Reading Standards
Kindergarten
The student will be able to...
The student will be able to...
1. Independently use reading strategies
2. Use concepts of print (1 to 1, voice to print match)
3. Read in meaningful phrases that sound like natural language
4. Comprehend and retell a story
5. Think within, beyond, and about texts
6. Make connections with other texts, world, and personal experiences
7. Self monitor while reading
8. Use phonemic awareness to read grade appropriate text
9. Blend sounds to read words
10. Read 80% of our 125 high frequency words
2nd Grade
The student will be able to...
3rd Grade
Reading / Writing
The student will be able to...
4th Grade
The student will be able to...
1. Use on-grade level reading vocabulary to construct meaning from text.
2. Apply a variety of word-identification strategies (word structure, context, semantic relationships) to understand unfamiliar words.
3. Demonstrate a sufficient understanding of how an author’s purpose and perspective (beliefs, assumptions, biases) influence text.
4. Recognize and analyzes how story elements (plot, setting, characterization, problem/solution) impact text.
5. Determine stated or implied main idea and relevant details in informational text.
6. Identify and uses organizational patterns of informational text (sequence, cause/effect, fact/opinion).
7. Interpret informational text features (headings, maps, tables)
8. Identify defining characteristics of narrative and informational genres (poetry, biographies, folk tales)
9. Answer literal, inferential, and critical questions with accuracy.
The student will be able to...
- Recognize and name capital & lowercase letters.
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of letter-sound correspondences.
- Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, page by page.
- Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence.
- Recognize 30 out of the 50 sight words.
- Use a reading strategy when coming to an unknown word.
- With prompting & support, retell familiar stories – including key details.
- Identify the following parts of a book -- front cover, back cover and title page.
- Identify what an author does.
- Identify what an illustrator does.
- Read emergent reader texts with purpose and understanding
The student will be able to...
1. Independently use reading strategies
2. Use concepts of print (1 to 1, voice to print match)
3. Read in meaningful phrases that sound like natural language
4. Comprehend and retell a story
5. Think within, beyond, and about texts
6. Make connections with other texts, world, and personal experiences
7. Self monitor while reading
8. Use phonemic awareness to read grade appropriate text
9. Blend sounds to read words
10. Read 80% of our 125 high frequency words
2nd Grade
The student will be able to...
- use a minimum of three reading cueing systems.
- recognize grade appropriate high frequency words in context.
- identify character, setting, plot, main events and theme of a story.
- identify the meaning of vocabulary words.
- state the main idea of a reading selection.
- identify short and long vowel sounds, consonant blends and consonant digraphs.
- identify the text and graphic features of a nonfiction story.
- use appropriate voice level, phrasing, sentence structure and intonation while reading.
3rd Grade
Reading / Writing
The student will be able to...
- Use word structure to be able to read text.
- Demonstrate fluent oral reading.
- Relate new vocabulary to prior knowledge.
- Identify Semantic relationships (ex. patterns and categories, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, multiple meanings)
- Identify author’s purpose (ex. entertain, inform, persuade) --explain or express strong feeling.
- Identify elements of narrative texts.
- Retell and summarize the main idea from informational text.
- Recognize and apply organizational patterns found in informational text.
- Retell and summarize the main idea from narrative text.
- Identify proper use of nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs (consider plurals, verb tenses).
- Use technology to gain knowledge, identify main ideas, and communicate information in a variety of media and formats.
4th Grade
The student will be able to...
1. Use on-grade level reading vocabulary to construct meaning from text.
2. Apply a variety of word-identification strategies (word structure, context, semantic relationships) to understand unfamiliar words.
3. Demonstrate a sufficient understanding of how an author’s purpose and perspective (beliefs, assumptions, biases) influence text.
4. Recognize and analyzes how story elements (plot, setting, characterization, problem/solution) impact text.
5. Determine stated or implied main idea and relevant details in informational text.
6. Identify and uses organizational patterns of informational text (sequence, cause/effect, fact/opinion).
7. Interpret informational text features (headings, maps, tables)
8. Identify defining characteristics of narrative and informational genres (poetry, biographies, folk tales)
9. Answer literal, inferential, and critical questions with accuracy.