An Introduction to the Grade Level Expectations

(GLEs)

by Vickie DickneitePPP Center

Show-Me Standards

Grade Level Expectations

Frameworks for Curriculum

Development

Show-Me Standards

Define what Missouri students should know and be able to do by the time they graduate from high school.

Serve as a blueprint for schools to write challenging curriculum to help all students achieve.

Frameworks for Curriculum

Development

Complement the Show-Me Standards.

Describe what kinds of content and skills schools should emphasize.

Provide sample learning activities.

Many of the Frameworks were developed using PPP’s Continuum of Development Chart.

For complete Missouri Frameworks for Curriculum Development, go tohttp://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/frameworks/preface.html

Sample of Frameworks

Please refer to

VI. Geometric and Spatial Sense

Handout (page 7)

Grade Level Expectations

Known as GLEs

Guide teachers’ lesson planning.

Better identify what is expected of students at each grade level.

GLEs in Communication Arts & Mathematics

Arranged byStrandBig IdeaConceptGrade Level

Communication Arts W2F

• Strand:

W=Writing

• Big Idea:

2=Compose well-developed text using standard English conventions

• Concept:

F=Sentence Construction

• Grade Level: (not chosen)

Why Involve Parents?

• Communication between home and school make our children better learners.

• Sharing curriculum & GLEs informs parents and adds value to your program.

• Lessons can be reinforced at home through every day activities.

Let’s try it!

Kindergarten Lesson 6-

Outer Space

Communication Arts R2BK

R=Reading

2=Develop & apply skills . . .

B=Literary Devices

K=Kindergarten

If you think the GLE was:

“Respond to rhythm, rhyme and alliteration in oral reading of poetry and prose.”

YOU’RE RIGHT!

Here’s to Good People

May we KNOW them.

May we BE them.

May we RAISE them!