Lifelong Practices of Readers:

• Think, write, speak, and listen to understand
• Read often and widely from a range of global and diverse texts
• Read for multiple purposes, including for learning and for pleasure
• Self-select texts based on interest
• Persevere through challenging, complex texts
• Enrich personal language, background knowledge, and vocabulary through reading and communicating with others
• Monitor comprehension and apply reading strategies flexibly
• Make connections (to self, other texts, ideas, cultures, eras, etc.)  

Lifelong Practices of Writers:

• Think, read, speak, and listen to support writing
• Write often and widely in a variety of formats, using print and digital resources and tools
• Write for multiple purposes, including for learning and for pleasure
• Persevere through challenging writing tasks
• Enrich personal language, background knowledge, and vocabulary through writing and communicating with others
• Experiment and play with language
• Analyze mentor texts to enhance writing
• Strengthen writing by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach 

Mathematical Practices:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

 Science and Engineering Practices:

• Asking questions and defining problems.
• Developing and using models.
• Planning and carrying out investigations. 
• Analyzing and interpreting data. 
• Using mathematics and computational thinking. 
• Constructing explanations and designing solutions. 
• Engaging in argument from evidence. 
• Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information.  

Social Studies Practices:

• Gathering, Interpreting and Using Evidence.
• Chronological Reasoning and Causation.
• Comparison and Contextualization.
• Geographic Reasoning.
• Economics and Economic Systems.
• Civic Participation. 

Arts Practices:

• Create.
• Perform, Present, Produce.
• Respond.
• Connect. 

• Demonstrates perseverance and resilience
• Advocates for self, others, and community
• Respects and embraces individual and cultural differences
• Adapts to multiple environments
• Acquires skills necessary to live a healthy life
• Demonstrates a commitment to safety
• Uses motivational strategies to encourage self and others’ participation in a physical activity
• Exhibits civility when confronted with adversity
• Connects the physical well-being to social emotional wellness