LITERACY
Literature
Key ideas and details
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Ask and answer questions about key details
in a text
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Retell stories, including key details, and
demonstrate understanding of their central
message
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Describe characters, settings, and major events
in a story, using key details
Craft and structure
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Identify words and phrases in stories or poems
that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses
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Explain major differences between books that
tell stories and books that give information,
drawing on a wide reading of a range of text
types
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Identify who is telling the story at various points
in a text
Integration of knowledge and ideas
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Use illustrations and details in a story to
describe its characters, setting, or events
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Compare and contrast the adventures and
experiences of characters in stories
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Predict what will happen next in stories
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Explain predictions and later determine whether
predictions were confirmed
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Identify cause and effect relationships
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Begin to distinguish between fact and opinion
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Begin to distinguish between sense and
nonsense
Range of reading and level of text complexity
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With prompting and support, read prose and
poetry of appropriate complexity
Reading Informational Text
Key ideas and details
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Ask and answer questions about key details
in a text
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Identify the main topic and retell key details
of a text
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Describe the connection between two
individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of
information in a text
Craft and structure
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Ask and answer questions to help determine or
clarify meaning of words and phrases in text
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Know and use various text features to locate key
facts or information in a text
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Distinguish between information provided by
pictures or other illustrations and information
Integration of knowledge and ideas
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Use the illustrations and details in a text to
describe its key ideas
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Identify the reasons an author gives to support
points in a text
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Identify basic similarities and differences
between two texts on the same topic
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Predict what will happen next in stories
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Explain predictions and later determine whether
predictions were confirmed
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Identify cause and effect relationships
Range of reading and level of text complexity
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With prompting and support, read appropriately
complex informational text
Foundational Skills
Print concepts
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Demonstrate understanding of the organization
and basic features of print
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Recognize the distinguishing features of a
sentence
Phonological awareness
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Demonstrate understanding of spoken words,
syllables, and sounds
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Distinguish long from short vowel sounds
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Orally produce single-syllable words by
blending sounds
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Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and
final sounds
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Segment spoken single-syllable words into their
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First Grade
First Grade
complete sequence of individual sounds
Phonics and word recognition
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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word
analysis skills in decoding words
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Know the spelling-sound correspondences for
common consonant digraphs
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Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words
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Know final -e and common vowel team
conventions for representing long vowel sounds
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Use knowledge that every syllable must have
a vowel sound to determine the number of
syllables in a printed word
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Decode two-syllable words following basic
patterns by breaking the words into syllables
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Read words with inflectional endings
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Recognize and read grade-appropriate
irregularly spelled words
Fluency
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Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to
support comprehension
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Read grade-level text with purpose and
understanding
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Read grade-level text orally with accuracy,
appropriate rate, and expression
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Use context to confirm or self-correct word
recognition and understanding, rereading as
necessary
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Know personal preferences for listening to
literature and other material
Writing
Text types and purposes
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Write opinion pieces in which they introduce
the topic or name the book they are writing
about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the
opinion, and provide some sense of closure
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Write informative/explanatory texts in which
they name a topic, supply some facts about the
topic, and provide some sense of closure
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Write narratives in which they recount two or
more appropriately sequenced events
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Create texts for invitations, thank you notes,
captions, labels
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Write name, address, phone number
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Role play ways people use writing in their work
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Show an awareness of audience
Production and distribution of writing
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With guidance and support from adults,
focus on a topic, respond to questions and
suggestions from peers, and add details to
strengthen writing as needed
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With guidance and support from adults, use a
variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers
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Use mapping to organize thoughts
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Begin to organize ideas using prewriting
activities
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Focus on content, not convention
Research to build and present knowledge
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Participate in shared research and writing projects
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With guidance and support from adults,
recall information from experiences or gather
information from provided sources to answer a
question
Speaking and Listening
Comprehension and collaboration
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Participate in collaborative conversations with
diverse partners
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Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions
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Build on others’ talk in conversations by
responding to the comments of others through
multiple exchanges
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Ask questions to clear up any confusion about
the topics and texts under discussion
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Ask and answer questions about key details in a
text read aloud or information presented orally
or through other media
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Ask and answer questions about what a speaker
says in order to gather additional information
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Follow three-step oral directions
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Understand simple nonverbal cues
Presentation of knowledge and ideas
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Describe people, places, things, and events with
relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings
clearly
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Add drawings or other visual displays to
descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas
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Produce complete sentences when appropriate
to task and situation
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Use eye contact and appropriate gestures to
enhance oral delivery
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