Word Study

• Systematic, interactive approach to learning phonics and spelling through comparing and contrasting known features
• Will pre-assess students to determine existing word knowledge
• Instruction is explicit, sequenced, and incremental
• Students move through developmental stages as their knowledge of words deepens

Reading

• Demonstrate comprehension of fiction and nonfiction text
• Read with fluency, accuracy and expression
• Demonstrate comprehension using the natural strategies of clarifying, making connections, visualizing, questioning, predicting, drawing inferences, determining importance, synthesizing, and summarizing

Writing

• Write daily for a variety of purposes
• Use writing workshop traits to use ideas, voice, conventions, sentence fluency, organization, and word choice
• Write Narrative, Descriptive, and Expository (research report) style paragraphs

Math

• Provides students opportunities to engage in experiences involving problem solving, data collection and analysis, and algebraic thinking
• Concepts to master are double-digit multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, and geometry

Science

• Use information, analyze data and validate experimental results by creating simple predictions, questioning and hypothesizing at a more rigorous level
• Master principles of electricity, concepts of motion, basic information on solar systems, plant anatomy and adaptations, weather phenomena
• Investigate relationships between plants and animals and their environments

Virginia Studies

• Study the state of Virginia beginning with the first permanent English settlement at Jamestown to the end of the Twentieth Century
• Explore how the geography of Virginia and the state’s resources, its economic systems, and cultural makeup have influenced Virginia history from pre-colonial times to the end of the Twentieth Century
• Read and write about famous Virginians and study important historical documents and events that have influenced Virginia history
• Prepare students to develop problem solving and decision making skills

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