Objective 2
Develop language through viewing media and presenting.

• Identify specific purpose(s) for viewing media (i.e., to identify main idea and details, to gain information, distinguish between fiction/nonfiction, distinguish between fact/opinion, form an opinion, determine presentation’s accuracy/bias, analyze and critique persuasive techniques).
• Use a variety of formats in presenting with various forms of media (e.g., pictures, posters, charts, ads, newspapers, graphs, videos, slide shows).

Standard 2
Concepts of Print-Students develop an understanding of how printed language works.

Standard 3
Phonological and Phonemic Awareness-Students develop phonological and phonemic awareness.

Standard 4
Phonics and Spelling-Students use phonics and other strategies to decode and spell unfamiliar words while reading and writing.

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Objective 3
Spell words correctly.

• Use knowledge of word families, patterns, syllabication, and common letter combinations to spell new words.
• Use knowledge of Greek and Latin roots and affixes to spell multisyllable words.
• Spell an increasing number of high-frequency and irregular words correctly (e.g., straight, soldier, property, particular).
• Learn the spellings of irregular and difficult words (e.g., feudalism, electricity, parallelogram, microorganism).

• Use knowledge about spelling to predict the spelling of new words.
• Visualize words while writing.
• Associate spelling of new words with that of known words and word patterns.
• Use spelling generalities to assist spelling of new words.

Standard 5
Fluency-Students develop reading fluency to read aloud grade level text effortlessly without hesitation.

• Read grade level text at a rate of approximately 120-150 wpm.
• Read grade level text with an accuracy rate of 95-100%.

• Read grade level text in meaningful phrases using intonation, expression, and punctuation cues.
• Read grade level words with automaticity.

Standard 6
Vocabulary-Students learn and use grade level vocabulary to increase understanding and read fluently.

Objective 1
Learn new words through listening and reading widely.

• Use new vocabulary learned by listening, reading, and discussing a variety of genres.
• Learn the meaning and properly use a variety of grade level words (e.g., words from literature, social studies, science, math).

• Use multiple resources to determine the meanings of unknown words (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses).
• Determine gradients of meanings between related words and concepts (e.g., colonization: exploration, migrate, settlement).

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Objective 3
Use structural analysis and context clues to determine meanings of words.

• Identify meanings of words using roots and affixes (i.e., Greek/Latin affixes).
• Use words, sentences, and paragraphs as context clues to determine meanings of unknown key words, similes, metaphors, idioms, proverbs, clichés, and literary expressions.
• Use context to determine meanings of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms (e.g., through/threw, principal, principle) and multiple-meaning words (e.g., print).

Standard 7
Comprehension-Students understand, interpret, and analyze narrative and informational grade level text.

Objective 1
Identify purposes of text.

• Identify purpose for reading.
• Identify author’s purpose.

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Objective 2
Apply strategies to comprehend text.

• Relate prior knowledge to make connections to text (e.g., text to text, text to self, text to world).
• Generate questions about text (e.g., factual, inferential, evaluative).
• Form mental pictures to aid understanding of text.
• Make and confirm or revise predictions while reading using title, picture clues, text, and/or prior knowledge.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions from text.
• Identify theme/topic/main idea from text; note details.
• Summarize important ideas/events; summarize supporting details in sequence.
• Monitor and clarify understanding applying fix-up strategies while interacting with text.
• Compile, organize, and interpret information from text.

Standard 8
Writing-Students write daily to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

 

Objective 1
Prepare to write by gathering and organizing information and ideas (pre-writing).

• Generate ideas for writing by reading, discussing, researching, and reflecting on personal experiences.
• Select and narrow a topic from generated ideas.
• Identify audience, purpose, and form for writing.
• Use a variety of graphic organizers to organize information from multiple sources.

Objective 2
Compose a written draft.

• Draft ideas on paper in an organized manner utilizing words, sentences, and multiple paragraphs (e.g., beginning, middle, end; main idea; details; characterization; setting; plot).
• Use voice to fit the purpose and audience.
• Use strong verbs and precise and vivid language to convey meaning.
• Identify and use effective leads and strong endings.

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Objective 3
Revise by elaborating and clarifying a written draft.

• Revise draft to add details, strengthen word choice, clarify main idea, and reorder content.
• Enhance fluency by using transitional words, phrases to connect ideas, and a variety of complete sentences and paragraphs to build ideas (e.g., varied sentence length, simple and compound sentences).
• Revise writing, considering the suggestions from others.

Objective 4
Edit written draft for conventions.

• Edit writing for correct capitalization and punctuation (i.e., introductory and dependent clauses, dialogue, singular and plural possessives).
• Edit for spelling of grade level-appropriate words.
• Edit for standard grammar (e.g., subject-verb agreement, verb tense, irregular verbs).
• Edit for appropriate formatting features (e.g., margins, indentations, titles, headings).

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• Write using upper- and lower-case cursive letters using proper from, proportions, and spacing.
• Increase fluency with cursive handwriting.
• Produce legible documents with manuscript or cursive handwriting.

Objective 6
Write in different forms and genres.

• Produce personal writing (e.g., journals, personal experiences, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, literature responses).
• Produce traditional and imaginative stories, narrative and formula poetry.
• Produce informational text (e.g., book reports, cause/effect reports, compare/contrast essays, observational/research reports, content area reports, biographies, historical fiction, summaries).
• Produce writing to persuade (e.g., essays, editorials, speeches, TV scripts, responses to various media).
• Produce functional texts (e.g., newspaper and newsletters articles, e-mails, simple PowerPoint presentations, memos, agendas, bulletins, web pages).
• Share writing with others incorporating relevant illustrations, photos, charts, diagrams, and/or graphs to add meaning.
• Publish 6-8 individual products.