Standards - English Language Arts

With prompting and support, write simple poems about a chosen subject.

Develop and edit first drafts using appropriate spacing between letters, words, and sentences and left-to-right and top-to-bottom progression.

Improve writing, as needed, by planning, revising, and editing with guidance from peer editors, responding to their questions and suggestions.

40 Describe ideas, thoughts, and feelings, using adjectives, drawings, or other visual displays to clarify.

Organize a list of words into alphabetical order according to the first and (when necessary) second letters of the words.

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

Recall information from experiences to contribute to shared research and writing projects.

Gather information from provided sources.

Use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing with guidance and support from adults, working both individually and in collaboration 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.

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.

Participate in conversations and discussions with groups and peers utilizing agreed-upon rules.

Present information orally using complete sentences, appropriate volume, and clear pronunciation.

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

Use complex sentence structures when speaking.

Ask and answer questions to seek help, clarify meaning, or get information.

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

Orally answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about a text or conversation, using complete sentences to provide key ideas and details.

Create recordings of stories or poems.

Use visual aids and technology in oral presentations to present key ideas and details about a text or conversation, and add drawings or other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

Demonstrate standard English usage when speaking.

Use collective nouns.

Form and use frequently-occurring irregular plural nouns.

Use reflexive pronouns.

Form and use past tense forms of frequently-occurring irregular verbs.

Use adjectives and adverbs.

Produce and expand complete simple and compound sentences when speaking.

Apply knowledge of voiced and unvoiced sounds and manner of articulation to distinguish between commonly-confused vowel sounds and commonly-confused cognate consonant sounds.

Demonstrate advanced phonemic awareness skills in spoken words.

Add, delete, and substitute phonemes at the beginning, end, or middle of a spoken word made up of up to six phonemes and produce the resulting word.

Delete the initial sound in an initial blend in a one-syllable base word.

With prompting and support, delete the medial and final sounds in blends in one syllable base words.