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 context clues to determine meanings of unfamiliar spoken or written words.

Use digital and electronic tools appropriately, safely, and ethically when researching and writing, both individually and collaboratively.

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

Identify and explain literary devices in prose and poetry.

Assess the formality of occasions in order to speak or write using appropriate language and tone.

Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences, syllable types, and morphological structure to read unfamiliar multisyllabic words accurately, both in context and in isolation.

Determine and use the correct syllable type(s) to decode unfamiliar multisyllabic words, including open, closed, vowel-consonant-e, r-controlled, vowel team (including diphthongs), consonant-le, and leftovers“ including odd and schwa syllables.“

Apply knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to decode unfamiliar multisyllabic words.

Apply knowledge of roots, prefixes, and suffixes to encode unfamiliar multisyllabic words.

Demonstrate fluency when reading grade-level text and when responding through writing or speaking.

Read grade-level text orally with appropriate pauses, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, and integration to support comprehension.

Read words with irregular and regular spelling patterns accurately and automatically.

Write routinely and independently in response to text.

Accurately interpret general academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Interpret words and phrases, including figurative language, as they are used in a text.

Explain how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.

Explain how figurative language contributes to the meaning of text, including simile, metaphor, alliteration, personification, hyperbole, and idioms.

Use the relationships between synonyms, antonyms, and homographs to increase understanding of word meanings.

Use commonly misused words correctly in writing.

Consult reference materials to find the pronunciation of unknown words and phrases.

Use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in presentations and discussions.

Demonstrate comprehension of literary and informational text by utilizing its content when discussing or writing in response to the text.

Analyze in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text.

Identify and explain attitudes and influences of multiple characters within a text.

Explain how the main character changes throughout the story, using explicit evidence from the text.

Make an inference about a character’s behavior, the setting, and/or specific events, using explicit details from the story.

Describe how authors use literary devices and text features to convey meaning in prose, poetry, and drama.

Identify clues in the text to recognize implicit meanings.

Apply prior knowledge to textual clues to draw conclusions about the author’s meaning.

Make an inference about the meaning of a text and support it with textual evidence.

Identify the narrator’s point of view in a literary text and explain how it differs from a character’s perspective.

Explain the difference between first person and third person narration, including omniscient and third person limited.

Identify the point of view in a narrative and describe how the narrative would be different if told from the perspective of a different character or narrator.

Compare and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event or topic, describing the differences in focus and the information provided.