Standards - English Language Arts

With prompting and support, compare and contrast two texts.

Distinguish between literary texts and informational texts.

Compare and contrast the experiences of characters in a literary text.

Compare and contrast two informational texts on the same topic.

Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.

Print legibly, using proper pencil grip.

Print upper and lower case letters using proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement.

With prompting and support, print first and last names using proper letter formation, capitalizing only the first letter of each name.

With prompting and support, use lower case letters in majority of written work, using capitals only when appropriate.

Apply knowledge of grade-appropriate phoneme-grapheme correspondences and spelling rules (or generalizations) to encode words accurately.

Encode at the phoneme level, using the most common grapheme/spelling(s), for a spoken phoneme (sound).

With prompting and support, encode vowel-consonant (VC) and consonant-vowel-consonant (CVC) words, while using some knowledge of basic position-based rules for spelling English words.

With prompting and support, encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that follow regular phoneme-grapheme correspondences.

With prompting and support, encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that follow regular phoneme-grapheme correspondences and patterns in all but one position, pointing out the part of the word that does not follow the regular pattern.

When speaking and writing, follow the rules of standard English grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and grade-appropriate spelling.

With prompting and support, transcribe spoken words to demonstrate that print represents oral language.

With prompting and support, compose a simple sentence, including necessary components to create a complete sentence rather than a fragment.

With prompting and support, identify the role or purpose of a noun and a verb within a sentence and the type of information it conveys.

With prompting and support, write the correct number of words, with proper spacing, for a spoken phrase or sentence.

With prompting and support, begin each sentence with a capital letter.

With prompting and support, capitalize the pronoun I and names of individuals.

With prompting and support, recognize, name, and correctly use end punctuation.

Actively participate in shared and independent writing experiences, for varied purposes and audiences, across different genres.

Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create messages, lists, and labels for a drawing or illustration.

Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create narratives with the events in chronological order and share feelings about the story, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create opinion pieces about a topic or text, state the opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide a sense of closure, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

Actively participate in shared writing experiences to create explanatory texts or provide factual information about a topic, using drawing, dictating, and/or writing.

With prompting and support, compose writing for varied purposes and audiences, across different genres.

Improve pictorial and written presentations, as needed, by planning, revising, editing, and using suggestions from peers and adults.

Participate in shared research and writing projects to answer a question or describe a topic.

Include information recalled from personal experiences in research and writing projects.

Gather information from provided sources for research and writing projects.

With guidance and support, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, working both independently and collaboratively with peers.

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.