Communication Arts

Reading

Reading Process

• Apply decoding strategies to problem-solve unknown words

• Read grade-level instructional text with fluency, accuracy, and expression

• Develop vocabulary through using base words and context clues

• Identify main ideas and supporting details by summarizing and paraphrasing

• Make connections to own experiences and the world when reading

Reading Fiction, poetry, and Drama

• Identify author’s use of rhythm, and alliteration in poetry and prose, with assistance

• Use details form the text to make inferences about setting, characters, and problems

• Make predictions about the story solution

• Identify events in logical sequence

Reading Nonfiction

• Interpret information in illustrations, title, headings, captions, diagrams, charts and graphs

• Use details form text to ask questions, identify main ideas and provide support, retell sequence of events and make inferences based on text

• Read and follow simple directions to perform a task

Writing

Writing Process

• Follow a writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing

• Demonstrate grade level appropriate knowledge of the district writing program

Writing Conventions

• Use grade level appropriate capitalization and punctuation

• Use adjectives, pronouns, and contractions correctly

• Use transitional spelling, while correctly spelling priority words and words with simple spelling patterns

• Identify and write declarative statements and interrogative question sentences

Forms of Writing

• Write narrative text with story elements that records a series of events in chronological order

• Write expository text with a main idea and supporting details, with assistance

• Write friendly letters, simple messages, and simple directions, considering a given audience