Relationship to standards
Relationship to standards
Relationship to Standards
Common Core State Standards
Writing Standards: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
8. Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital resources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided
categories.
Reading Standards for Informational Text: Craft and Structure
5. Use text features and search tools to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Speaking and Listening Standards: Comprehension and Collaboration
- Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
- 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).
- c. Ask questions to check understanding of information
presented, staying on topic, and link their comments to the
remarks of others.
Reading Standards for Foundational Skills: Fluency
4. Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings.
Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
5. Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
- Distinguish the literal and non-literal meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps).
- Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful).
- Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered).
- (K & 1st) Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
VAPA Standards
Theatre:
1.0 Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing, and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to Theatre
Development of the Vocabulary of Theatre
1.1 Use the vocabulary of theatre, such as actor, character, cooperation, setting, the five senses, and audience, to describe theatrical experiences.
Comprehension and Analysis of the Elements of Theatre
1.2 Identify differences between real people and imaginary characters.
2.0 Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in Theatre
Development of Theatrical Skills
2.1 Perform imitative movements, rhythmical activities, and theatre games (freeze, statues, and mirrors).
Creation/Invention in Theatre
2.2 Perform group pantomimes and improvisations to retell familiar stories.
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing: responding to, Analyzing, and Critiquing Theatrical Experiences
Derivation of Meaning from Works of Theatre
4.3 Describe students’ responses to a work of theatre and explain what the scriptwriter did to elicit those responses.
Visual and Performing Arts
2.0 Creative Expression: Creating, Performing, and Participating in the Visual Arts
Communication and Expression Through Original Works of Art
2.3 Paint or draw a landscape, seascape, or cityscape that shows the illusion of space.
2.5 Create an imaginative clay sculpture based on an organic form
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of the Visual Arts
Role and Development of the Visual Arts
3.1 Compare and describe various works of art that have a similar theme and were created at different time periods.
3.3 Distinguish and describe representational, abstract, and non representational works of art.
Diversity of the Visual Arts
3.4 Identify and describe objects of art from different parts of the world observed in visits to a museum or gallery (e.g., puppets, masks, containers).
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing; Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works in the Visual Arts 4.3 Select and artist’s work and, using appropriate vocabulary of art, explain its successful compositional and communicative qualities.
5.0 Connections, Relationships, Applications: Connecting and Applying What is Learned in the Visual Arts to Other Art Forms and Subject Areas and to Careers.
Connections and Applications
5.1 Describe how costumes contribute to the meaning of a dance.
5.2 Write a poem or story inspired by their own works of art.
Music:
1.0 Artistic Perception: Processing, Analyzing and Responding to Sensory Information Through the Language and Skills Unique to Music
Listen to, Analyze, and Describe Music
1.3 Identify melody, rhythm, harmony, and timbre in selected pieces of music when presented aurally.
1.5 Describe the way in which sound is produced on various instruments.
3.0 Historical and Cultural Context: Understanding the Historical Contributions and Cultural Dimensions of Music
Role of Music
3.1 Identify the uses of music in various cultures and time periods
Diversity of Music
3.2 Sing memorized songs from diverse cultures
3.3 Play memorized songs from diverse cultures.
4.0 Aesthetic Valuing: Responding to, Analyzing, and Making Judgments About Works of Music
Deriving Meaning
4.3 Describe how specific musical elements communicate particular ideas or moods in music.