Moving Ahead

Kindergarten Moving Ahead to 1st Grade

• Understanding story structure (identify the main character, setting, main idea)
• Print Concepts- identifying the author, title, title page, front cover, back cover, reading from left to right (pages & sentences)
• Identifying vowels (2 sounds)
• Identifying sight words
• Identifying letter names and their sounds, make rhymes,
• Name the person, place, thing, or idea in a picture.
• Follow the rules of conversation by listening and taking turns talking.

• Counting up to 100
• Counting by 10's
• Count how many objects are in a group (one by one) and compare it to another group to figure out which is greater or less than the other.
• Add and subtract numbers 1 through 10.
• Use objects or draw pictures to represent and solve simple addition and subtraction word problems.

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1st grade Moving Ahead to 2nd grade

• Show an understanding of the lesson in a story by asking and answering questions about it (who, what, where, when, why, and how)
• Compare and contrast elements of different stories, including characters, settings, and major events
• Explain how texts that tell stories are different from texts that provide information
• Talk with others, using the rules of listening, asking questions, and waiting their turn to respond (like in class discussions)
• Write in small groups as well as on their own about a single topic and provide a few facts or details about it

• Add and subtract numbers up to 20 (like 10 + 10 or 20 ‒ 10)
• Understand basic rules of addition and subtraction (like 6 + 2 is the same as 2 + 6)
• Solve word problems and problems with one- and two-digit numbers up to 20
• Understand the meaning of the “tens” and “ones” places in two-digit numbers and learn to compare two-digit numbers using > (more than) and < (less than)
• Read a clock and be able to tell the time to the nearest hour
• Sort items into categories by shape, size, color, and function

3rd grade Moving Ahead to 4th grade

• Place Value
• Mastery of all multiplication facts
  • Know the times tables up to 12 and multiply numbers by 10
• Use addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to solve word problems involving more than one step

• Answer questions about reading material that covers history, social studies, and science; also use information in illustrations, maps, and charts to help answer questions
• Use dialogue and description to write about what a character is thinking and feeling
• Gather information from online sources in addition to books and articles; use that information to write research papers

4th grade Moving Ahead to 5th grade

• Memorization of multiplication facts
• Computations that involve regrouping
• Place value

• Use R.A.C.E. to answer short response questions with supporting evidence
• Identify the main idea of what’s been read, explaining how the author used facts and evidence to back up the text
• Understand information presented in drawings, timelines, charts, and other non-text formats
• Take notes and organize facts; create oral and written reports using the information

5th grade Moving Ahead to 6th grade

• Identify themes of stories, poems, and plays by looking at how characters respond to challenges.
• Compare stories and poems that talk about the same theme.
• Support ideas with facts and details from a text.
• Use information from many different sources (books, articles, websites) to find an answer to a question or problem.
• Understand similes, metaphors, and other figurative language.

• Recognizing ratios as part to part, part to whole, and equivalent ratios similar to equivalent fractions.
• Mastery of long division and/or partial quotients.

6th grade Moving Ahead to 7th grade

• Figure out the theme of something they read and support their answers with evidence from the text.
• Compare poems, stories, and historical novels, explaining the plot of each and how the characters react to the action.
• Learn both the figurative and implied meaning of words and phrases.
• Identify specific claims or arguments in reading materials and decide how valid they are.
• Write arguments or opinion papers using clear reasoning and supportive facts.

• Proportions
• One and two-step equations.
• Integer and Integer Operations (negatives and positives)

7th grade Moving Ahead to 8th grade

• Read daily! Be prepared for 8th grade by reading daily and increasing ones stamina!
• Start thinking about high school options and choices (what fields do you want to potentially explore as a career?)
• Ignore Negativity - learn some social and emotional skills that can help you - tools to support yourself when challenges arise
• Study skills - time management
• Note Taking
  • Start a clean sheet for each day’s notes.
  • Write subject and date at top of sheet.
  • Write down important facts from class.
  • Be an active listener.
  • Make sure to have your note taking materials with you at all times

• Use tables, graphs, and word problems to help calculate rates (e.g., if you travel half a mile every 15 minutes, how far will you travel in 45 minutes?)
• Solve equations to find the value of a missing variable
• Learn how to apply the “order of operations” to number sentences—adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing in the correct order
• Solve equal expressions—number sentences in which both sides produce the same answer (2 + 4 = 3 + 3)
• Solve multi-step word problems that include whole numbers, fractions, and percentages to find the circumference and area of objects

8th grade Moving Ahead to High School (9th grade)

• Identify the exact meaning of something they read and what’s implied by the word choice, tone, and use of language
• Decide whether a writer’s argument has enough good evidence and reasoning to back it up
• Connect ideas and information in writing in a natural and effective way
• Analyze why information is presented in one media format over another (interactive maps vs. videos, for example)
• Develop a vocabulary of academic words and phrases to use in writing and discussion
• Make sense of figures of speech (like puns or idioms) based on the context in which they’re used

• Learn that rational numbers can be written as a fraction or as a decimal (like 3/4 = .75), but that the same isn’t true for irrational numbers (like the square root of 2)
• Figure out the square roots of perfect squares (like the square root of 64 = 8)
• Solve and graph equations; figure out the ratio of two numbers by looking at a line on a graph
• Learn the meaning of a function—a rule that gives a variable a value based on its relationship to another variable (2x = y)
• Determine when shapes are of equal size and shape (congruent) and when they are the same shape but of different sizes (similar)
• Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the lengths of the sides of a right triangle
• Find the volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres