All grading corresponds to the TSC grading policy set forth on the current progress report:

100% - 90% A

89% - 80% B

79% - 70% C

69% – 60% D

59 - 0% F

Reading: Scores are recorded for a variety of assignments, quizzes, and tests, including AR quizzes over assigned books. Reading standards include literature, informational text, and foundational skills.

Literature:

  • Reads fiction independently for meaning.

  • Understands and explains the figurative use of words in similes and metaphors.

  • Reads fluently, accurately, and with expression.

  • Stays engaged during self-selected reading.

Informational Text:

  • Identifies and uses a variety of comprehension strategies to make meaning (i.e. main idea, supporting details, fact/opinion, text features, finding evidence within text, and integrating information).

  • Uses a variety of strategies to make meaning of text vocabulary.

Foundational Skills

· Develops grade level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words to read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.

Writing: Scores are recorded for a variety of written applications.

  • Uses the writing process (pre-writing, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing).

  • Writes essays using correct paragraph form.

  • Uses a variety of writing forms (narrative, persuasive, descriptive, and expository.).

  • Writes responses to literature that show understanding.

Language: Scores are recorded for assignments, quizzes, and lesson/unit assessments.

· Demonstrates command of standard English grammar and usage.

· Demonstrates mastery of grade level vocabulary.

· Spells grade-appropriate words correctly.

Science/Health: Scores are recorded for daily assignments, labs, quizzes, and tests.

  • Carries out scientific investigations using the scientific method and technology.

  • Describes, observes, records, and communicates science/health content accurately.

Social Studies: Scores are recorded for a variety of assignments, projects, quizzes and tests.

  • Understands practices of citizenship and the government of the United States.

  • Identifies major physical, economic, and cultural characteristics of the United States.

  • Knows and uses map skills.

  • Understand progression of events that shaped United States history from the 15th-19th century.

Mathematics: Scores are recorded for a variety of assignments, quizzes, and tests.

Operations and Algebraic Thinking

· Writes and interprets numerical expressions.

· Analyzes patterns and relationships.

Number and Operations in Base Ten

· Uses place value to perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to the hundredths.

Measurement and Data

· Converts measurements, calculates volume, and interprets data.

Geometry

· Graphs points on coordinate planes and classifies 2-dimensional figures based on their properties.

Number and Operations – Fractions

· Adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides fractions.