PULASKI ASSESSMENT OF READING/ SKILLS

LANGUAGE ARTS

MATH

SOCIAL STUDIES

SCIENCE

PRACTICAL LIVING/ ARTS & HUMANITIES

WRITING

WEEK 19

*Compare and contrast *Multiple-meaning *Initial & Final consonant blends *Digraphs (th, ch, ph, sh ) *Folktale *Fable

Ananse’s Feast

*Adjectives

x.0.1 Use word recognition strategies to determine pronunciations and meanings of words in passages. x.0.3 Know that some words have multiple meanings and identify the correct meaning as the word is used.

POS- Students will use auditory and visual strategies to understand words and their meanings.

Addition

Money

2.2.6 Use standard units to measure money.

POS- Students will use the correct symbols for money.  Students will identify coins and bills by value.

3.2.1 Economic systems can be large or small.  3.2.2 The U.S. economic system has financial institutions.  3.2.3 The U.S. economic system is based on free enterprise where businesses seek to make profits by producing or selling goods or services.

POS- Students will recognize different roles of family, workers, banks, and businesses in economic systems. 

Matter

1.1.3 Materials can exist in different states—solid, liquid, and gas. 

POS- Students will understand that materials can exist in different states and some common materials can change states.

Guidance- Anger Management

Second Steps Lessons 1-3

Introduction to anger management, Anger triggers, Calming down

Feature Article

WEEK 20

*Setting *Plot *Character *Consonant clusters *Initial & Final consonant blends *Realistic Fiction *Word attack skills

*Comparative and superlative adjectives *Telephone directory skills

x.0.1 Use word recognition strategies to determine pronunciations and meanings of words in passages

1.0.8 Describe characters, plot, setting, and problem/solution of a passage. 

POS- Students will retell stories or parts of stories containing beginning, middle, and end, and

important details.  Students will apply patterns to unknown words in context.

Addition

Money

2.2.6 Use standard units to measure money.

POS- Students will make change up to a dollar.  Students will make combinations of coins and bills to a given amount.

3.1.2 Consumers use goods and services to satisfy economic wants and needs.3.4.1 Producers create goods and services; consumers make economic choices about which ones to purchase.   

POS- Students will recognize fundamental economic concepts.  Students will understand that consumer wants influence the production and consumption of goods and services.  Students will understand that consumer wants influence the

production and consumption of goods and services.

2.1.1 Earth materials include solid rocks and soils, water, and the gases of the atmosphere.  2.1.2 Earth materials provide many of the resources humans use.

POS- Students will understand that Earth’s materials are solids, water, and gases.

Guidance-Anger Management

Second Steps Lessons 4-5 Self-talk and reflection

Feature Article

WEEK 21

*Cause and effect *Vowel dipthongs *Consonant clusters *Realistic Fiction *Following multiple steps written directions *Scanning/Skimming to find information

Thunder Calls

*Adverbs

POS- Students will develop an awareness of sounds and patterns in language including auditory segmentation, blending, and rhyming.

Subtraction

Money

2.2.6 Use standard units to measure money.2.3.3 How units within the same measurement system are related

POS-Students will expand the use of coins and bills to give change for a given amount.

3.4.2 The government provides goods and services and pays for them with taxes.  3.4.3 Producers who specialize create specific goods or services.

POS- Students will explore the world of work and recognize relationships among work, wages, purchasing power, and lifestyle.

Recycling

Anger Management

Second Steps Lessons 6-7 Keeping out of a fight, Dealing with name calling and teasing

Feature Article

WEEK 22

*Compare & contrast *Predicting *Possessive singulars and plurals *Dipthongs oi,oy *Contractions *Narration *Dictionary skills

One Grain of Rice

*Capitalization *Elaborating sentences

2.0.7 Identify the organizational pattern in a passage; sequence, cause and effect, and/or comparison/contrast.

POS- Students will identify organizational patterns of transactive materials.

Subtraction

Money

1.2.3 Add and subtract fractions with like denominators; add and subtract decimals through hundredths

POS- Students will add and subtract decimals using money.

3.1.1 Productive resources are limited and do not satisfy all the wants of individuals, societies, and governments.

POS- Students will recognize fundamental economic concepts.

Recycling

Anger Management

Second Steps Lessons 8-9 Skills review, Dealing with criticism

Dictionary Skills

POS-  Students will use tools to edit their won writing for correctness.

WEEK 23

*Predicting *Context clues *Antonyms   *R-controlled vowels *suffixes *Contractions

The Woman Who Outshone the Sun

Fractions

Measurement

1.1.1 Whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals through thousandths. 1.1.5 Multiple representations of numbers

POS- Students will develop beginning fractional concepts.  Students will divide an area into thirds and fourths, naming fractional parts.

3.1.3 Every time a choice is made, an opportunity cost is incurred. 3.3.1 A market exists whenever buyers and sellers exchange goods and services.  Prices and availability of goods and services are determined by supply and demand.  3.2.4

Profit is the difference between revenues and the costs entailed in producing or selling goods or services. 

POS- Students will recognize fundamental economic concepts.

2.2.2 Objects in the sky have properties, locations and real or apparent movements that can be observed and described.  2.3.3 Changes in movement of objects in the sky have

patterns that can be observed and described. 

POS- Students will understand that objects in the sky(sun, moon, clouds) have patterns of movements.

Guidance-Violence, Bullying, Harassment

Second Steps Lessons 10-11 Dealing with being left out, Accepting consequences

Classical Music

Arts & Humanities open-response

WEEK 24

Review

*Informational articles

Review

Unit 4

Fractions

1.2.3 Add and subtract fractions with like denominators; add and subtract decimals through hundredths.

POS- Students will add common fractions with like denominators using manipulatives.

3.3.2 The direct exchange of goods and services is called barter.

POS-  Students will recognize fundamental economic concepts.

Scientific Investigations

Violence, Bullying, Harassment       

Word of the month- Honesty               

Second Steps Lesson 12 Review

Good Citizen Social Studies open-response

POS- Students will demonstrate independent and critical thinking in writing to learn situations such as journals and graphic organizers and writing to demonstrate learning situations such as graphic organizers and open-response questions.

WEEK 25

 *Text structure *Homophones *Regular and irregular plurals *Possessives *Biographies *Autobiography *Use book format resources such as table of contents, glossary, and index

Flight

*Making judgments *Pronouns *Atlas

2.0.6 Use text features to understand a passage. 4.0.6 Locate and apply information for authentic purposes.

POS- Students will use text structure to interpret print and non-print materials for authentic purposes.

Fractions

1.1.1 Whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals through thousandths 1.3.1 How fractions, decimals, and whole numbers relate 

POS- Students will expand reaction concepts.

Jamestown Colony, Plymouth Colony, Oregon Trail, California Gold Rush, Lewis and Clark, Santa Fe Trail, Compass Point  books

5.2.3 The way we live has changed over time for both Kentuckians and Americans

because of changes in many areas.5.2.4 The study of U.S. history is categorized into broad historical periods and eras. 

POS- Students will distinguish among past, present, and future, and describe change over time.

 Then and Now

Time lines

Communication, Transportation, Housing, Education

Violence, Bullying, Harassment

Second Steps Lesson 13- Dealing with disappointment       

Car of the Future

Science open-response

1.1 Reflective writing includes the writer’s examination of his/her writing

skills, abilities, approaches, and products.

POS- Students will produce a variety of written responses, some of which reflect on self as reader and writer.

WEEK 26

*Fact & opinion *R-controlled vowels *Environmental print *Interviews

*Subject pronouns *Topic sentence

1.0.6 Explain the meaning of a passage taken from texts appropriate for elementary students.

Decimals

1.1.1Whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals through thousandths 1.3.1How fractions, decimals, and whole numbers relate

POS- Students will understand and count unit fractions, such as one-fourth, two-fourths, and three fourths in real world context.

5.1.3 Historical events have multiple causes.5.2.2 People explored and settled America and Kentucky for multiple reasons.

POS- Students will understand how and why (cause-and-effect) events occurred in the community, state, or nation.  Students will distinguish among past, present, and future, and describe change over time.

 1.3.2 Heat can be produced in many ways such as burning or rubbing.

Violence, Bullying, Harassment                                  

Second Steps Lesson 14- Dealing with accusation      

Letter to Reviewer

WEEK 27

*Prefixes *Homographs *Plurals

Brave Irene

*Possessive pronouns *Personification *Graphic sources

x.0.4 Recognize the meaning of a word when a prefix or suffix has been added to a base word.

POS- Students will apply syllabification to unknown words in context.

Decimals

1.1.1Whole numbers, fractions, mixed numbers, and decimals through thousandths 1.3.1How fractions, decimals, and whole numbers relate

POS- Students will introduce decimals to represent money.

4.3.3 Technology allows humans to settle in areas previously inaccessible.

POS-  Students will recognize that people depend on, adapt to, or modify the environment to meet basic needs.

 Magic School Bus

Getting Energized

1.3.3 Electricity in circuits can produce light, heat, sound, and magnetic effects.

POS- Students will understand that electrical currents move through

electrical circuits.  Electricity in circuits can produce lights.

Violence, Bullying, Harassment

Second Steps Lesson 15- Making a complaint        

Letter to Reviewer