Standards - English Language Arts

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.

Engage in collaborative discussions about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and large groups, utilizing agreed-upon rules.

Actively participate in shared reading experiences and collaborative discussions to build background knowledge and learn how oral reading should sound.

Ask and answer questions to seek help, get information, or clarify information to confirm understanding in response to information presented in audible, text, or digital format.

Present information orally using complete sentences and appropriate volume.

Orally describe people, places, things, and events, expressing ideas with relevant details.

Locate a book’s title, table of contents, glossary, and the names of author(s) and illustrator(s).

Explain the roles of author(s) and illustrator(s).

Demonstrate basic to advanced phonological and phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

Count, blend, segment, and delete syllables in spoken words, including polysyllabic words.

Recognize and produce groups of rhyming words and distinguish them from non-rhyming groups of spoken words.

Produce alliterative words.

Blend and segment phonemes in single-syllable spoken words made up of three to five phonemes, including words with consonant blends.

Add, delete, and substitute phonemes at the beginning or end of spoken words made up of three to five phonemes, and produce the resulting word.

Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken, single-syllable words.

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

Identify the sound substitution in words with five to six phonemes.

Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences and word analysis skills to decode and encode words accurately both in isolation and within decodable, grade-appropriate texts.

Produce the most frequent sound(s) for each letter of the alphabet, including x, q, and the long and short sounds of the vowels.

Decode and encode regularly-spelled, one-syllable words with closed syllables, open syllables, and vowel-consonant-e syllables, including words with blends in initial and final position.

Decode words with digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations, including digraphs ck, sh, th, ch, wh, ph, ng, trigraphs tch and dge, and combination qu.

Decode words with a after w read /ä/ and a before l read /â/.

With prompting and support, decode words with the hard and soft sounds of c and g, in context and in isolation.

Decode words with vowel y in the final position of one and two syllable words, distinguishing the difference between the long /Ä«/ sound in one-syllable words and the long /Ä“/ sound in two-syllable words, and words with vowel y in medial position, producing the short /Ä­/ sound for these words.

Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words with vowel-r syllables, including ar, er, ir, or, and ur.

With prompting and support, decode words with common vowel team syllables, including ai, ay, ee, ea, igh, ie, oa, ou, ow, au, aw, oe, oo, ew, oi, oy, and ue.

With prompting and support, decode words that follow the -ild, -ost, -old, -olt, and -ind patterns.

With prompting and support, decode two-syllable words using knowledge of closed syllables, open syllables, vowel-consonant-e syllables, vowel-r syllables, common vowel team syllables, and consonant-le syllables, including compound words that fit multiple syllable types.

With prompting and support, decode words with silent letter combinations.

With prompting and support, decode words with common prefixes including un-, dis-, in-, re-, pre-, mis-, non-, and ex-.

With prompting and support, decode words with common suffixes, including words with dropped e and y-to-i changes for suffix addition.

Decode contractions with am, is, has, and not.

Decode grade-appropriate high frequency words that are spelled using predictable, decodable phoneme-grapheme correspondences.