How the world works

Literacy Coverage

Writing Content
Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an
event sequence that unfolds naturally.
Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts and feelings to develop
experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.
Recall information from experiences.
With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the
development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
With guidance and support from adults, develop and strengthen writing as
needed by planning, revising, and editing.
With guidance and support, use technology to produce and publish writing
(using keyboarding skills) as well as to interact and collaborate with others.
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
Gather information from print and digital sources, take brief notes on sources
and sort evidence into provided categories.
Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection and
revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of
discipline-specific tasks, purposes and audiences.


Writing Conventions
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and
usage when writing and speaking.
Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization,
punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Form and use possessives.


Writing Conventions- Words their Way: ongoing throughout the year and dependent on
spelling group:
Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for
adding suffixes to base words (sitting, smiled, happiness).
Use spelling patterns and generalizations (word families, position-based
spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing
words.
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to
a known word. (agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable,
heart/heartbreak)
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the
same root (company, companion)
Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word
meanings

Reading
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring
explicitly to the text as a basis of the answers. During research of weather
phenomena- comprehension task using library reference books.
Refer to parts of dramas when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such
as scene, describe how each successive part builds on successive part builds on
earlier section. Write a role-play and perform a drama about a family or a child
affected by an adverse weather phenomena.
Read and comprehend literature including dramas independently and
proficiently. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of the
text, referring explicitly to the text as a basis of the answers. Determine the main
idea of the text, recount the key details, and explain how they support the main
idea. Students will complete a drama report.
Describe the relationship between scientific ideas or concepts, using language
that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. Students will look at this
concept when they are doing their research on a weather phenomena.
Use information gained from illustrations (maps) and the words in a text to
demonstrate understating of the text (where, when, why and how key events
occur). Students will create a map in the classroom graphing the weather from
their home cities.
Reading- Words their Way: ongoing throughout the year and dependent on spelling group:
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skill in decoding words
Identify and know the meaning of most common prefixes and derivational
suffixes
Decode words with common Latin suffixes
Decode multisyllabic words
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words

Speaking and Listening
Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to
provide requested detail or clarification. Individual presentation on home city
weather graph. Group presentations on a weather phenomena
Social Studies
Explain and use the elements of maps and globes
Apply appropriate resources and geographic tools to generate and interpret
information about the Earth.
Science
Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere,
hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. (Clarification statement: Examples
could include the influence of the ocean on climate; the influence of the
atmosphere on landforms and ecosystems through weather and climate.)
Make a claim about the merit of a design solution that reduces the impacts of a
weather related hazard e.g., barriers to prevent flooding, wind-resistant roofs,
and lightning rods.

Everyday Mathematics:
Unit 10: Measurement and Data
Until 11: Probability
Mathematics:

Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving
equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and
equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship
between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40/5 = 8)
or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of
two one-digit numbers. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two
one-digit numbers.
Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems
using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the
reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies
including rounding.
Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned
into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size
1/b.
Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning
about their size.
Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3. Explain why
the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning
about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer
to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and
justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.
Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve
word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes e.g., by
representing the problem on a number line diagram.
Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of
grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-
step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g.,
by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the
problem.
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several
categories. Solve one- and two-step how many more and how many less problems
using information presented in scaled bar graphs.
Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and
fourths of an inch. Show the data by marking a line plot, where the horizontal scale is
marked off in appropriate units- whole numbers, halves, or quarters
Objects and events have attributes that can be measured using appropriate tools.
Relationships exist between standard units that measure the same attributes.
Understand the use of standard units to measure perimeter, area and volume.
Understand that measures can fall between numbers on a measurement scale, for
example, 3 kg, between 4cm and 5cm.
Understand relationships between units, for example, metres, centimetres and
millimetres.
Describe measures that fall between numbers on a scale.
Read and write digital and analogue time on 12-hour and 24-hour clocks.
Use standard units of measurement to solve problems in real-life situations involving
perimeter, area and volume.
Select appropriate tools and units of measurement.
Understand that directions for locations can be represented by coordinates on a grid.
Understand that visualization of shape and space is a strategy for solving problems.
Locate features on a grid using coordinates, describe and/or represent mental images of
objects, patterns, and paths.