Standards - English Language Arts

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

Read grade-appropriate texts with accuracy and fluency.

Read and reread grade-appropriate decodable text orally with accuracy and expression at an appropriate rate to support comprehension.

Recognize and self-correct decoding and other errors in word recognition and reread for clarification.

Participate in poetry reading, noticing phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme.

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

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

Make connections to a word’s structure using knowledge of phonology, morphology, and orthography of the word to aid learning.

Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words and phrases in discussions and/or text.

Identify possessives and plurals and use them as clues to the meaning of text.

Identify meaningful parts of words (morphemes) and use them as clues to the meaning of unknown words, including frequently occurring affixes and inflections -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est.

Describe word relationships and nuances in word meanings, including relating them to their opposites and distinguishing shades of meaning in similar or related words.

Use information found within the text to determine the meaning of an unfamiliar or multiple-meaning word or phrase.

Sort and categorize groups of words or pictures based on meaning, and label each category.

Identify and explain adjectives as descriptive words and phrases in all forms of texts, including poems.

Use grade-appropriate academic vocabulary in speaking and writing.

Use content knowledge built during read-alouds of informational and literary texts by participating in content-specific discussions with peers and/or through drawing and writing.

Manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple sentences, including declarative and interrogative, to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

Identify common types of texts and their features, including literary, informational, fairy tale, and poetry.

Use text features to locate key facts or information in printed or digital text.

Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.

Ask and answer questions about key details in literary and informational texts.

Identify and describe the main story elements in a literary text.

Describe the characters and settings, using illustrations and textual evidence from a story.

Retell the plot or sequence of major events in chronological order.

Identify who is telling the story, using evidence from the text.

Use the term narrator to refer to the speaker who is telling the story.

Describe connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information, including cause and effect, sequence, and problem and solution, in a literary text.

With prompting and support, use textual evidence to explain the central message or moral of a literary text.

Make predictions using information found within a literary text.

Self-monitor comprehension of text by pausing to summarize or rereading for clarification when comprehension is lacking.

Compare and contrast texts.

Compare and contrast characters, settings, and major events in literary texts.

Describe the connections between individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in an informational text.

Point out similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic.