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Indiana Academic Standards
Language Arts
2.2.1 Use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate information in text.
2.2.5 Restate facts and details in the text to clarify and organize ideas.
2.4.6 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
2.5.6 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person.
2.7.6 Speak clearly and at an appropriate pace for the type of communication (such as an informal discussion or a report to class).
2.7.9 Report on a topic with supportive facts and details.
3.2.1 Use titles, tables of contents, and chapter headings to locate information in text.
3.2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal information from the text.
3.2.6 Locate appropriate and significant information from the text.
3.4.6 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
3.5.2 Write descriptive pieces about people, places, things, or experiences.
3.5.5 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person.
3.7.5 Organize ideas chronologically or around major points of information.
3.7.8 Clarify and enhance oral presentations through the use of appropriate props, including objects, pictures, and charts.
3.7.14 Make descriptive presentations that use concrete sensory details to set forth and support unified impressions of people, places, things, or experiences.
4.2.2 Use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes.
4.4.2 Select a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements for a piece of writing.
4.4.4 Use common organizational structures for providing information in writing.
4.4.10 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
4.5.3 Write informational reports.
4.5.6 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person.
4.7.7 Emphasize points in ways that help the listener or viewer to follow important ideas and concepts.
4.7.12 Make informational presentations.
5.2.1 Use the features of informational texts to find information and support understanding.
5.2.3 Recognize main ideas presented in texts, identifying and assessing evidence that supports those ideas.
5.4.3 Write informational pieces with multiple paragraphs.
5.4.5 Use note-taking skills.
5.4.8 Review, evaluate, and revise writing for meaning and clarity.
5.5.3 Write research reports about important ideas, issues, or events.
5.5.6 Write for different purposes and to a specific audience or person, adjusting tone and style as appropriate.
5.7.4 Select a focus, organizational structure, and point of view for an oral presentation.
5.7.5 Clarify and support spoken ideas with evidence and examples.
5.7.6 Use volume, phrasing, timing, and gestures appropriately to enhance meaning.
5.7.10 Deliver informative presentations about an important idea, event, or issue.
Social Studies
4.1.11 Identify important events and movements that changed life in Indiana in the twentieth century.
5.1.19 Develop and interpret timelines showing major people, events, and developments in the early history of the United States from 1776-1801.
5.5.6 Read accounts of how scientific and technological innovations have affected the way people lived in the early United States, and make predictions about how future scientific and technological developments may change cultural life.
Science
3.1.6 Give examples of how tools have affected the way we live.
4.1.4 Describe how people all over the world have taken part in scientific investigation for many centuries.
4.1.7 Discuss and give examples of how technology has improved the lives of many people.
4.1.8 Recognize and explain that any invention may lead to other inventions.
5.1.3 Explain that doing science involves many different kinds of work and engages men, women, and children of all ages and backgrounds.
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