Literacy

 

Overcoming Learning Challenges Near and Far 

​Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:

• Why are education, books, and reading important?

• How can I overcome learning challenges?

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​Unit 1: Reading Literary Texts: Overcoming Learning Challenges - School and Education

• Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Collaborative Discussions

  • In this assessment, students follow norms and use notes to discuss what they like about their independent reading books so far and what they find challenging.

• End of Unit 1 Assessment: Answering Questions about a Literary Text

  • Students will read a new literary text and answer text-dependent, multiple choice, and short answer questions demonstrating their ability to use evidence, determine the lesson or message, and describe the impact of the character's actions on the sequence of events.

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​Unit 2: Reading and Writing to Inform: Overcoming Learning Challenges - Books

• Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Questions and Identifying the Main Idea of an Informational Text

  • In this assessment, students will read a new text and answer selected response and short response questions about unfamiliar vocabulary, the main idea, and supporting details.

• End of Unit 2 Assessment: The Challenge of Accessing Books

  • In this assessment, students reread a passage and write a paragraph describing the challenge of accessing books and how it is overcome, demonstrating their ability to write an informative/explanatory piece that refers explicitly to details in the text. 

 

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​Unit 3: Writing to Inform: Overcoming Learning Challenges - Reading​

• Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Finding the Lesson

  • In this assessment, students use notes from a previous lesson to write an informative paragraph. Students demonstrate deep understanding of the main idea and main character in the text.

• End of Unit 3 Assessment: Recording an Audiobook and Revising Reading Contract

  • In this assessment, students work in small groups to record an audiobook. Students are required to practice and read an allocated excerpt aloud independently. Students will also revise and write a final draft of the reading contracts written throughout the unit using peer and teacher feedback.

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Module Performance Task: Reading Strategies Bookmark

• Students will create an eye-catching bookmark listing the strategies described in their End of Unit 3 Assessment Reading Contracts. The strategies are written in bullet points so students can access them quickly when reading.

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Mathematics

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Unit 1: Building a Mathematical Community and Understanding Equal Groups​

Students will be able to...

• Write a multiplication equation to represent story problems.

• Use pictures, arrays, and repeated addition to model the story problems.

• Identify patterns of multiplication.

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Unit 2: Using Data to Solve Problems

Students will be able to...

• Collect data with up to four categories by asking questions.

• Organize data into frequency tables.

• Represent data collected by constructing a scaled picture graph and/or scaled bar graph.

• Analyze and interpret data from a graph.

• Solve one- and two-step problems using data presented in scaled picture graphs and/or bar graphs using addition and subtraction.

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Unit 3: Stories with Addition & Subtraction

Students will be able to...

• Use expanded form to decompose numbers to solve addition and subtraction problems.

• Apply the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems.

• Solve two-step word problems using addition and subtraction

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Science

Bones, Muscles, and Skin

​Students will be able to...

• Explain that the human body is made of systems to include the skeletal and muscular system. 

• Identify why the human body systems are essential for life. 

• Describe ways the skeletal and muscular systems protect, move, and support the human body. 

• Compare the functions of the skeletal and muscular system.

• Explain why skin is necessary 

• Explain why skin keeps the human body healthy

• Construct explanations as to why the skeletal system protects, supports, and enables movement of the human body.

• Construct explanations as to why the muscular system protects, supports, and enables movement of the human body. 

• Observing the human body in motion (Obtaining information) then identify the skeleton as a system. 

• Develop and use models of the human skeleton and observe that each bone has a certain shape, position, and function.