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• Language development by exploring the alphabet, sounds, rhymes, and word matching.
• Expanding vocabulary by engaging in stories and read-aloud books.
• Improve social skills by asking questions, providing answers and commenting during peer discussions.
• Experimenting with writing by using a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing letters to express information, ideas, and emotions.

• Progress as independent readers and writers, building fluency and confidence.
• Vocabulary expands through phonics and word root exploration, helping to understand the meaning of unfamiliar words.
• Better word recognition and comprehension helps to tackle more complex stories and texts, expanding their knowledge across subjects like science, history, and the arts.
• Writing becomes an outlet for students to express ideas using an expanding vocabulary, clear sentences and paragraphs across various topics.
• Develop stronger speaking and listening abilities, mastering paraphrasing, clarification, explanation, and reporting of information encountered.

• Reading abilities develop allowing engagement with a diverse range of challenging fiction, informational texts, and other materials.
• Understanding of subjects increases through research projects, analyzing and responding thoughtfully to historical, scientific, and artistic sources.
• Variations in word meanings improve, by reading extensively and paying attention to vocabulary including synonyms, antonyms, idioms, and words with multiple interpretations.
• Language skills are strengthened by utilizing roots, prefixes, and suffixes to decipher complex words.
• Enhanced ability to provide clear and detailed explanations of both explicit and implied information found in books.
• Through frequent writing assignments, they practice crafting effective summaries, book reports, essays, and character or event descriptions within specified time frames.

• Refined skills in analyzing, defining, comparing, and evaluating ideas through reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
• Application of previously acquired skills to comprehend more challenging books and articles across various topics.
• Develop the ability to cite specific evidence and utilize academic language and knowledge in their writing as they respond to texts.
• Grasp a keen sense of discernment, questioning authors’ assumptions and assessing the accuracy of their claims.
• Vocabulary expansion by incorporating new words into stories, reports, and essays.
• Effectively support arguments by presenting relevant evidence in both written and spoken forms, enhancing the ability to reason and evaluate others’ use of evidence. These skills empower students across all their academic pursuits.

• Deep comprehension of written materials and use of a broad range of textual evidence to support their inferences.
• Ability to make connections between complex ideas within and across books, essays, articles, and other resources, exploring different aspects of the same topic.
• Capable of evaluating intricate arguments independently and overcoming challenges confidently presented by complex written materials.
• Expansion of cultural and literary knowledge through extensive reading of increasingly sophisticated literature and literary nonfiction, while gaining a deeper understanding of references and imagery.
• Development of the skills to produce well-reasoned writings and presentations supported by evidence, demonstrating flexibility, concentration, and fluency.
• Effectively practice articulating and defending claims, substantiating learned knowledge with appropriate examples and evidence, by actively writing and engaging in diverse conversations.
• These literacy practices extend beyond English Language Arts and find relevance in other disciplines such as science, technical subjects, history, and social studies, allowing students to acquire knowledge and skills through the careful study of texts and topics.

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• Develop understanding of multiplication and division and strategies for multiplication and division within 100.
• Develop understanding of fractions, especially unit fractions (fractions with numerator 1).
• Develop understanding of the structure of rectangular arrays and of area.
• Describe and analyze two-dimensional shapes.

• Use the four operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, with whole numbers to solve problems.
• Understand place value for multi-digit whole numbers.
• Perform multi-digit arithmetic by using place value understanding and properties of operations.
• Understand fraction equivalence and ordering to build fractions with whole numbers.
• Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.

• Understand the place value system.
• Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and decimals to hundredths.
• Use equivalent fractions to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions.
• Understand and explore concepts of volume, and relate volume to multiplication and addition.

• Understand ratio concepts and ratio reasoning to solve problems.
• Divide fractions by using previous understandings of multiplication and division.
• Apply numbers to the system of rational numbers.
• Learn algebraic expressions, solve one-variable equations, and inequalities.
• Analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.

• Students will analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematics problems.
• They will apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply and divide rational numbers.
• Students will use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
• They will solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions.

• Students will work with radicals and integer exponents.
• They will understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines and linear equations.
• Students will analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
• They will define, evaluate, and compare functions and use functions to model relationships between quantities.
• Students will understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometric software.

In Algebra I, students formalize and extend what they learned in the middle grades. This course offers more challenging content as well as strengthening the development of critical thinking skills. The different areas of focus are listed below:

• Summarize and analyze data, using one-variable Statistics.
• Compare and contrast data sets by using summary statistics and their graphical representations.
• Analyze graphs as well as interpret them in the context of real-world situations.
• Simplify algebraic expressions.
• Solve one-variable equations and inequalities as well as graph the solution sets.
• Solve systems of equations and inequalities with one or two variables; using a variety of graphical and analytical strategies.
• Explore linear and exponential models individually before comparing and contrasting them.
• Introduction to quadratic functions.
• Use two-variable statistics to make inferences with mathematical tools such as correlation and regression.

In Algebra II, students focus on expanding their knowledge and skills with linear, quadratic, and exponential functions.

• Learn polynomial, rational, and radical functions.
• Work with expressions that define functions.
• Expand and improve abilities to model situations that solve equations including quadratic equations over the set of complex numbers, and that solve exponential equations using the properties of logarithms.

In Geometry, students focus on formalizing and extending their geometric experiences from the middle grades.

• Explore more complex geometric situations and deepen explanations of geometric relationships, moving towards formal mathematical arguments.
• Important differences exist between this Geometry course and the historical approach taken in Geometry classes. For example, transformations are emphasized early in this course.

• Family Video Resource Library
• Family & Community Introduction to Imagine Learning/Illustrative Mathematics
• Imagine Learning/Illustrative Mathematics Vendor Website
• K-5 Guided Tour
• 6-12 Guided Tour
• 6-8+Algebra Video Summaries
• Support Learning at Home
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  • 3-5
  • 6-8
  • HS

How Can I Help My Child Learn and Grow in Science?

Studies show that family involvement is one of the biggest predictors of success in school. That’s why parental involvement is so important. Seek opportunities to explore science at home and in the community with your child. Encourage them to keep asking questions, just like scientists. Let them know you don’t have all the answers, and together try to find them. We also encourage you to get involved at your child’s school and connect with teachers to learn more about changes in science instruction as they occur and help inspire children by exploring careers in STEM fields.

Click Here to check out the National Science Teaching Association’s parent page. You’ll find tips to support science learning at home, links to student competitions, recommendations for science trade books, and much more.

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