Reading
Writing
Students at this level use general skills and Students at this level use the skills and strategies of the writing process while strategies of the reading process to incorporating aspects and conventions of writing. understand and interpret a variety of literary texts Students will be able to: • Uses meaning clues, headings, and story structure to aid comprehension and make predictions about content, action, events • Uses basic elements of structural analysis to decode unknown words including, contractions, syllables, basic prefixes, and suffixes • Uses word banks and dictionaries to determine word meaning • Uses self-‐correction strategies, including reading for context clues • Knows setting, main characters, main events, sequence, problems, and resolution in stories • Knows the theme of a story • Relates story conflicts to personal experiences • Understands supporting details of expository information • Summarizes information found in texts and retell information to make connections
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Use prewriting strategies to plan written work, including graphic organizers and webs Organize information according to the purpose of the writing Research and takes notes on a given topic Use strategies to draft and revise written work Adjust focus of writing for different audiences Use strategies to edit and publish written work Edit written work for grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and developmentally appropriate spelling Incorporate illustrations where relevant. Use technology to compose and publish work Evaluate own writing Describe the best features of a piece of writing Ask for feedback Orally respond to classmates’ writing Use descriptive language that clarifies and enhances ideas, including adjectives, adverbs, sensory words Uses a variety of sentence structures in writing Identify declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, and imperative sentence structures Use paragraph form in writing Use techniques to convey a personal style and voice Use first person point of view Use grammatical and mechanical conventions in written compositions Demonstrate how individual letters are formed in cursive Use conventions of spelling in written compositions Alphabetize
Speaking & Listening
Students at this level use listening and speaking strategies for different purposes.
Students will be able to: • Makes contributions in class and group discussions and connects ideas with those of others • Follows rules of conversation and group discussion and responds appropriately to comments in a conversation or group discussion • Uses level-‐appropriate vocabulary in speech, including synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, word analogies, and common figures of speech • Recites and responds to familiar stories, poems, and rhymes with patterns and describes setting and plot • Discriminates separate syllables in a word