Kansas Education Resource Center

 

Grade  :  Grade 4
Content Area  :  Reading, Approved 2003

1 Reading
The student reads and comprehends text across the curriculum.
1.1 The student uses skills in alphabetics to construct meaning from text.
1.1.1 The student uses decoding skills that include knowledge of structural analysis automatically when reading.
1.2 The student reads fluently.
1.2.1 The student uses knowledge of conventions (e.g., question marks, exclamation points, commas, apostrophes, colons, semi-colons, dashes) to read fluently at instructional or independent reading levels.
1.2.2 The student reads expressively with appropriate pace, phrasing, intonation, and rhythm of speech.
1.2.3 The student uses knowledge of sentence structure to read fluently at instructional or independent reading levels.
1.2.4 The student uses a variety of word-recognition strategies (e.g., practicing words in isolation, practicing reading words in text, orthographic patterns) to read fluently.
1.2.5 The student adjusts reading rate to support comprehension when reading narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
1.3 The student expands vocabulary.
1.3.1 The student determines the meaning of words or phrases by using context clues (e.g., definitions, restatements, examples, descriptions) from sentences or paragraphs.
1.3.2 The student identifies and uses synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine the meaning of words.
1.3.3 The student uses a dictionary or a glossary to determine an appropriate definition of a word or uses a thesaurus to expand vocabulary.
1.3.4 The student determines meaning of words through knowledge of word structure (e.g., compound nouns, contractions, *root words, *prefixes, *suffixes).
1.3.5 The student determines meaning of figurative language by interpreting similes, metaphors, and idioms.
1.3.6 The student identifies the connotation and denotation of new words.
1.4 The student comprehends a variety of texts (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
1.4.1 The student identifies characteristics of narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
1.4.2 The student understands the purpose of text features (e.g., *title, *graphs and charts, *table of contents, *pictures/illustrations, *boldface type, *italics, glossary, index, headings, subheadings, topic, and summary sentences, captions) and uses such as features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts.
1.4.3 The student uses prior knowledge and content to make, revise, and confirm predictions.
1.4.4 The student generates and responds logically to literal, inferential, and critical thinking question before, during, and after reading the text.
1.4.5 The student uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions.
1.4.6 The student identifies text structure (e.g., sequence, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, description, cause-effect).
1.4.7 The student compares and contrasts information (e.g., topics, characters' traits, themes, problem-solution, cause-effect relationships) in one or more appropriate-level text(s) and identifies compare/contrast signal words.
1.4.8 The student links causes and effects in appropriate-level narrative and expository texts.
1.4.9 The student retells main ideas or events as well as supporting details in appropriate-level narrative, expository, and technical texts.
1.4.10 The student identifies the topic, main idea(s), and supporting details in appropriate-level texts.
1.4.11 The student identifies the author's purpose (e.g., to persuade, *to entertain, *to inform).
1.4.12 The student establishes a purpose for reading or listening (e.g., to be informed, to follow directions, to be entertained).
1.4.13 The student follows directions explained in technical text.
1.4.14 The student distinguishes between fact and opinion in various types of appropriate-level texts.

 

 

 

 

2 Literature
The student responds to a variety of text.
2.1 The student uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
2.1.1 The student identifies and describes characters' physical traits, personality traits, and feelings, and explains reasons for characters' actions and the consequences of those actions.
2.1.2 The student identifies and describes the setting (e.g., environment, time of day or year, historical period, situation, place) of the story or literary text.
2.1.3 The student identifies or describes the major conflict in a story and how it is resolved.
2.2 The student understands the significance of literature and its contributions to human understanding and culture.
2.2.1 The student describes aspects of history and culture found in works of literature.
2.2.2 The student compares and contrasts various languages, traditions, and cultures found in literature.
2.2.3 The student makes connections between specific aspects of literature from a variety of cultures and personal experiences.