Alignment to CORE and NGSS Standards
| Grade | Number | Standard |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | K-4)3.11.4 | Networks of transportation and communications are used to move information, products, and people |
| 2 | NGSS: 2-ESS2.B | Maps show where things are located. One can map the shapes and kinds of land and water in any area. (2-ESS2-2) |
| 2 | RF.2.4a-AR/ATOS | Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. AR |
| 2 | RF.2.4a-Guided Reading | Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. Guided Reading |
| 2 | RI.2.10-AR/ATOS | By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2_3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. AR |
| 2 | RI.2.10-Guided Reading | By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2_3 text Guided Readingcomplexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Guided Reading |
| 2 | RI.2.9 | Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic. (story versus For Creative Minds non-fiction component) |
| 2 | RL.2.10-AR/ATOS | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2_3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. AR |
| 2 | RL.2.10-Guided Reading | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2_3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. Guided Reading |
| 2 | RL.2.4 | Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. |
| 3 | RF.3.4a-Lexile Level | Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. Lexile Level 420L - 820L |
| 3 | RI.3.10-Lexile Level | By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2_3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Lexile Level 420L - 820L |
| 3 | RI.3.9 | Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic. (story versus For Creative Minds non-fiction component) |
| 3 | RL.3.10-Lexile Level | By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2_3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Lexile Level 420L - 820L |
| 5 | NGSS: 5-PS1.B-1 | When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance with different properties may be formed. (5-PS1-4) |
| 5 | RI.5.5 | Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. (Paired reading-story versus For Creative Minds non-fiction component) |
| K | NGSS: K-ESS3.A2 | Humans use natural resources for everything they do. (K-ESS3-1) |
| K | RF.K.2a | Recognize and produce rhyming words. |
| K-4 | K-4)3.1.1 | Properties and functions of geographic representationsãsuch as maps, globes, graphs, diagrams, aerial and other photographs, remotely sensed images, and geographic visualization |
| K-4 | K-4)3.1.2 | Geospatial data are connected to locations on Earth’s surface |
| K-4 | K-4)3.1.3 | The interpretation of geographic representations |
| K-4 | K-4)3.11.1 | People engage in economic activities, such as producing goods and offering services, in order to earn a living |
| K-4 | K-4)3.11.2 | Some locations are better suited than others to provide certain goods and services |
| K-4 | K-4)3.11.3 | People and countries trade locally produced goods and services for goods and services that are produced in other places |
| K-4 | K-4)3.16.1 | The characteristics of renewable, nonrenewable, and flow resources |
| K-4 | K-4)3.16.2 | The spatial distribution of types of resources |
| K-4 | K-4)3.3.3 | Models are used to represent features of human and/or physical systems |
| K-4 | K-4)7 | This theme provides for the study of how people organize for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, and prepares students for the study of domestic and global economic issues. |
| K-5 | Dewey 633.8 | 633.8 |
