Emelita Street School

READING, WRITING, LISTENING, AND SPEAKING

Students will:

• Use word origins to find the meaning of unknown words.
• Understand and explain frequently used synonyms (words that mean the same) and antonyms (words with opposite meaning).
• Identify main ideas and concepts in texts and identify the evidence that supports those ideas.
• Draw conclusions about what is read.
• Tell whether something they read is fact or opinion.
• Read a wide variety of materials.
• Analyze and tell what they think will happen in a story and draw conclusions.
• Write clear and understandable essays with a main idea and conclusions.
• Write compositions with many paragraphs.
• Do research using a variety of sources.
• Write research reports and edit and revise them.
• Write compositions that show events in a story.
• Write letters or compositions that try to persuade someone.
• Write using knowledge of sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
• Take part in discussions and ask questions that suggest information not already discussed.
• Make presentations that tell a story, give information, or tell about something they have read.
• Make evaluations and reach conclusions in oral reports.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (ELD) STANDARDS

BEGINNING LEVEL (ELD 1)

Students will:

• Begin to speak using a few words, phrases (not complete sentences), or sentences.
• Be able to read their own written work.
• Act out simple words to show they understand them.
• Give out loud one- or two-word answers to questions about stories that are read to them.
• Give one or two-word answers to simple questions about their lives.
• Write simple sentences that follow the rules of English-language word order.
• Use beginning capital letters to write their names.

EARLY INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (ELD)

Students will:

• Read simple vocabulary, phrases (not complete sentences), and sentences on their own.
• Use simple sentences to tell about a character (who) in a story.
• Use simple sentences to tell about the important points of simple conversations and of stories that are read to them.
• Write on their own about what they read and use reasonably correct English grammar.
• Write sentences using commas and a period at the end of a sentence.

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL (ELD 3)

Students will;

• Use words they have learned in reading, mathematics, and other subiects in discussions.
• Identify the parts of hooks such as the title, table of contents (a list at the beginning of a book showing what is in the book and the page number of each part), glossary (list of words and definitions at the end of a particular book), an index (list of topics in alphabetical order showing where the topics can be found in the main part of a book).
• Read and tell about the main problem of a plot (what happened) in a story and how it is solved.
• Ask and answer questions, with help, about school subjects.
• Write paragraphs on their own that ave e main idea and use English grammar, spelling, and  capitalization that they have learned.

EARLY ADVANCED LEVEL (ELD 4)

Students will;

• Read for meaning, both orally and silently, from their school hooks and other books.
• Use the words they have learned to read by themselves.
• Use information from what they have read to draw conclusions (final decisions after thinking about something) and to make predictions (tell about something that ml ht happen).
• Retell stories and include information about the characters (who), setting (time and place),  plot (what happened), summary (short statement about whole story),  an analysis (breaking down and looking closely for information .
• Write material without help and use correct capitalization, punctuation marks, and correct spelling.

ADVANCED LEVEL (ELD 5)

Students will:

• Put into use their knowledge of parts of words used at the beginning (prefixes) or endings(suffixes) of words to get meaning from words in stories and school books.
• Read material out loud with expression.
• Tell the difference between fact (statement) and opinion (the way that someone thinks about something) in material they read.
• Listen to grade-level materials and tell the main points and give details.
• Write using correct punctuation, capitalization, and spelling.
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MATHEMATICS

Students will;

• Continue working with the tour basic arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) and apply them to fractions, decimals, and positive and negative numbers.
• Work with very large numbers from 0 to millions and very small numbers In decimals to tha thousandths (for example, .001).
• Understand the relationship between decimals, fractions, and percents.
• Find decimals and percents that are the same as a fraction (example .50 is 50% or 1/2 of a whole).
• Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions and decimals.
• Use and write simple equations using a letter to stand for an unknown number (for example, 3 + a = 1 and a = 4).
• Understand and compute the volumes and areas of simple objects, such as triangles.
• Identity, measure, and draw angles, perpendicular lines and parallel lines, rectangles, and triangles by using a ruler, a compass, and a computer program.
• Make and use graphs and diagrams to solve problems.
• Make decisions about how to solve a problem.
• Organize and show information in graphs.
• Use different methods and strategies, such as estimation, to help solve problems.

LEARNING CAN TAKE PLACE AT HOME

• Develop routines with your child. For example, set a bedtime hour, a homework time and place, and a wake-up time.
• Ask the teacher what activities you can do at home to back up what is learned in the classroom.
• Make sure your child gets enough sleep each night.
• Have your child read daily. It makes a difference. Ten minutes a day of independent reading increases reading understanding. Twenty minutes a day is even better.
• Keep track of how much television your child watches. According to the National Assessment of Education 1994 Reading eport Card for the Nation and the States, if your child watches more than three hours of TV a day, his or her reading will suffer.
• Read poems, jokes and riddles, comic books, and magazines with your child.
• Instead of a video night, try a reading night.
• When  you go on a trip, have your child keep a journal about the trip.
• Let your child make lists, for example, what to buy at the market, what to plan for a party, or what to take on a trip.
• Share and exchange books with neighbors, friends, and relatives.
• Have your child practice making poems on the refrigerator with magnetic word strips (sold in car shops and books ores). Find words that rhyme. make poems together.
• Read menus in restaurants with your child for good reading and math practice. Help your child figure out what he or she can order with a certain amount of money.
• Show your child by example that reading is important to you.
• Have your child write in a journal. A notebook can be used as a journal . Ask if your child wants to share it with you.
• Have your child write to other members of the family like grandmothers,  grandfathers, aunts, uncles, or cousins.
• Have your child write directions that tell how to do something.
• Encourage your child to talk. If your child thinks in a way that is different from your way, give your child a chance to tell you reasons why he or she thinks that way, and you do the same for your child.
• Share the oral history of your family with our child. Other people in your family can share the family history. Let your children talk or write about their heritage.
• Share with your child stories about your own childhood.
• Monitor the homework your child brings home. Don’t do it for him or her, but encourage them to complete the assignment.
• Practice “mental” (no paper or pencil) math; problems.
• Help your child to estimate how much everyone’s meal in a restaurant might cost.
• lf you have a yard sale, let your child help make signs. Have your child put on a price, collect the money. give change, and keep track of the sale in writing.
• Give your child lots of praise when he or she deserves it.
• Keep track of the traditions in your family possibly written in a notebook. Talk about them. Share them with your child who could take it to school to share with others.
• Make sure you talk to your children and let them talk to you.
• Have your child interview someone in the family, especially a grandparent. Your child should have questions in mind or written down before the interview. You can help by recording the interview with a tape recorder or a video camera.
• Show an interest in what your child is learning.