Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Semester 1

Reading

Language Arts

• Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels
• Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables
• Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
• Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words
• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words
• Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences
• Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams
• Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
• Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words
• Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
• Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word

Unit 2: Semester 2

Reading

Language Arts

• Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• Decode multisyllable words
• Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels
• Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables
• Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
• Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• Describe characters, settings, and major events in story, using key details.
• Describe characters, settings, major events, problems, and solutions in a text.
• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• Describe how words and phrases supply rhythm and meaning in a poem.
• Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words
• Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information.
• Identify words and phrases in stories that suggest feelings.
• Identify words or phrases in poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
• Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences
• Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams
• Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
• Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding
• Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words
• Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
• Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
• Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root
• Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives
• Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
• Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters.
• Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of compound words
• Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word
• With guidance and support from adults, strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing
• Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events