Mandatory requirements from the Department of Education for promotion to 4th grade:
- Students must score above a Level 2 on the FCAT Reading Sunshine State Standards test.
Reading
The student:
- predicts using prior knowledge, captions, and headings
- uses strategies to determine meaning and increase vocabulary
- develops vocabulary, monitors reading on or above grade level by rereading, self-correcting, summarizing, and questioning
- identifies main idea, details, makes inferences and identifies the sequence of events, author’s purpose, examples of fact, fiction or opinion, and recognizes and understands comparison and contrast, cause/effect and sequence of events
Writing
The student:
- writes using the writing process and the six writing traits of ideas, organization, word choice, sentence fluency, voice, and conventions
Science
The student:
- investigates several science units using scientific observations and skills
- explores different science topics including life science, earth science, physical science, and space and technology
Math
The student:
- uses number sense to master all basic facts, read, write, compare numbers
- knows the value of a given digit to hundred thousand
- explains and demonstrates the meaning of multiplication and division with remainders
- uses measurement to measure length, weight, capacity, area, perimeter, volume, time and temperature
- calculates and compares types of measurement
- estimates area, perimeter, and volume of a rectangular shape
- selects the appropriate unit and tool of measurement for a solution
- uses geometry and spatial sense to understand symmetry, congruency, and reflections in geometric shapes
- explores flip, slides, tessellations and 180-degree turns
- compares area and perimeter using concrete and graphic materials
- knows how to identify, locate and plot ordered pairs of whole numbers
- uses algebraic thinking to describe, extend and create visual geometric patterns
- analyzes, explains and states the rule for number patterns
- uses models and graphs to solve equations and inequalities
- know that an equation is a number sentence stating that two quantities are equal
- uses data analysis and probability to identify parts of a graph and interprets displays of data
- interprets and compares information from pictographs and bar graphs
- identifies the mean, median, mode and range in a set
- uses technology to compare data and to construct and discuss patterns
- determines the number of possible combinations of items
- calculates the probability of an event and represents all possible outcomes
- designs questions for a survey, depicts the data in a graph and explains the results
- uses statistical data to recognize trends