Standards - English Language Arts

Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation.

Use knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately.

Expand background knowledge and build vocabulary through discussion, reading, and writing.

Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically for research and writing, both individually and collaboratively.

Utilize the writing process to plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish writings in various genres.

Actively listen and speak using agreed-upon rules for discussion, with guidance and support.

Use speech that is understandable with only grade-appropriate errors.

Use word endings to indicate plurals, possessives, and verb tenses in speech.

Use age-appropriate irregular plurals in conversation.

Listen to others and take turns speaking, carrying on a conversation through multiple exchanges.

Actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge needed to be successful as they learn to read and, later, read to learn.

Actively participate in teacher-led choral and shared reading experiences.

With guidance and support, ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information presented orally, through text, or other media.

With guidance and support, present information orally, using complete sentences in correct word order.

Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details in a story with three to five events.

Uses spatial and temporal concepts correctly.

Restate and follow one- and two-step directions.

Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of printed materials.

Recognize and demonstrate that print conveys meaning.

With prompting and support, explain the roles of the author and illustrator of a text.

Track print, moving left to right and top to bottom on the printed page, returning to the beginning of the next line.

Identify the beginning and end of a sentence by locating the capital letter and end punctuation.

Point to words using one-to-one correspondence, noting that words are separated by spaces.

Distinguish letters from words within sentences.

Compare and contrast letters based upon similarities and differences, including name, shape, sound, and approach strokes for writing.

Demonstrate early phonological awareness to basic phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

Count the number of words in a spoken sentence.

Recognize alliterative spoken words.

Recognize and produce pairs of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming pairs using pictures and/or spoken words.

Count, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words, including compound words.

Blend and segment onsets and rimes of single-syllable spoken words.

Identify the initial, final, and medial sounds of spoken words.

Blend and segment phonemes in single-syllable spoken words made up of three to four phonemes.

Distinguish between commonly confused cognate consonant sounds, using knowledge of voiced and unvoiced sounds and manner of articulation.