Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

Main Criteria: Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
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Subjects: Early Childhood Education, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
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Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Language Arts
Grade: K - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.K.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.K.1.With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Making Connections
Read a Little, Think a Little
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.K.3.With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

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Feelings Charades
Making Connections
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.K.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.K.4.Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

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Feelings Charades
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.K.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.K.7.With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

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Wordless Picture Books
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.K.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.K.10.Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

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I Read to You, You Read to Me
Making Connections
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.K.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.1.With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Book Cover Conversations
Who Am I?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.2.With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

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Book Cover Conversations
Who Am I?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.K.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.4.With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.

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Share Your Knowledge
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.K.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.7.With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

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Books I Like
How Far Does It Fly?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.8.With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

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Book Cover Conversations
Who Am I?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.K.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.K.10.Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.

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I Read to You, You Read to Me
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.K.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Print Concepts
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.K.1.Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
EXPECTATION RF.K.1(a)Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.

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Environmental Print
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.K.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonological Awareness
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.K.2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
EXPECTATION RF.K.2(a)Recognize and produce rhyming words.

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Stinkle, Stinkle, Stittle Star
EXPECTATION RF.K.2(b)Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words.

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Super Hero Names
EXPECTATION RF.K.2(d)Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or /x/.)

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Stinkle, Stinkle, Stittle Star
Super Hero Names
EXPECTATION RF.K.2(e)Add or substitute individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.

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Stinkle, Stinkle, Stittle Star
Super Hero Names
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.K.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonics and Word Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.K.3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
EXPECTATION RF.K.3(a)Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.

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Super Hero Names
You Know It!
EXPECTATION RF.K.3(c)Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

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Fishing for Words
Where's That Word?
You Know It!
EXPECTATION RF.K.3(d)Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

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Word Man
You Know It!
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.K.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.K.4.Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

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Making Connections
My Library List
Read a Little, Think a Little
Seeing the Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.K.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Text Types and Purposes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.K.2.Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

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I Know All About
Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.K.3.Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

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A Memorable Story
Story Train
Write Me a Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.K.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Production and Distribution of Writing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.K.5.With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

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I Know All About
Write Me a Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.K.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Research to Build and Present Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.K.7.Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and express opinions about them).

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Write Me a Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.K.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.1.Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
EXPECTATION SL.K.1(a)Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).

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A Memorable Story
Conversation Starters
I Know All About
Simon Says
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.K.1(b)Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.

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A Memorable Story
Conversation Starters
I Know All About
Simon Says
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.K.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.2.Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

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20 Questions Draw
A Memorable Story
I Read to You, You Read to Me
Making Connections
Seeing the Story
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.3.Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
Story Train
Who Am I?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.K.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.4.Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.

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20 Questions Draw
A Memorable Story
Conversation Starters
I Know All About
Who's Coming to Dinner?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.5.Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.

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20 Questions Draw
A Memorable Story
Conversation Starters
I Know All About
Who's Coming to Dinner?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.K.6.Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

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Conversation Starters
I Know All About
Simon Says
Who Am I?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.K.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.K.1.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
EXPECTATION L.K.1(a)Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

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Favorite People Place Cards
EXPECTATION L.K.1(d)Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
Story Train
Who Am I?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.K.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.K.2.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
EXPECTATION L.K.2(c)Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).

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You Know It!
EXPECTATION L.K.2(d)Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.

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Make a List
Word Man
Write a Letter
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.K.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.K.5.With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
EXPECTATION L.K.5(a)Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

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Guess the Group
EXPECTATION L.K.5(b)Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).

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Speedy Synonyms
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.K.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.K.6.Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.

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Family Sensory Walk
Feelings Charades
Share Your Knowledge

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Language Arts
Grade: 1 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.1.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.1.1.Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Preview & Predict
Read a Little, Think a Little
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.1.2.Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

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Retelling the Fable
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.1.3.Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

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Character Connection
Feelings Charades
Inside Outside Traits
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.1.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.1.4.Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.

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Let's Look Closer
Read a Little, Think a Little
Seeing the Story
What Was That For?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.1.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.1.7.Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

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Character Connection
Feelings Charades
Inside Outside Traits
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.1.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.1.Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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What Do You Want to Know?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.2.Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

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What Do You Want to Know?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.1.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.4.Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.

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Share Your Knowledge
Wondering About Words
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.5.Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.

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Getting Into Information
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.6.Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.

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How Far Does It Fly?
What Do You Want to Know?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.1.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.1.7.Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

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How Far Does It Fly?
What Do You Want to Know?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.1.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonological Awareness
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.1.2.Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
EXPECTATION RF.1.2(b)Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.

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Looking for Chunks
Word Man
EXPECTATION RF.1.2(c)Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.

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Begin with the End
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.1.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonics and Word Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.1.3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(a)Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.

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Looking for Chunks
Word Man
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(b)Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.

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Looking for Chunks
Word Man
You Know It!
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(c)Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

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Change One Letter
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(d)Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.

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Rhyming Hand Game
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(e)Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

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Looking for Chunks
Rhyming Hand Game
EXPECTATION RF.1.3(g)Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Fishing for Words
Race You To the Top
Thinking About Word Chunks
Where's That Word?
Word Man
You Know It!
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.1.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.1.4.Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
EXPECTATION RF.1.4(a)Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

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Building a Fort
I Read to You, You Read to Me
My Library List
Preview & Predict
Read Like You Talk
Read a Little, Think a Little
Seeing the Story
EXPECTATION RF.1.4(b)Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

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Building a Fort
EXPECTATION RF.1.4(c)Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

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What Does It Mean?
Wondering About Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.1.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Text Types and Purposes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.1.2.Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.

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I Love My Family Because...
I'd Really Like
Tell Me How
Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.1.3.Write narratives in which they recount two or more appropriately sequenced events, include some details regarding what happened, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide some sense of closure.

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Remember The Story
Story Train
Write Around
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.1.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Production and Distribution of Writing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.1.5.With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

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Bake Sale/Lemonade Stand
I'd Really Like
Make a List
Tell Me How
Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.1.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Research to Build and Present Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.1.7.Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of ''how-to'' books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions).

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Bake Sale/Lemonade Stand
I'd Really Like
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.1.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.1.Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
EXPECTATION SL.1.1(a)Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Making Playdough Together
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.1.1(b)Build on others' talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges.

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Making Playdough Together
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.1.1(c)Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.1.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.2.Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

ReadyRosie
20 Questions Draw
I Read to You, You Read to Me
Seeing the Story
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.3.Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood.

ReadyRosie
20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
I Love My Family Because...
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.1.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.4.Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Describe It
Simon Says
Who's Coming to Dinner?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.5.Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

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20 Questions Draw
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.1.6.Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation.

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Simon Says
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.1.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.1.1.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
EXPECTATION L.1.1(b)Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.

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Noun Charades
Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(c)Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop).

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Noun Charades
Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(d)Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything).

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Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(e)Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home).

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Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(f)Use frequently occurring adjectives.

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Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(i)Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward).

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Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.1.1(j)Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.

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Picture Talk
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.1.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.1.2.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
EXPECTATION L.1.2(a)Capitalize dates and names of people.

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Write a Letter
EXPECTATION L.1.2(b)Use end punctuation for sentences.

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Write a Letter
EXPECTATION L.1.2(d)Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words.

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Change One Letter
Make a List
Race You To the Top
Thinking About Word Chunks
Word Challenge
Word Man
Write a Letter
EXPECTATION L.1.2(e)Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.

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Change One Letter
Make a List
Thinking About Word Chunks
Word Challenge
Word Man
Write a Letter
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.1.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.1.4.Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 1 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
EXPECTATION L.1.4(a)Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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What Does It Mean?
Wondering About Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.1.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.1.5.With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
EXPECTATION L.1.5(a)Sort words into categories (e.g., colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.

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Noun Charades
Words to Chew On
EXPECTATION L.1.5(b)Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (e.g., a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes).

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Noun Charades
Words to Chew On
EXPECTATION L.1.5(c)Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at home that are cozy).

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Million Dollar Words
EXPECTATION L.1.5(d)Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (e.g., look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (e.g., large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings.

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Million Dollar Words

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Language Arts
Grade: 2 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.2.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.2.1.Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

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Can You See It?
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Reading is Thinking
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.2.3.Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

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Can You See It?
Character Chat
Character Comparison
Feelings Charades
Inside Outside Traits
Summarizing the Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.2.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE 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.

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Poetry
Tongue Twister Time
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.2.5.Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.

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Summarizing the Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.2.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.2.7.Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

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Can You See It?
Character Chat
Character Comparison
Feelings Charades
Inside Outside Traits
Pow Wow Crunch
Summarizing the Story
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.2.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.2.10.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.

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Can You See It?
My Turn, Your Turn
Poetry
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Reading Dialogue
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.2.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.1.Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

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What Do You Wonder?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.3.Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

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How Far Does It Fly?
What Do You Wonder?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.2.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.4.Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.

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Share Your Knowledge
Wondering About Words
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.5.Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.

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Comprehension Clues
Finding Information
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.6.Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

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Random, Bizarre Facts
What Do You Wonder?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.2.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.7.Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.

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How Far Does It Fly?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.2.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.2.10.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.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Random, Bizarre Facts
What Do You Wonder?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.2.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonics and Word Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.2.3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
EXPECTATION RF.2.3(b)Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

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Shopping for Syllables
Thinking About Word Chunks
EXPECTATION RF.2.3(c)Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

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Rhyming Hand Game
EXPECTATION RF.2.3(d)Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.

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Shopping for Syllables
Understanding Big Words
Unpacking Prefixes
EXPECTATION RF.2.3(e)Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

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Thinking About Word Chunks
EXPECTATION RF.2.3(f)Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Race You To the Top
Thinking About Word Chunks
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.2.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.2.4.Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
EXPECTATION RF.2.4(a)Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

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Building a Fort
Can You See It?
I Read to You, You Read to Me
My Library List
My Turn, Your Turn
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Reading Dialogue
What Do You Wonder?
EXPECTATION RF.2.4(b)Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.

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Building a Fort
Reading Dialogue
EXPECTATION RF.2.4(c)Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

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Wondering About Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.2.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Text Types and Purposes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.2.2.Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.

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I'd Really Like
Make a Neighborhood Map
Tell Me How
Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.2.3.Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
Sketching the Story
Story Train
Write Around
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.2.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Production and Distribution of Writing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.2.5.With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.

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I'd Really Like
Make a Neighborhood Map
Please Can I?
Take a Stand
Tell Me How
Write About a Family Tradition
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.2.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Research to Build and Present Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.2.7.Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).

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I'd Really Like
Make a Neighborhood Map
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.2.8.Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.2.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.2.1.Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
EXPECTATION SL.2.1(a)Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
What Do You Wonder?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.2.1(b)Build on others' talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others.

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
What Do You Wonder?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.2.1(c)Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
I Love My Family Because...
I Read to You, You Read to Me
My Turn, Your Turn
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
What Do You Wonder?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.2.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.2.2.Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

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20 Questions Draw
I Read to You, You Read to Me
My Turn, Your Turn
Random, Bizarre Facts
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.2.3.Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
I Love My Family Because...
Story Train
What Do You Wonder?
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.2.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.2.4.Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences.

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20 Questions Draw
Who's Coming to Dinner?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.2.6.Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

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Simon Says
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.1.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
EXPECTATION L.2.1(a)Use collective nouns (e.g., group).

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Noun Charades
EXPECTATION L.2.1(b)Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish).

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Noun Charades
EXPECTATION L.2.1(e)Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

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Acrostic Poem
Picture Talk
EXPECTATION L.2.1(f)Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).

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Hidden Messages
Simon Says
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.2.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
EXPECTATION L.2.2(b)Use commas in greetings and closings of letters.

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Hidden Messages
Write a Thank You Note
Write to the Tooth Fairy
EXPECTATION L.2.2(d)Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage-->badge; boy-->boil).

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Change One Letter
Spelling Pattern Game
Thinking About Word Chunks
Word Challenge
Write a Letter
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Knowledge of Language
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.3.Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
EXPECTATION L.2.3(a)Compare formal and informal uses of English.

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Share Your Knowledge
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.4.Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.
EXPECTATION L.2.4(a)Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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Wondering About Words
EXPECTATION L.2.4(b)Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known prefix is added to a known word (e.g., happy/unhappy, tell/retell).

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Shopping for Syllables
Understanding Big Words
Unpacking Prefixes
EXPECTATION L.2.4(c)Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., addition, additional).

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Digging Into Roots
EXPECTATION L.2.4(e)Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases.

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Comprehension Clues
Finding Information
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.5.Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
EXPECTATION L.2.5(a)Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe foods that are spicy or juicy).

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Category Competition
Million Dollar Words
EXPECTATION L.2.5(b)Distinguish shades of meaning among closely related verbs (e.g., toss, throw, hurl) and closely related adjectives (e.g., thin, slender, skinny, scrawny).

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Category Competition
Million Dollar Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.2.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.2.6.Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Describe It
Who's Coming to Dinner?

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Language Arts
Grade: 3 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.3.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.1.Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

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It's All In Your Head
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Talking About Books
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.2.Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.

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Sequence and Summarize
Talking About Books
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.3.Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

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Character Chat
Feelings Charades
Inside Outside Traits
Talking About Books
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.3.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.4.Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.

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Let's Look Closer
Talking About Books
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.5.Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.

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Poetry
Pow Wow Crunch
Talking About Books
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.3.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.7.Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).

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Pow Wow Crunch
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RL.3.Reading Standards for Literature
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RL.3.10.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.

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It's All In Your Head
My Turn, Your Turn
Poetry
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Reading Dialogue
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.3.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Key Ideas and Details
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.3.3.Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.

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Double the Recipe
How Far Does It Fly?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.3.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Craft and Structure
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.3.4.Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.

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Share Your Knowledge
Wondering About Words
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.3.5.Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.

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Comprehension Clues
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.3.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.3.7.Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).

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How Far Does It Fly?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RI.3.Reading Standards for Informational Text
BENCHMARK Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RI.3.10.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.

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Double the Recipe
How Far Does It Fly?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.3.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Phonics and Word Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.3.3.Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
EXPECTATION RF.3.3(a)Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes.

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Shopping for Syllables
Understanding Big Words
Unpacking Prefixes
EXPECTATION RF.3.3(b)Decode words with common Latin suffixes.

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Shopping for Syllables
Understanding Big Words
EXPECTATION RF.3.3(d)Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Race You To the Top
Thinking About Word Chunks
CONTENT STANDARD WY.RF.3.Reading Standards: Foundational Skills
BENCHMARK Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE RF.3.4.Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
EXPECTATION RF.3.4(a)Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.

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Building a Fort
It's All In Your Head
My Library List
My Turn, Your Turn
Pow Wow Crunch
Read a Little, Think a Little
Reading Dialogue
EXPECTATION RF.3.4(b)Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings

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Poetry
Pow Wow Crunch
EXPECTATION RF.3.4(c)Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

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Wondering About Words
Word Detective
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.3.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Text Types and Purposes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.2.Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
EXPECTATION W.3.2(a)Introduce a topic and group related information together; include illustrations when useful to aiding comprehension.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
Write About a Family Tradition
EXPECTATION W.3.2(b)Develop the topic with facts, definitions, and details.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
EXPECTATION W.3.2(d)Provide a concluding statement or section.

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Write About a Family Tradition
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.3.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Text Types and Purposes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.3.Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
EXPECTATION W.3.3(a)Establish a situation and introduce a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally.

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A Really Good Story
Make a Neighborhood Map
Story Train
Write Around
EXPECTATION W.3.3(b)Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations.

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A Really Good Story
Family Poem
Story Train
Write Around
EXPECTATION W.3.3(c)Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order.

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Story Train
Write Around
EXPECTATION W.3.3(d)Provide a sense of closure.

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Write Around
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.3.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Production and Distribution of Writing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.4.With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1-3 above.)

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I Love My Family Because...
Make a Neighborhood Map
Story Train
Write About a Family Tradition
Write Around
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.5.With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.

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A Really Good Story
Write a Favorite Family Recipe
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.3.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Research to Build and Present Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.7.Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.8.Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
CONTENT STANDARD WY.W.3.Writing Standards
BENCHMARK Range of Writing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE W.3.10.Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.

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Make a Neighborhood Map
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.3.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.3.1.Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 3 topics and texts, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly.
EXPECTATION SL.3.1(a)Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation and other information known about the topic to explore ideas under discussion.

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.3.1(b)Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion).

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.3.1(c)Ask questions to check understanding of information presented, stay on topic, and link their comments to the remarks of others.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
EXPECTATION SL.3.1(d)Explain their own ideas and understanding in light of the discussion.

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Conversation Starters
I Love My Family Because...
Noun Charades
Simon Says
Story Train
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.3.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Comprehension and Collaboration
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.3.2.Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

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20 Questions Draw
My Turn, Your Turn
Random, Bizarre Facts
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.3.3.Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail.

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20 Questions Draw
Conversation Starters
Freeze Dance
I Love My Family Because...
Story Train
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.SL.3.Speaking and Listening Standards
BENCHMARK Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.3.4.Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

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20 Questions Draw
Share Your Knowledge
Who's Coming to Dinner?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE SL.3.6.Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.

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Simon Says
Take a Stand
Who's Coming to Dinner?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.1.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
EXPECTATION L.3.1(a)Explain the function of nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in general and their functions in particular sentences.

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Acrostic Poem
Noun Charades
EXPECTATION L.3.1(b)Form and use regular and irregular plural nouns.

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Noun Charades
EXPECTATION L.3.1(c)Use abstract nouns (e.g., childhood).

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Noun Charades
EXPECTATION L.3.1(g)Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

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Category Competition
Million Dollar Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Conventions of Standard English
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.2.Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
EXPECTATION L.3.2(c)Use commas and quotation marks in dialogue.

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Write Around
EXPECTATION L.3.2(e)Use conventional spelling for high-frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words (e.g., sitting, smiled, cries, happiness).

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Change One Letter
Shopping for Syllables
Spelling Pattern Game
Thinking About Word Chunks
Understanding Big Words
Word Challenge
Write a Letter
EXPECTATION L.3.2(f)Use spelling patterns and generalizations (e.g., word families, position-based spellings, syllable patterns, ending rules, meaningful word parts) in writing words.

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Change One Letter
Spelling Pattern Game
Thinking About Word Chunks
Word Challenge
Write a Letter
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Knowledge of Language
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.3.Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
EXPECTATION L.3.3(a)Choose words and phrases for effect.

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Acrostic Poem
Million Dollar Words
Noun Charades
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.4.Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
EXPECTATION L.3.4(a)Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.

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Wondering About Words
Word Detective
EXPECTATION L.3.4(b)Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat).

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Shopping for Syllables
Understanding Big Words
Unpacking Prefixes
EXPECTATION L.3.4(c)Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).

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Digging Into Roots
EXPECTATION L.3.4(d)Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases.

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Comprehension Clues
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.5.Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
EXPECTATION L.3.5(a)Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).

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Let's Look Closer
Wondering About Words
Word Detective
EXPECTATION L.3.5(b)Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).

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Category Competition
Million Dollar Words
EXPECTATION L.3.5(c)Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).

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Category Competition
Million Dollar Words
CONTENT STANDARD WY.L.3.Language Standards
BENCHMARK Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE L.3.6.Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).

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Category Competition
Feelings Charades
Million Dollar Words
Noun Charades
Share Your Knowledge
Wondering About Words

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Mathematics
Grade: K - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MP.Mathematical Practices
BENCHMARK MP-1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

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Building a Fort
More or Less
Salty Numbers
BENCHMARK MP-4.Model with mathematics.

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When Five is Big
CONTENT STANDARD WY.CC.K.Counting and Cardinality
BENCHMARK Know number names and the count sequence.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.1.Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

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Salty Numbers
Ten in a Row
What Am I Counting?
What Comes Next?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.2.Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

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Salty Numbers
Spill the Beans
Ten in a Row
What Am I Counting?
What Comes Next?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.3.Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

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Numbers on My Back
Sneaky Math Note
CONTENT STANDARD WY.CC.K.Counting and Cardinality
BENCHMARK Count to tell the number of objects.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.4.Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
EXPECTATION CC.K.4(a)When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

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Car Race
In Ten Seconds
Pairs of Socks
Sneaky Math Note
Spill the Beans
The Biggest Number
What Am I Counting?
EXPECTATION CC.K.4(b)Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

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Car Race
In Ten Seconds
Pairs of Socks
Sneaky Math Note
Spill the Beans
The Biggest Number
What Am I Counting?
EXPECTATION CC.K.4(c)Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

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Salty Numbers
Spill the Beans
Ten in a Row
What Am I Counting?
What Comes Next?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.CC.K.Counting and Cardinality
BENCHMARK Count to tell the number of objects.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.5.Count to answer ''how many?'' questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

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Car Race
In Ten Seconds
Sneaky Math Note
Spill the Beans
The Biggest Number
CONTENT STANDARD WY.CC.K.Counting and Cardinality
BENCHMARK Compare numbers.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.6.Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

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In Ten Seconds
More or Less
The Biggest Number
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE CC.K.7.Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

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Ten in a Row
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.K.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Understand addition as putting together and adding to, and understand subtraction as taking apart and taking from.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.K.1.Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings1, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

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Car Race
Finish My Set
Fishing for Tens
Putting Away Dishes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.K.2.Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

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Bedtime Math Story
Car Race
Finish My Set
Fishing for Tens
Putting Away Dishes
Restaurant Story Problems
Spill the Beans
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.K.3.Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).

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Fishing for Tens
Give Me Five
Sneaky Math Note
What's Left?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.K.4.For any number from 1 to 9, find the number that makes 10 when added to the given number, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record the answer with a drawing or equation.

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Fishing for Tens
Give Me Five
Sneaky Math Note
What's Left?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.K.5.Fluently add and subtract within 5.

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Car Race
Math Fact Memory
Spill the Beans
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.K.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Work with numbers 11-19 to gain foundations for place value.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.K.1.Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into ten ones and some further ones, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each composition or decomposition by a drawing or equation (such as 18 = 10 + 8); understand that these numbers are composed of ten ones and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

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Fishing for Tens
Give Me Five
Sneaky Math Note
What's Left?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.K.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Describe and compare measurable attributes.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.K.1.Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

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Blow Your House Down!
Measurable Me
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.K.2.Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has ''more of''/''less of'' the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter.

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Blow Your House Down!
Guess and Measure
How Far Does It Fly?
Measurable Me
Measure your Steps
Ramp Car Racing
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.K.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Classify objects and count the number of objects in each category.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.K.3.Classify objects into given categories; count the numbers of objects in each category and sort the categories by count.

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I Spy a Coin
Toy Organization
CONTENT STANDARD WY.G.K.Geometry
BENCHMARK Identify and describe shapes (squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres).
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.K.1.Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.

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Is it a Triangle?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.K.2.Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.

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Canned
Snack Fractions
CONTENT STANDARD WY.G.K.Geometry
BENCHMARK Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.K.4.Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/''corners'') and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).

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Canned
Snack Fractions
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.K.5.Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.

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Is it a Triangle?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.K.6.Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, ''Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?''

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Is it a Triangle?

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Mathematics
Grade: 1 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MP.Mathematical Practices
BENCHMARK MP-1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-4.Model with mathematics.

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When Five is Big
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.1.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.1.Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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Bedtime Math Story
Domino Subtraction
Fishing for Tens
Input Output
Restaurant Story Problems
Spill the Beans
The Final Price Is...
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.2.Solve word problems that call for addition of three whole numbers whose sum is less than or equal to 20, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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Restaurant Story Problems
Ten Scoops
The Final Price Is...
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.1.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.4.Understand subtraction as an unknown-addend problem. For example, subtract 10 - 8 by finding the number that makes 10 when added to 8.

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Can you Make 21?
Car Race
Dice Knockout
Domino Addition
Domino Subtraction
Math Fact Memory
Spill the Beans
Ten Dimes
Ten Scoops
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.1.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Add and subtract within 20.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.5.Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).

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Domino Addition
I Can Make You Say 21
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.6.Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
Car Race
Dice Knockout
Domino Addition
Domino Subtraction
Math Fact Memory
Spill the Beans
Ten Scoops
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.1.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Work with addition and subtraction equations.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.1.8.Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating to three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ - 3, 6 + 6 = _.

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Where Did I Start?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.1.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Extend the counting sequence.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.1.Count to 120, starting at any number less than 120. In this range, read and write numerals and represent a number of objects with a written numeral.

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I Can Make You Say 21
Sneaky Math Note
Ten in a Row
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.1.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Understand place value.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.2.Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones. Understand the following as special cases:
EXPECTATION NBT.1.2(a)10 can be thought of as a bundle of ten ones -- called a ''ten.''

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How Many Tens in 50?
Stacking Pennies
Ten Dimes
EXPECTATION NBT.1.2(b)The numbers from 11 to 19 are composed of a ten and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine ones.

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How Many Tens in 50?
Stacking Pennies
Ten Dimes
EXPECTATION NBT.1.2(c)The numbers 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine tens (and 0 ones).

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How Many Tens in 50?
Stacking Pennies
Ten Dimes
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.1.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Understand place value.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.3.Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.

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Greater Than
I'm Thinking of a Number
Ten in a Row
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.1.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.4.Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Car Race
Fishing for Tens
Ten Dimes
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.5.Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number, without having to count; explain the reasoning used.

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Ten More
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.1.6.Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

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Ten More
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.1.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.1.1.Order three objects by length; compare the lengths of two objects indirectly by using a third object.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Measurable Me
Measure your Steps
Ramp Car Racing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.1.2.Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object (the length unit) end to end; understand that the length measurement of an object is the number of same-size length units that span it with no gaps or overlaps. Limit to contexts where the object being measured is spanned by a whole number of length units with no gaps or overlaps.

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Measure your Steps
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.1.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Tell and write time.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.1.3.Tell and write time in hours and half-hours using analog and digital clocks.

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Body Clock
CONTENT STANDARD WY.G.1.Geometry
BENCHMARK Reason with shapes and their attributes.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.1.1.Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size) ; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.

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Paper Airplane Geometry
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.1.2.Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.

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Paper Airplane Geometry
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.1.3.Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

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Folding Napkins
Making Playdough Together

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Mathematics
Grade: 2 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MP.Mathematical Practices
BENCHMARK MP-1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-4.Model with mathematics.

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Is it Reasonable?
When Five is Big
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.2.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.2.1.Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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Input Output
Restaurant Story Problems
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.2.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Add and subtract within 20.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.2.2.Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

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Can you Make 21?
Subtraction War
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.2.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Work with equal groups of objects to gain foundations for multiplication.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.2.3.Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.

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Even or Odd?
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.2.4.Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal addends.

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An Array of Brownies
Table Times
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.2.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Understand place value.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.1.Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases:
EXPECTATION NBT.2.1(a)100 can be thought of as a bundle of ten tens -- called a ''hundred.''

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All About My Number
How Much to 1,000?
Less Than
EXPECTATION NBT.2.1(b)The numbers 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900 refer to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, or nine hundreds (and 0 tens and 0 ones).

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All About My Number
How Much to 1,000?
Less Than
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.2.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Understand place value.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.2.Count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

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Buzz on 3
One Hundred More
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.3.Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

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All About My Number
Sneaky Math Note
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.4.Compare two three-digit numbers based on meanings of the hundreds, tens, and ones digits, using >, =, and <. symbols to record the results of comparisons.

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Greater Than
Is it Reasonable?
Less Than
The Greater Number
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.2.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.5.Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
Close Call
Coupon Savings
How Much to 1,000?
Race to Zero
The Answer Is
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.6.Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
Close Call
Coupon Savings
How Much to 1,000?
Restaurant Story Problems
The Answer Is
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.7.Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
Close Call
Coupon Savings
How Much to 1,000?
Race to Zero
The Answer Is
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.2.9.Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
How Much to 1,000?
The Answer Is
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.2.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.2.1.Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Ramp Car Racing
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.2.3.Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Ramp Car Racing
Three Questions
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.2.4.Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Ramp Car Racing
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.2.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Work with time and money.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.2.8.Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and cents symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?

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What's in a Dollar?
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.2.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Represent and interpret data.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.2.9.Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of the same object. Show the measurements by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in whole-number units.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Ramp Car Racing
CONTENT STANDARD WY.G.2.Geometry
BENCHMARK Reason with shapes and their attributes.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.2.1.Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

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Mystery Shape
Paper Airplane Geometry
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.2.2.Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.

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An Array of Brownies
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.2.3.Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.

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Counting Fractions

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Mathematics
Grade: 3 - Adopted: 2012
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MP.Mathematical Practices
BENCHMARK MP-1.Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-2.Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

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That's Crazy!
BENCHMARK MP-3.Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

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Building a Fort
BENCHMARK MP-4.Model with mathematics.

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That's Crazy!
When Five is Big
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.3.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.1.Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 x 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 x 7.

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Price Per Pound
Say it a Different Way
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.3.Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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Table Times
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.4.Determine the unknown whole number in a multiplication or division equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 x ? = 48, 5 = _ / 3, 6 x 6 = ?

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Math Mind Reading
Parts Unknown
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.3.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.6.Understand division as an unknown-factor problem. For example, find 32 / 8 by finding the number that makes 32 when multiplied by 8.

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Domino Division
Math Mind Reading
Product Practice
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.3.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Multiply and divide within 100.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.7.Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 x 5 = 40, one knows 40 / 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

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Domino Division
Math Mind Reading
Product Practice
CONTENT STANDARD WY.OA.3.Operations and Algebraic Thinking
BENCHMARK Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE OA.3.8.Solve two-step word problems using the four operations. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

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Input Output
Restaurant Story Problems
Table Times
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NBT.3.Number and Operations in Base Ten
BENCHMARK Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.3.1.Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

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Round Showdown
The Greater Number
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NBT.3.2.Fluently add and subtract within 1000 using strategies and algorithms based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.

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Broken Calculator Keys
Can you Make 21?
Close Call
Coupon Savings
How Much to 1,000?
Race to Zero
The Answer Is
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NF.3.Number and Operations--Fractions
BENCHMARK Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NF.3.1.Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.

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Fractions on a Number Line
Shape Up!
CONTENT STANDARD WY.NF.3.Number and Operations--Fractions
BENCHMARK Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE NF.3.3.Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.
EXPECTATION NF.3.3(a)Understand two fractions as equivalent (equal) if they are the same size, or the same point on a number line.

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Sharing an Apple
EXPECTATION NF.3.3(b)Recognize and generate simple equivalent fractions, e.g., 1/2 = 2/4, 4/6 = 2/3). Explain why the fractions are equivalent, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.

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Sharing an Apple
EXPECTATION NF.3.3(c)Express whole numbers as fractions, and recognize fractions that are equivalent to whole numbers. Examples: Express 3 in the form 3 = 3/1; recognize that 6/1 = 6; locate 4/4 and 1 at the same point of a number line diagram.

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Fractions on a Number Line
Shape Up!
EXPECTATION NF.3.3(d)Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.

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Fractions on a Number Line
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.3.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.1.Tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes. Solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes, e.g., by representing the problem on a number line diagram.

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Now is the Time
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.2.Measure and estimate liquid volumes and masses of objects using standard units of grams (g), kilograms (kg), and liters (l). Add, subtract, multiply, or divide to solve one-step word problems involving masses or volumes that are given in the same units, e.g., by using drawings (such as a beaker with a measurement scale) to represent the problem.

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Cooking Estimation
Double the Recipe
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.3.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Represent and interpret data.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.4.Generate measurement data by measuring lengths using rulers marked with halves and fourths of an inch. Show the data by making a line plot, where the horizontal scale is marked off in appropriate units-- whole numbers, halves, or quarters.

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How Far Does It Fly?
Ramp Car Racing
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.3.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.5.Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.
EXPECTATION MD.3.5(a)A square with side length 1 unit, called ''a unit square,'' is said to have ''one square unit'' of area, and can be used to measure area.

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Cracker Perimeter & Area
EXPECTATION MD.3.5(b)A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units.

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Cracker Perimeter & Area
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.3.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.6.Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units).

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Cracker Perimeter & Area
CONTENT STANDARD WY.MD.3.Measurement and Data
BENCHMARK Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE MD.3.7.Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.
EXPECTATION MD.3.7(b)Multiply side lengths to find areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in the context of solving real world and mathematical problems, and represent whole-number products as rectangular areas in mathematical reasoning.

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An Array of Brownies
CONTENT STANDARD WY.G.3.Geometry
BENCHMARK Reason with shapes and their attributes.
GRADE LEVEL EXAMPLE G.3.2.Partition shapes into parts with equal areas. Express the area of each part as a unit fraction of the whole. For example, partition a shape into 4 parts with equal area, and describe the area of each part as 1/4 of the area of the shape.

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Counting Fractions
Shape Up!

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Science
Grade: K - Adopted: 2009
CONTENT STANDARD WY.1.Concepts and Processes: In the context of unifying concepts and processes, students develop an understanding of scientific content through inquiry. Science is a dynamic process; concepts and content are best learned through inquiry and investigation. Concepts in Life Systems, Earth and Space Systems, and Physical Systems are taught within the context of the following Unifying Concepts and Processes of Science: Systems, classification, order and organization; Evidence, models, and explanations; Cycles and change over time; Measurement and Form and function.
BENCHMARK SC4.1.2.Life Systems: Life Cycles of Organisms: Students sequence life cycles of living things, and recognize that plants and animals resemble their parents.

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Family Sensory Walk

Wyoming Content and Performance Standards
Science
Grade: 1 - Adopted: 2009
CONTENT STANDARD WY.1.Concepts and Processes: In the context of unifying concepts and processes, students develop an understanding of scientific content through inquiry. Science is a dynamic process; concepts and content are best learned through inquiry and investigation. Concepts in Life Systems, Earth and Space Systems, and Physical Systems are taught within the context of the following Unifying Concepts and Processes of Science: Systems, classification, order and organization; Evidence, models, and explanations; Cycles and change over time; Measurement and Form and function.
BENCHMARK SC4.1.2.Life Systems: Life Cycles of Organisms: Students sequence life cycles of living things, and recognize that plants and animals resemble their parents.

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Family Sensory Walk