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27 topics · 285 matches. A skill can appear under more than one topic, because most of them do.

adding and subtracting

17

Putting together and taking away, from small facts you know by heart up to numbers within a thousand.

also called sums, take away

characters and plot

15

Who is in a story, what happens to them, where it happens, and what the whole thing turns out to be about.

also called stories

comprehension

16

Following what a text is doing — predicting, inferring, retelling it back, and going back when it stops making sense.

also called understanding what they read

counting

5

Counting in twos, fives and tens, and using it to total up a pile of coins or a grid of square tiles.

fractions

14

Cutting a whole into fair shares. It starts as shapes and only later becomes numbers.

grammar and punctuation

3

The parts a sentence is built from and the marks that tell a reader how to take it — filed here inside editing a draft.

also called capital letters, full stops

graphs and data

12

Sorting what you collected into categories, drawing it, and getting it to answer a question.

also called charts, bar graphs

handwriting

3

Forming letters legibly — printing at first, then all of it in cursive from the second year on.

informational text

12

Reading to find something out, using the features and graphics put there to help — and writing the same kind of thing yourself.

also called nonfiction

main idea

4

What a piece is mostly about, and the parts of the text that show it — in what you read and in what you write.

measurement

12

How long, how far, and how much space a shape covers — plus the idea that the unit you pick changes the number.

also called rulers, how long

money

14

Naming coins and bills, counting a pile of them and writing what it comes to — and what you do with money once you have it.

also called coins, allowance

multiplication and division

11

Equal groups: first a thing you act out with objects, later facts to ten times ten and two-digit problems worked on paper.

also called times tables

personal finance

9

Where money comes from, the difference between spending and saving, and what borrowing costs.

persuasive writing

4

Spotting what a writer is trying to talk you into — and later, saying what you think and backing it.

phonics and sounds

11

Hearing the sounds inside a word and matching them to letters, in both directions.

also called sounding out

place value

10

Seeing a number as hundreds, tens and ones — which is what makes the bigger ones manageable.

poetry

7

How a poem is put together — rhyme, stanzas, the sound it makes read aloud — and writing one yourself.

problem solving

19

Word problems, and the habit underneath them: pick a tool, try it, and check whether the answer is sensible.

reading fluency

3

Reading smoothly enough that the sense arrives with the words rather than after them.

research

23

Asking a question that sends you looking it up, finding the sources, and later saying where the answer came from.

shapes and geometry

18

Naming shapes and solids by what they are made of, and putting them together and taking them apart.

speaking and listening

8

Talking so you are understood, and listening closely enough to answer what was actually said.

spelling

7

Writing a word the way everyone else writes it — partly by pattern, partly by the words you come to know on sight.

telling time

2

Reading a clock, analog or digital — to the hour and half hour first, then to the minute.

also called clocks

vocabulary

11

Working out what a new word means — from the sentence around it, or from its endings and prefixes — and then actually using it.

also called word meanings

writing a draft

15

Planning it, getting it down, changing it, and putting it in front of somebody — all of it counts as writing.

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