This curriculum was developed in accordance with the Arizona State Educational Standards by a National Board Certified and Arizona Department of Education, highly qualified Certified Elementary Educator.
Third – Fifth Grade Standards
Reading Information
RI.1 Ask and answer questions from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
RI.2 Determine the main idea and explain how supported by key details; summarize the text.
RI.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
RI.4 Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
RI.5 Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
RI.6 Compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event or topic; describe the differences in focus, and the information provided.
RI.7 Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
RI.9 Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.
RI.10 Use social studies content to independently read grade-level appropriate texts
Reading Literature
RL.2 We will recount and paraphrase stories and poetry from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in text.
RL.4 Determine the meaning of words, phrases, and figurative language found in stories, poetry, myths, and traditional literature from different cultures, including those that allude to significant characters.
RL.10 We will read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in a text appropriate to grade level.
Writing
W.2 Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
W.3 – We will write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences using effective techniques, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
W.4 We will produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
W.7 Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.
History
Arizona History Standards (3rd – 5th Grades) The development of civilizations, societies, cultures, and innovations have influenced history and continue to impact the modern world.
H1.1 Utilizing a variety of multi-genre primary and secondary sources, construct historical narratives about cultures, civilizations, and innovations in the Americas.
H2.1 Use primary and secondary sources to generate questions about the causes and effects of conflicts and resolutions throughout Arizona’s history.
H2.2 Analyze the different approaches used by the Spanish, Portuguese, British, and the French in their interactions with American Indians.
H3.1 Examine how economic, political, and religious ideas and institutions have influenced the development of individual rights, freedoms, and responsibilities in the Americas.
H3.2 Use primary and secondary sources to analyze the changes that have taken place in Arizona which could include the use of current events.
H4.1 Use primary and secondary sources to describe how diverse groups (racial, ethnic, class, gender, regional, immigrant/migrant) shaped the United States’ multicultural society within the historical timeframe.
Disciplinary Skills and Processes
Arizona Disciplinary Skills and Processes (3rd – 5th Grades) Chronological reasoning requires understanding processes of change and continuity over time, which means assessing similarities and differences between historical periods and between the past and present.
SP1.1 Create and use a chronological sequence of related events to compare developments that happened at the same time.
SP1.2 Compare life in specific historical time periods to life today.
SP1.3 Generate questions about individuals and groups who have impacted history.
SP2.1 Explain why individuals and groups during the same historical period differed in their perspectives on issues and events.
SP3.1 Develop questions about Arizona and United States history, geography, government, and economics.
SP3.2 Use distinctions among fact and opinion to determine the credibility of multiple sources.
SP3.3 Generate questions about multiple sources and their relationships to events and developments in the Americas.
SP4.1 Explain probable causes and effects of events.
G1.1 Use and construct maps and graphs to represent changes in the Americas over time.
G2.1 Compare the diverse ways people or groups of people have impacted, modified, or adapted to the environment of the Americas
G3.1 We will explain how the location and use of resources affects the treatment of Indigenous people.