Standards
National Standards
NL-ENG.K-12.3
Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their
prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts,
their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence,
sentence structure, context, graphics).
NL-ENG.K-12.5
Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to
communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
NL-ENG.K-12.6
Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques,
figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.
Missouri Communication Arts Grade Level Expectations
Reading 2B for 5th and 6th Grade, ST: CA2 1.5, 1.6, FR: I 1c & II 1d, 5-8
Explain examples of figurative language in poetry and prose (emphasize simile, metaphor, and personification)
Identify and explain figurative language in poetry and prose (emphasize onomatopoeia and alliteration)
Writing 3E for 5th Grade, ST: CA4 1.8, 2.1, FR: II 2c, 3a-b, 4a, c, III 4e, IV 3a, c, 5-8
Write well organized communications in a selected form appropriate to a specific audience (e.g. parents, friends, younger children, and purpose)
