Standards of Iowa Core Jordyn Tiedemann

English Language Arts Standards >> Reading: Literacy >> Grade 3

Key Ideas and Details
RL.3.1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RL.3.2. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. RL.3.3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. IA.1. Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension.

English Language Arts Standards >> Reading: Literacy >> Grade 4

Key Ideas and Details
RL.4.1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. RL.4.2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. RL.4.3. Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a characters thoughts, words, or actions). IA.1. Employ the full range of research-based comprehension strategies, including making connections, determining importance, questioning, visualizing, making inferences, summarizing, and monitoring for comprehension.

Mathematical Standards >> Operations and Algebraic Thinking >> Grade 3

Key Ideas and Details
Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division. Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division. Multiply and divide within 100. Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Mathematical Standards >> Operations and Algebraic Thinking >> Grade 4

Key Ideas and Details
Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems. Gain familiarity with factors and multiples. Generate and analyze patterns.

Reflection:
I did the following standards over 3rd and 4th grade Mathematics and Literacy, the key ideas and details covered during those two years as well. An example of the difference between 3rd grade literacy and 4th grade is RL.3.3, in 3rd grade they need to know how to describe the character by their; traits and feelings, then be able to describe their actions in events that occur throughout the reading. In 4th grade they get more into depth in RL. 3.3, they need to be able to describe the character, setting, and get into specific detail about events in the story/book. Another example in the 3rd and 4th mathematical standards is the similarity between those two grades, in both they have to be able to solve problems involving the four operationsthe only difference is that in 3rd, they need to be able to identify and explain the patterns in arithmetic. In 4th grade they need to be able to use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems. I think that due to these examples, it shows that the Iowa Core builds as they get old in school; it gets more

challenging for the grade levels, which in my opinion, is the way it should be. It shouldnt get easier for them as they get older, the more challenge and things you add on, will help them learn more.