Sentences with phrase «grade cluster»

Of the 42 state documents in our sample, 2 provided only K - 12 standards, 26 provided standards by grade - level clusters, 3 provided grade clusters plus additional benchmarks or objectives for the primary grades, and 11 provided standards and benchmarks / objectives for each grade level from K - 12.

Not surprisingly, it appears that documents which break out benchmarks at grades K - 3 are more likely to address the foundational knowledge and skills related to reading acquisition than are those that provide only grade cluster information.

We began this area of our analysis with a comparison between the 26 reading / language documents that include benchmarks only at grade cluster levels (e.g., K - 4) and the 14 documents that provide information by grade level for grades K - 3.

The other 28 states either provided a single set of standards for K - 12 or separate sets of standards for different grade clusters (e.g., K - 3, 4 - 6, etc.).

The instructional units are grouped by elementary, middle school, and high school level, and each grade cluster is categorized into topics such as: arithmetic, data analysis, fractions, geometry, and probability / patterns for elementary; pre-algebra, graphing / statistics, geometry, number theory, and interdisciplinary for middle school; and algebra, geometry, trigonometry, pre-calculus, Internet, science, and modeling for high school.

For example, 71 - 86 % of the K - 3 documents address Phonemic Awareness and Concepts About Print in kindergarten, whereas only 35 - 38 % of the grade cluster documents include these areas.

For this analysis, we examined the grade cluster information for the lowest grade cluster provided (e.g., K - 2, 1 - 3, K - 4).