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__Comprehension English/Language Arts Standards__ **Frist ELA1R6 ** The student uses a variety of strategies to understand and gain meaning from grade-level text. The student a. Reads and listens to a variety of texts for information and pleasure. b. Makes predictions using prior knowledge. c. Asks and answers questions about essential narrative elements (e.g., beginning- middle-end, setting, characters, problems, events, resolution) of a read-aloud or independently read text. d. Retells stories read independently or with a partner. e. Distinguishes fact from fiction in a text. f. Makes connections between texts and/or personal experiences. g. Identifies the main idea and supporting details of informational text read or heard. h. Self-monitors comprehension and rereads when necessary. i. Recognizes cause-and-effect relationships in text.

__Phonics/Word Identification__ **Second ELA2R1 **  The student quickly applies knowledge of letter-sound correspondence and spelling patterns to decode unfamiliar words. The student a. Reads words containing blends, digraphs, and diphthongs. b. Recognizes, reads, and writes words containing regular plurals, irregular plurals, and possessives. c. Reads compound words and contractions in grade appropriate texts. d. Reads and spells words containing r-controlled vowels and silent letters. e. Reads and spells words containing irregular vowel patterns. f. Reads multisyllabic words. g. Applies learned phonics skills when reading and writing words, sentences, and stories.

__Vocabulary__ **Third ELA3R2 ** The student acquires and uses grade-level words to communicate effectively. The student a. Reads literary and informational texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language.  b. Uses grade-appropriate words with multiple meanings.  c. Recognizes and applies the appropriate usage of homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms.  d. Identifies the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases and incorporates them into oral and written language. e. Identifies and infers meaning from common root words, common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-, in-), and common suffixes (e.g., -tion, -ous, -ly). f. Determines the meaning of unknown words on the basis of context.

** __Reading__ Fourth ELA4R4 ** **The student reads aloud, accurately (in the range of 95%), familiar ** a. Uses letter-sound knowledge to decode written English and uses a range of cueing systems (e.g., phonics and context clues) to determine pronunciation and meaning. b. Uses self-correction when subsequent reading indicates an earlier miscue (self- monitoring and self-correcting strategies). c. Reads with a rhythm, flow, and meter that sounds like everyday speech (prosody).
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__Vocabulary__ **Fifth** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">ELA5R3 ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The student understands and acquires new vocabulary and uses it ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">a. Reads a variety of texts and incorporates new words into oral and written language. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">b. Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues (e.g., definition, <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> example). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">c. Determines the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> roots, suffixes, and prefixes. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">d. Determines pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> speech of words using dictionaries and thesauruses. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">e. Identifies the meaning of common prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, dis-). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">f. Identifies the meaning of common idioms and figurative phrases. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">g. Identifies playful uses of language (e.g., puns, jokes, palindromes). <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">h. Recognizes and uses words with multiple meanings (e.g., sentence, school, hard) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> and determines which meaning is intended from the context of the sentence. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">i. Identifies and applies the meaning of the terms antonym, synonym, and homophone.
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