I can identify and give examples of text features and search tools. I can explain how text features and search [...]

I can define point of view (in an informational text). I can determine point of view of the author (in [...]

I can ask questions to show I understand important details in a story. I can answer questions to show I [...]

I can explain how illustrations in a text add meaning to the words. I can use information from illustrations to [...]

I can closely read and understand grade level text independently. I can read fluently (easy, smooth and automatic) grade level [...]

I can describe connections made between sentences and/or paragraphs within the text. I can identify words authors use to help [...]

I can retell stories (including fables, folktales and myths) in my own words. I can define the central message, lesson [...]

I can find the most important points and key details found in two texts on the same subject. I can [...]

I can describe characters in a story using character traits. I can describe characters is a story using physical characteristics. [...]

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

I can use strategies (eg., context clues, root words, affixes) to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they [...]

I can explain how stories, dramas, and poems are written in different forms (eg., section chapter, scene, or stanza. I [...]

I can define point of view (in a story, drama, poem). I can distinguish between a narrator's point of view [...]

I can identify illustrations that support the story. I can explain how illustrations contribute to the words in the story. [...]

I can define theme. I can define setting. I can define plot. I can identify themes, settings, and plots in [...]

Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram by defining the interval from 0 to 1 as the whole [...]

Represent a fraction a/b on a number line diagram by marking off a lengths 1/b from 0. Recognize that the [...]

Develop understanding of fractions as numbers. Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their [...]

Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line. [...]

Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions (e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3), Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., [...]

Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers. Examples: Express 3 in the form [...]

Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator, by reasoning about their size, Recognize that valid comparisons [...]

Recognize area as additive. Find areas of rectilinear figures by decomposing them into non-overlapping rectangles and adding the areas of [...]

Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an [...]

Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that [...]

Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. [...]

Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; [...]

Understand a fraction as a number on the number line; represent fractions on a number line diagram. (Grade 3 expectations [...]

Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- [...]

Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by [...]

Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.

A square with side length 1 unit, called “a unit square,” is said to have “one square unit” of area, [...]

A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an [...]

Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).

Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide. Examples: If 6 × 4 = 24 is known, then [...]

Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, divide 32 ÷ 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when [...]

Find the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths by tiling it, and show that the area is the [...]

Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 [...]

Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and [...]

Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown [...]

Use tiling to show in a concrete case that the area of a rectangle with whole-number side lengths a and [...]

Identify arithmetic patterns (including patterns in the addition table or multiplication table), and explain them using properties of operations. For [...]

Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship [...]

Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using [...]

Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and [...]

Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). [...]

Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of [...]

Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when [...]