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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.

Phonological Awareness/Phonemic Awareness

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.

Apply phoneme chaining that changes only one sound at a time to show addition, deletion, substitution, and resequencing of sounds from one word to the next.

With prompting and support, reverse sounds within a word by saying the last sound first and the first sound last.

Phonics

Apply knowledge of phoneme-grapheme correspondences, multisyllabic word construction, and syllable division principles to decode and encode (spell) words accurately in isolation and in context.

Decode multisyllabic words with common syllable patterns, including open/closed, vowel-r, vowel-consonant-e, vowel teams, consonant-le, and schwa syllables.

Apply knowledge of multisyllabic word construction and syllable division principles to decode grade-appropriate multisyllabic words.

Decode and encode words with three-consonant blends and blends containing digraphs.

Decode and encode words with consonant digraphs, trigraphs, and combinations.

Decode and encode words with variable vowel teams and vowel diphthongs.

Decode and encode words with vowel-r combinations.

Decode and encode words that follow the -ild, -ost, -old, -olt, and -ind patterns.

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

Decode and encode words with or after w read /er/.

Decode and encode words with the hard and soft sounds of c and g, in context and in isolation.

Decode and encode 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 words with silent letter combinations.

Decode and encode words with prefixes and suffixes, including words with dropped e and y-to-i changes for suffix addition.

Decode and encode grade-appropriate high frequency words that are spelled using predictable, decodable phoneme-grapheme correspondences, including those that contain only one irregularity.

Decode and encode contractions with am, is, has, not, have, would, and will.