English Language Arts

Grade 2

• 2W1: Write an opinion about a topic or personal experience, using clear reasons and relevant evidence.
• 2W4: Create a response to a text, author, theme or personal experience (e.g., poem, play, story, artwork, or other).

Grade 4

• 4R2: Determine a theme or central idea of text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize a text. (RI&RL)
• 4R7: Identify information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, illustrations), and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text. (RI&RL)
• 4R8: Explain how claims in a text are supported by relevant reasons and evidence. (RI&RL)
• 4W4: Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme, or personal experience.
• 4W6: Conduct research to answer questions, including self-generated questions, and to build knowledge through investigating multiple aspects of a topic.

Science

Science & Engineering Practices

• Asking Questions & Determining Problems
• Developing & Using Models
• Analyzing & Interpreting Data
• Using Mathematics & Computational Thinking
• Engaging in Argument from Evidence
• Constructing Explanations & Design Solutions

Crosscutting Concepts

• Patterns
• Cause & Effect
• Systems & System Models
• Stability & Change

Mathematics

Grade 2

• NY-2.OA Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.
• NY-2.NBT Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
• NY-2.MD Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a picture graph or a bar graph.

Grade 4

• NY-4.OA Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted.

Social Studies

Social Studies Practices

1. Gathering, Interpreting, and Using Evidence
2. Chronological Reasoning and Causation
3. Comparison and Contextualization
4. Civic Participation