Creating class rules: A beginning to creating community

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will identify and exhibit qualities of good citizenship in the classroom, school, and other social environments.
  • Objective 2.01: Develop and exhibit citizenship traits in the classroom, school, and other social environments.
  • Objective 2.02: Identify the roles of leaders in the home, school, and community such as parents, mayor, police officers, principal, and teacher.
  • Objective 2.03: Participate in democratic decision-making.
  • Objective 2.04: Recognize the need for rules in different settings.
  • Objective 2.05: Identify the need for fairness in rules by individuals and by people in authority.
  • Objective 2.06: Predict consequences that may result from responsible and irresponsible actions.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will identify and exhibit qualities of responsible citizenship in the classroom, school, and other social environments.
  • Objective 1.01: Identify and describe attributes of responsible citizenship.
  • Objective 1.02: Demonstrate responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
  • Objective 1.03: Analyze and evaluate the effects of responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
  • Objective 1.04: Identify responsible courses of action in given situations and assess the consequences of irresponsible behavior.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will identify and exhibit qualities of responsible citizenship in the classroom, school, and other social environments.
  • Objective 2.01: Exhibit citizenship traits such as integrity, responsibility, and trustworthiness in the classroom, school, and other social environments.
  • Objective 2.02: Participate in democratic decision making.
  • Objective 2.03: Describe the importance of rules and laws.
  • Objective 2.04: Analyze classroom problems and suggest fair solutions.

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 2.07: Respond and elaborate in answering what, when, where, and how questions.
  • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
• 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.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.
  • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).
  • Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
  • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
  • 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.
  • Objective 2.08: Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
  • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.03: Use preparation strategies to activate prior knowledge and experience before and during the reading of a text.
  • Objective 2.04: Formulate questions that a text might answer before beginning to read (e.g., what will happen in this story, who might this be, where do you think this happens).
• 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 3.03: Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.
  • 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 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
  • Objective 4.04: Maintain conversation and discussions:
    • attending to oral presentations
    • taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.