LA: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade level topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
LA: Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
SS: Describe ways in which language, stories, folktales, music, and artistic creations serve as expressions of culture and influence behavior of people living in a particular culture.
SS: Identify roles as learned behavior patterns in group situations such as student, family member, peer play group member, or club member.
VA: Know how the differences among visual characteristics and purposes of art in order to convey ideas.
VA: Select and use subject matter, symbols, and ideas to communicate meaning.