Literacy

Reading

Comprehension:

• Retells text with sequencing, organization, important ideas, and details.
• Describes settings, characters, problems, sequences of events, and reslolution.
• Forms and supports opinions about the text using personal experience and/or revisiting the text.
• Makes predictions and draws conclusions.

Decoding:

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

Independent Reading:

• Reads silently for information, pleasure and insight.
• Develops personal appreciaition for different genres and favorite authors and illustrators.
• Maintains a balance between fiction and nonfiction reading.

Writing

Writing Process:

• Self-selects and stays on topic maintaining a focus.
• Expresses voice through words.
• Considers audience.
• Revises content to make meaning clear.
• Edits selected pieces for conventions and grammar.
• Publishes selected pieces.

Written Product:

• Includes appropriate facts, details, and organization to support a topic.

Grammar and Usage:

• Writes in complete sentences.
• Capitalizes proper nouns, the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”.
• Uses periods, question marks, and exclamation points correctly.

Spelling:

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

Handwriting:

• Prints legibly using correct letter formation with appropriate spacing between words and sentences.

Communication

• Speaks audibly and intelligibly.
• Begins to use correct verb tense and increasingly complex sentence structure.
• Contributes to group discussions.
• Asks appropriate questions to gain information and responds to questions of others.
• Begins to summarize information.
• Uses technology and visuals as a communication tool.