1. Barb Kapinus National Education Association bkapinus@nea.org

2. ensure all students are prepared to thrive in a democratic society and in a diverse and rapidly changing world as knowledgeable, creative, and engaged citizens and lifelong learners maximize the achievement, skills, opportunities, and potential of all students by promoting their strengths and addressing their needs

3. Improve Instructional Practice and Improve Instructional Decision Making

4. Grade 5, Reading Informational Text (9) Integrate information from several texts on the same subject in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. Writing (2) Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly. Writing(4) produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.