Reading

Unit 1

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

Unit 2

• Explain how details in the text support main ideas
• Identify evidence in the text to support the author’s message or reader’s responses
• Describe theme of a literary text
• Summarize literary and informational or explanatory texts
• Compare and contrast characters, settings, events, or ideas from a text

Unit 3

• Determine meanings and effects of words or phrases as used in a text
• Describe overall structure of a passage and its effect on the message
• Describe how chapters, sections, scenes, or stanzas fit together in a text
• Use features in the text and search tools to locate relevant information
• Explain connections between people, events, ideas, concepts, or steps in a text

Unit 4

• Describe how a narrator’s or writer’s point of view influences the text
• Explain how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning and tone
• Compare, contrast, and analyze texts in the same genre or on the same topic
• Find and integrate information from multiple sources to answer a question or solve a problem