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• identifying various genres of writing
• making judgments about characters and situations
• identifying figurative language
• Increasing word knowledge with “robust vocabulary”
• using a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and internet resources
• recognize subtleties of plot, character, and setting
• recognizing main idea and supporting details
• interpreting graphics and illustrations
• identify and author’s purpose or motives
• increase oral fluency
• discover cause-and-effect relationships
• summarize text
• recognize implied meanings and situational nuances
• make predictions an inferences
• enjoy reading

Writing

• formatting a paper properly
• creating a paragraph with a main idea and supporting detail sentences
• writing persuasively
• writing a story
• identifying the difference between a story and something that is not a story
• writing an informational piece
• writing in response to literature
• writing an interesting opening to a piece of writing
• writing a satisfying closure to a piece of writing
• writing with proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and conventions
• writing sentences of increasing length, variety, and complexity
• developing a point of view
• revising writing
  

• Listening/Speaking/Viewing

• acquiring information from a variety of print and electronic media
• public speaking and reciting
• speaking clearly with proper volume and diction
  

• review addition and subtraction with borrowing and carrying
• place value to the millions
• fluency of recall off addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts
• multi-digit multiplication
• long division
• comparing decimals with fractions
• adding and subtracting with decimals and fractions
• counting money and using it in calculations
• solve complex problems
• solve simple algebraic problems such as 3 + m = 1
• measure using metric units: millimeter, centimeter, meter, kilometer, milliliter, liter, gram, kilogram
• measure using customary (English) units: inch, foot, yard, mile, cup, pint, quart, gallon, ounce, pound
• calculate perimeter and area of figures
• draw, classify and describe various geometric figures
• identify the center, radius, and diameter of a circle
• compare angle types
• read and interpret data presented in many formats
  
  

• heat: conductors, insulators, temperature changes, thermal energy
• pollution: environmental impact, conservation, recycling, reducing consumption, reusing, solutions to pollution problems

•      habitats of Georgia: characteristics of plant and animal life in the various parts of Georgia, features and adaptations of organisms, effects of change on habitat
•     magnets: attraction, repulsion, electromagnetism, practical uses of magnets
•     rocks: attributes of rocks and minerals and classifying them, erosion
•     soil: compare and contrast various soils of Georgia, erosion
•     fossils: investigate fossils and how they are formed
  

• foundations of our nation: American Revolution, Paul Revere, justice, liberty, authority
• democracy: the branches of U.S. government, functions of local, state, and federal government, elections, democracy of ancient Greece
• rights: constitution, laws, tolerance, women’s rights, suffrage, Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Lyndon B. Johnson
• characteristics of a workforce: production, consumption, distribution, workers’ rights, resources, strikes, unions, César Chávez, Franklin D. Roosevelt
• character traits: cooperation, diligence, justice, respect for authority, tolerance
• Economics: taxation, making personal economic choices, price, profit, currency (US and foreign)
• Geography: longitude and latitude, political maps, physical maps, various map skills