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GRADE LEVEL |
Skills |
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Kindergarten
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- ABC recognition
- Phonemic awareness
- Word families/rhyming
- Listening
- Comprehension (predictions,
retelling, sequence of events, story elements)
- Incorporate writing into what is
essential
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First Grade
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- Writing for readers
- Letter size and spacing
- Capital letters
- Ending punctuation
- Directionality (left to right writing) /
letters on the line.
- Print awareness
- Writing sight words in a snap
- Sound spelling (chunking words)
- Decoding
- Phonemic awareness
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
Following directions / listening
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Second
Grade
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- Listening (written directions)
- Vocabulary
- Root words, prefixes, suffixes (i.e. mis,
un, re, dis)
- Comprehension
- Compare/contrast
- Inferencing
- Summarizing
- Main idea/supporting details
- Predicting and making connections (I wonder…)
- Complete sentences/restating (3 word rule)
- Note-taking
- Poetry (fiction and non fiction)
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Third Grade
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- Summarizing
- Writing personal narratives (descriptive
writing, small moment, snapshot stories)
- Note-taking
- Literary elements (figurative language)
- Vocabulary
- Main idea
- Topic sentence
- Supporting details
- Concluding sentence
- Cause/effect, fact/opinion,
directions, time sequence, inference
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Fourth
Grade
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- Comprehension Skills
- Predicting
- Cause and effect
- Inference (make connections)
- Main Idea
- Locating information in text
- Vocabulary
- Variation of words in writing
- Grade appropriate
- Word structure (prefixes,
suffixes)
- Writing complete paragraph/short
response
- Topic sentence
- Details with extension
- Concluding sentence
- Writing for different purposes
- Persuasive
- Letter
- Descriptive
- Poetry
- Note taking
- Fiction
- Non fiction
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5th Grade
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- Literary elements
- Summarizing
- Characterization
- Plot
- Setting
- Conflict
- Theme
- Comprehension
- Non fiction elements
- Using documents for support
- Strategies: questioning, making
connections, using prior knowledge
- Point of view
- Vocabulary
- Decoding strategies
- Word structure
- Cues
- Roots, prefixes, suffixes
- Imagery
- Persuasive writing
- Compare/contrast
- Revising and editing
- Inference (APPR focus)
- Main idea
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