Developing and sustaining foundational language skills

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

Listen actively to interpret verbal and non-verbal messages, ask relevant questions, and make pertinent comments;

Follow, restate, and give oral instructions that include multiple action steps;

Give an organized presentation employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, natural gestures, and conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively

Work collaboratively with others to develop a plan of shared responsibilities.

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 words with consonant changes, including/t/ to/sh/ such as in select and selection and/k/ to/sh/ such as music and musician;

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

Decoding words using advanced knowledge of syllable division patterns;

Decoding words using advanced knowledge of the influence of prefixes and suffixes on base words

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 words with consonant changes, including/t/ to/sh/ such as in select and selection and/k/ to/sh/ such as music and musician;

Spelling multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns;

Spelling words using advanced knowledge of syllable division patterns;

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;

Write legibly in cursive.

The student uses newly acquired vocabulary expressively.

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

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

Identify the meaning of and use words with affixes such as trans-, super-, -ive, and -logy and roots such as geo and photo

Identify, use, and explain the meaning of adages and puns.

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.