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Massachusetts
Curriculum Frameworks
Subject:
English Language Arts: Grades PreK-2
Strand: Language
Standard: Vocabulary and Concept Development: Students will understand
and acquire new vocabulary, and use it correctly in reading and writing.
Strand: Reading and Literature
Standard: 8: Understanding a Text: Students will identify the basic
facts and main ideas in a text and use them as the basis for interpretation.
10: Genre: Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the
characteristics of different genres.
11: Theme: Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of theme
in a literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
Strand: Composition
19: Writing: Students will write with a clear focus, coherent organization,
and sufficient detail.
20: Consideration of Audience and Purpose: Students will write for different
audiences and purposes.
Subject:
Mathematics Grades PreK-K
Strand: Measurement
K.M.1: Recognize and compare the attributes of length, volume/capacity,
weight, area, and time using appropriate language, e.g., longer, taller,
shorter, same length; heavier, lighter, same weight; holds more, holds
less, holds the same amount.
K.M.2: Make and use estimates of measurements from everyday experiences.
K.M.3: Use nonstandard units to measure length, area, weight, and capacity.
Strand: Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability
K.D.1: Collect, sort, organize, and draw conclusions about data using
concrete objects, pictures, numbers, and graphs.
Subject:
Science and Technology/Engineering (Grades PreK-2)
Strand: Life Science (Biology)
Key Ideas: Characteristics of living Things
1: Recognize that animals (including humans) and plants are living things
that grow, reproduce, and need food, air, and water.
2: Differentiate between living and nonliving things. Group both liv-ing
and nonliving things according to the charac-teristics that they share.
Compare and contrast groups of animals (e.g., insects, birds, fish,
or mammals) and look at how animals in these groups are more similar
to one another than to animals in other groups.
Key Ideas: Living Things and Their Environment
6: Recognize that people and other animals inter-act with the environ-ment
through their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste.
8: Identify the ways in which an organism’s habitat provides for
its basic needs (plants require air, water, nutri-ents, and light; animals
require food, water, air, and shelter).
Subject:
Recommended Instructional Technology Standards
3: Demonstrate ability to use technology for research, problem-solving,
and communication.
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