the setting.
words.
I can identify the theme, setting, and plot of Have your child read two books by the same author about
two stories written by the same author
the same or similar characters (e.g. in books from a series).
about the same or similar characters.
Ask them to identify similarities and differences between
theme-(subject or topic), setting (where and when it takes
place), and plot (major events) of these two stories.
I can ask meaningful questions while I’m
As your child reads, ask them to record questions they
reading to help me monitor my
have on post it notes. When finished, ask them to discuss
understanding and learning around a topic.
their questions and answers with you. If they were unable
to answer correctly, go back and reread to help deepen
their understanding of the text.
I can write an opinion piece on topics or
Pick a topic with your child that you have different opinions
texts supporting a point of view with
about. Each of you should write an opinion paragraph with
reasons.
an introduction including the topic and your point of view.
Include reasons that support your opinion and a concluding
statement or section to provide closure.
Phonics:
With your child’s weekly spelling words help them practice
I can blend, read, and spell:
by looking at the word, saying it, cover it up and write the
word.
 words with air, ear, and, are.
 words with /J/ and /s/ sounds.
words with the VCCCV pattern.
 words with the /k/ and /kw/ sounds.
 words with the same vowel sounds
as in tube and moose.
 compounds words.
Math
Common Core Standards
I can measure liquid volumes using liters.
Provide your child with real life measuring experience.
Using a one liter container, ask them to find the volume of
different containers. Fill the container with water. Pour
the water from the container into the liter bottle. See how
many times they fill the liter bottle to determine how many
liters the container can hold.
I can define perimeter.
Remind student that perimeter is the distance around the
I can find the perimeter of a shape when
outside edge of something. Draw a shape and label the
given the length of the sides.
I can fluently add, subtract, multiply and
divide.
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length of each side. Ask your child to figure out the
perimeter of the shape by adding up the lengths of each
side. For example, if the sides of a square are all 4 inches,
then the perimeter is equal to 16 inches because 4 + 4 + 4 +
4 = 16. The sides of the shapes you draw don’t have to be
equal lengths as they are with a square. Also, ask your
child to figure the length of a side if they are given the
lengths of all the other sides and the total perimeter. For
example, if you draw a 5-sided figure, label the length of
four of the sides. Tell the perimeter of the 5-sided figure,
and ask your child to figure out the length of the missing
side.
Play games that help your child memorize their basic
addition and subtractions facts, and their multiplication
and division facts. Flash cards can also be used to reinforce
learning of the facts.
South Union Elementary
4 Grade Level Expectations
th
4th/6 weeks
Subject Area/Learning Goal
Reading
Can determine the theme of a story,
drama, or poem. (lit2)
Can describe a character, setting, and
major events in detail from a text.(Lit 3)
Can determine the point of view of a text
using specific narration. (Lit 6)
Can make a summarization by determining
the main idea and key details in a text.
(Inform 2)
Can identify the reasons (opinions) and
evidence (facts) a person is making in
nonfiction text. (inform 8)
Language
Can recognize and read words with prefixes
and suffixes. (Re-, un-, dis- and –ful, -less, ness, and –ment) (Found 3)
Can use multiple adjectives to describe
someone or something and I can order
theses adjectives in a correct and logical
way (language1)
Can write an original narrative in which I
develop a real or imagined experience or
event.(writing 3)
Math
Identify and draw a line, line segment, ray,
parallel, intersecting and perpendicular
lines
Identify acute, right, and obtuse angles
Identify quadrilaterals and other polygons
by their properties.
Identify shapes that are congruent and
similar
Draw lines of symmetry
Identify line plots on a coordinate grid and
find distances along the axes.
Use mental math to divide multiples of 10,
100, and 1000
What you can do at home to help your child
Find two poems either on the internet or at the library and
identify the theme of the poems. If theme the same
compare how the author wrote the poems.
Ask student to explain the character, setting and major
events of the main reading anthology from school.
While discussing the weekly anthology from school discuss
what point of view the story is written in and what clues
student used to come to the conclusion.
Reading the newspaper choose an article to read with
student. After reading have student summarize the article
using main idea and key details.
Have student ask an adult family member their views of
school uniforms and identify three facts/opinions they used
to defend their position.
While student is reading at night have them identify prefixes
and suffixes found in their chapter.
Write a descriptive paragraph about an event or person and
underline the adjectives (describing words).
Write a story either about an event that happened to the
family on winter break. The story can be a real experience
or fake experience.
Identify specific lines while driving using signs, highway, 4
way stops, etc. Identify lines in pictures, magazines, and
newspaper.(e.g. parallel lines on the highway)
Identify specific angles in photos, objects, in the home, and
while in public.(e.g. right angle in the flag)
Have students sort groceries according to like attributes
such as cube, cylinder, rectangular prism, etc.
Identify items in the home that are congruent(same size,
same shape) and items that are similar (same shape but
different size)
Make designs by folding paper in half, then cut a shape (e.g.
tree, heart). Discuss that both sides are the same which is
symmetry.
Use a map of atlas to find cities and states by coordinates.
Play: What’s the quotient?
(e.g. How many 5’s in 50? _________)
Estimate quotients of multi-digit dividends
with 1 digit divisors
Model 2 digit and 3 digit dividends by 1
digit divisor with and without remainders
Check long division with multiplication
Interpret a remainder (round up, discard,
express as a fraction)
(e.g. How many 8’s in 800?__________)
Play: Which quotient is bigger?
(e.g. 60 divided by 10 or 6? e.g. 100 divided by 5 or 10?)
Draw representations of problems such as:
(29 divided by 2) and ( 567 divided by 5)
Multiply the quotient and the divisor to equal the dividend
to check for accuracy
Discuss situation when remainders are used, dropped, or
included as a decimal or fraction
*Reading:
 After reading a story, discuss the story elements. (Setting, Characters, Main Idea,
Details.)
 Retell the story using beginning, middle, end, and theme. Use specific details when
describing each element.
 Read a variety of texts including non-fiction.
*Writing:
 Practice writing using a variety of vocabulary.
 Practice writing using proper punctuation, capitalization and varying sentence lengths.
 Practice spelling grade appropriate and pattern words correctly.
*Math:
 Work on practicing multi-step story problems using real life examples.
 Practice math facts by playing math games, using flash cards, and by using the
computer program Fast Math.
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South Union Elementary
5 Grade Level Expectations
th
4th/6 weeks
Subject Area/ Learning Goal
Reading strategies
I can identify the narrator or speaker
in a fiction passage.
I can identify the narrator or
speaker’s point of view based upon
details in the passage, which may
include opinions or evidence of bias.
I can describe how the narrator or
speaker’s point of view influences
how events are described.
I can identify the point an author is
trying to make in a nonfiction text.
I can identify the reasons (opinions)
an author uses to support their
particular point.
I can identify the evidence (facts) an
author provides to support their
particular points.
I can use details from the text to
describe a character, setting, or
event in a story.
I can identify similarities and
differences between two or more
characters, settings, and events in a
story or drama.
Language and Writing
I can write an original narrative in
which I develop a real or imagined
experience or event.
I can use effective technique,
descriptive details and clear event
sequences in my original narrative.
I can explain the purpose of
prepositions in a sentence and use
them correctly while writing and
editing.
I can explain the purpose of
interjections and use them correctly
while writing and editing.
I can use adverbs correctly in my
writing to show the frequency or
intensity of an action.
What you can do at home to help your child
At Home Activities
After reading a fictional story, have child orally identify the
narrator or speaker.
Have child explain point of view of narrator or speaker using
details from the passage. Define “bias” and have child discuss if
bias played a part in the story’s development.
Explain how narrator or speaker’s bias influenced the events in a
story.
Read a newspaper article. Have student summarize the point the
author is trying to make.
Have child find facts and opinions in a nonfiction article or text
that support the author’s point. Highlight, underline, or
summarize those facts and opinions.
After reading a fictional story, have child use the details about a
character, setting, or event to draw a picture of it.
Have child list similarities and differences between 2 or more
characters, settings, or events in the book they are reading or a
show they have recently watched.
Have child practice writing a narrative based on something that
really happened in their life or something they make up.
Have child highlight or underline details and sequence words in
their narrative.
Have child highlight or underline prepositions in their narrative
(i.e. after, over, under, until, down, on, behind, in). Add
prepositions to their narrative if needed.
Have child highlight or underline interjections in their narrative
(i.e. Wow! Cool! At last! Zing! GRR!) Add interjections if
needed.
Have child highlight or underline adverbs in their narrative (look
for words that show how frequently or intensely something is
done or –ly words)
Find a list of adverbs online www.enchantedlearning.com/adverbs.
I can use the suffixes –ism, ist, -able
and -ible to help me determine the
meaning of an unknown word.
I can recognize and interpret idioms
and adages to help me better
understand what I am reading.
Decimals
Convert different sized
measurement units(within the same
system) in real world problems
thousandths place
Recognize that in a multi-digit
decimal number, the number to the
left of a digit is 10 times bigger and
the number to the right it 1/10 of
the number
Use place value understanding to
round decimals to any place
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide
decimals to the hundredths place
and be able to explain the reasoning
used
Use whole number exponents and
explain patterns in the numbers of
zeros of the product when
multiplying a number by the powers
of ten.
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Have child define the suffixes –ism, -ist, -able, and –ible. Identify
words that contain those suffixes and have child define the words
or look them up in the dictionary.
Have child define idioms and adages, and give examples of each.
Library book support: “Parts” and “More Parts” by Ted Arnold
Use websites to practice the skills: (search “figurative language”)
www.spellingcity.com or www.gamequarium.com
*Give four random numbers and have your child list them in the
order of least to greatest and then from greatest to least. (Do not
forget to line up the decimal points and to add in the zeros as
place holders
Give child a number and have them identify the place value of
each digit. (i.e. 107.453= 100 + 7+ .4 + .05 + .003)
Choose a digit to round to in a multi-digit decimal number. Have
child identify which place value to use as a determiner in rounding
to that digit. (i.e. 149 rounded to the nearest 10 = 150)
Practice rounding online:
www.math-play.com/roundingdecimalsgame
Practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing numbers
with decimals up to the hundredths place. Have child explain to
you how they know where the decimal belongs in their answer.
Practice using exponenets:
www.ezschool.com
www.math-play.com/exponentgame
Give child a number with an exponent of a power of 10, have child
explain to you how they know the number of zeros that will be in
their answer.