Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• 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 4.02: 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 4.06: 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 5.01: Use phonic knowledge and basic patterns (e.g., an, ee, ake) to spell correctly three-and four-letter words.
  • Objective 5.02: Apply phonics to write independently, using temporary and/or conventional spelling.

Grade 2

• 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 4.02: Use expanded vocabulary to generate synonyms for commonly overused words to increase clarity of written and oral communication.
  • 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).
• Goal 5: The learner will apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
  • Objective 5.01: Spell correctly using:
    • previously studied words.
    • spelling patterns.
    • analysis of sounds to represent all the sounds in a word in one's own writing.
  • Objective 5.02: Attend to spelling, mechanics, and format for final products in one's own writing.

Kindergarten

• 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 4.02: Use words that name and words that tell action in a variety of simple texts (e.g., oral retelling, written stories, lists, journal entries of personal experiences).
  • 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.
• 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.

Mathematics (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will identify, describe, draw, and build basic geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw and name parallelograms, squares, trapezoids, and hexagons.
  • Objective 3.02: Identify, build, and name cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms.
  • Objective 3.03: Compare and contrast geometric figures.
  • Objective 3.04: Solve problems involving spatial visualization.

Grade 2

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will perform simple transformations.
  • Objective 3.01: Combine simple figures to create a given shape.
  • Objective 3.02: Describe the change in attributes as two- and three-dimensional figures are cut and rearranged.

Kindergarten

• Goal 3: Geometry - The learner will explore the concepts of geometry.
  • Objective 3.01: Identify, build, draw, and name triangles, rectangles, and circles; identify, build, and name spheres and cubes.
  • Objective 3.02: Compare geometric shapes (identify likenesses and differences).
  • Objective 3.03: Model and use directional and positional vocabulary.
  • Objective 3.04: Complete simple spatial visualization tasks and puzzles.