ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Reading
Strand
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Ask and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text
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Identify a main topic or central idea of a text and retell key details; summarize portions of a text
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Explain how words and phrases suggest feelings and appeal to the senses
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Describe the overall structure of a story, including beginning and ending
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Explain differences between literary texts (fiction) and informational texts (non-fiction)
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Identify examples of how illustrations and details support the point of view or purpose of a text
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Apply information from illustrations or text features to understand story element
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Explain how specific points the author makes in a text are supported by relevant reasons
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Identify genre and make connections between, self, text, and the world
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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skill
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Distinguish long and short vowel sounds in one-syllable words
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Decode long and short vowels sounds in two-syllable words
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Read grade-level text orally with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
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Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words
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Recognize and identify root words and common prefixes
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Read all common high-frequency sight words
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Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and meaning
Writing
Strand
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Write an opinion to support claims, using clear reasons and relevant evidence
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​Write informative/explanatory texts that introduce a topic, use facts and other information to develop points, and provide a concluding statement
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Write narratives which recount real or imagined experiences or a short sequence of events, including details to describe action, thoughts, and feelings
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Use temporal words to signal event order and a sense of closure
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Create a poem, story, play, artwork, or other response to a text, author, theme, and personal experience
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Ask questions and participate in shared research to answer questions and to build knowledge
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Recall relevant information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question
Speaking
and Listening Strand
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Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults in groups, and during play
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Follow agreed-upon rules for discussion and participate by actively listening, taking turns, and staying on topic
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Build on others' talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others
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Ask for clarification and further details as needed
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Recount or describe key ideas of diverse texts
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Ask and answer questions about the speaker says
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Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details
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Include digital media and/or visual display in presentations
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Expressing thoughts, feelings and ideas clearly
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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Capitalize the first word in a sentence
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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 and apostrophes appropriately
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Consult reference materials to check and correct spellings
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Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening
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Use strategies to determine or clarify meaning of unknown words and phrases
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Demonstrate an understanding of word relationships and word meanings