English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 1
Strand - Speaking and Listening
Cluster - Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
[SL.1.5] - Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
- Description
An author’s use of words to illustrate a scene, event, phenomenon, object, or character; descriptions in literary texts usually contain carefully chosen imagery that appeals to the audience’s sense of sight, sound, smell, touch, or taste.
[1.PS.4.1] -
Demonstrate that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
Clarification Statements: Examples of vibrating materials that make sound could include tuning forks, a stretched string or rubber band, and a drum head; Examples of how sound can make materials vibrate could include holding a piece of paper near a speaker making sound and holding an object near a vibrating tuning fork.
[1.PS.4.3] -
Conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing materials that allow light to pass through them, allow only some light through them, block all the light, or redirect light when put in the path of a beam of light. Clarification Statements: Effects can include some or all light passing through, creation of a shadow, and redirecting light; Quantitative measures are not expected.
[1.PS.4.4] -
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to send a signal over a distance.*
Clarification Statements: Examples of devices could include a light source to send signals, paper cup and string “telephones,” and a pattern of drum beats; Technological details for how communication devices work are not expected.