Text Structures and Features Students demonstrate they have the ability to: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action Students will recognize or recall specific vocabulary, such as: beginning, introduce, event, conclude, ending, solution, story, structure, text, illustration Students demonstrate they have developed the ability to: Identify examples of text structures (for example, beginning, ending)
Purpose/Point of View
Students demonstrate they have the ability to: Describe differences in the points of view of characters in a text, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. Describe the author’s purpose in writing a text, including the question or topic that the author wants to answer, explain, or describe. Students will recognize or recall specific vocabulary, such as: Answer, author, character, dialogue, point of view, purpose, question, topic Students demonstrate they have developed the ability to: Identify what various characters are saying in a story Identify the author’s purpose in writing a text
Phonics, Fluency, and Word Work
Sentences: Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences in context (for example, The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy)
Capitalization and punctuation: Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names
Capitalization and punctuation: Use commas in greetings and closings of letters
Spelling: Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings
Context Clues: Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase, Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding
Word Origins and Roots: Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
Reference Materials: Use glossaries and beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases
Spelling: Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words