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.

Contribute meaningful ideas to discussions with groups and peers utilizing agreed upon rules.

Elaborate on responses in conversations and discussions.

Present information orally using complex sentence structures, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

Use oral language for different purposes: to inform, to entertain, to persuade, to clarify, and to respond.

Apply oral literacy skills by participating in a variety of oral language activities.

Ask and answer questions using complete sentences and grade-level vocabulary.

Express ideas, opinions, and feelings orally in a logical sequence clearly, accurately, and precisely, using appropriate volume, clear pronunciation, and standard English grammar.

Use digital tools to enhance oral presentations, working collaboratively.

Demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

Delete phonemes in initial and final blends of a spoken word.

Substitute phonemes in initial and final blends in a spoken word.

Reverse phonemes in a spoken word.

In a series of words, apply phoneme chaining that changes only one sound at a time to show addition, deletion, substitution and resequencing of sounds from one word to the next.

Use knowledge of syllable and affix substitution and deletion to demonstrate morphological changes.

Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, and syllable division principles to decode and encode (spell) words accurately in isolation and in context.

Decode multisyllabic words with common syllable patterns, including open/closed, vowel-r, vowel-consonant-e, vowel teams, consonant-le, and odd or schwa syllables.

Apply knowledge of multisyllabic word construction and syllable division principles to decode grade-appropriate multisyllabic words.

Decode and encode words with three-consonant blends, digraphs, trigraphs, quadrigraph eigh, combinations, diphthongs, and silent letter combinations.

Decode and encode words with graphemes that represent multiple sound-symbol correspondences by applying knowledge of most common to least common frequency.

Decode and encode multisyllabic words using knowledge of stress or accent to pronounce a word correctly, including the schwa sound when appropriate.

Decode and encode words using knowledge of the morphological structure of a word, including prefixes, suffixes, and roots.

Decode and encode contractions with am, is, has, not, have, would, and will.

Decode and encode frequently confused homophones accurately using knowledge of English and meaning to facilitate learning.

Decode and encode words with hard and soft c and g.

Decode and encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that follow regular and irregular phoneme-grapheme correspondences, using knowledge of the specific sound-symbol correspondences that are irregular.

Apply previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences to multisyllabic words with accuracy and automaticity, in and out of context.

Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension.

Read and reread grade-appropriate poetry, practicing phrasing, rhythm, rhyme, and meaningful expression.

Read high-frequency words commonly found in grade-appropriate text accurately and automatically.

Utilize new academic, content-specific, grade-level vocabulary to make connections to previously learned words and relate new words to background knowledge.