Standards - English Language Arts

Use grade-level academic and domain-specific vocabulary in writing.

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

Identify the main story elements in a literary text.

Explain the plot of a narrative, using textual evidence to list the major events in sequence.

Describe the characters’ traits, feelings, and behaviors in a story.

Describe the setting of a narrative, using textual evidence.

Identify the central message or moral of a story.

Identify the theme in myths, fables, and folktales.

Identify the main idea and supporting details of literary and informational texts.

Explain how the supporting details contribute to the main idea.

Recount or summarize key ideas from the text.

Identify and use various text features to locate ideas, facts, or supporting details in both written and digital formats.

Identify and locate captions, bold print, subheadings, indexes, graphs, maps, glossaries, and illustrations.

Explain how specific features can clarify a text or enhance comprehension.

Compare and contrast important details presented by two texts on the same topic or theme.

Compare and contrast different versions of the same story by different authors, from different cultures, or from different points of view.

Compare and contrast story elements of literary texts.

Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts, including cause and effect, problem and solution, and sequence of events.

Establish a purpose before reading literary and informational texts to enhance comprehension.

With prompting and support, identify and interpret various cohesive devices that help link words and sentences to one another within the text as a scaffold to help build comprehension at the sentence and paragraph level.

Read and comprehend literary and informational texts.

State and confirm predictions about a text.

Use background knowledge to make connections to new text.

Draw conclusions based on the text.

Use information from a text to determine the author’s purpose in different forms of informational and literary texts.

Identify rhyme schemes in poems or songs.

Read and identify types of poems, including free verse, rhymed verse, haiku, and limerick.

Differentiate between fact and opinion in a text.

Use prior knowledge and information gathered from research to evaluate opinions in texts.

Use textual evidence and gathered research from reliable sources to prove facts.

Demonstrate listening skills and build background knowledge by asking and answering questions about texts read aloud.

Manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple and compound sentences, including coordinating conjunctions for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so, to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.

Write legibly.

Write words and sentences fluently using correctly-formed manuscript letters with appropriate size and spacing.

Demonstrate cursive writing strokes, including undercurve, overcurve, downcurve, and slant.