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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Guidance (2001)

Grades K–5

• Goal 1: Acquire the attitudes, knowledge, and skills that contribute to effective learning in school and across the life span.
  • Objective 1.03: Practice attitudes and behaviors which lead to successful learning.
  • Objective 1.06: Demonstrate the ability to work independently, as well as the ability to work cooperatively with other students.
• Goal 6: Understand the relationship between personal qualities, education, and training, and the world of work.
  • Objective 6.04: Work cooperatively with others as a team member.
• Goal 7: Acquire the attitudes, knowledge and interpersonal skills to help understand and respect self and others.
  • Objective 7.07: Demonstrate cooperative behavior in groups.
• Goal 8: Make decisions, set goals, and take appropriate action to achieve goals.
  • Objective 8.01: Employ a decision-making and problem-solving model.

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 2.03: 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.

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.

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.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • 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 4.03: 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.
  • 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).

Grade 2

• 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 4.05: 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 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.