Literacy

 

Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs 

​Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:

• How does an author engage the reader in a narrative?

• How to experts build knowledge and share expertise about a topic?

• How do frogs survive?

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​Unit 1: Reading and Writing Narratives: Poems and Pourquoi Tales about Frogs 

• Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Reading and Understanding Poetry and Pourquoi Tales

  • In this assessment, students will read a poem and answer text-dependent selected response questions and read a pourquoi tale and answer questions about the plot and purpose, demonstrating their ability to identify key ideas and details as well as analyze the structure of the story.

• End of Unit 1 Assessment: Reading and Writing a Pourquoi Tale

  • In this assessment, students will read aloud their pourquoi tale and be assessed for reading fluency. Students will also use what they have learned about comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs to answer selected response questions. ​

 

​Unit 2: Building Background Knowledge: Frogs and the Research Process​

• Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Reading and Researching about Reptiles and Amphibians

  • In this assessment, students will read a new excerpt and answer text-dependent multiple choice and short answer questions demonstrating their ability to determine the meaning of unknown words, reading for specific details, and use text features. 

• End of Unit 2 Assessment: Informative Paragraph: Describing Poison Dart Frogs

  • In this assessment, students reread a text from the unit and a new text to synthesize information, answer selected response questions, and plan a short, informative piece of writing.

 

​Unit 3: Using Writing to Inform: Freaky Frog Text

• Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Informative Paragraph: Describing Freaky Frog Adaptations

  • In this assessment, students answer selected response questions.

• End of Unit 3 Assessment: Revising and Editing a Description of My Freaky Frog

  • In this assessment, students revise and write a final draft of their informative essay about their chosen freaky frog and answer selected response questions.

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Module Performance Task: Freaky Frog Book and Trading Card

• Students will create a trading card and compile their writing from this quarter into a book with a front cover and table of contents. The book will contain:

  • The pourquoi narrative written in Unit 1 about the unique physical characteristics and behaviors of frogs

  • The informational writing from Unit 2 about how unusual characteristics help frogs survive in their environments.

  • The informational essay from Unit 3 about the unique and sometimes freaky adaptations of a particular frog.

  • A Freaky Frog Trading Card from Unit 3 that includes detailed scientific illustration or digital picture of a freaky frog as well as basic facts about the frog collected through research. 

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Mathematics

Unit 3: ​Stories with Addition & Subtraction (continued)

Students will be able to...

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Unit 4: Making Sense of Multiplication & Division

Students will be able to...

• Decompose a factor as a strategy for solving a multiplication problem.

• Demonstrate that the order of the factors do not matter when you are multiplying (or adding) numbers.

• Use a variety of strategies, like arrays and repeated addition, to model multiplication.

• Use repeated subtraction (measurement model) and/or fair share (partition model) when solving a division problem.

• Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurements quantities. 

• Use equal groups/equal shares as a strategy to solve multiplication and division word problems.

• Use various representations to show an unknown.

• Use multiplication and/or division to solve problems with an unknown factor.

• Illustrate and explain using the relationship between multiplication and division.

• Use addition, subtraction, and multiplication to solve two-step word problems. 

• Use concrete and pictorial place value models to find the product of a one-digit whole number by a multiple of 10.

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Unit 5: Reasoning with Shapes & their Attributes

Students will be able to...

• Reason with two-dimensional shapes and their attributes.

• Investigate, describe and reason about composing triangles and quadrilaterals and decomposing quadrilaterals.

• Recognize and draw examples and non-examples of types of quadrilaterals including rhombuses, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, and trapezoids. 

• Compose and decompose quadrilaterals using triangles and quadrilaterals.

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Science

Earth in the Solar System

 

Students will be able to...

• Identify the major parts of the Solar System.

• Develop and use models to illustrate consistent patterns found in the Solar System.

• Carry out an investigation to observe that the Sun changes its apparent position in the sky, therefore, shadows will change.

• Develop a model of the major components of the Solar System.

• Use a model to discuss the major components of the Solar System.

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Earth's Land & Water Features

Students will be able to...

• Describe Earth’s surface as having land and water features . 

• Explain that various organisms (plants and animals) live in Earth’s water. 

• Compare Earth’s land and water features.

• Compare Earth’s water features. 

• Compare Earth’s land features. 

• Use models, pictures, diagrams and maps as  representations to explore and gain understanding about  Earth’s land and water features. 

• Investigate locations and characteristics of Earth’s water features.

• Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the differences of Earth’s various landforms.