Reading

Unit 1

• Confirm and self-correct words during oral reading
• Orally read grade-level texts with accuracy, expression, and appropriate rate
• Read grade-level texts with purpose and understanding
• Apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in reading unfamiliar words
• Identify main topic, idea, or argument in grade-level text

Unit 2

• Show understanding of key details in a text
• Identify text evidence to support the author’s message or reader’s responses
• Retell stories, including tales from diverse cultures
• Describe main message, lesson, or moral from stories or other texts
• Describe characters in a story and how their actions contribute to the plot

Unit 3

• Determine meanings of words or phrases as used in a text
• Describe effects and uses of words and phrases in passages
• Describe overall structure of a passage and its effect on the message
• Describe how parts of a story, poem, or drama build on other parts
• Use features in the text and Internet search tools to locate relevant information

Unit 4

• Explain connections between a series of events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text
• Explain differences between an author’s point of view and their own
• Explain how visual images and graphics contribute to and clarify a text
• Combine information from two texts on the same topic