Kindergarten
~Begins to read words in text using picture clues, phonemic awareness, and context.
~Understands that print carries a message.
~Recognizes patterns: Rhyming words
~Speaks and listens in order to communicate with others.
~Begins to use print to record thoughts and convey meaning.
~Begins to print upper and lower case letters.
~Begins to speak in complete sentences.
~Follows simple directions.
~Retells a simple story.
~Asks questions to explain, inquire, and compare.
~Listens to a variety of literature.
~Begins to relate literature to one's own experience.
1st Grade
~Begins to apply comprehension skills (retelling, sequencing, predicting, confirming, self-correction)and strategies (inferring, synthesizing, activating prior knowledge, questioning, visualizing, determining importance) to understand text.
~Writes, edits, and publishes writing.
~Participates as a listener and speaker.
~Begins to use proper grammar.
~Spells "No Excuse" words.
~Follows directions.
~Begins to provide opinions.
~Begins to use globes, maps, dictionaries, and CD Roms.
~Explores organization techniques.
~Listens to a variety of literature.
~Begins to relate literature to one's own experience
2nd Grade
~Reads with increasing fluency.
~Expands vocabulary.
~Continues to monitor own reading.
~Expresses ideas in writing.
~Reports orally.
~Begins to write a draft or speak with cohesive ideas that support a topic.
~Expands grammar and spelling skills.
~Follows oral and written directions.
~Begins to respond critically to a written, spoken, or visual message in writing.
~Provides and begins to support an opinion.
~Is able to research a topic with assistance.
~Uses graphic organizers
~Is able to present research to an audience.
~Begins to make comparisons of literary elements (characters, setting, problem/plot, events)
3rd Grade
~Uses multiple strategies to read.
~Applies comprehension skills.
~Begins to use strategies for monitoring one's own reading strategies.
~Writes a simple expository and narrative piece.
~Reads own writing.
~Revises own writing.
~Edits for conventions of language.
~Publishes final drafts.
~Uses a variety of sentence structures, word choices, and punctuation.
~Expands spelling and grammar skills.
~Follows multi-step directions.
~Responds to literature in writing.
~Provides an opinion using supporting details.
~Predicts outcomes, makes inferences, and generates questions while reading.
~Uses a variety of resources to locate, sort, and select relevant information for a topic.
~Reads a variety of genres.
~Makes comparisons of literary elements.
4th Grade
~Uses word recognition skills and resources to decode text and build vocabulary.
~Uses comprehension skills and strategies to understand a variety of increasingly difficult text.
~Monitors own reading strategies and makes modifications.
~Writes a narrative and expository composition.
~Organizes a presentation for a specific audience.
~Reviews and edits writing for mechanics, grammar, and paragraph structures.
~Expands grammar and spelling skills.
~Explains or defends one's reaction to a written, spoken, or visual message.
~Evaluates own and others' speaking and writing.
~Applies strategies to select, organize, and investigate a topic.
~Compiles information and chooses an appropriate presentation.
~Reads, listens to , discusses, interprets, and compares a variety of increasingly difficult literature.
~Responds critically to literature.
5th Grade
~Reads and decodes increasingly difficult text.
~Uses comprehension skills and strategies to understand a variety of increasingly difficult text.
~Uses a variety of strategies to clear up confusing part of text.
~Writes a well-developed expository composition.
~Organizes and presents a speech/presentation for a specific audience.
~Writes, edits, and produces a complete response to topics.
~Communicates thoughts using correct grammar and spelling.
~Follows detailed directions in paragraph form.
~Defends a point of view.
~Analyzes a written or spoken message.
~Integrates information from printed text and electronic media to locate and select relevant information.
~Takes notes and outlines information.
~Creates accurately documented oral and written projects.
~Reads, listens to , discusses, interprets, and compares a variety of increasingly difficult literature.
~Analyzes a literature selection.