The Blueprint
What Your Child Is Learning
Standards are the blueprint for the school year. Choose your child's grade band below to see the big-picture skills they will master in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies.
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CPALMS is Florida's official source for grade-level standards.
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Want to look up the official standards by exact grade and subject? CPALMS lets you search Florida's B.E.S.T. and state academic standards directly.
Open CPALMSYear-at-a-Glance Overviews
Select a grade band to see what your child will learn this year.
Reading
- Letter names, letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and phonics
- Blend and segment sounds to read and spell words
- Develop sight-word recognition and reading fluency
- Read grade-level literary and informational texts
- Identify characters, setting, events, and story structure
- Determine the main idea/topic and important details
- Retell and summarize what was read
- Ask and answer questions using evidence from a text
- Compare information, characters, or events across texts
- Build academic vocabulary and use context to determine word meanings
- Begin recognizing figurative language, text features, and author's purpose
Writing
- Develop correct handwriting, capitalization, punctuation, and sentence structure
- Write complete sentences and expand ideas with details
- Write narratives about experiences and events
- Write informative/explanatory pieces
- State and support an opinion
- Organize writing with a beginning, middle, and ending
- Use details from reading and classroom learning in writing
- Plan, revise, and improve writing with teacher support
- Strengthen spelling, grammar, and vocabulary
Math
- Count, read, write, compare, and represent numbers
- Develop strong number sense and place-value understanding
- Build addition and subtraction fluency
- Solve one- and two-step real-world problems at the appropriate grade level
- Understand the relationship between addition and subtraction
- Skip count and recognize number patterns
- Work with equal groups as an introduction to multiplication
- Identify, describe, compose, and compare 2-D and 3-D shapes
- Measure and compare length, time, money, and other quantities
- Collect, represent, and interpret simple data
- Explain mathematical thinking and choose appropriate strategies
Science
- Learn and use the basic scientific process through observation and investigation
- Ask questions, make predictions, conduct simple investigations, and record results
- Explore properties and changes of matter
- Investigate motion, force, light, heat, and energy at an introductory level
- Observe weather patterns and changes in the sky
- Learn about Earth, the Sun, Moon, stars, land, and water
- Study plants, animals, habitats, and life cycles
- Identify what living things need to survive
- Explore how living things interact with their environments
- Use observations and evidence to explain scientific ideas
History & Social Studies
- Understand past, present, and future
- Learn about families, communities, and important historical events
- Recognize national and state symbols
- Learn about important American historical figures and holidays
- Understand basic rules, laws, citizenship, and responsibility
- Identify community leaders and their roles
- Learn basic geography and map skills
- Identify continents, oceans, landforms, and bodies of water
- Understand basic needs, wants, goods, services, and money
- Recognize similarities and differences among cultures and communities
Tip: Pick two or three standards your child is working on and turn them into dinner-table questions. Talking about the skill is one of the fastest ways to make it stick.