Weather: A journey in nonfiction

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.05: Increase vocabulary, concepts, and reading stamina by reading self-selected texts independently for 15 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.06: Self-monitor comprehension by using one or two strategies (questions, retelling, summarizing).
  • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
  • 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.
  • 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 4.01: Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing contexts (e.g., oral retelling using exclamatory phrases to accent an idea or event).
  • 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.
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).
  • 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.

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.05: Use a variety of strategies and skills to read self-selected texts independently for 20 minutes daily. Self-selected texts should be consistent with the student's independent reading level.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Read and comprehend both narrative and expository text appropriate for grade two by:
    • determining purpose (reader's and author's).
    • making predictions.
    • asking questions.
    • locating information for specific reasons/purposes.
    • recognizing and applying text structure.
    • comprehending and evaluating author's decisions and word choice.
    • determining fact and opinion.
    • recognizing and comprehending figurative language.
    • making inferences and drawing conclusions.
  • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
  • Objective 2.03: Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
  • 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.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • 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 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
  • Objective 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for 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 5.06: Use correctly in written products:
    • letter formation, lines, and spaces to create readable documents
    • plural forms of commonly used nouns
    • common, age - appropriate contractions.

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.
  • Objective 1.05: Interact for at least 10 minutes daily with self-selected texts that are consistent with the student's independent reading level.
• 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.
• 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 4.03: 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 5.01: Develop spelling strategies and skills by:
    • representing spoken language with temporary and/or conventional spelling.
    • writing most letters of the alphabet.
    • analyzing sounds in a word and writing dominant consonant letters.

Science (2005)

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate tools to build an understanding of the changes in weather.
  • Objective 2.03: Describe weather using quantitative measures of:
    • Temperature.
    • Wind direction.
    • Wind speed.
    • Precipitation.
  • Objective 2.04: Identify and use common tools to measure weather:
    • Wind vane and anemometer.
    • Thermometer.
    • Rain gauge.
  • Objective 2.06: Observe and record weather changes over time and relate to time of day and time of year.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will make observations and build an understanding of weather concepts.
  • Objective 2.01: Observe and report daily weather changes throughout the year.
  • Objective 2.02: Identify different weather features including:
    • Precipitation.
    • Wind.
    • Temperature.
    • Cloud cover
  • Objective 2.03: Identify types of precipitation, changes in wind, force, direction and sky conditions.
  • Objective 2.04: Observe and determine the effects of weather on human activities.
  • Objective 2.05: Use common tools to measure weather.