What your child is learning this marking period

English Language Arts

Reading: Acquisition of Vocabulary

Infer word meaning through identification and analysis of analogies and other word relationships.

Use knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meanings of complex words.

Reading: Informational Technical and Persuasive Text

Identify arguments and persuasive techniques used in informational text.

Explain the treatment, scope and organization of ideas from different texts to draw conclusions about a topic.

Reading: Literary Text

Demonstrate comprehension by inferring themes, patterns and symbols.

Explain how figurative language expresses ideas and conveys mood.

Writing Applications

Produce informational essays or reports that convey a clear and accurate perspective and support the main ideas with facts, details, examples and explanations.

Use persuasive strategies, including establishing a clear position in support of a proposition or a proposal with organized and relevant evidence.

Research

Formulate open-ended research questions suitable for investigation and adjust questions as necessary while research is conducted. 

Locate and summarize important information from multiple sources.

Organize information in a systematic way.

Acknowledge quoted and paraphrased information and document sources used.

Communicate findings orally, visually and in writing or through multimedia.

Oral and Visual Communications

Explain a speaker’s point of view and use of persuasive techniques in presentations and visual media. 

Mathematics

Patterns, Functions and Algebra

Represent, analyze and generalize a variety of patterns and functions with tables, graphs, words and symbolic rules.

Use representations, such as tables, graphs and equations, to model situations and to solve problems, especially those that involve linear relationships.

Science

Life Sciences

Describe the characteristics of an organism in terms of a combination of inherited traits and recognize reproduction as a characteristic of living organisms essential to the continuation of the species.

Explain how energy entering the ecosystems as sunlight supports the life of organisms through photosynthesis and the transfer of energy through the interactions of organisms and the environment.