Literacy

Reading

Students will

• Identify letters, including those in own name and friends’ names
• Understand that reading progresses in books from front to back, top to bottom, left to right
• Recognize signs, labels and environmental print
• Comprehend and interpret meaning from books and other texts read to them
• Demonstrate understanding of literal meaning of stories by making comments

Writing

Students will

• Represent stories, thoughts, and/or ideas through pictures and/or dictation
• Use scribbles, approximations of letters or known letters to represent written word

Listening and Speaking

Students will

• Hear and discriminate the sounds of language
• Communicate needs, ideas and thoughts
• Ask and answer questions
• Relate prior knowledge to new information
• Actively participate in conversation

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Know most letter names and many letter sounds
• Rhyme and play with words (including segmentation, alliteration, rhyming and onset-rime segmentation)
• Recognize some high-frequency words (i.e., Dolch Word List: Pre-primer) in and out of context

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Understand the concepts of print (e.g., read top to bottom, left to right and front to back)
• Read repetitive pattern text with a single line of print making some finger-voice-print match while pointing and reading text
• Connect books read aloud to own experiences and retell story in appropriate sequence or with a beginning, middle and end
• Make meaningful predictions
• Demonstrate understanding of the literal meaning of stories by making comments

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Students will

• Use known letters and phonological awareness to represent written language
• Write more than one thought on a topic
• Write a simple sentence with punctuation

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Use strategies to decode text at grade level: context clues, pictures clues and word clues (word families, letter sounds, blends/diagraphs)
• Read high-frequency words (i.e., Dolch Word Lists: Pre-primer, Primer, First Grade) by sight within context

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Monitor reading to ensure the message makes sense (words look right, sound right and make sense with the text)
• Describe and retell fiction text including characters, setting and major events of the story in sequential order
• Identify nonfiction text including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their lesson
• Use background knowledge and text to make logical predictions before, during and after reading
• Identify fiction and nonfiction text and specific text features (e.g., table of contents, headings, photographs, diagraphs/labels, maps, charts, etc.)

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Students will

• Compose a focused piece using text on one topic including a beginning, middle and end in all three forms of writing (i.e., narrative, expository and persuasive)
• Write simple sentences using appropriate capitalization (e.g., beginning caps, proper nouns) and ending marks
• Spell most high-frequency words with accuracy or use developmental spelling to spell unfamiliar words

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Apply word attack skills to read new and unfamiliar words using a variety of phonemic analysis (e.g., blends, diagraphs, short and long vowel and r-controlled vowels).

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Use textual information experiences and prior knowledge to make predictions and to infer meaning
• Identify main idea and supporting details to construct meaning
• Summarize the story or text in a sequential order
• Identify author’s message (entertain/inform)

Literary Elements

Students will

• Identify literary elements of plot, characters, setting and problem/solution
• Differentiate genres including fiction, nonfiction and poetry

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Focus

Students will

• Establish and maintain a clear purposeful focus

Organization

Students will

• Develop paragraphs using proper form (i.e., topic sentence, details, summary/conclusions)
• Use basic transition words to connect ideas and sentences

Support/Elaboration

Students will

• Include specific details such as examples, descriptions or facts

Conventions

Students will

• Write simple sentences with correct subject-verb agreement, appropriate capitalization, end punctuation and spell most high-frequency words correctly

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Determine meaning of words using context clues, prefixes, suffixes and base words

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Summarize and sequence the events in text
• Identify main idea and details
• Make/confirm/adapt predictions using textual evidence
• Make inferences and draw conclusions of generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge
• Identify author’s message (inform, persuade, entertain)
• Infer character traits/motivation by what they say, do or how the author portrays them

Literary Elements

Students will

• Identify the elements of plot, character, setting and problem/conflict/resolution

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Focus

Students will

• Compose a focused composition with an introduction

Organization

Students will

• Develop a structured composition (i.e., introduction, body, conclusion) with appropriate paragraphing

Support/Elaboration

Students will

• Use voice that is appropriate for topic

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Determine the meaning of unknown words using word parts (prefixes, suffixes, root words) and context clues

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Predict and support probable outcomes or actions including identifying cause and effect based on the text
• Summarize a story, passage or text using the order of events
• Draw inferences about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge
• Determine main idea and distinguish between minor and significant details in a passage

Literary Elements

Students will

• Determine what characters are like by their actions and how the author or illustrator portrays them
• Identify plot, character, setting and theme

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Focus

Students will

• Establish and maintain a focus in paragraphs as well as throughout the piece of writing

Organization

Students will

• Organize a composition with a clear beginning, middle and end appropriate to purpose and audience

Support/Elaboration

Students will

• Use at least two separate and well-balanced reasons to elaborate ideas through first-level supporting details
• Use voice that is appropriate for topic, purpose and audience

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Determine the meaning of unknown words using word parts, sentence and cross-sentence clues

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Distinguish between minor and significant details in a passage
• Summarize passage
• Draw inferences, conclusions or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge
• Determine the answer to a literal or simple inference question regarding the meaning of a passage

Literary Elements

Students will

• Identify events important to the development of the plot and subplot
• Interpret literary passages using the following elements of literary structures: rising action, climax, falling action and resolution
• Determine what characters are like and their motivation by what they say or do, by how the author or illustrator portrays them

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Focus

Students will

• Establish and maintain focus throughout a composition

Organization

Students will

• Develop a multi-paragraph composition that includes an introduction, body (major points) and a conclusion to produce coherence

Support/Elaboration

Students will

• Develop first- and second-level support through a variety of facts, details, descriptions, reasons, examples and/or narration

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Use a variety of word analysis strategies (e.g., context clues and word parts) to determine the meaning of an unknown word

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Identify text structure of nonfiction (e.g., description, cause/effect, sequence, problem/solution, compare/contrast)
• Identify the main idea (explicit and implicit) and supporting details in the text
• Summarize (or identify best summary) of a short story or nonfiction
• Draw inferences, conclusions or generalization based on textual evidence and prior knowledge

Literary Elements

Students will

• Analyze elements of plot, setting, character and theme
• Analyze the author’s choice of words including figurative or literary devices

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Focus

Students will

• Establish and maintain focus within and across the introduction, body and conclusion

Organization

Students will

• Compose a piece that is organized and uses varied sentence structure to demonstrate coherence and cohesion

Support/Elaboration

Students will

• Compose a piece using elaboration including second-order support

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Choose an appropriate word analysis strategy (e.g., etymologies, context clues) to determine the meaning of an unknown word

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Draw inferences, conclusions or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge
• Analyze text structure (e.g., description, cause/effect, sequence, problem/solution, compare/contrast) of various texts to demonstrate comprehension
• Compose an extended response by combining details from a text with inferences and connections
• Distinguish the main idea and details in order to summarize the order of the events in a story or nonfiction text

Literary Elements

Students will

• Critique and explain elements of fiction: character, plot, theme, conflict, point of view, setting, foreshadowing and flashback
• Analyze literary devices (e.g., alliteration, imagery, sensory detail, metaphors, personification)

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Integration

Students will

• Compose a multi-paragraph composition that supports a topic or thesis statement with sufficient support through multiple and varied strategies of elaboration and support

Reading (Reading/Listening/Speaking)

Word Analysis/Vocabulary

Students will

• Apply word analysis strategies (e.g., etymologies, context clues and other word analysis) to determine the meaning of words in text

Reading Strategy/Reading Comprehension

Students will

• Draw literal meanings, inferences, conclusions or generalizations about text and support them with textual evidence and prior knowledge
• Compose a reaction in response to various sources and genres (e.g., content area textbooks, novels, newspapers, magazines, poetry, drama, reference materials) using explicit and implicit details

Literary Elements

Students will

• Analyze how literary devices, symbolism and mood/tone contribute to the meaning of a literary work
• Determine what characters are like by their words, thoughts and actions, as well as how other characters react to them

Writing (Writing/Listening/Speaking)

Integration

Students will

• Compose a multi-paragraph composition that supports a topic or thesis statement with sufficient support through multiple and varied strategies of elaboration and support