Standards
Academic Standards:
English Language Arts
Reading
Analyze words, recognize words and learn to read grade-level text
fluently across the subject areas.
Increase word knowledge through systematic vocabulary development; determine the meaning of new words by applying knowledge of word origins, word relationships and context clues; verify the meaning of new words; and use those new words accurately across the subject areas.
Find, understand and use specific information in a variety of texts across teh subject areas to perform a task.
Literature
Listen to text and read text to make connections and respond to a wide variety of literature of varying complexity.
Demonstrate general understanding of grade-level literary text.
Examine content and structure of grade-level literary text.
Writing
Pre-write, draft, revise, edit and publish across the subject areas.
Write narrative texts using a variety of written forms to express ideas appropriate to audience and purpose across the subject areas.