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: 3.110.5.b.9

  Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts- genres. The student recognizes and analyzed literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

  • ELA: 3.9.A: The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristic of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths.

• 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: 4.110.6.b.9

  Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts- genres. The student recognizes and analyzed genre- specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

  • ELA: 4.9.A: The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales.

• 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: 5.110.7.b.9

  Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts- genres. The student recognizes and analyzed genre- specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts.

  • ELA: 5.9.A: The student is expected to demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well-known children's literature such as folktales, fables, legends, myths, and tall tales.

• Science: 3.112.14.b.5

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those properties determine how matter is classifies, changed, and used.

  • Science: 3.112.14.b.5.B: The student is expected to describe and classify samples of matter as solids, liquids, and gases and demonstrate that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container.
  • Science: 3.112.14.b.5.C: The student is expected to predict, observe, and record changes in the state of matter caused by heating or cooling such as ice becoming liquid water, condensation forming on the outside of a glass of ice water, or liquid water being heated to the point of becoming water vapor.
  • Science: 3.112.14.b.5.D: The student is expected to explore and recognize that a mixture is created when two materials are combined such as gravel and sand or metal and plastic paper clips.

• Science: 4.112.15.b.5

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those properties determine how matter is classifies, changed, and used.

  • Science: 4.5.A: The student is expected to measure, compare, and contrast physical properties of matter, including mass, colume, states (solid, liquid, gas), temperature, magnetism, and the ability to sink or float.

• Science: 5.112.16.b.5

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties and those properties determine how matter is classifies, changed, and used.

  • Science: 5.5.C: The student is expected to identify changes that can occur in the physical properties of the ingredients of solutions such as dissolving salt in water or adding lemon juice to water.

• 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: 3.113.14.c.15

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

  • Social Studies: 3.113.14.c.15.D: express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences

• Social Studies: 4.113.15.c.19

  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: 4.113.15.c.19.C: analyze information by applying absolute and relative chronology through sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions;
  • Social Studies: 4.113.15.c.19.D: organize and interpret information in outlines, reports, databases, and visuals, including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps

• 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.23

  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: 5.113.16.c.23.C: analyze information by applying absolute and relative chronology through sequencing, categorizing, identifying cause-and-effect relationships, comparing, contrasting, finding the main idea, summarizing, making generalizations and predictions, and drawing inferences and conclusions
  • Social Studies: 5.113.16.c.23.D: organize and interpret information in outlines, reports, databases, and visuals, including graphs, charts, timelines, and maps

• 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.6

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how matter is identified, classified, changed, and used. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 3.112.5.b.6.B: describe and classify samples of matter as solids, liquids, and gases and demonstrate that solids have a definite shape and that liquids and gases take the shape of their container
  • Science: 3.112.5.b.6.C: predict, observe, and record changes in the state of matter caused by heating or cooling in a variety of substances such as ice becoming liquid water, condensation forming on the outside of a glass, or liquid water being heated to the point of becoming water vapor (gas)

• Science: 4.112.6.b.6

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how matter is identified, classified, changed, and used. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 4.112.6.b.6.A: classify and describe matter using observable physical properties, including temperature, mass, magnetism, relative density (the ability to sink or float in water), and physical state (solid, liquid, gas)

• 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.6

  Matter and energy. The student knows that matter has measurable physical properties that determine how matter is identified, classified, changed, and used. The student is expected to:

  • Science: 5.112.7.b.6.C: compare the properties of substances before and after they are combined into a solution and demonstrate that matter is conserved in solutions