LA: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
LA: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
LA: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
SCI: Ask questions about the natural and human-built worlds.
SCI: Construct original explanations of phenomena using knowledge of accepted scientific theory and linking it to models and evidence.
SS: Compare ways in which people from different cultures think about and deal with their physical environment and social conditions.
SS: Give examples of and explain group and institutional influences such as religious beliefs, laws, and peer pressure, on people, events, and elements of culture.
SS: Explore ways that language, art, music, belief systems, and other cultural elements may facilitate global understanding or lead to misunderstanding.
VA: Intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas.
VA: Select and use the qualities of structures and functions of art to improve communication of their ideas.
VA: Know and compare the characteristics of artworks in various eras and cultures.