• initiates own reading
• beginning to read beyond text and make inferences
• shares favorite reading materials
• explores a variety of books and text features
• retells, recalls, and recounts details
• reads and follows simple directions
• uses pictures to confirm and not just predict text
• reads on to regain meaning
• uses appropriate directionality when reading diagrams, story maps, charts, poems
• uses -s, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est endings
• identifies and uses adjectives, nouns, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and pronouns
• reads table of contents and glossary

Writing

• writes two or more sentences that focus on a topic
• contributes to group writing
• composes using a variety of forms (letters, stories, journal entries, narratives
• uses drawing, mapping, and/or listing for prewriting
• uses a simplified version of beginning, middle, and end for stories
• edits for basic capitalization and periods
• uses verbs that agree with subjects in person and number
• uses personal and possessive pronouns correctly
• uses adjectives to elaborate
• develops a bank of words that are consistently spelled correctly
• uses phonetic knowledge to approximate spelling of unknown words

Communication

• retells a major event when listening to a story
• follows simple oral directions
• tells about self and interests
• listens to presentations of teacher or peers and responds by answering questions, asking questions, and giving
• comments
• tells stories with expression
• participates in rhyme, poems, and group response
• role plays with others

Math

• count, recognize, write, and order whole numbers to 100
• identify halves and fourths of an object or set of objects
• compute to solve whole number problem situations involving addition and subtraction
• estimate to determine if a solution to an addition or subtraction situation is reasonable
• create and use strategies to solve addition or subtraction facts
• use nonstandard units to measure length, area, capacity, and time
• use objects and bar graphs to organize and interpret data collected to solve everyday problem situations
• organize and clarify mathematical information using words, pictures, or numbers
• place value, tens and ones, order and compare numbers
• recognizes the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, and dollar and expresses value using cent notation
• tells time to the hour and half hour

How Parents Can Help

• consider yourself a partner in your child’s education
• attend parent/teacher conferences
• notify teacher/school if there are any changes at home that may affect your child at school
• read with your child daily
• have your child observe you read daily
• talk about things you have read
• compare book characters to real people
• regular visits to the community library
• talk about things you/your child have read
• encourage your child to write- notes, letters, lists, messages
• play games with your child -(word, board, cards)
• practice counting money
• practice telling time from a clock with a face
• encourage your child to count, sort, and organize household items
• cook with your child
• ask your child about his/her day

 

The information provided here was taken from the Washington State Framework of Essential Learning Requirements (EALRs), distributed by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). This framework is the basis for which the WASL (Washington Assessment for Student Learning) tests academic progress at grades 4, 7, and 10. A complete listing of the EALRs is available for your viewing at the school office.