Reading

Oral Language/Decoding
 

(based on  Curriculum Standards)

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Recognize root words, prefixes, suffixes and syllabication as aids in determining meaning within context.
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Select and use common text features to make meaning from text (e.g., headings, key words, graphics, captions, and sidebars).
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Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary within context.
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Locate information using available text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphics, indexes, glossaries, and tables of content).
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Identify the effect of sound within context (e.g., onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme and repetition).
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Comprehension
 

Read a passage and answer questions to show comprehension.

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Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms and homonyms within context.
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Identify compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations within text.
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Identify setting, characters, and plot in a passage.
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Select questions used to focus and clarify thinking before, during, and after reading the text.
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Determine the correct meaning/usage of multiple-meaning words within context.
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Determine word meanings within context.
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Identify the sequence of events in fiction and nonfiction selections.
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Select stated or implied main idea and supporting details from text.
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Identify stated or implied cause and effect relationships.
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Distinguish between elements of fact/opinion and reality/fiction.
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Determine inferences from selected passages.
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Select the appropriate summary statement for a given passage.
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Recognize reasonable predictions of future events within a given context.
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Distinguish among various literary genres (e.g., poetry, drama, letters, ads, historical fiction, biographies and autobiographies).
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Identify and interpret the main incidents of a plot, their causes, how they influence future actions, and how they are resolved.
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Recognize that a story is told from the first person point of view.
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Identify the author’s purposes (i.e., to inform or to entertain).
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Determine whether the theme is stated or implied within a passage.
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Identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in context.
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Identify information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.
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Select a logical word to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, categories, and subcategories.
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Identify, using a graphic organizer, placement of events.
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 Writing  

Process
 

Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, and webbing) to group ideas for writing.
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Express thoughts and feelings using colorful, fully elaborated descriptions using vivid and active words.
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Rearrange sentences to form a sequential, coherent paragraph.
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Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, to inform, and to report).
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Identify the audience for which a piece of text is written.
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Select details that support a topic sentence.
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Choose vivid and active words when writing.
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Develop and write a paragraph topic sentence with supporting details.
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Rearrange paragraphs in a narrative writing selection in sequential or chronological order.
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Select appropriate time order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.
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Identify the most reliable sources of information for preparing a report or project.
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Select the best way to combine sentences to provide syntactic variety within context.
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Select the best title for a written selection.
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Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.
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Supply a missing piece of information in an outline.
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Select, limit, and refine a writing topic.
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Revise to clarify thought, to refine ideas, and to distinguish between important and unimportant information.
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Edit writing for the elements of language.
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Explain and/or illustrate key ideas when writing.
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Demonstrate syntactic variety when writing.
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Arrange multi-paragraphed work of exposition (e.g., persuasion, compare/contrast) in a logical and coherent order.
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Identify the sentence irrelevant to a paragraph’s theme or flow.
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Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph.
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Use appropriate transitional words and devices when writing.
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Incorporate figurative language, vivid description, active voice verbs, sensory details, and personal observations to display facility in the use of language.
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Product
 

Compose narratives (e.g., to entertain, inform, and report).
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Write well-developed, organized, and coherent essays in response to narrative prompts.
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Write an effective concluding paragraph for a well-developed essay.
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 Elements of Language  

Identify the correct use of the following:
 

... nouns (singular/plural; possessives; predicate nouns, nouns as objects)
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... verbs (action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, tenses)
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... pronouns (agreement, subject, object)
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... adjectives (common/proper, comparative forms, predicate adjectives)
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... adverbs (comparative forms, negatives)
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Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number).
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Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., series, dates, addresses, friendly letters, compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, and introductory words) within context.
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Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas in direct quotations.
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Choose the most appropriate interjections to complete a sentence.
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Identify the correct use of colons (i.e., in business letters and preceding a list of items).
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Recognize usage errors occurring within context.
 

... double negatives
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... troublesome words: to, too, two; their, there, they’re; lie, lay; sit, set
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Select the best way to correct incomplete sentences within context.
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Identify correctly and incorrectly spelled words in context.
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Identify the correct spelling of plurals and possessives.
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Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, and introductory phrases and/or clauses).
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Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements) within context.
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