ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Strand
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Ask and answer questions about a text
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Retell stories and share key details
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Identify characters, setting, major events in a story
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Name and identify the role of the author and the illustrator
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Make connections between illustrations and text
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Make connections between, self, text, and the world
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Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page
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Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters
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Understand that words are separated by spaces
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Recognize and name all upper and lowercase letters of the alphabet
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Identify the front cover, back cover and title page of a book
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Recognize and produce rhyming words
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Create new words using known sounds
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Demonstrate one-to-one letter-sound correspondence
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decode short vowel sounds and one-syllable words
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Read common high frequency sight words
Writing
Strand
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Use a combination of drawing, dictating, oral expression and/or writing to:
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state an opinion about a familiar topic
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state a reason to support that opinion
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name a familiar topic and supply information
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narrate an event or events in a sequence
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create a poem, dramatization, artwork, or other response to text, author, or personal experience
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Ask questions and participate in shared research to:
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answer questions
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build knowledge
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recall relevant information
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gather information
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Speaking
and Listening Strand
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Participate in collaborative conversations
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Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion including listening to others, taking turns, and staying on topic
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Ask and answer questions to clarify what the speaker says
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Name familiar people, places, things, and events with detail
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Create visual displays to support descriptions
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Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly and completely
Language Strand
*The Language Strand identifies Conventions of English skills that develop from Pre-K to grade 2.
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Demonstrate command of conventions of English grammar and usage
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Print upper and lowercase letters of their name
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Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs
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Form and use plural nouns
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Use singular and plural nouns with matching verb in basic sentences
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Understand and use question words
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Produce and expand complex sentences in shared language activities
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Use verbs to convey past, present, and future
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Use frequently occurring adjectives appropriately
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Understand and use simple and compound sentences
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Demonstrate command of conventions of English capitalization, punctuation and spelling when writing
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Capitalize the first letter of their name
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Attempt to write symbols or letters to represent words
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Recognize and name end punctuation
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Spell simple words phonetically
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Use commas appropriately
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