Texas Content Area Standards

• ELA: 3.110.5.b.6

  Comprehension skills: listening speaking, reading, writing and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

  • ELA: 3.6.G: The student is expected to evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
  • ELA: 3.6.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding.

• ELA: 3.110.5.b.7

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • ELA: 3.7.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • ELA: 3.7.F: The student is expected to respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.

• ELA: 4.110.6.b.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking- oral language. The students develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • ELA: 4.1.D: The student is expected to work collaboratively with other to develop a plan of shared responsibilities.
  • ELA: 4.3.B: The student is expected to use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words.

• ELA: 4.110.6.b.6

  Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

  • ELA: 4.6.G: The student is expected to evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
  • ELA: 4.6.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding.

• ELA: 4.110.6.b.7

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • ELA: 4.7.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • ELA: 4.7.F: The student is expected to respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.

• ELA: 5.110.7.b.1

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking- oral language. The students develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

  • ELA: 5.1.D: The student is expected to work collaboratively with others to develop a plan of shared responsibilities.

• ELA: 5.110.7.b.3

  Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking- vocabulary. The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.

  • ELA: 5.3.B: The student is expected to use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words.

• ELA: 5.110.7.b.6

  Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts.

  • ELA: 5.6.G: The student is expected to evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
  • ELA: 5.6.H: The student is expected to synthesize information to create new understanding.

• ELA: 5.110.7.b.7

  Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

  • ELA: 5.7.E: The student is expected to interact with sources in meaningful ways such as notetaking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • ELA: 5.7.F: The student is expected to respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.

• Science: 3.112.14.b.10

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that help them survive within their environments.

  • Science: 3.112.14.b.10.B: The student is expected to investigate and compare how animals and plants undergo a series of orderly changed in their diverse life cycles such as tomato plants, frogs, and lady beetles.

• Science: 4.112.15.b.10

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures and behaviors that help them survive within their environment.

  • Science: 4.10.B: The student is expected to explore and describe examples of traits that are inherited from parents to offspring such as eye color and shapes of leaves and behaviors that are learned such as reading a book and a wolf pack teaching their pups to hunt effectively.
  • Science: 4.10.C: The student is expected to explore, illustrate, and compare life cycles in living organisms such as beetles, crickets, radishes, or lima beans.

• Science: 5.112.16.b.10

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures and behaviors that help them survive within their environment.

  • Science: 5.10.B: The student is expected to differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.

• Social Studies: 3.113.14.c.13

  Science, technology, and society. The student understands how individuals have created or invented new technology and affected life in various communities, past and present. The student is expected to:

  • Social Studies: 3.113.14.c.13.B: describe the impact of scientific breakthroughs and new technology in computers, pasteurization, and medical vaccines on various communities

• Social Studies: 3.113.14.c.14

  Social studies skills. The student applies critical-thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including technology. The student is expected to:

  • Social Studies: 3.113.14.c.14.C: interpret oral, visual, and print material by sequencing, categorizing, identifying the main idea, distinguishing between fact and opinion, identifying cause and effect, comparing, and contrasting

• Social Studies: 4.113.15.c.21

  Social studies skills. The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. The student is expected to:

  • Social Studies: 4.113.15.c.21.C: express ideas orally based on research and experiences

• Social Studies: 5.113.16.c.25

  Social studies skills. The student communicates in written, oral, and visual forms. The student is expected to:

  • Social Studies: 5.113.16.c.25.C: express ideas orally based on research and experiences

• Science: 3.112.5.b.13

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that function to help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 3.112.5.b.13.B: explore, illustrate, and compare life cycles in organisms such as beetles, crickets, radishes, or lima beans

• Science: 4.112.6.b.13

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that function to help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 4.112.6.b.13.B: differentiate between inherited and acquired physical traits of organisms

• Science: 5.112.7.b.13

  Organisms and environments. The student knows that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures and behaviors that help them survive within their environments. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 5.112.7.b.13.B: explain how instinctual behavioral traits such as turtle hatchlings returning to the sea and learned behavioral traits such as orcas hunting in packs increase chances of survival