A potential gap would be not grasping the foundational skills and struggling throughout first and second. Beam western governors university. Vertical alignment curriculum description the. another gap may be between 1st and 2nd grade. Students go from adding numbers within 20 based on word problems in 1st grade to needing to add numbers within 100 based on. d183 task 3. pdf. during 3 rdgrade students are learning to categorize shapes and recognize similarities and differences between shapes and their attributes. In 3 rdgrade students are still.
