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**Grade 5 inclusion classroom**

Students' strengths include enthusiasm for topic, computer skills, sense of humor, persistance, academic skills.

Student barriers include reading, writing, attention, self-control, developmental delays

Mass curriculum frameworks include:

**ELA:** Reading Standards for Informational Text Key Ideas and Details 3.Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas //9.//Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Writing Standards Research to Build and Present Knowledge //7.// Conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.

**Science:** Life Science (Biology) Grades 3-5 Standard 11: Describe how energy derived from the sun is used by plants to produce sugars (photo- synthesis) and is trans- fer-red within a food chain from producers (plants) to consumers to decomposers.

**Social Studies**: Gr 5: History and Geography Learning Standard 4: Use maps and globes to identify absolute locations (latitude and longitude)

**Math:** Geography Grade 5: Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Represent real-world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.