1. All students experience a wide range and variety of text for enjoyment and information and produce evidence of understanding

• identify main idea and relevant details in narrative and expository text
  
• compare and contrast plots, settings, and characters presented by different authors and different versions of the same stories
  
• retell and generate alterative endings to plots, and identify reasons for alternatives
  
• relate what is read, connecting with prior knowledge, experience, and similar topics
  
• sequence events; make, modify, and confirm predictions
  
• identify the meaning that applies to the context when the word has multiple meanings
  
• use titles, tables of content, chapter headings, glossaries, and indexes to locate information in text
  
• understand purpose for reading.
  

2. All students read and share favorite books and work independently with letters, words and stories, applying concepts and skills that have been previously acquired

• read, discuss, and write about many books
  
• participate in author studies
  
• maintain a reading log of books read independently
  
• use a repertoire of strategies to persevere, even when reading becomes difficult
  
• read silently for appropriate periods, independently selecting and reading materials at appropriate reading levels.
  

3. All students demonstrate increasing proficiency in basic reading skills, vocabulary development, reading fluency, accuracy, appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression

• continue to apply phonemic awareness
  
  • blend sounds for more complex words
    
  • use a known word or word pattern to identify an unknown word in reading
    
  • accurately identify syllables in words and sentences
    
• apply decoding word recognition strategies
  
  • recognize and use knowledge of spelling patterns (e.g., diphthongs, special vowel spellings) when reading
    
  • apply knowledge of basic syllabication rules when reading (e.g., v/cv = su/per; vc/cv = sup/per)
    
  • decode two-syllable nonsense words and regular multi-syllable words
    
  • recognize common abbreviations (e.g., Jan., Sun., Rt., St.)
    
  • identify and correctly use regular plurals (e.g., -s, -es, -ies,) and irregular plurals (e.g., fly/flies, wife/wives)
    
  • use high-frequency words, regular/irregular words, word families, word endings, etc.
    
• read unknown words using meaning, grammar, and phonics
  
• search, predict, monitor, and self-correct while reading.
  
• apply reading comprehension strategies
  
  • formulate and respond to who, what, where, when, why, and how questions
    
  • summarize/restate, predict
    
  • use picture clues, diagrams, charts, and graphs to read, understand, and confirm unknown words and
    
• information
  
  • follow simple two-step written directions, make and
    
• modify predictions, draw conclusions, and determine cause and effect.

1. All students write for a variety of purposes and audiences across the curriculum, developing style and voice.

• write brief narratives describing an experience (e.g., fictional, autobiographical)
  
• write brief expository descriptions of a real object, person, place, or event using sensory details.
  

2. All students begin to organize thoughts and information within the writing process (develop drafts, analyze, revise, and edit)

3. All students continue to participate in writing activities and begin to apply the following strategies independently: story mapping, illustrating, labeling, editing, revising, brainstorming, comparing/contrasting, and discussing and dictating.

1. All students use appropriate conventions of writing language which include grammar, spelling, punctuation, vocabulary, capitalization, legibility, and sentence structure

• begin to use complete and correct declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences
  
  • distinguish between complete and incomplete sentences and recognize and use correct word order in written sentences
    
  • identify and correctly use various parts of speech, including nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in writing and speaking
    
  • use commas in the greeting and closure of a letter and with dates and words in a series
    
  • use quotation marks correctly
    
  • capitalize all proper nouns, words at the beginning of sentences and greetings, months and days of the week, and titles and initials of people.
    
• use appropriate and varied word choice
  
• write legibly in manuscript, adhering to margins and correct spacing between letters in a word and words in a sentence.

1. All students listen for information, ask questions for understanding, and respond to the questions of others in a respectful manner.

• follow and give multi-step directions
  
• paraphrase and summarize information
  
• speak audibly in complete, coherent sentences, using appropriate posture
  
• participate in discussions, asking for clarification and explanation of stories and ideas
  
• use descriptive words and supportive facts and details.
  

2. All students participate in oral language activities.

• identify and recite poems, rhymes, songs, and stories
  
• relate an important life experience or create a story in a logical sequence
  
• report on a topic with facts and details, drawing from several sources of information