Kindergarten Performance Statements

Reading

With support, ask and answer questions about details in texts.

Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Produce the correct sounds for all consonants, short vowels, and long vowels.

Read one-syllable words with short vowels (dog, hat, cup).

Read common high-frequency words (the, to, you).

With support, retell fiction texts.

With support, retell informational texts.

Read kindergarten-level texts with purpose and understanding.

Writing

Creates written pieces by drawing, writing, and dictating.

Improves writing using support from others.

Recalls experience and/or gathers information on a subject with support from others.

Shows some understanding of capitalization and grammar.

Math

Know number names and count sequence to 100 by ones and by tens

Count up to 20 objects to tell how many in all

Compare the number of objects in two groups using the words greater than, less than, or equal to

Solve addition and subtraction problems within 10 using objects or drawings

Put together/take apart pairs of numbers up to and including 10 in more than one way (e.g. 7=4+3 and 7=5+2)

Add and subtract within 5 from memory

Put together/take apart numbers 11-19 as a group of ten and some ones (e.g. 18=10+8)

Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common such as length or weight

Identify shapes and describe them using informal language

Model shapes in the world by building and drawing shapes

Social Studies

With guidance and support, explain why we have different rules in different places.

With guidance and support, describe roles and responsibilities of important people in the community.

With guidance and support, explain how weather and climate affect people's lives.

With guidance and support, identify the characteristics of print maps, digital maps, and graphs of familiar places.

Explain that choices are made because we can't have everything that we want.

With guidance and support, compare life in the past with life today.

Ask questions and investigate people and groups that have led to historical change.

With guidance and support, ask questions to learn about a topic, use resources to find answers, and use the information gathered to create a positive change in their community.

Science

Investigate how pushes and pulls have different strengths.

Analyze how different designs change the speed of an object.

Describe what plants and animals need to survive

Share how humans could reduce their impact on the land, water, air, and/or other living things

Observe patterns in weather

Describe how weather forecasting can help prepare for dangerous weather

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Identify relationship between heart rate and physical activity

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

First Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.

Explain the differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.

Retell fiction texts, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message.

Retell nonfiction texts, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their main topic.

Use word analysis skills to read words with consonant digraphs, final -e, inflectional endings, and grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Writing

Writes about a topic.

Responds to questions and suggestions from others to improve writing.

Recalls information or gathers information on a topic with support from others.

Shows understanding of capitalization, puncutation, common spelling patters, and irregularly spelled words.

Math

Count, read, and write numbers to 120

Put together/take apart 2-digit numbers into groups of tens and ones

Find 10 more or 10 less than any 2-digit number without having to count

Add and subtract within 10 from memory

Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction within 20 using objects, drawings, and reasoning about the numbers

Write equations that show an understanding of the equal sign and how to use a symbol such as “?” for the unknown number in a problem

Measure the length of an object using same-sized units

Combine shapes to make a new shape, and divide circles and rectangles into two and four equal parts.

Social Studies

With support and guidance, explain how people who work together make important decisions and how these decisions affect the community.

Explain why we have rules and their purpose in different communities.

With guidance and support, create and interpret maps that represent a familiar place.

Describe the skills and knowledge needed to produce goods and services

Describe how people made important changes in history

With guidance and support, ask questions to learn about a topic, use resources to find answers, and use the information gathered to create a positive change in their community.

Science

Create a model to explain how organisms' body structures functions to meet their needs.

Compare similarities and differences between an infant and its parents

Sound can make matter vibrate, and vibrating matter can make sound

Demonstrate that light is needed for objects to be visible

Describe patterns in the sky

Observe different times of year to study patterns in daylight

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Identify relationship between heart rate and physical activity

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Second Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Use information from the words and images in a fiction or informational text to demonstrate understanding.

Determine the central message in a fiction text.

Determine the main idea of a nonfiction text.

Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) or two informational texts on the same topic.

Use word analysis skills to read regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels, words with common prefixes and suffixes, and grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Writing

Writes about a topic.

Responds to questions and suggestions from others to revise and edit writing.

Recalls information or gathers information on a subject or to answer a question.

Shows understanding of basic capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.

Math

Count, read, and write numbers within 1000

Skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s within 1000

Add and subtract within 20 from memory

Solve 1- and 2-step word problems involving addition and subtraction within 100 using drawings, reasoning about the numbers, and equations

Put together/take apart 3-digit numbers into groups of hundreds, tens, and ones to add and subtract within 1000

Add or subtract 10 or 100 from any 3-digit number

Use repeated addition to find the total number of objects arranged in equal groups

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units

Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line and move forward/backward on the number line to find sums and differences within 100

Divide circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal parts and describe the parts using the words halves, thirds, and fourths

Social Studies

With guidance and support, describe how communities work together to accomplish tasks for the community.

With Guidance and support students can identify some cultural and environmental characteristics of communities with the use of maps, globes and geographic models.

Explain how our choices affect ourselves and others.

Compare goods and services that are produced in our community to those produced in other communities.

Identify changes in the local community over time and explain how these changes have impacted diverse groups in the community.

Examine key events that changed history from multiple perspectives, including the perspectives of diverse individuals, cultures, and groups.

With guidance and support, ask questions to learn about a topic, use resources to find answers, and use the information gathered to create a positive change in their community.

Science

Investigate what plants need to grow.

Develop a seed dispersal model

Describe the physical property of materials

Compare and contrast physical and chemical changes in different materials

Investigate how wind and water can change Earth’s surface and landforms over time

Create a model to explain the characteristics of landforms and bodies of water

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Identify relationship between heart rate and physical activity

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Third Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Recount fiction texts, including how the details convey and support the central message.

Recount informational texts, including how the details convey and support the main idea.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown, nonliteral, and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.

Compare and contrast the most important ideas from two narrative or informational texts on the same topic.

Use word analysis skills to read words with common prefixes and suffixes, common Latin suffixes, multisyllable words, and grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Writing

Writing topic and purpose are introduced clearly.

Writing is organized and has well-developed support or details

Applies the writing process (planning, editing, revising, typing, etc.) with support from others.

Recalls experiences or learn about a topic.

Uses effective vocabulary, sentence structures, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.

Math

Add and subtract within 1000 using strategies based on place value (ones, tens, hundreds)

Solve word problems involving multiplication and division within 100 using drawings, array models, and equations

Use reasoning to multiply and divide within 100 (e.g. solve 32 ÷ 8 by thinking 8 x ? = 32 or solve 8 x 7 as (8 x 5) + (8 x 2) = 56)

Multiply any 1-digit number by another 1-digit number from memory

Solve 2-step word problems involving all 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)

Partition shapes into parts with equal areas and labels those parts using fraction notation (e.g. ¼).

Place fractions on the number line

Compare fractions by reasoning about their size

Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of standard units of time (minutes), liquid volume (liters), and masses of objects (grams, kilograms)

Measure areas by counting square units and relate the area of a rectangle to multiplication by multiplying side lengths

Recognize quadrilaterals (e.g. rectangles, rhombuses) and describe their attributes such as length of sides, parallel sides, and type of angles

Social Studies

Explain how families, organizations, and government interact and affect communities in multiple ways.

Using evidence, describe how people have worked to improve communities over time to achieve equitable outcomes and policies for all people.

Use print and digital maps to identify familiar and unfamiliar locations.

Explain how culture influences the way people change and adapt to their environment.

Compare the goods and services that are produced locally versus those produced in other communities.

Explain how the diverse perspectives of people and events develop and shape communities and/or regions.

Develop essential questions and explain the importance of the questions to self and others.

Synthesize evidence from multiple sources to answer essential questions.

Science

Use evidence to explain how balanced and unbalanced forces affect objects

Make measurements of an object’s motion to identify patterns

Develop life cycle models

Distinguish between variations in adaptations that affect how an organism survives in its environment

Collect and compare weather data to describe seasons in different areas

Analyze solutions and impact of a weather hazard

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Can recognize healthy behaviors and describe how the body feels after activity

Demonstrates basic competency in motor skills and physical fitness

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Fourth Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Summarize narrative texts, including determining the theme.

Summarize informational texts, including determining the main idea and how key details support it.

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown, multiple-meaning, and nonliteral words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from various strategies.

Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Compare and contrast narrative and informational texts on similar themes or topics.

Describe text structures when writing or speaking about different text types (poems, drama, stories, informational).

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Writing

Writing topic and purpose is introduced clearly.

Writing is organized and has well-developed support or details.

Applies the writing process (planning, editing, revising, typing, etc.) in order to complete a final product with support from others.

Connects evidence or research from text to support thinking in a writing assignment.

Uses consistent and effective vocabulary, sentence structures, punctuation, capitalization and grammar.

Math

Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place

Fluently add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers.

Multiply a multi-digit by a 1-digit number (e.g. 1,255 x 5), and multiply two 2-digit numbers (e.g. 28 x 32) using a range of strategies

Divide a multi-digit number by a 1-digit numbers (e.g. 1,255 ÷ 5) using a range of strategies

Interpret and solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison (e.g. 35 = 5 × 7 means that 35 is 5 times as many as 7 and 7 times as many as 5)

Solve multistep word problems using the four operations. Assess the reasonableness of answers using estimation strategies including rounding.

Compare and order two fractions with different numerators and different denominators by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as ½ or by creating a common denominator

Add and subtract fractions with like denominators using visual fraction models and equations

Multiply a fraction by a whole number using visual fraction models and equations

Write decimal notation (e.g., 0.3 or 0.75) for fractions with denominators of tenths or hundredths and compare decimals by reasoning about their size.

Convert standard measurement units from a larger unit to a smaller unit (e.g. km, m, cm or hour, minute, second)

Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, and measure angles in degrees using a protractor

Social Studies

Using evidence, explain how rules and laws change societies and how people from multiple communities influence and experience this change.

Make maps to represent places and regions and their environmental characteristics.

Investigate the human effects on the physical environment over time.

Describe how goods and services are produced using human, natural, and capital resources (e.g. tools, machines).

Analyze how spending choices are influenced by prices as well as many other factors (e.g. advertising, peer pressure, options).

Study important individuals or major events to explain that there are multiple cultural perspectives.

Student develop purposeful questions to participate in inquiries and compare evidence from several sources to communicate their conclusions to create a positive change in their community.

Science

Develop a model to explain how energy is transferred from place to place.

Use evidence to construct an explanation about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide

Identify patterns in rock formations and fossils that show changes in landscape over time

Explore erosion, weathering, and deposition models

Investigate plant and animal structures and behaviors that help them survive in their environments

Build models to gather evidence about adaptations and senses

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Can recognize healthy behaviors and describe how the body feels after activity

Demonstrates basic competency in motor skills and physical fitness

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Fifth Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Use evidence when explaining or making inferences about a text.

Summarizes literary texts, including the themes.

Summarizes informational texts, including main ideas.

Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.

Analyzes multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting how the point of view influences how events are described

Compares and contrasts two texts on the similar themes or topics.

Read grade-level text with accuracy and understanding.

Writing

Writing topic and purpose is introduced clearly in an organized way.

Writing is organized and has well-developed support or details.

Applies the writing process (planning, editing, revising, typing, etc.) in order to complete a final product.

Connects evidence or research from text to support thinking in a writing assignment.

Uses consistent and effective vocabulary, sentence structures, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.

Math

Multiply and divide whole numbers and decimals by powers of ten. Explain patterns in the number of zeros or placement of the decimal point in the resulting numbers

Multiply multi-digit whole numbers using a range of algorithms (e.g. 426 x 380)

Divide a multi-digit number by a 2-digit number (e.g. 2,088 ÷ 36) using a range of algorithms

Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals to hundredths using a range of algorithms

Write and evaluate numerical expressions that include parentheses

Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators including mixed numbers to solve word problems

Multiply a fraction by a fraction or a fraction by a whole number using visual fraction models

Solve word problems involving multiplication of fractions and division of whole numbers by a fraction (e.g., 24 divided by 1/3) using visual fraction models or equations. Answers may be in the form of fractions or mixed numbers.

Divide a unit fraction by a whole number and a whole number by a unit fraction using visual fraction models

Measure the volume of a right rectangular prism with whole-number side lengths in cubic units

Classify 2-dimensional shapes in a hierarchy based on their attributes

Science

Use evidence to explain the brightness of the sun compared to other stars due to the distance from Earth

Create a model to describe how Earth’s systems interact

Make observations to differentiate between solids, liquids, and gases

Investigate if mixing two or more substances makes a new substance

Students design an experiment to determine the needs of plants for successful growth

Build models to simulate the movement of matter

Social Studies

Explain the roles and responsibilities of the local, state, and national levels of government and its three branches of government.

Use print and digital maps of different scales to describe the locations of cultural and environmental characteristics.

Analyze why and how individuals, businesses, and nations around the world specialize and trade.

Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to identify cause and effects of relationships in history and the impacts of underrepresented groups.

Use information about a historical source to judge the extent to which the source is useful for studying a particular topic.

Student develop purposeful questions to participate in inquiries and gather information from multiple resources to answer them.

Construct arguments and explanations using reasoning, examples, and details from multiple sources.

PE

Participates with effort in movement activities

Displays safe and productive behavior in movement activities

Works cooperatively with others

Can recognize healthy behaviors and describe how the body feels after activity

Demonstrates basic competency in motor skills and physical fitness

Music

Create: Compose original musical ideas using pitches and/or rhythm

Perform: Preparing and presenting musical works to engage an audience

Respond: Listening to and analyzing musical works created by other musicians

Connect: Recognizing the connections between music and personal experiences

Art

Create: Generating new ideas, experimenting with a variety of materials and practicing quality craftsmanship when making art

Perform: Present what you observe in your own artwork and in others’ artwork verbally or in writing

Respond: Analyzing artwork and identifying elements and principles of art.

Connect: Relating knowledge and personal experiences to make art

Sixth Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Identify and use evidence, cited correctly, in fiction, nonfiction, writing, and speaking.

Comprehend and summarize grade level texts objectively.

Identify and analyze the theme/central idea of a text and how the plot and specific sections (sentences, chapters, stanzas, paragraphs) contribute to their development.

Determine and analyze the impact of words and phrases on the meaning and tone of a text (i.e. figurative language, word choice)

Determine and explain the development of the point of view of an author or character.

Create meaning (integrate, evaluate, compare/contrast) using a variety of texts, multiple perspectives, and different versions of media.

Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.

Writing

Use credible sources to research, write, and develop informational texts in a formal style with academic vocabulary, details, transitions, and relevant information to convey ideas and concepts

Write a structured narrative with precise language, sensory details, appropriate pacing and transitions, and dialogue.

Use the writing process to write coherently and publish work for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Make and evaluate arguments by presenting claims and using evidence to support them in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Speaking and Listening

Participate in effective discussions by being prepared, following procedure, posing questions, expressing ideas, and building on information from others.

Language

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar, usage, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing or speaking.

Use a variety of tools and strategies to clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases (context clues, root words, affixes).

Math

Solve real world problems involving ratios and rates using ratio language and various representations (tables, tape diagrams, double number lines, equations)

Solve real-world problems involving percents

Use models and equations to find quotients of fractions and connect quotients to real world situations

Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers (including decimals) and find common factors and multiples.

Use real world situations to describe quantities and values using positive and negative numbers and their relationship to zero

Identify and use patterns to order rational numbers (positive and negative whole numbers, fractions, & decimals) using a number line

Plot and identify points on all four quadrants of the coordinate plane.

Read, write, evaluate, and generate equivalent numerical and algebraic expressions

Write and solve equations that represent real-world problems.

Recognize inequalities and represent their solutions on the number line

Use variables to represent two quantities that have a relationship to each other in equation, graph, and table form

Find the area of triangles, quadrilaterals and polygons by composing or decomposing into triangles and rectangles (on the coordinate plane as well) to solve real-world problems

Find the volume of rectangular prisms with fractional edge lengths to solve real-world problems

Represent 3D figures with nets and use them to find surface area and solve real-world problems

Identify a statistical question and use it to collect data and make displays.

Summarize and describe data sets using measures of center and measures of variation.

Science

Create and modify diagrams to explain thinking about scientists

Collect and interpret data to recognize patterns in weather changes

Plan an investigation to find how energy transfers affect temperatures of different types and amounts of matter

Use evidence to explain how the transfer of energy into and out of matter changes the particle motion of that sample

Collect and analyze data to investigate how the motions of air masses cause changes in weather conditions

Develop and use a model to explain the how solar energy, landforms, oceans and wind currents cause differences in climates around the world

Ask questions to clarify claims and evidence about the causes of the rise in global temperatures over the past century

Conduct an investigation to determine if a sample is from a living or nonliving source using a microscope

Argue from evidence how a change in a cells structure can impact the functioning of the cell

Explain how specialized subsystems of a body work together and interact to support life

Gather and use information on how sensory receptors work to explain a real life phenomenon

Social Studies

Describe the roles of institutions and provide examples of their impact on different communities.

Gather and organize evidence to communicate an informed argument on a controversial legal issue.

Use costs and benefits to analyze a decision or to make a decision.

Identify and describe how and why people change governments.

Describe how the Constitution organizes our government and the basics of how our government operates to balance power.

Explain how humans and the environment affect one another.

PE

Apply rules and strategies to team and individual activities.

Self-monitor and adjust exercise intensity to consistently improve overall fitness.

Achieve a healthy cardiovascular fitness zone.

Work cooperatively in team activities.

Apply the concepts of optimal health to describe how to prevent and treat illness and injury.

Apply factors that influence growth, development, and the human body systems.

Use effective communication and decision-making skills to enhance their health and well-being.

Spanish

Listening: Students can identify supporting details and recognize keywords on various topics when listening.

Reading: Students can identify supporting details and recognize keywords on various topics when reading.

Music

Create: Compose new and original music from scratch or using ideas from other artists/musicians

Perform: Rehearse a piece of music by another artist and performing it for a group of people, or watching someone else perform

Respond: Listen to, analyze, and critique music created by other musicians

Connect: Make personal, cultural, and historical connections to music

Art

Create: Generate new ideas, experiment with a variety of materials, and practice quality craftsmanship when making art.

Present: Present personal artwork to an audience

Respond: Analyze artwork and identify elements and principles of art

Connect: Connect knowledge and experiences to personal art

Design Thinking

Explain reasons for decision-making and identify mistakes as opportunities to learn.

Work as a team using a process to produce multiple innovative solutions to a challenge or problem

Drama

Create: Make a new work of drama/entertainment

Perform: Perform a work of drama/entertainment in front of an audience

Respond: Critique or analyze a work of drama/entertainment

Connect: Make personal connections between classwork and real life

Instrumental Music

Create: Use learned musical elements to generate original compositions or improvised musical works

Perform: Rehearse and prepare a variety of musical works for individual or group performances for an audience

Respond: Listen to, analyze, and critique a variety of musical works

Connect: Connect music and musical works to personal, cultural, historical, and academic experiences

FCS

Create: Prepare food products using a recipe and knowledge of kitchen tools, safety, and measurement.

Present: Make choices about food preparation to appeal to an audience.

Respond: Critique a recipe and translate it to make it healthier.

Connect: Connect the choices we make about food to our lives and cultures.

Media Literacy

Create: Create a project that communicates conclusions drawn by researching media.

Present: Raise the awareness of an audience around the purpose of media.

Respond: Identify and analyze ways we interact with media.

Connect: Evaluate the influence of media on the ways we view ourselves, others, and society.

AVID

Establish and maintain routines that improve teamwork and collaboration in order to increase social, emotional and academic support.

Students will create and maintain routines to build relationships that support collaboration in future learning networks.

Students will design plans for achieving personal and academic goals through monitoring their progress, identifying obstacles, and seeking feedback.

Develop a plan to achieve long-term goals and monitor progress and behaviors that impact achievement

STEM

Seventh Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Identify and use evidence to support inferences connected with a given area (fiction, nonfiction, writing, and/or speaking).

Analyze how elements or topics within a text impact one another and the text as a whole. (F_ .3, NF __.3, F __.6, NF ___.6, F__.5, NF __.5)

Comprehend and summarize grade level texts objectively. Analyze and identify the theme/central idea.

Determine and analyze the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text (ie Figurative language, Vocabulary)

Analyze how different POVs are represented in different texts.

Compare and contrast multiple perspectives, versions of text, and opinions in media and text.

Writing

Write informational texts in a formal style with accurate vocabulary and details

Write narrative texts with sensory detail, structure and dialogue.

Write coherently, edit, and publish work for a variety of purposes and audiences.

Make and evaluate arguments by presenting claims and using evidence to support them in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Speaking and Listening

Participate in discussions (by being prepared, following procedure, posing questions and building on information from others)

Adapt speech and writing to multiple purposes and audiences.

Language

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Math

Compute unit rates that include fractional units, find unit rates on the graph of a proportional relationship, and describe what it and other coordinate points mean in context

Identify and represent proportional relationships and their COP with equations, tables, and graphs

Solve multi-step, real-world percent problems

Add and subtract rational numbers. recognize how subtraction is related to addition, and create representations on a number line

Multiply and divide rational numbers and use long division to convert rational numbers to decimals.

Solve real-world problems involving all four operations of rational numbers and explain what the answers mean in context

Add, subtract, factor, and expand expressions when rational numbers are involved.

Rewrite an expression in different forms to make connections between numbers and real-world scenarios.

Solve multi-step, real-world problems that include rational numbers and variables by constructing simple equations or inequalities.

Solve problems involving scale drawings

Draw triangles with given conditions and describe two dimensional figures made from slicing three dimensional figures

Apply the formula for finding circumference and area of a circle and describe their relationship.

Use facts about different types of angles to write and solve equations for unknown angles in a figure

Solve real-world problems involving area, volume and surface area

Use a random sample to examine data and make inferences about a population. Then gauge how far off your inference might be.

Make informal comparisons about two populations using measures of center and variability

Develop, use, and evaluate probability models to investigate chance events

Science

Construct an explanation for how the flow of energy has changed Earth's surface over time.

Analyze and interpret data that supports the uneven distribution of natural resources, fossils, and rocks.

Use a model to explain that geological processes happen over time.

Analyze and interpret data to recognize patterns affecting changes in an ecosystem.

Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy within an ecosystem.

Analyze and interpret data to determine if a chemical reaction has occurred.

Develop a model that predicts and describes changes when thermal energy is added or removed.

Develop and use a model to describe how atoms are conserved during a chemical reaction.

Social Studies

Identify and explain how rights are denied, granted and protected in our country.

Evaluate claims that represent a variety of perspectives.

Evaluate different forms of resistance in relation to a problem and anticipate potential outcomes.

Evaluate the significance of historical events, people and groups.

Describe and explain how technological advancements have affected the well being of individuals, businesses and society.

Explain the multiple causes and effects of major events that shaped US history.

PE

Apply rules and strategies to team and individual activities.

Self-monitor and adjust exercise intensity to consistently improve overall fitness.

Achieve a healthy cardiovascular fitness zone.

Work cooperatively in team activities.

Apply the concepts of optimal health to describe how to prevent and treat illness and injury.

Apply factors that influence growth, development, and the human body systems.

Use effective communication and decision-making skills to enhance their health and well-being.

Spanish

Listening: Students can identify supporting details and recognize keywords on various topics when listening.

Reading: Students can identify supporting details and recognize keywords on various topics when reading.

Writing: Students can present written information on topics using vocabulary, phrases, and simple sentences.

Speaking: Students can present information orally on topics using vocabulary, phrases, and simple sentences.

Music

Create: Compose new and original music from scratch or using ideas from other artists/musicians

Perform: Rehearse a piece of music by another artist and performing it for a group of people, or watching someone else perform

Respond: Listen to, analyze, and critique music created by other musicians

Connect: Make personal, cultural, and historical connections to music

Art

Create: Generate new ideas, experiment with a variety of materials, and practice quality craftsmanship when making art.

Present: Present personal artwork to an audience

Respond: Analyze artwork and identify elements and principles of art

Connect: Connect knowledge and experiences to personal art

Drama

Create: Make a new work of drama/entertainment

Perform: Perform a work of drama/entertainment in front of an audience

Respond: Critique or analyze a work of drama/entertainment

Connect: Make personal connections between classwork and real life

Instumental Music

Create: Use learned musical elements to generate original compositions or improvised musical works

Perform: Rehearse and prepare a variety of musical works for individual or group performances for an audience

Respond: Listen to, analyze, and critique a variety of musical works

Connect: Connect music and musical works to personal, cultural, historical, and academic experiences

FCS

Create: Prepare food products using a recipe and knowledge of kitchen tools, safety, and measurement.

Present: Make choices about food preparation to appeal to an audience.

Respond: Critique a recipe and translate it to make it healthier.

Connect: Connect the choices we make about food to our lives and cultures.

Media Literacy

Create: Create a project that communicates conclusions drawn by researching media.

Present: Raise the awareness of an audience around the purpose of media.

Respond: Identify and analyze ways we interact with media.

Connect: Evaluate the influence of media on the ways we view ourselves, others, and society.

Eighth Grade Performance Statements

Reading

Identify and use evidence to support a statement when reading, writing, speaking, and listening using correct citations.

Use elements of structure, language, and purpose to comprehend a variety of texts.

Compare and contrast multiple perspectives and opinions in a variety of texts.

Writing

Make and evaluate claims and support them with logical reasoning in reading, writing, speaking and listening.

Produce writing with appropriate structure, organization, word choice and style for a variety purposes

Generate questions in order to research information from a variety of credible sources in order to paraphrase and avoid plagiarism

Speaking and Listening

Adapt speech and writing to multiple purposes and audiences

Participate in a variety of discussions by being prepared, following procedure, posing questions and building on information from others

Language

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases

Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Math

Identify numbers that are not rational and approximate them using rational numbers.

Know and apply the properties of integer exponents to make equivalent expressions

Use scientific notation to express numbers and perform operations

Graph proportional relationships interpreting the unit rate as the slope and how the equations y=mx and y=mx+b represent lines that are either proportional (pass through the origin) or not (have a y intercept that is not 0)

Solve linear equations and identify when they have one, infinite, or no solutions

Solve systems of equations algebraically or through inspection and estimate solutions graphically, understanding the solution is the intersection of the lines made by the equations

Solve real-world problems using systems of equations.

Identify functions and compare them in different forms like graphs, tables, equations, or descriptions.

Interpret the equation y=mx+b as a straight line (linear function) and give examples of equations that do not produce straight lines.

Use functions to model how quantities are related using (x,y) values from a table or graph, describe rate of change, and sketch or interpret graphs based on a specific situation.

Describe the effect of dilations, translations, rotations, and reflections on two dimensional figures using coordinates and understand that these effects maintain similarity and congruence to the original figure

Use logic and visuals to explain why certain angle rules are true.

Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides and check for right triangles

Use the Pythagorean Theorem to find the distance between two points on a coordinate grid.

Solve problems with volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres.

Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.

Science

Use the Sun-Earth-Moon model to describe patterns and make predictions about the lunar phases, seasons, and eclipses.

Analyze & interpret graph data to describe patterns and make predictions about the lunar phases, seasons, and eclipses.