TriadCommunity Unit #2

• Use order of operations to evaluate numerical expressions and solve equations.
• Translate a word problem to a numerical expressions and equations.
• Compare different numeric patterns and identify relationships between them.

• Add and subtract fractions and mixed numbers with unlike denominators.
• Explain why an answer makes sense when a word problem is solved using addition and subtraction of fractions.
• Recognize that fractions are division problems, and use this to solve word problems.
• Multiply a fraction or a whole number by a fraction.
• Explain what happens when I multiply fractions and/or whole numbers.
• Solve word problems using multiplication of fractions and/or mixed numbers using pictures or equations.
• Divide unit fractions by a whole number and whole numbers by unit fractions.
• Solve word problems using division of whole numbers and unit fractions using pictures or equations.

• Identify the value of a digit based upon its place value up to the thousandths place.
• Explain in words the placement of a decimal point and zeroes when multiplying or dividing by a power of ten.
• Compare decimals to the thousandths place.
• Use place value to round decimals to any place.
• Multiply multi-digit whole numbers.
• Divide whole numbers with 4-digit dividends and 2-digit divisors, evenly.
• Illustrate and explain how to divide whole numbers using equations, pictures, and tools.
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide decimals to the hundredths place.

• Convert within a measurement system, and use these calculations to solve multi-step real world problems.
• Create and use a line plot with measurements in fractions to solve problems.
• Show, using visuals, that volume is an attribute of solid figures composed of cubic units.
• Measure volumes using cubic units.
• Use the formulas for volume to calculate the volume of rectangular prisms.
• Use my knowledge of volume of rectangular prisms to calculate the volume of more complex solid figures.

• Graph points on a coordinate plane.
• Represent a problem by graphing coordinates on a coordinate plane.
• Make connections between 2-dimensional figures by observing and documenting their attributes.
• Classify two-dimensional figures according to their attributes.

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• Make inferences that are supported by the text.
• Summarize text using important literary elements such as conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and resolution.
• Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings or events.
• Determine the meaning of words using context clues.
• Determine the meaning of similes and metaphors.

• Make inferences that are supported by the text.
• Explain relationships between two or more individuals, events, or ideas.
• Determine the meaning of words using context clues.
• Use many different sources to answer questions or solve problems.

• Break words into syllables to help read them.
• Use knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots to help read unfamiliar words.
• Read text accurately with understanding.
• Recognize and correct mistakes made while reading.

• Actively participate in discussions by responding to and posing questions.
• Actively participate in discussions by reviewing and adding to key ideas.
• Summarize information presented orally.
• Speak clearly at an understandable pace.
• Present information on a topic and make sure that ideas have detailed support and are in order.

• Write an introduction for an expository essay that clearly previews main points.
• Provide detailed support for all Ideas in my writing.
• Stay on topic throughout writing.
• Write a conclusion that clearly restates main points.
• Write a narrative essay that introduces characters, setting, and problem.
• Sequence events in order that makes sense in narrative essay.
• Use dialogue and description to develop events in narrative essay.
• Have a conclusion that wraps up the events in narrative essay.
• Use appropriate transitions in writing.
• Plan, draft, revise, and edit essays.
• Write a research report that includes information from different sources.

• Use the proper verb tense (i.e. past, present, perfect) in my writing.
• Recognize and correct when I have made a mistake in verb tense.
• Use commas appropriately (in a series, with introductory clauses, direct address).
• Write the titles of works using the correct method (underlining, quotation marks, italics).
• Spell words correctly in my writing, even if I need to access a resource.
• Revise sentences to improve them by adding to them, combining them, or shortening them.
• Use prefixes, suffixes, and roots to help understand a word.

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• McGraw-Hill: My Math curriculum books and on-line
• Collaborative Classrooms: Making Meaning
• National Geographic Magazine
• No Excuse Words chart
• Guided Reading Library of leveled student texts
• Online Resources:

• Shared, guided, one-on-one conferences with literacy instruction
• IDR (Independent Daily Reading practice)
• Use of Leveled books matched to readers
• Technology: class projector and student Chromebooks

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• Afternoon of the Elves by Janet Taylor Lisle
• Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman
• The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
• Homesick, My Own Story by Jean Fritz
• Missing May by Cynthia Rylant
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis

• From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsberg
• Granny Torrelli Makes Soup by Sharon Creech
• Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
• Holes by Louis Sachar
• Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park
• Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
• Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
• Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians (series) by Rick Riordan
• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt

• Any nonfiction books at your child’s level or interest are great for summer reading