K-5 Curriculum & Instruction

Carroll ISD provides a challenging curriculum that connects and integrates all disciplines. As a learning community, students work in an environment that fosters risk-taking and critical thinking. By acknowledging that each student has a unique style of learning, the teacher varies methods of presenting, reinforcing, and extending the curriculum to meet the needs of the individual learner.

Select from the following subjects:

• Mathematics
• Language Arts
• Social Studies
• Science

Mathematics

Throughout mathematics, K-5 students in Carroll ISD build a foundation of basic understandings of number, operation, and quantitative reasoning; patterns, relationships, and algebraic thinking; geometry and spatial reasoning; measurement; and probability and statistics. Students use algorithms for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as generalizations connected to concrete experiences. Students use appropriate language and organizational structures to represent and communicate relationships, make predictions, and solve problems. Students use these processes together with technology and other mathematical tools to develop conceptual understanding and solve problems as they do mathematics.

Our mathematics curriculum focuses on the following strands :

• Mathematical Processes/Problem Solving
• Number, Operations, and Quantitative Reasoning
• Patterns, Relationships, and Algebraic Thinking
• Measurement
• Geometry and Spatial Reasoning
• Probability and Statistics

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Language Arts

Carroll ISD students spend a significant amount of time in reading and writing activities. Students become critical listeners and develop the ability to analyze a speaker's intent. Students read with a growing interest in a wide variety of topics and adjust their reading approach to various forms of texts. Students develop the ability to select and use different forms of writing for specific purposes. Their writing takes on style and voice. They edit their work based on knowledge of grammar and usage, spelling, punctuation, and other conventions of written language. Students produce final and polished copies of written compositions.

Our language arts curriculum focuses on the following strands:

• Listening/Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

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Social Studies

Throughout social studies in Kindergarten through grade 12, Carroll ISD students build a foundation in history; geography; economics; government; citizenship; culture; science, technology, and society; and social studies skills. The content, as appropriate for the grade level or course, enables students to understand the importance of patriotism, function in a free enterprise society, and appreciate the basic democratic values of our state and nation.

Our social studies curriculum focuses on the following strands:

• History
• Geography
• Economics
• Government
• Citizenship
• Culture
• Science, Technology, Society

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Science

The study of science in Carroll ISD includes planning and implementing field and laboratory investigations using scientific methods, analyzing information, making informed decisions, and using tools to collect and record information. Students learn that science is a way of learning about the natural world and that there is a vast body of changing and increasing knowledge described by physical, mathematical, and conceptual models. We know that science may not have answers to all questions.

Our science curriculum focuses on the following strands:

• Scientific Processes
• Science Concepts

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