3rd
•English Language Arts
-Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including retelling information, using context clues, and making inferences to identify main idea, to comprehend third-grade informational and functional reading materials.
-Compare fictional characters and events to real-life experiences.
-Demonstrate the ability to follow multistep oral directions.
•Social Studies
-Identify components of various ecosystems.
-Locate population shifts due to geographic, economic, and historic changes in the Western Hemisphere.
-Identify conflicts involving use of land, economic competition for scarce resources, different political views, boundary disputes, and cultural differences within and between different geographic areas.
-Identify geographic links of land regions, river systems, and interstate highways between Alabama and other states.
-Identify significant historical sites in Alabama, including locations of civil rights activities.
4th
•English Language Arts
-Identify literary elements and devices, including characters, important details, and similes, in fourth-grade recreational reading materials and details in fourth-grade informational reading materials.
-Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using sentence structure, locating information, and distinguishing fact from fiction, to comprehend fourth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
-Compare story elements and experiences and feelings of literary characters to students’ lives.
-Respond in writing to open-ended questions.
-Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with descriptive presentations.
-Identify strategies of a skillful listener, including attending to the listening task and assigning meaning to the message.
•Social Studies
-Describe significant social and educational changes in Alabama during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
-Identify major world events that have impacted Alabama since 1950.
-Describe the impact of population growth on cities, major road systems, demographics, natural resources, and the natural environment of Alabama during the twentieth century.
5th
•English Language Arts
-Use a range of strategies, including drawing conclusions such as opinions about characters based on their actions and summarizing passages, to comprehend fifth-grade recreational reading materials in a variety of genres.
-Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend fifth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
-Express meaning through writing varied sentence structure, detailed paragraphs, and multi-
paragraph compositions in an organized manner.
-Apply strategies of a skillful listener, including maintaining eye contact, attending to the
listening task, and assigning meaning to the message.
-Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with expository presentations.
•Social Studies
-Compare major Native American cultures in respect to geographic region, natural resources, government, economy, and religion.
6th
•English Language Arts
-Apply strategies, including making complex predictions, interpreting characters’ behaviors, and
comparing and contrasting, to comprehend sixth-grade recreational reading materials.
-Interpret literary elements and devices, including implied main idea, conflict, and personification
-Apply strategies that include making complex predictions, identifying the likely source of a text,
and comparing to comprehend sixth-grade informational and functional reading materials.
-Compose in persuasive mode for a specific purpose and audience, including clearly stated opinions with supporting details and reasons or examples to influence thought or action.
-Use listening skills for remembering significant details, directions, and sequences.
-Demonstrate eye contact, articulation, and appropriate voice intonation with persuasive presentations.
•Social Studies
-Describe the impact of industrialization, free markets, urbanization, communication, and cultural changes in the United States prior to World War I.
-Identify cultural and economic developments in the society of the United States from 1877 through the 1930s.
-Identify cultural and economic changes throughout the United States from 1960 to the present.
7th
•English Language Arts
-Apply strategies appropriate to the type of reading material, including setting purposes for reading and making generalizations, to comprehend seventh-grade recreational reading materials.
-Apply strategies that include setting purposes for reading, distinguishing fact from opinion, making generalizations, and reviewing to comprehend seventh-grade informational and functional reading materials.
-Demonstrate listening skills, including identifying the main idea, detail, purpose, and bias in group discussions, public speeches, and media messages.
•Social Studies
-Describe how people organize economic systems for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services to address the basic economic questions of which goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and who will consume them.
-Describe the relationship between the consumer and the marketplace in the economy of the United States regarding scarcity, opportunity cost, trade-off decision making, characteristics of a market economy, and supply and demand.
-Explain how the United States can be improved by individual and collective participation and by public service.
-Describe processes that shape the physical environment, including long-range effects of extreme weather phenomena and human activity.
-Describe positive and negative environmental effects of human actions on the four basic components of Earth’s physical systems: atmosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere.
-Analyze environmental consequences of major technological changes in human history for both intended and unintended outcomes.
-Describe problems involved in balancing the impact of human habitation on the environment and the need for natural resources essential for sustaining human life.
8th
•English Language Arts
-Apply strategies, including making inferences to determine theme, confirming or refuting predictions, and using specific context clues, to comprehend eighth-grade recreational reading materials.
-Use prepositional phrases and compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences to vary sentence structure.
•Social Studies
-Explain how artifacts and other archaeological findings provide evidence of the nature and movement of prehistoric groups of people.
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