Under the deep blue sea

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 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
  • Objective 2.03: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text appropriate for grade one using:
    • prior knowledge.
    • summary.
    • questions.
    • graphic organizers.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • 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).

Grade 2

• 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 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections (e.g., picture books, caption books, short informational texts, nursery rhymes, word plays/finger plays, puppet plays, reenactments of familiar stories).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 2

• Goal 5: The learner will understand the relationship between people and geography in various communities.
  • Objective 5.01: Define geography and use geographic terms to describe landforms, bodies of water, weather, and climate.