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Math Programs By Grade Level

Numbers

  • Count and order numbers with understanding
  • Count the number of objects in a set
  • Begin to match number words to numerals

 

Shapes

  • Identify and describe shapes including squares, triangles, circles and rectangles
  • Compare and order objects of different shapes, sizes, heights and/or lengths

Addition and Subtraction

  • Understand addition and subtraction concepts using concrete objects and pictorial representation
  • Add and subtract two, one-digit numbers without using objects or pictures
  • Add a two-digit number to a one- or two-digit number with no regrouping
  • Add three or more one-digit numbers
  • Identify fact families with sums 0-18
  • Subtract a one- and two-digit number from a two-digit number with no regrouping

 

Fractions

  • Identify equal parts of a region using halves, thirds and fourths
  • Understand the meaning of “fraction”
  • Identify one-half of an object

 

Geometry

  • Identify solid figures: cube, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism and sphere
  • Relate plane figures to solid figures
  • Classify and sort plane figures
  • Complete and interpret simple picture graphs, bar graphs and tables

 

Numbers

  • Match number words to numerals
  • Identify ordinal numbers
  • Count, order and write numbers 1-100
  • Understand the concept of place value
  • Understand “greater than” and “less than”
  • Count and write by 2s, 5s and 10s

 

Measurement

  • Measure height and length with nonstandard units
  • Determine more capacity or less capacity

 

Problem Solving

  • Select the appropriate operation and strategy to solve math problems
  • Build and strengthen math skills through problem-solving activities
  • Learn how to identify relevant and irrelevant information in a word problem

 

Time and Money

  • Identify the value of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and one-dollar bill
  • Combine and identify the value of a collection of coins
  • Combine and identify equivalent values of coins up to $1.00
  • Identify and interpret a calendar
  • Tell and write time to the hour and half-hour using analog and digital clocks
  • Order periods of time including days of the week and months of the year

Addition and Subtraction

  • Demonstrate the associative, commutative and zero property of addition
  • Develop computational fluency in addition and subtraction
  • Add three two-digit numbers, as well as two- and three-digit numbers with no regrouping
  • Subtract two- and three-digit numbers with regrouping, as well as a one-digit number from a two-digit number with regrouping
  • Subtract two two-digit numbers with regrouping as well as two- or three-digit numbers with regrouping

 

Area, Perimeter and Volume

  • Find a perimeter of a figure using units
  • Estimate and verify the area of a figure using square units by counting
  • Develop concept of volume using unit cubes

 

Decimals

  • For a shaded region representing tenths and/or wholes plus tenths
  • For a shaded region representing hundredths

Our 3rd grade math help also will help your child learn how to:

  • Relate fractions to decimals
  • Add or subtract decimals to the hundredths place with the same number of decimal places

 

Fractions

  • Separate regions into parts using halves, thirds and fourths
  • Read, shade and write fractional parts of a region and group

 

Geometry

  • Identify figures with line symmetry, characteristics of plane figures (sides and corners) and congruent figures
  • Name solid figures: the cube, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism

 

Graphing

  • Collect data and create a bar graph
  • Solve simple word problems based on data from picture and bar graphs

 

Multiplication and Division

  • Multiplication as repeated addition
  • Multiplication and division using concrete objects and pictorial representation
  • Division facts are related to multiplication facts

 

Numbers

  • Count and write by 3s and 4s
  • Write a numeral in hundreds, tens and ones when given an illustration
  • Read numbers through 999
  • Write numbers in short sequence from any point through 999
  • Write and match word names to numerals to the thousands
  • Understand the concept of equivalence

Our 2nd grade math help also will help your child learn to identify:

  • Odd and even numbers
  • The number and written word for ordinal numbers
  • The value of each digit for numbers through 999
  • The greater or lesser of two numerals from 1 to 999

 

Measurement

  • Length using centimeters and inches
  • Capacity using liters, cups and pints
  • Temperature in degrees Fahrenheit

 

Problem Solving

  • Select the appropriate operation and strategy to solve word problems
  • Solve problems using basic pictures, charts and tables
  • Identify relevant and irrelevant information in a word problem
  • Begin to solve basic, one-step equations

 

Time and Money

  • Identify the value of half-dollar and dollar coins
  • Combine and identify the value of a coin collection up to $5.00
  • Make change to $1.00 by subtraction
  • Tell time to the quarter-hour
  • Identify time relationships including minutes in an hour, hours in a day, days in a week and weeks in a year
  • Tell time to the nearest five minutes

Addition and Subtraction

  • Add two-, three- and four-digit numbers with regrouping
  • Subtract a three- or four-digit number from a four-digit number with regrouping


Area, Perimeter and Volume

  • Find a perimeter of a figure using units
  • Estimate and verify the area of a figure using square units by counting
  • Develop concept of volume using unit cubes


Decimals

  • For a shaded region representing tenths and/or wholes plus tenths
  • For a shaded region representing hundredths

Our 3rd grade math help also will help your child learn how to:

  • Relate fractions to decimals
  • Add or subtract decimals to the hundredths place with the same number of decimal places


Fractions

  • Model and write numerical fractions
  • Compare two fractions with like denominators using greater than, less than or equal to
  • Compare two fractions with unlike denominators represented by shaded regions
  • Find a fraction of a number
  • Add fractions with like denominators
  • Model and write a mixed number


Geometry

  • Identify point, lines, line segments, rays and angles
  • Identify faces, edges and corners on solid figures
  • Describe and identify right angles
  • Recognize transformations of plane figures including slides, flips and turns


Graphing

  • Using information from a bar graph
  • Using information from a picture graph where symbols may represent more than one


Multiplication and Division

  • Master the multiplication facts 0-9
  • Multiply a two- or three-digit number by a one-digit number with and without regrouping
  • Identify the associative, commutative, identity and zero properties of multiplication
  • Multiply a one- or two-digit number by two one-digit numbers
  • Understand that division facts are related to multiplication facts
  • Develop independence with division facts
  • Divide a one-digit or two-digit number by a one-digit number with and without a remainder
  • Divide a three-digit number by a one-digit number with no remainder


Numbers

  • Identify the place value of each digit through the hundred thousands
  • Write numerals in expanded form through the hundred thousands
  • Write or match word names to numerals through the hundred thousands
  • Identify the greater or lesser of two numbers through 999,999
  • Identify the numeral that comes before, between or after
  • Order numbers from least to greatest and greatest to least
  • Round two- and three-digit numbers to the nearest ten or hundred
  • Complete simple number patterns including multiples

 

Measurement

  • Length to the nearest millimeter, centimeter, meter, inch, foot or yard
  • Weight to the nearest gram, kilogram, ounce or pound
  • Capacity to the nearest liter, cup, pint, quart or gallon

Your child will also learn how to select the appropriate metric and customary unit to measure an object or distance.

 

Problem Solving

  • Select the appropriate operation and strategy to solve word problems
  • Solve problems using basic graphs, charts and tables
  • Learn how to identify relevant and irrelevant information in a word problem
  • Solve basic, one-step equations

 

Time and Money

  • Combine and identify the value of a collection of coins and bills up to $20.00
  • Compute and count change up to and including $5.00
  • Round monetary amounts to the nearest single coin or bill up to $20.00
  • Compute simple conversions using units of time including seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years
  • Tell time to the nearest minute

Addition and Subtraction

  • Add two or more multi-digit numbers with regrouping
  • Subtract multi-digit numbers with regrouping
  • Use estimation strategies for addition and subtraction

 

Area, Perimeter and Volume

  • Find the perimeter of a polygon with five or fewer sides
  • Find the area of irregular shapes using square units
  • Find the area of a rectangle by multiplying
  • Find the volume of a figure using cubic units

 

Decimals

  • Understand the place value and identify the value of each digit for decimals to the hundredths place
  • Read and write decimals to the hundredths place
  • Identify the greater or lesser of two decimals
  • Compare and order decimals to the hundredths place
  • Write the decimal equivalent of a fraction with a denominator of 100
  • Round decimals to the nearest whole number
  • Add and subtract decimals to the hundredths place

 

Fractions

  • Write equivalent fractions using pictorial representation
  • Subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Write improper fractions using pictorial representation
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Change improper fractions to mixed numbers
  • Compare and order simple fractions and mixed numbers

 

Geometry

  • Identify lines, rays, line segments and planes
  • Identify polygons: triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon and octagon
  • Identify quadrilaterals: square, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezoid and rhombus
  • Identify right, obtuse, and acute angles and label vertex and sides
  • Identify intersecting, parallel and perpendicular lines
  • Identify congruent figures, angles and line segments

 

Graphing

  • Construct and interpret line graphs
  • Solve multistep word problems with picture graphs, bar graphs or line graphs

 

Multiplication and Division

  • Use a rounding strategy for multiplication and division
  • Multiply a multi-digit number by a one-digit number; and a two- or three-digit number by a two-digit number with and without regrouping
  • Divide a two-, three-, or 4-digit number by a one-digit number with or without a remainder; and a two-digit number by a two-digit number with or without a remainder
  • Place zeros accurately in a quotient
  • Use multiplication as a check for division

 

Numbers

  • Identify the place value and value of each digit in numerals through the millions
  • Write numerals in expanded form through the millions
  • Write or match word names to numerals through the millions
  • Identify the greater or lesser of two numbers through the millions
  • Round four- and five-digit numbers to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand or ten thousand
  • Identify the value of Roman numerals using I, V and X

 

Measurement

  • The length and weight of an object to the nearest metric and customary measure
  • The capacity of a container using metric and customary measure
  • Your child also will learn how to read a Fahrenheit or Celsius thermometer to the nearest degree.

 

Problem Solving

  • Select the appropriate operation and strategy to solve word problems
  • Solve problems using basic graphs, charts and tables
  • Learn how to identify relevant and irrelevant information in a word problem
  • Begin to solve basic, one-step equations
  • Solve problems using a given formula

 

Time and Money

  • Compute and count change up to and including $100.00
  • Round monetary amounts to the nearest $10.00, $100.00, or $1,000.00
  • Determine elapsed clock time using addition and subtraction with no renaming
  • Determine elapsed clock time using any operation with renaming

Addition and Subtraction

  • Add and subtract multi-digit numbers without using a calculator

 

Area, Perimeter and Volume

  • Find the perimeter, area, and volume of a square or rectangle using formulas

 

Decimals

  • Identify the place value for decimals for tenths, hundredths, and thousandths
  • Write the word name for a decimal and vice versa
  • Order decimals to the thousandths
  • Write the decimal equivalent of a fraction with a denominator of 1,000
  • Round decimals to the nearest whole number, tenth, or hundredth
  • Add decimals to the thousandths with and without regrouping

Your child also will learn how to multiply:

  • A decimal by a whole number; by multiples of 10, 100, and 1,000; and by a decimal
  • A whole number by a fraction
  • Mixed numbers

 

Fractions

  • Express a fraction in lowest terms
  • Add or subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Find the least common denominator for a pair of fractions
  • Find equivalent fractions using multiples and factors
  • Compare and order fractions and mixed numbers
  • Add and subtract fractions having unlike denominators
  • Express mixed numbers as improper fractions and improper fractions as mixed numbers
  • Add and subtract mixed numbers with like denominators and unlike denominators
  • Add and subtract whole numbers, fractions and mixed numbers

Your child also will learn how to multiply:

  • A fraction by a fraction
  • A whole number by a fraction
  • Mixed numbers

 

Geometry

  • Identify the center, radius, diameter and circumference of a circle
  • Construct a circle with a given radius
  • Measure angles using a protractor

 

Graphing

  • Construct and solve word problems involving line graphs and bar graphs
  • Draw circle graphs and solve related word problems

 

Multiplication and Division

  • Identify and use the inverse operation for multiplication
  • Use the distributive property to find products
  • Identify and use the rules of divisibility for 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10

Your child also will learn how to multiply:

  • A three- or four-digit number by a two- or three-digit number with zeros
  • Multi-digit numbers using a calculator
  • By multiples of 10 and 100 without a calculator

Your child also will learn how to divide:

  • A three-digit number by a multiple of 10
  • A three-digit number by a two-digit number with no zeros in the divisor
  • A four-digit number by a two-digit number

 

Numbers

  • Identify the place value and value of each digit in numerals through the billions
  • Compare and order numbers through the billions
  • Round to the nearest millions and billions
  • Use estimation strategy of compatible numbers and computational strategy of compensations
  • List the prime and composite numbers less than 50
  • List the factors of two whole numbers each of which is less than 100
  • Find the least common multiple of two whole numbers
  • Write roman numerals through 2,000
  • Complete a complex picture or number pattern

 

Measurement

  • Linear metric units, including related addition or subtraction problems
  • Metric units of capacity, including related addition or subtraction problems
  • Metric units of mass
  • Customary linear units, units of capacity, and units of mass

Your child will also select the appropriate unit of measure for length, area, and mass.

 

Problem Solving

  • Select the appropriate operation and strategy to solve word problems
  • Solve problems using basic graphs, charts and tables
  • Learn how to identify relevant and irrelevant information in a word problem
  • Begin to solve basic, one-step equations
  • Solve problems using a given formula

 

Time and Money

  • Compute basic operations with units of time including the basic concept of time zones

Algebra

  • Translate a phrase into numerical or algebraic expression
  • Write an equation to represent a given situation
  • Solve an equation that contains one variable
  • Construct an input-output table from an equation
  • Write an equation from an input-output table
  • Graph points from positive input-output values in a table

 

Geometry

  • Identify similar figures
  • Analyze solid figures and circles
  • Classify polygons by sides and angles, as well as supplementary and complementary angles

 

Integers

  • Understand the meaning of integers
  • Order a set of integers
  • Identify the greater or lesser of two integers as well as the absolute value of integers
  • Add integers with like and unlike signs as well as several integers together
  • Subtract integers with both a positive and negative integer

 

Probability and Statistics

  • Use a tree diagram to determine the number of possible outcomes on an event
  • Determine the probability of independent events
  • Interpret a stem and leaf plot

 

Problem Solving

  • Write and solve equations using ratios in word problems
  • Solve one and two step word problems
  • Determine the discount price and sales price
  • Choose and use an appropriate problem-solving strategy

 

Addition and Subtraction

  • Multiply and divide multi-digit numbers
  • Use estimation to solve problems involving mixed numbers
  • Add and subtract positive and negative integers
  • Evaluate numerical expressions using the order of operations
  • Solve algebraic equations with one variable using addition and subtraction
  • Select the appropriate unit of measure for length, area, mass and volume
  • Begin to explore concepts of area, perimeter and volume
  • Choose an appropriate strategy for solving one- and two-step word problems

Algebra

  • Translate a phrase into numerical or algebraic expression
  • Solve integer equations using addition and subtraction and multiplication and division
  • Solve two-step integer equations
  • Translate statements into equations
  • Solve word problems by writing and solving equations

 

Geometry

  • Classify angles
  • Identify and discriminate between regular and irregular polygons
  • Solve problems involving translations, rotations and reflections
  • Identify congruent polygons and their corresponding sides and angles
  • Construct congruent segments and angles as well as angle bisectors or segment bisectors
  • Apply properties of similar triangles
  • Solve problems involving similar polygons
  • Identify congruent triangles according to corresponding parts
  • Find the missing angle measurement in a triangle when two angles are known

 

Integers

  • Multiply and divide integers with unlike signs and like signs
  • Identify the properties of integers
  • Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers

 

Probability and Statistics

  • Compute probability outcomes for dependent events
  • Use the counting principle to determine probability
  • Create and interpret a stem and leaf plot
  • Solve problems involving arrangements

 

Problem Solving

  • Word problems involving customary and metric measurement
  • Simple interest problems using amount x rate x time
  • Word problems involving distance, rate and time
  • Word problems using proportional reasoning
  • Geometry problems by making a drawing or diagram

Your child also will learn how to:

  • Use logic to solve problems
  • Choose and use an appropriate problem-solving strategy

Geometry

  • Angles and lines
  • Triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Circles and three-dimensional figures
  • Similar triangles and transformations
  • Triangle applications
  • Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Proofs

 

Problem Solving

  • Calculate unit rates or the unit cost using a proportion
  • Determine compound interest
  • Choose and use an appropriate problem-solving strategy

 

Probability and Statistics

  • Predict outcomes using probability
  • Create and interpret data in a frequency table and histogram
  • Interpret data displayed by a box plot
  • Use data to create a scatter plot and draw conclusions
  • Solve problems involving combinations or permutations

Algebra 1&2

  • Simplify to determine if rational expressions are equal; then multiply and divide rational expressions
  • Multiply and divide algebraic expressions
  • Solve problems involving radicals and right triangles
  • Use if-then statements and related statements in reasoning
  • Find a length in a complex figure using right triangles
  • Compare length, surface area and volume of similar figures
  • Prove geometric relationships with coordinate geometry

 

Trigonometry

  • Trigonometric functions
  • Graphing trigonometric functions
  • Right triangle trigonometry and basic identities
  • Oblique triangles
  • Trigonometric identities
  • Inverse trigonometric functions
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions

 

Geometry

  • Angles and lines
  • Triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Circles and three-dimensional figures
  • Similar triangles and transformations
  • Triangle applications
  • Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Proofs

 

Pre-Calculus

  • Sets, sequences, series, number systems, exponents and factoring
  • Linear and non-linear equations and inequalities
  • Cartesian coordinate system
  • Linear, quadratic, polynomial and rational functions
  • Logarithms and exponential functions

 

Integrated Math

  • Problem-solving strategies
  • Reasoning and proofs
  • Communications strategies
  • Connections

…in key areas, such as:

  • Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Trigonometry
  • Patterns and relationships
  • Data analysis and probability
  • Linear, exponential and quadratic functions

Algebra 1&2

  • Simplify to determine if rational expressions are equal; then multiply and divide rational expressions
  • Multiply and divide algebraic expressions
  • Solve problems involving radicals and right triangles
  • Use if-then statements and related statements in reasoning
  • Find a length in a complex figure using right triangles
  • Compare length, surface area and volume of similar figures
  • Prove geometric relationships with coordinate geometry

 

Trigonometry

  • Trigonometric functions
  • Graphing trigonometric functions
  • Right triangle trigonometry and basic identities
  • Oblique triangles
  • Trigonometric identities
  • Inverse trigonometric functions
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions

 

Geometry

  • Angles and lines
  • Triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Circles and three-dimensional figures
  • Similar triangles and transformations
  • Triangle applications
  • Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Proofs

 

Pre-Calculus

  • Sets, sequences, series, number systems, exponents and factoring
  • Linear and non-linear equations and inequalities
  • Cartesian coordinate system
  • Linear, quadratic, polynomial and rational functions
  • Logarithms and exponential functions

 

Integrated Math

  • Problem-solving strategies
  • Reasoning and proofs
  • Communications strategies
  • Connections

…in key areas, such as:

  • Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Trigonometry
  • Patterns and relationships
  • Data analysis and probability
  • Linear, exponential and quadratic functions

Algebra 1&2

  • Simplify to determine if rational expressions are equal; then multiply and divide rational expressions
  • Multiply and divide algebraic expressions
  • Solve problems involving radicals and right triangles
  • Use if-then statements and related statements in reasoning
  • Find a length in a complex figure using right triangles
  • Compare length, surface area and volume of similar figures
  • Prove geometric relationships with coordinate geometry

 

Trigonometry

  • Trigonometric functions
  • Graphing trigonometric functions
  • Right triangle trigonometry and basic identities
  • Oblique triangles
  • Trigonometric identities
  • Inverse trigonometric functions
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions

 

Geometry

  • Angles and lines
  • Triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Circles and three-dimensional figures
  • Similar triangles and transformations
  • Triangle applications
  • Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Proofs

 

Pre-Calculus

  • Sets, sequences, series, number systems, exponents and factoring
  • Linear and non-linear equations and inequalities
  • Cartesian coordinate system
  • Linear, quadratic, polynomial and rational functions
  • Logarithms and exponential functions

 

Integrated Math

  • Problem-solving strategies
  • Reasoning and proofs
  • Communications strategies
  • Connections

…in key areas, such as:

  • Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Trigonometry
  • Patterns and relationships
  • Data analysis and probability
  • Linear, exponential and quadratic functions

Algebra 1&2

  • Simplify to determine if rational expressions are equal; then multiply and divide rational expressions
  • Multiply and divide algebraic expressions
  • Solve problems involving radicals and right triangles
  • Use if-then statements and related statements in reasoning
  • Find a length in a complex figure using right triangles
  • Compare length, surface area and volume of similar figures
  • Prove geometric relationships with coordinate geometry

 

Trigonometry

  • Trigonometric functions
  • Graphing trigonometric functions
  • Right triangle trigonometry and basic identities
  • Oblique triangles
  • Trigonometric identities
  • Inverse trigonometric functions
  • Exponential and logarithmic functions

 

Geometry

  • Angles and lines
  • Triangles and quadrilaterals
  • Circles and three-dimensional figures
  • Similar triangles and transformations
  • Triangle applications
  • Inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Proofs

 

Pre-Calculus

  • Sets, sequences, series, number systems, exponents and factoring
  • Linear and non-linear equations and inequalities
  • Cartesian coordinate system
  • Linear, quadratic, polynomial and rational functions
  • Logarithms and exponential functions

 

Integrated Math

  • Problem-solving strategies
  • Reasoning and proofs
  • Communications strategies
  • Connections

…in key areas, such as:

  • Algebra
  • Geometry
  • Trigonometry
  • Patterns and relationships
  • Data analysis and probability
  • Linear, exponential and quadratic functions

Reading Programs By Grade Level

  • Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
  • Continue to build phonemic awareness
  • Identify sounds associated with letters
  • Track words from left to right on a page
  • Build sight vocabulary and word recognition
  • Read simple one-syllable words
  • Predict outcomes and ask and answer questions about a story

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy and aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

 

Phonemic Awareness

  • Understand the sounds associated with letters of the alphabet
  • Learn how to build words by blending sounds
  • Recognize that new words can be formed by removing sounds from other words (for example, remove the /h/ sound from hat to form a new word: at)

 

Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child’s unique reading needs…

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

 

Phonemic Awareness

  • Understand the sounds associated with letters of the alphabet
  • Learn how to build words by blending sounds
  • Recognize that new words can be formed by removing sounds from other words (i.e., remove the /h/ sound from hat to form a new word: at)

 

Phonics

  • Identify letters of the alphabet
  • Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (for example, block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (for example, join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (for example, car, bear, pier)
  • Break a word down into syllables, or use syllabication
  • Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (for example, books, started, singing, gladly)
  • Identify compound words

 

Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child’s unique reading needs…

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

 

Phonics

  • Identify letters of the alphabet
  • Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (i.e., block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (i.e., join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (i.e., car, bear, pier)
  • Break a word down into syllables, or use syllabication
  • Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (i.e., books, started, singing, gladly)
  • Identify compound words

 

Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child’s unique reading needs …

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy and aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

 

Phonics

  • Identify letters of the alphabet
  • Easily read and decode words with more than one syllable, including the sounds represented by consonants and vowels, consonant blends and digraphs (for example, block, crumb, strand, chin), vowel digraphs and diphthongs (for example, join, mouse, bee, tea) and r-controlled vowels (i.e., car, bear, pier)
  • Break a word down into syllables, or use syllabication
  • Recognize suffixes and inflectional endings (for example, books, started, singing, gladly)
  • Identify compound words

 

Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child’s unique reading needs…

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

 

Vocabulary

  • Determine the meaning of a word based on its use
  • Sort familiar words into categories based on their meaning (for example, colors, shapes, etc.)
  • Recognize base words and their inflections (for example, cook, cooks, cooked, cooking)
  • Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Understand compound words
  • Identify common synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms
  • Use knowledge of the root of a word to determine its meaning

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it
  • And much more based on your child’s unique reading needs…

Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

  • Continue to build vocabulary and integrate new words into current vocabulary
  • Attack words in larger chunks
  • Analyze words for roots and affixes, including Greek and Latin roots

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it

Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

  • Continue to build vocabulary and integrate new words into current vocabulary
  • Attack words in larger chunks
  • Analyze words for roots and affixes, including Greek and Latin roots

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it

 

Fluency 

  • Read grade-level texts quickly and with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency

Vocabulary and Word Knowledge

  • Continue to build vocabulary and integrate new words into current vocabulary
  • Attack words in larger chunks
  • Analyze words for roots and affixes, including Greek and Latin roots

 

Reading Comprehension

  • Identify the main concept and supporting details of a text
  • Determine what will happen next in a reading selection
  • Relate experiences in a text with real-life experiences and events
  • Ask meaningful questions in order to understand text
  • Answer questions about a text after reading it

 

Fluency

  • Read grade-level texts quickly and with accuracy
  • Read grade-levels texts aloud at a natural pace
  • Understand how punctuation impacts fluency
  • Develop the ability to comprehend difficult texts
  • Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words
  • Understand and interpret the meaning of new words
  • Anticipate how information in a text will need to be utilized
  • Analyze literature
  • Develop the ability to comprehend difficult texts
  • Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words
  • Understand and interpret the meaning of new words
  • Anticipate how information in a text will need to be utilized
  • Analyze literature
  • Develop the ability to comprehend difficult texts
  • Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words
  • Understand and interpret the meaning of new words
  • Anticipate how information in a text will need to be utilized
  • Analyze literature
  • Develop the ability to comprehend difficult texts
  • Use strategies to decode unfamiliar words
  • Understand and interpret the meaning of new words
  • Anticipate how information in a text will need to be utilized
  • Analyze literature

Writing Programs By Grade Level

  • Compose written work with vocabulary, grammar, and spelling at least at grade level
  • Compose writing assignments like those commonly given in school
  • Use an organized writing process
  • Apply composition techniques to writing assignments
  • Use an organized writing process
  • Apply composition techniques to writing assignments
  • Compose writing assignments like those commonly given in school
  • Compose written work with vocabulary, grammar, and spelling at least at grade level.
  • Sharpen vocabulary and spelling skills
  • Master grammar and punctuation rules
  • Apply the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Master writing techniques including paragraph and essay development
  • Apply the five steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Master writing techniques, including paragraph and essay development
  • Sharpen vocabulary and spelling skills
  • Master grammar and punctuation rules
  • Independently apply the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Use well-crafted composition techniques, including topic sentences, details and transitions
  • Approach various grade-level composition assignments
  • Learn from text–based assignments, including outlining main ideas and supporting details, analyzing short passages and writing summaries
  • Master the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Apply effective composition techniques, including topic sentences, details and transitions
  • Approach various grade-level composition assignments
  • Learn from text–based assignments, including outlining main ideas and supporting details, analyzing short passages and writing summaries
  • Master the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Apply effective composition techniques, including topic sentences, details and transitions
  • Approach various grade-level composition assignments
  • Learn from text–based assignments, including outlining main ideas and supporting details, analyzing short passages and writing summaries
  • Utilize the writing process effectively, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Apply composition techniques, including thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
  • Approach different types of composition and essay assignments, including descriptive, illustrative, compare and contrast, cause and effect and persuasive writing
  • Learn from text–based assignments, including analyzing long passages, outlining main ideas, writing summaries and understanding the requirements of a major research paper
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  • Utilize the writing process effectively, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Use a research-based step-by-step approach to writing, revising, and perfecting their written work
  • Apply composition techniques, including thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
  • Approach different types of composition and essay assignments, including narrative, informative, argument, and research writing
  • Learn writing strategies for assignments and tests in all subject areas
  • Utilize the writing process effectively, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Use a research-based step-by-step approach to writing, revising, and perfecting their written work
  • Apply composition techniques, including thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
  • Write an effective and polished college application essay
  • Approach different types of composition and essay assignments, including narrative, informative, argument, and research writing
  • Learn writing strategies for assignments and tests in all subject areas
  • Utilize the writing process effectively, including prewriting, drafting, revising, editing and publishing
  • Use a research-based step-by-step approach to writing, revising, and perfecting their written work
  • Apply composition techniques, including thesis statements, topic sentences, organized details and transitions
  • Write an effective and polished college application essay
  • Approach different types of composition and essay assignments, including narrative, informative, argument, and research writing
  • Learn writing strategies for assignments and tests in all subject areas

Science Programs By Topic

Our biology tutors can help your child excel in topics like:

  • Molecules
  • Photosynthesis
  • Ecology
  • And more

Our chemistry tutors prepare your child with foundational chemistry knowledge, including:

  • The Periodic Table
  • Atomic structure
  • States of matter
  • And more

Our physics tutors help your child learn basic physics principles, such as:

  • Mechanics
  • Fluids
  • Heat
  • Sound
  • And more

Based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence:

  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate observations about time patterns (day to night and night to day) and objects (sun, moon, stars) in the day and night sky.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to describe the physical attributes of earth materials (soil, rocks, water, and air).
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate weather data to identify weather patterns.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about stars having different sizes and brightness.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to develop an understanding of the patterns of the sun and the moon and the sun’s effect on Earth.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how weather, plants, animals, and humans cause changes to the environment.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the physical attributes of rocks and soils.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on how fossils provide evidence of past organisms.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to compare and contrast the physical attributes of stars and planets.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to model the effects of the position and motion of the Earth and the moon in relation to the sun as observed from the Earth.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to demonstrate the water cycle.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to predict weather events and infer weather patterns using weather charts/maps and collected weather data.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to identify surface features on the Earth caused by constructive and/or destructive processes.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about current scientific views of the universe and how those views evolved.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the effects of the relative positions of the sun, Earth, and moon.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to recognize the significant role of water in Earth processes.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about how the sun, land, and water affect climate and weather.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to show how Earth’s surface is formed.
  • Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about the uses and conservation of various natural resources and how they impact the Earth.

Social Studies Programs By Topic

Based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence:

  • Use a compass rose to identify cardinal directions.
  • Use intermediate directions.
  • Use a letter/number grid system to determine location.
  • Compare and contrast the categories of natural, cultural, and political features found on maps.
  • Use graphic scales to determine distances on a map.
  • Use map key/legend to acquire information from historical, physical, political, resource, product, and economic maps.
  • Use a map to explain impact of geography on historical and current events.
  • Draw conclusions and make generalizations based on information from maps.
  • Use latitude and longitude to determine location.
  • Compare maps of the same place at different points in time and from different perspectives to determine changes, identify trends, and generalize about human activities.
  • Compare maps with data sets (charts, tables, graphs) and /or readings to draw conclusions and make generalizations.
  • Use geographic technology and software to determine changes, identify trends, and generalize about human activities.

Based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence:

  • Compare similarities and differences.
  • Organize items chronologically.
  • Identify issues and/or problems and alternative solutions.
  • Distinguish between fact and opinion.
  • Identify main idea, detail, sequence of events, and cause and effect in a social studies context.
  • Identify and use primary and secondary sources.
  • Interpret timelines, charts, and tables.
  • Identify social studies reference resources to use for a specific purpose.
  • Construct charts and tables.
  • Analyze artifacts.
  • Draw conclusions and make generalizations.
  • Analyze graphs and diagrams.
  • Translate dates into centuries, eras, or ages.
  • Formulate appropriate research questions.
  • Determine adequacy and/or relevancy of information.
  • Check for consistency of information.
  • Interpret political cartoons.

Based on the Georgia Standards of Excellence:

  • Historical Understanding
  • Geographic Understandings
  • World Government/Civic Understandings
  • Current Issues
  • Comparative Religions
  • Humanities
  • Psychology
  • Sociology
  • Anthropology
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Constitutional Theory
  • Law
  • American Government
  • Economic System
  • World Geography
  • Asian Studies
  • Latin American Studies
  • US History
  • World History
  • History of Literature