Developing and sustaining foundational language skills

The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments;

Follow, restate, and give oral instructions that involve a series of related sequences of action;

Speak coherently about the topic under discussion, employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively;

Work collaboratively with others by following agreed-upon rules, norms, and protocols

Develop social communication such as conversing politely in all situations.

The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell.

Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:

Decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as eigh, ough, and en;

Decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables final stable syllables;

Decoding compound words, contractions, and abbreviations;

Decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, and VCCCV with accent shifts;

Decoding words using knowledge of prefixes;

Decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants

Identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list;

Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by:

Spelling multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables final stable syllables;

Spelling homophones;

Spelling compound words, contractions, and abbreviations;

Spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns;

Spelling words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, and VCCCV;

Spelling words using knowledge of prefixes

Spelling words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping e, changing y to i, and doubling final consonants;

Alphabetize a series of words to the third letter

Write complete words, thoughts, and answers legibly in cursive leaving appropriate spaces between words.

The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.

Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation;

Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple-meaning words;

Identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as im- (into), non-, dis-, in- (not, non), pre-, -ness, -y, and -ful

Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.

The student reads grade-level text with fluency and comprehension. The student is expected to use appropriate fluency (rate, accuracy, and prosody) when reading grade-level text.

The student reads grade-appropriate texts independently. The student is expected to self-select text and read independently for a sustained period of time.