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Recall of experience
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Listing
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Jotting
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Free writing
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Drawing
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Graphic organizers
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Visuals
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Generate ideas and gather information from a
variety of sources including: personal
experiences, literature, periodicals, and
interviews
Drafts
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Refer to prewriting activities while writing rough
draft
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Draft fluently for lengthy periods of time
•
Consistently write complete phrases, sentences,
and thoughts
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Focus on content, not convention
Revises
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Recognize the need to improve and adjust a
rough draft
•
Reread writing to self to check for clarity
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Conference with peer or teacher
•
Listen to audience response and consider
change in text
•
Change or add language to enhance text and style
•
Adjust text to reflect the seven-traits model of
effective writing
Edits
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Correct common errors in spelling, grammar,
punctuation, and capitalization
•
Use dictionary, thesaurus, technology, and
other available references
•
Make appropriate editing changes
independently
•
Understand and use proofreading marks
Publishing
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Reflect and analyze own writing to determine
and reflect plans for improvement
•
Maintain a writing portfolio that is reflective of
various works
Evaluating/Analyzing Self
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Read and discuss own work
•
See self as a writer
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Use the seven-traits model to reflect on and
improve writing
•
Assess progress and set writing goals
for own writing
•
See writing as an ongoing process
Evaluating/Analyzing Others
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Use the seven-traits model as criteria to
assess writing
•
Offer specific constructive feedback to others
based on the seven-traits model of writing
•
Review writing of authors to analyze
effective writing
•
Reflect on writing of other authors to improve
own writing
•
Articulate the qualities that make a piece of
writing effective
•
Listen while others share
MATH
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Identify prime and composite numbers
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning
to solve problems
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Understand concept of ratio and use language
to describe relationship between two quantities
•
Understand the concept of unit rate a/b
associated with ratio a:b with b ≠ 0, and use rate
language in the context of a ratio relationship
•
Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world
and mathematical problems
•
Make tables of equivalent ratios relating
quantities with whole-number measurements,
find missing values in the tables, and plot the
pairs of values on the coordinate plane
•
Solve unit rate problems including those
involving unit pricing and constant speed
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Find a percent of a quantity as a rate per 100;
solve problems involving finding the whole
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Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units;
manipulate and transform units appropriately
when multiplying or dividing quantities
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Calculate discounts and taxes
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Determine the probability of an event and
express probability as ratios, proportions,
decimals and percentages
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Formulate questions, design study, collect,
organize, and interpret statistical data
•
Use data to make predictions, such as
estimating the probability of future events
•
Analyze and use tables, graphs, and rules to
solve problems involving rates and proportions
The Number System
Apply previous understandings of multiplication
and division to divide fractions by fractions
•
Interpret and compute quotients of fractions,
and solve word problems involving division of
fractions by fractions
Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and
find common factors and multiples
•
Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the
standard algorithm
•
Fluently add, subtract, multiply, divide multi-
digit decimals using standard algorithm for
each operation
•
Find the greatest common factor of two whole
numbers less than or equal to 100
•
Use distributive property to express sum of two
whole numbers 1–100 with common factor as
multiple of sum of two whole numbers with no
common factor
Apply and extend previous understandings of
numbers to the system of rational numbers
•
Understand that positive and negative numbers
are used together to describe quantities having
opposite directions or values
•
Understand a rational number as a point on
the number line. Extend number line and
coordinate axes to represent points on the line
and in plane with negative number coordinates
•
Recognize opposite signs of numbers as
indicating locations on opposite sides of 0 on
the number line; recognize that the opposite of
the opposite of a number is the number itself
•
Understand signs of numbers in ordered pairs as
indicating locations in quadrants of coordinate
plane; recognize that when two ordered pairs
differ by signs, locations of points are related by
reflections across one or both axes
•
Find and position integers and other rational
numbers on horizontal or vertical number line
diagram; find and position pairs of integers and
other rational numbers on coordinate plane
•
Understand ordering and absolute value of
rational numbers
•
Interpret statements of inequality as statements
about relative position of two numbers on
number line diagram
•
Write, interpret, and explain statements of order
for rational numbers in real-world contexts
•
Understand absolute value of a rational number
as its distance from 0 on the number line
•
Distinguish comparisons of absolute value from
statements about order
•
Solve real-world and mathematical problems
by graphing points in all four quadrants of the
coordinate plane
•
Understand the Metric System and basic
conversions
Expressions and Equations
Apply and extend previous understandings of
arithmetic to algebraic expressions
•
Write and evaluate numerical expressions
involving whole-number exponents
•
Write, read, and evaluate expressions in which
letters stand for numbers
•
Write expressions that record operations with
numbers and with letters standing for numbers
•
Identify parts of an expression using
mathematical terms; view one or more parts of
an expression as a single entity
•
Evaluate expressions at specific values of their
variables; include expressions that arise from
formulas used in real-world problems; perform
arithmetic operations, including those involving
whole-number exponents, in the conventional
order when there are no parentheses to specify
a particular order
•
Apply the properties of operations to generate
equivalent expressions
•
Identify when two expressions are equivalent
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Investigate exponents, square roots, and perfect
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