Literacy

Reading

Comprehension:

• Makes and confirms predictions about content.
• Identifies setting, characters, problems and resolution.
• Retells stories using beginning, middle and end.
• Restates important facts and main ideas in nonfiction.

Decoding:

• Uses meaning which includes using picture clues, context clues and background knowledge.
• Uses knowledge of English language which includes sentence structure and grammer.
• Uses letter/sound relationships (phonics) which include breaking words into smaller words and looking for word parts.

Independent Reading:

• Begins to silent read for information, pleasure and insight.
• Begins to balance fiction and nonfiction reading.

Writing

Writing Process:

• Self-selects and stays on topic.
• Expresses voice through drawing and words.

Written Product:

• Includes appropriate facts and details to support a topic.

Grammar and Usage:

• Capitalizes names, the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”.
• Uses periods and question marks correctly.
• Writes in sentences.

Spelling:

• Uses developmental spelling to express ideas.
• Uses correct spelling for high-frequency words and simple words with regular spelling patterns.

Handwriting:

• Prints legibly using correct upper/lower case letter formation with appropriate spacing between words and sentences.

Communication

• Speaks clearly and intelligibly and expresses ideas with descriptive vocabulary and increasingly complex oral language structures.
• Asks questions for understanding and responds to questions.
• Discusses information viewed.
• Uses technology and visuals as a communication tool.