California State Content Standards
California! Coming to a New Land helps students meet the following learning standards:
HISTORY/SOCIAL SCIENCE
4.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the physical and human geographic features that define places and regions in California.
3.Identify the state capital and describe the various regions of California, including how their characteristics and physical environments (e.g., water, landforms, vegetation, climate) affect human activity.
4. Identify the locations of the Pacific Ocean, rivers, valleys, and mountain passes and explain their effects on the growth of towns.
5. Use maps, charts, and pictures to describe how communities in. California vary in land use, vegetation, wildlife, climate, population density, architecture, services, and transportation.
LANGUAGE ARTS
1.0. LISTENING AND SPEAKING STRATEGIES
Comprehension:
1.1. ask thoughtful questions and respond to relevant questions with appropriate elaboration in oral settings1.2. summarize major ideas and supporting evidence presented in spoken messages and formal presentations
Organization and Delivery of Oral Communication:
1.5. present effective introductions and conclusions that guide and inform the listener's understanding of key ideas and evidence
1.6. use traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question)
1.7. emphasize points in ways that assist the listener/viewer in following key ideas and concepts
1.8. use details, examples, anecdotes, or experiences to explain or clarify information
1.9. use volume, pitch, phrasing, pace, modulation, and gestures appropriately to enhance meaning
2.0. SPEAKING APPLICATIONS (GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS)
2.2 Make informational presentations:
a. Frame a key question.
b. Include facts and details that help listeners to focus.
c. Incorporate more than one source of information (e.g., speakers, books, newspapers, television or radio reports).
2.0. READING COMPREHENSION
Structural Features of Informational Materials:
2.1. identify structural patterns found in informational text (e.g., compare and contrast, cause and effect, sequential-chronological
order, proposition and support) to strengthen comprehension
Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text:
2.2. use appropriate strategies when reading for different purposes (e.g., full comprehension, locating information, and personal enjoyment )
1.0. WRITING STRATEGIES
Organization and Focus:
1.1 Select a focus, an organizational structure, and a point of view based upon purpose, audience, length, and format requirements.
1.2 Create multiple-paragraph compositions:
a. Provide an introductory paragraph.
b. Establish and support a central idea with a topic sentence at or near the beginning of the first paragraph.
c. Include supporting paragraphs with simple facts, details, and explanations.
d. Conclude with a paragraph that summarizes the points.
e. Use correct indention.
1.3 Use traditional structures for conveying information (e.g., chronological order, cause and effect, similarity and difference, and posing and answering a question).
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
1.7. Use various reference materials as an aid to writing (e.g., dictionary, thesaurus, card catalog, encyclopedia, on-line information)
2.0. WRITING APPLICATIONS (GENRES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS): Students write compositions that
describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences.2.1 Write narratives:
a. Relate ideas, observations, or recollections of an event or experience.
b. Provide a context to enable the reader to imagine the world of the event or experience.
c. Use concrete sensory details.
d. Provide insight into why the selected event or experience is memorable.
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