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Literacy Targets

 

** = Target can be Extended

Orange = Current Targets

Literature

 

  • Answer questions about key details in a text (literal and inferential)

  • Ask questions about key details in a text

  • **Retell stories, including key details

  • **Demonstrate understanding of the central message or lesson of a text

  • **Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story using key details

  • **Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories

  • Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Information Text

 

  • Answer questions about key details in a text

  • Ask questions about key details in a text

  • Identify the main topic of a text

  • Recall key details of a text

  • Describe the connections between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text(s)

  • **Use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently

  • Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by words in the text

 

Foundational Skills

 

  • Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words

  • Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds including consonant blends

  • Isolate and pronounce medial vowel sounds in spoken-single syllable words

  • Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds

  • Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard of English (CUPS)

C: capitalization (I, beginning of sentences, names)

U: usage (verb tense, homophones, complete sentences)

P: punctuation (end of sentences and dates)

S: spelling (phonetically sound)

  • Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ph).

  • Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on decoding regularly spelled one-syllable words. 

  • Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on knowing final -e conventions for representing long vowel sounds.

  • Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns. 

  • Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on determining the number of syllables in a word. Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on decoding two-syllable words. 

  • Know and apply word analysis skills in decoding words focusing on reading words with inflectional endings (s, es, ing, ed).

  • Determine the number of syllables in a word.

  • Decode two syllable words.

  • Recognize and read grade-appropriate high frequency words. 

 

FLUENCY

  • Read text with purpose and understanding.

  • Read text orally with accuracy. 

  • Read text orally with appropriate rate. 

  • Read text orally with expression. 

 

Language and Vocabulary

 

  • Use nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences.

  • Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions.

  • Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words and phrases using specifically frequently occuring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase (un- and re-)

  • Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple meaning words using context clues.

At Home Resources
Writing

 

NARRATIVE

  • **Write a narrative in which students recount two or more sequenced events

  • **Write a narrative including some details regarding what happened

  • **Write a narrative using temporal words to signal event order.

  • **Write a narrative that provides some sense of closure.

 

INFORMATIONAL/EXPLANATORY

  • **Name a topic.

  • **Give some facts about the topic.

  • **Provide some sense of closure

 

OPINION

  • **Introduce a topic (or name of the book they are writing abo

  • out) and states an opinion.

  • **Supplies reasons for the opinion.

  • **Provide some sense of closure to the opinion piece.

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