Skills to review before First Grade:
· Cut along a line with scissors
· Hold a crayon and pencil correctly
· Know the eight basic colors: red, yellow, blue, green, orange, black, white, and pink
· Recognize and write the letters of the alphabet in upper- and lowercase forms
· Know the relationship between letters and the sounds they make
· Recognize the first 100 Basic Sight Words such as the (lists available online)
· Read simple sentences
· Spell his first and last name, using appropriate capital and lower-case letters
· Write word family words such as bat, sat, mat and fan, can, tan
· Retell a story that has been read aloud
· Identify numbers up to 20
· Count by ones, fives, and tens to 100
· Know basic shapes such as a square, triangle, rectangle, and circle
· Know her address and phone number
Skills to review before Second Grade:
- Write words with letter-combination patterns such as words with a silent e
- Read and write high-frequency words such as where and every
- Write complete sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation
- Read aloud first-grade books with accuracy and understanding
- Count change (quarter, nickel, dime, penny)
- Tell time to the hour and half-hour
- Quickly answer addition and subtraction facts for sums up to 20
- Complete two-digit addition and subtraction problems without regrouping
Skills to review before Third Grade:
- Expand his vocabulary (introduce dictionary skills)
- Read fluently with expression
- Read to learn (non fiction), rather than learning to read
- Recognize most irregularly spelled words such as because and upon
- Write complete sentences and a beginning paragraph
- Add single- and multi-digit numbers with regrouping
- Tell time to the quarter-hour
- Know the concept of multiplication (for example, 2 x 3 is two rows of three)
Skills to review before Fourth Grade:
- Be able to write neatly in cursive (small muscles of the hand have developed)
- Read longer stories and chapter books with expression and comprehension
- Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words and other strategies to identify unfamiliar words
- Multiply single- and multi-digit numbers
- Divide multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
- Tell time to the half-hour and quarter-hour and to five minutes and one minute
Skills to review before Fifth Grade:
- Increase the amount of detail in drawings
- Work on research projects
- Write a structured paragraph with an introductory topic sentence, three supporting details, and a closing sentence that wraps up the main idea of the paragraph
- Be able to memorize and recite facts, although he may not have a deep understanding
- Use a range of strategies when drawing meaning from text, such as prediction, connections, and inference
- Understand cause-and-effect relationships
- Add and subtract decimals, and compare decimals and fractions
- Multiply multi-digit numbers by two-digit numbers
- Divide larger multi-digit numbers by one-digit numbers
- Find the area of two-dimensional shapes
Skills to review before Sixth Grade:
- Read complex text fluently and with good comprehension
- Research a topic using a variety of sources, and use the features of a book (for example, the index, glossary, and appendix) to find information
- Identify conflict, climax, and resolution in a story
- Write an organized, multi-paragraph composition in sequential order with a central idea
- Use problem-solving strategies to solve real-world math problems
- Add and subtract fractions and decimals
- Identify and describe three-dimensional shapes, and find their volumes and surface areas
- Use long division to divide large numbers by multi-digit numbers
