Descriptive writing and the 100th day of school

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for emergent readers.
  • Objective 2.09: Read and understand simple written instructions.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Compose a variety of products (e.g., stories, journal entries, letters, response logs, simple poems, oral retellings).
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.04: Use complete sentences to write simple texts.
  • Objective 5.05: Use basic capitalization and punctuation
    • first word in a sentence.
    • proper names.
    • period to end declarative sentence.
    • question mark to end interrogative sentence.
  • Objective 5.07: Use legible manuscript handwriting.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.
  • Objective 2.07: Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters and concepts within and across texts.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Begin to use formal language and/or literary language in place of oral language patterns, as appropriate.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.02: Attend to spelling, mechanics, and format for final products in one's own writing.
  • Objective 5.03: Use capitalization, punctuation, and paragraphs in own writing.
  • Objective 5.05: Use editing to check and confirm correct use of conventions
    • complete sentences.
    • correct word order in sentences.
  • Objective 5.07: Use legible manuscript handwriting.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
    • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
    • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.06: Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Connect information and events in text to experience.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use words that describe color, size, and location in a variety of texts: e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences.
  • Objective 4.04: Maintain conversation and discussions:
    • attending to oral presentations
    • taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.02: Use capital letters to write the word I and the first letter in own name.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 2

• Goal 1: Number and Operations - The learner will read, write, model, and compute with whole numbers through 999.
  • Objective 1.01: Develop number sense for whole numbers through 999.
    • Connect model, number word, and number using a variety of representations.
    • Read and write numbers.
    • Compare and order.
    • Rename.
    • Estimate.
    • Use a variety of models to build understanding of place value (ones, tens, hundreds).
  • Objective 1.03: Create, model, and solve problems that involve addition, subtraction, equal grouping, and division into halves, thirds, and fourths (record in fraction form).
  • Objective 1.05: Create and solve problems using strategies such as modeling, composing and decomposing quantities, using doubles, and making tens and hundreds.