3. 21st Century Skills Critical Thinking Creativity Collaboration
Communication

4. Responsibilities Students must... • Read more non- fiction
Start with subjects they LIKE

5. Parents can... Read non-fiction texts aloud or with your child
Find a topic your child is passionate about.
Spend time together at the library looking for books that interest your child. If they enjoy the beach read books about the beach!

6. Learn about the world by reading
Students must...
Gain knowledge in Science and Social Studies through reading

7. Science & Social Studies
Training Students to make observations
Students learn to ask their own questions.
Students make predictions.
Students learn to compare the answers they discover to their original predictions.
Students read the text to find their own answers.

9. Discuss reading using evidence
Students Must...
Find evidence to support their arguments

10. Parents can….. Find books that explain
Demand evidence in every day discussions/disagreements
Ask their child to explain what they are reading.
Parents can explain their thinking aloud, modeling this ability for their child.
Parents can ask their child, “Where in the book did it say….”

11. Writing from Sources Students Must...
• Make arguments in writing using evidence

12. Parents can... • Encourage writing at home
Write “books” together and use evidence/ details

13. Academic Vocabulary Students Must...
• Learn the words that they can use in college and career

14. Parents Can...
Read often and constantly with babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and children
Read multiple books about the same topic
Let your kids see you reading
Talk to your children; Read to your children; Listen to your children; Sing with your children; Make up silly rhymes and word games with your children

15. 6 Shifts in Mathematics Focus: learn more about fewer, key topics
Build skills within and across grades
Develop speed and accuracy Really know it, Really do it Use it in the real world
Think fast AND solve problems

16. The National Mathematics Advisory Panel’s Final Report
Success in College depends on….
Success in Algebra…which depends on….
Success with Fractions…which depends on…
Success with multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting with both positive and negative numbers.
Which means children MUST learn their MATH FACTS!

17. Students Must... • UNDERSTAND why the math works. MAKE the math work.
TALK about why the math works
PROVE that they know why and how the math works

18. Parents Can...
Notice whether your child REALLY knows why the answer is what it is
Provide TIME for your child to work hard with math at home
Ask your child, “How do you know you have the correct answer? Show me how you solved the problem.”

19. Mathematics Shift 5: Real World Students Must...
Apply math in real situations
Know which math to use for which situation

20. Parents Can... Ask your child to DO the math that
comes up in your daily life.

21. WHAT’S IT ALL MEAN??? Be able to use core math facts FAST AND
Be able to apply math in the real world

22. Loma Verde has purchased reflex math to help all children master the math facts! Students can use the computers in the lab to practice!