Unit 4: Making Sense of Multiplication and 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.

​Unit 5: Reasoning with Shapes and 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.

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?

Unit 1: Reading and Writing Narratives (Poems and Pourquoi Tales)

• Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Reading and Understanding Narratives: Students will read two narrative tests (poem and 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: Students will read aloud their pourquoi tale and be assessed for reading fluency. Students will also use answer language questions about comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs. ​

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

• Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Reading and Researching about Reptiles and Amphibians: Students will read a new text and answer questions demonstrating their ability to determine the meaning of unknown words, read for specific details, and use text features.

• End of Unit 2 Assessment: Informative Paragraph: 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

• Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Describing Freaky Frog Adaptations: Students answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge of appropriate response to task and correctly using present or past tense. Students will also  use their graphic organizer to write their second proof paragraph of their Freaky Frog essay. 

• End of Unit 3 Assessment: Revising and Editing Freaky Frog Adaptations: Students will revise and write a final draft of their informative essay about their chosen freaky frog and answer selected response questions.

​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.

Students will be able to...

• Find absolute and relative locations of places within the local community and region on a map, globe, etc. 

• Construct a map of the local community including; symbols, labels, legends, absolute and relative location.

• Compare the characteristics (landforms, bodies of water, urban/rural) of the three different regions of North Carolina.

• Summarize the cultural, demographic, economic, and geographic elements that define Wake County and surrounding areas.

• Compare human and physical characteristics of places.

• Describe how people adapt to and change their environment.

• Explain the impact of movement (goods, people, ideas) on the community.