Learning Targets

Week of September 28

Reading

• Ask and answer questions using explicit evidence and details directly from expository text.

• Determine the main idea of expository text and recount key details to explain how they support it.

• Distinguish personal point of view from the author's point of view.

• Gather key information from text features (illustrations, photographs, maps, and diagrams).

Vocabulary: announce, candidates, convince, decisions, elect, estimate, government, independent

Phonics

• Decode and spell single- and multi-syllable words using common long i vowel patterns.

Vocabulary: short vowel, short syllable, long vowel, long syllable

Writing

• Construct simple sentences and compound sentences.

• Edit multi-paragraph opinion essay for correct capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar and create final copy.

Vocabulary: subject, predicate, verb agreement, quotation marks

Math

• Use related multiplication facts to divide.

• Apply knowledge of even and odd numbers to identify multiplication patterns.

• Write and solve equations to represent and solve word problems using ? to represent an unknown value.

• Topic 4 parent letter

Vocabulary: multiple, factor, product, dividend, divisor, quotient, fact families, unknown

Social Studies

• Classify characteristics of communities as physical, human, or cultural.

• Analyze how physical, human, and cultural characteristics shape places.

Vocabulary: physical, human, and cultural characteristics