Teachers in Tennessee currently use the Common Core State Standards. Every six years the state reviews the standards. If you would like to stay updated on the changes, please visit the TN State Board of Education website. Clicking the pictures will take you directly to the standards!
Literature:
- Main Idea & Key Details
- Story Elements
- Theme/ Compare & Contrast Themes
- Summarizing
- Inferences
- Unknown Words in Mythology
- Poems, Proses, & Drama
- Compare & Contrast Point of Views
- Text & Graphic Features
- Main Idea
- Inferences Using Facts & Details
- Citing Evidence in Texts
- Context Clues
- Text Structures (Compare/Contrast, Sequence, Description, Problem/Solution, Cause/Effect)
- Compare Primary & Secondary Sources
- Summarizing
- Author's Purpose
- Opinion Pieces
- Informative/Explanatory Texts
- Narratives/Stories
- Purposeful Writing
- The Writing Process
- Keyboarding
- Research Projects
- Phonics & Word Recognition
- Fluency
- Collaborative Discussions
- Supporting Ideas with Evidence While Speaking
- Informal & Formal English
- Organization (Ex: Telling a Story or Reporting on a Topic)
- Relative Pronouns & Adverbs
- Progressive Verbs
- Modal Auxiliaries
- Order Adjectives
- Prepositional Phrases
- Fragments & Run-On Sentences
- Homophones
- Conventions (Capitalization, Punctuation, & Spelling)
- Quotation Marks
- Commas
- Dialogue
- Punctuation for Affect
- Formal & Informal English
- Multiple Meaning Words
- Context Clues
- Greek & Latin Affixes
- Reference Materials
- Figurative Language
- Similes & Metaphors
- Idioms, Adages, Proverbs
- Synonyms & Antonyms
Operations & Algebraic Thinking:
- Multiplication
- Division
- Multistep Word Problems
- Prime & Composite Numbers
- Patterns
- Digit Values Up to a Million
- Write Numbers in Standard, Numerical, and Expanded Forms
- Rounding Numbers
- Addition & Subtraction with Multi-digit Whole Numbers
- Multiply Whole Numbers with 4 Digits By a 1 Digit Whole Number
- Divide with 4-Digit Dividends and 1-Digit Divisors (with Remainders)
- Equivalent Fractions
- Compare Fractions with Unlike Numerators & Denominators
- Multiply Fractions
- Decimal Notation for Fractions (Denominators of 10 or 100)
- Compare Decimals to the Hundredths
- Units of Measurement
- Word Problems (Distance, Time, Volume, Mass, Money, etc.)
- Area & Perimeter Formulas
- Line Plots Involving Fractions
- Angles
- Measuring with Protractors
- Addition & Subtraction of Angles
- Points, Lines, Line Segments, Rays, Angles, Perpendicular & Parallel Lines
- Attributes of 2D Shapes and Triangles
- Symmetry
Life Science:
- Cells
- Interdependence
- Flow of Matter & Energy (Food Webs)
- Heredity (Life Cycle, Reproduction)
- Biodiversity & Change (Adaptation, Extinction)
- Universe
- Earth
- Atmosphere (Climate/Weather, Water Cycle)
- Matter
- Energy (Heat & Light)
- Motion
- Forces of Nature (Magnetism & Electricity)
Our focus will be on the History of America up until 1850.
- The Land and People before European Exploration
- Age of Exploration (15th-16th Centuries)
- Settling the Colonies to The 1700s
- The War for Independence (1760-1789)
- Creating a New Government
- The New Nation’s Westward Expansion (1790-1830)
- The Growth of The Republic (1800-1850)