| California Content Standards |
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| English and Language Arts |
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Grade Three
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| Strand I. Reading |
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| ELA-3.I.1.0. Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development |
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| Decoding and Word Recognition |
 | ELA-3.I.1.2. Decode regular multisyllabic words. |
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| ELA-3.I.2.0. Reading Comprehension |
| Structural Features of Informational Materials |
| ELA-3.I.2.1. Use titles, tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, and indexes to locate information in text. |
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| Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text |
| ELA-3.I.2.3. Demonstrate comprehension by identifying answers in the text. |
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| ELA-3.I.2.5. Distinguish the main idea and supporting details in expository text. |
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| ELA-3.I.2.6. Extract appropriate and significant information from the text, including problems and solutions. |
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| Strand III. Listening and Speaking |
| ELA-3.III.1.0. Listening and Speaking Strategies |
| Oragnization and Delivery of Oral Communication |
| ELA-3.III.1.5. Organize ideas chronologically or around major points of information. |
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| ELA-3.III.1.8. Clarify and enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props (e.g., objects, pictures, charts). |
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Grade Four
Reading |
| ELA.4.2.0. Reading Comprehension |
| Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text |
| ELA.4.2.2. Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes (e.g., full comprehension, location of information, personal enjoyment). |
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| ELA.4.2.3. Make and confirm predictions about text by using prior knowledge and ideas presented in the text itself, including illustrations, titles, topic sentences, important words, and foreshadowing clues. |
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| Writing |
| ELA.4.2.0. Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) |
| ELA.4.2.4. Write summaries that contain the main ideas of the reading selection and the most significant details. |
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| Listening and Speaking |
| ELA.4.2.0. Speaking Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics) |
| ELA.4.2.3. Deliver oral summaries of articles and books that contain the main ideas of the event or article and the most significant details. |
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Grade Five
Reading |
| ELA.5.2.0. Reading Comprehension (Focus on Informational Materials) |
| ELA.5.2.2. Analyze text that is organized in sequential or chronological order. |
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| ELA.5.2.3. Discern main ideas and concepts presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas. |
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| ELA.5.2.4. Draw inferences, conclusions, or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge. |
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| Writing |
| ELA.5.1.0. Writing Strategies |
| ELA.5.1.4. Create simple documents by using electronic media and employing organizational features (e.g., passwords, entry and pull-down menus, word searches, the thesaurus, spell checks). |
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| Listening and Speaking |
| ELA.5.1.0. Listening and Speaking Strategies |
| ELA.5.1.4. Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation. |
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| ELA.5.1.5. Clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples. |
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| ELA.5.1.6. Engage the audience with appropriate verbal cues, facial expressions, and gestures. |
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| Science
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Grade Three
Life Sciences |
| SCI.3.3. Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism's chance for survival. |
| SCI.3.3.a. Students know plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction. |
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| SCI.3.3.b. Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands. |
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| SCI.3.3.c. Students know living things cause changes in the environment in which they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, and some are beneficial. |
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| SCI.3.3.d. Students know when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. |
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| SCI.3.3.e. Students know that some kinds of organisms that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared and that some of those resembled others that are alive today. |
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Grade Four
Life Sciences |
| SCI.4.2. All organisms need energy and matter to live and grow. |
| SCI.4.2.b. Students know producers and consumers (herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and decomposers) are related in food chains and food webs and may compete with each other for resources in an ecosystem. |
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| SCI.4.3. Living organisms depend on one another and on their environment for survival. |
| SCI.4.3.a. Students know ecosystems can be characterized by their living and nonliving components. |
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| SCI.4.3.b. Students know that in any particular environment, some kinds of plants and animals survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. |
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