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Reading |
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The student reads and comprehends text across the curriculum. |
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1.1 |
The student uses skills in alphabetics to construct meaning from text.
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1.2 |
The student reads fluently.
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1.2.1
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The student uses knowledge of conventions and text features to read fluently at instructional or independent reading levels.
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1.2.2
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The student reads expressively with appropriate pace, phrasing, intonation, and rhythm of speech.
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1.2.3
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The student uses knowledge of complex sentence structure to read fluently at instructional or independent reading levels.
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1.2.4
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The student uses a variety of word-recognition strategies (e.g., orthographic patterns, reading and writing text) to read fluently.
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1.2.5
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The student adjusts reading rate to support comprehension when reading narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
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1.3 |
The student expands vocabulary.
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1.3.1
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The student determines meaning of words or phrases using context clues (e.g., definitions, restatements, examples, descriptions, comparison-contrast, clue words, cause-effect) from sentences or paragraphs.
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1.3.2
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The student locates and uses reference materials available in the classroom, school, and public libraries (e.g., dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, encyclopedias, internet) that are appropriate to the task.
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1.3.3
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The student determines meaning of words through structural analysis, using knowledge of *Greek, *Latin, and Anglo-Saxton *roots, *prefixes, and *suffixes to understand complex words, including words in science, mathematics, and social studies.
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1.3.4
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The student identifies and determines the meaning of figurative language including *similes, *metaphors, *analogies, *hyperbole, *onomatopoeia, *personification, *idioms, *imagery, and symbolism.
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1.3.5
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The student distinguishes between connotative and denotative meanings
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1.4 |
The student comprehends a variety of texts (narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive).
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1.4.1
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The student identifies characteristics of narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
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1.4.2
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The student understands the purpose of text features (e.g., title, graphs/charts and maps, table of contents, pictures/illustrations, boldface type, italics, glossary, index, headings, subheadings, topic and summary sentences, captions, sidebars, underlining, numbered or bulleted lists) and uses such features to locate information in and to gain meaning from appropriate-level texts.
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1.4.3
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The student uses prior knowledge, content, and text type features to make, to revise, and to confirm predictions.
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1.4.4
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The student generates and responds logically to literal, inferential, evaluative, synthesizing, and critical thinking questions before, during, and after reading the text.
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1.4.5
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The student uses information from the text to make inferences and draw conclusions.
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1.4.6
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The student analyzes how text structure (e.g., sequence, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, description, cause-effect) helps support comprehension of text.
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1.4.7
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The student compares and contrasts varying aspects (e.g., characters' traits and motives, themes, problem-solution, cause-effect relationships, ideas and concepts, procedures, viewpoints, authors' purposes, persuasive techniques) in one or more appropriate level texts.
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1.4.8
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The student explains cause-effect relationships in appropriate-level narrative, expository, technical, and persuasive texts.
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1.4.9
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The student uses paraphrasing and organizational skills to summarize information (e.g., stated and implied main ideas, main events, important details) from appropriate-level narrative, expository, persuasive, and technical texts in logical order.
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1.4.10
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The student identifies the topic, main idea(s), supporting details, and theme(s) in text across the content areas and from a variety of sources in appropriate-level texts.
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1.4.11
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The student explains the relationship between an author's use of literary devices in a text (e.g., *foreshadowing, *flashback, *irony, symbolism, tone, mood) and his or her purpose for writing the text.
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1.4.12
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The student establishes purposes for both assigned and self-selected reading (e.g., to be informed, to follow directions, to be entertained, to solve problems).
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1.4.13
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The student follows directions explained in technical text.
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1.4.14
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The student identifies the author's position in a persuasive text and describes techniques the author uses to support that position (e.g., bandwagon approach, glittering generalities, testimonials, citing statistics, other techniques that appeal to reason or emotion).
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1.4.15
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The student distinguishes between fact and opinion, and recognizes propaganda( e.g., advertising, media, politics, warfare), bias, and stereotypes in various types of appropriate texts.
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2 |
Literature |
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The student responds to a variety of text. |
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2.1 |
The student uses literary concepts to interpret and respond to text.
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2.1.1
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The student describes different aspects of characters (e.g., their physical traits, personality traits, feelings, actions, motives) and analyzes how major characters are developed (e.g., through their thoughts, words, speech patterns, actions) and how they change over time.
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2.1.2
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The student identifies and describes the setting (e.g., environment, time of day or year, historical period, situation, place) and analyzes connections between the setting and other story elements (e.g., character, plot).
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2.1.3
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The student identifies major and minor elements of the plot (e.g., problem or conflict, climax, resolution, rising action, falling action, subplots, parallel episodes) and explains how these elements relate to one another.
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2.1.4
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The student recognizes aspects of theme (e.g., moral, lesson, meaning, message, author's ideas about the subject) and recurring themes across works (e.g., bravery, loneliness, loyalty, friendship).
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2.1.5
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The student identifies the use of literary devices (e.g., foreshadowing, *flashback, *figurative language, *imagery, symbolism) in a text and explains how the author uses such devices to help establish tone and mood.
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The student understands the significance of literature and its contributions to various cultures.
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2.2.1
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The student identifies common structure and stylistic elements in literature, folklore, and myths from a variety of cultures.
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2.2.2
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The student compares and contrasts customs and ideas within literature representing a variety of cultures.
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2.2.3
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The student analyzes distinctive and shared characteristics of cultures through a variety of texts.
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