Reading Students at this level use general skills and strategies of the reading process to understand and interpret a variety of literary texts
Writing Students at this level use the skills and strategies of the writing process (planning, organization, drafting, revising, and presentation) while incorporating stylistic and rhetorical aspects writing.
Speaking & Listening Students at this level use listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
Students will be able to: • Adjust reading strategies to fit the purpose of reading, including reading for information, for pleasure, and reading non-‐fiction texts. • Makes, confirms, and revises simple predictions about what will be found in text, including using prior knowledge, ideas presented, topic sentences, and key words to make predictions • Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process • Uses pictures to preview text and skims material • Reads for information • Makes and confirms predictions about what is found in the text • Uses prior knowledge to make predictions • Uses ideas presented in text such as, topic sentences, and key words to make predictions • Uses root words, syntactic structure, and semantic context to decode unknown words • Demonstrates comprehension through a variety of strategies, including summaries, questions, and supporting points with evidence from text • Read, understand, and interpret a variety of literary texts, including fairy tales, folktales, fiction, non-‐fiction, poems, chapter books, fantasies, fables, myths, historical fiction, and biographies • Know the defining characteristics of a variety of literary forms and genres, including the defining characteristics of fairy tales, myths, fiction, poetry, and fantasies. • Understand conflict and the concept of resolution • Understand changes that characters undergo, the importance of characters’ actions to the plot and theme, differences between main and minor characters • Understand the ways in which language is used in literary texts, including simile, beat or rhythm, metaphor, hyperbole, and alliteration • Make connections between characters and events in literary work and people and events in his/her own life • Uses reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts, including research, directions, letters, procedures, electronic encyclopedias • Uses topic sentences, summary sentences, graphic features, typeface, and chapter titles to determine main ideas • Uses the various parts of a book to locate information, including the table of contents to locate information • Knows the defining characteristics of a variety of informational texts, including directions • Paraphrases main idea in texts • Understands structural patterns or organization in informational texts including compare-‐ and-‐contrast and cause-‐and-‐effect
Students will be able to: • Use prewriting strategies to plan written work • Use strategies to draft and revise written work • Use strategies to edit and publish written work • Write with attention to word choice and sentence variation • Write paragraphs with topic sentences to develop separate ideas • Use reference materials to edit writing • Incorporate page elements (paragraphing, margins, indentations, titles) • Evaluate self and others’ writing • Use descriptive language, including similes and metaphors • Produce writing in a variety of genres, including poetry, research, narrative, expository, fiction, and non-‐fiction • Use grammatical and mechanical conventions of print, cursive, and word processing • Uses story maps to plan written work in Narrative prompts using graphic organizer • Takes notes to plan written work • Engage in research, organizing notes into outline format • Uses conventions of print, cursive and word processing in written compositions • Uses conventions of spelling in written compositions, including Mastery of Syllabication, alphabetization, • Uses dictionary, compounds, homophones, antonyms and synonyms, word associations and analogies, roots, and suffixes to spell words • Uses complete, correct sentences and a variety of sentence structures, such as simple and compound • Uses conventions of capitalization in written compositions at the beginning of sentences, for titles, proper nouns, direct quotations, verbs, adjectives, adverbs • Use proper use of negatives in written compositions • Uses conventions of punctuation in written compositions including, periods in abbreviations, commas in dates, addresses, and in a series, clauses, and apostrophes in contractions • Writes responses to literature, narrative accounts, and expository compositions.
Students will be able to: • Use strategies to enhance listening comprehension • Speak in complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification • Use grammatically correct language for the audience and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and supporting details • Listens in order to understand topic and purpose in spoken texts • Respond to comprehension questions explaining the topic and the purpose • Use level-‐appropriate vocabulary in speech • Use grammatically correct vocabulary for the audience and specific vocabulary to communicate ideas and supporting details • Makes oral presentations to the class with clear speech, appropriate volume and pitch for purpose and audience, eye contact, pauses, and inflection