Week/

Month

Content

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept.-May

  • Basic Sight Words
  • Read 200 high frequency words
  • Learn and use new words through explicit instruction and independent reading
  • Teacher checklist
  • IA3
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  • IB1,IB3

Sept.-May

  • Reading Word Strategies
  • Use strategies of rereading, phonics, context and picture clues to read an unknown word and elf correct
  • Read aloud grade appropriate text with accuracy, fluency, expression and comprehension
  • Generate and use antonyms, synonyms and multiple meanings of words
  • Teacher observation
  • Student oral reading
  • Unit tests
  • IB3, IA1, IA5, IC4

 

 

 

  • IA4, IC1

 

 

 

  • IB5

Sept.-May

  • Comprehension Strategies
  • Identify fiction and non-fiction
  • Understand that different types of books such as fiction and nonfiction and reference materials have different purposes
  • Read from and listen to texts representing a variety of genres (such as poetry, folk tales, drama, fantasy, realistic fiction, informational and biography) from America as well as from other countries
  • Recall and use prior learning and preview text to prepare for reading. 
  • Predict before, during and after reading and verify outcomes
  • Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story and restate the sequence
  • Summarize a story or text
  • Identify character traits, plot and setting
  • Compare and contrast stories by the same and different authors and genres regarding the same theme
  • Discuss cause and effect
  • Make inferences based on reading narrative and informational text
  • Identify topic, main idea and supporting details in non-fiction
  • Use details from the story to support interpretation
  • Interpret information from pictures, titles, diagrams, graphs, and charts
  • The student will follow two step written directions.
  • Critically read and evaluate texts to determine the author’s purpose.
  • Read selections for personal enjoyment.
  • Teacher observation
  • Unit tests
  • Group discussions
  • Journal entries

 

 

  • IIIB2
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  • ID1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • IC2

 

 

 

  • IC8

 

 

  • IC5

 

 

  • IC5, IC9
  • ID2

 

  • ID4, ID5

 

 

 

 

  • IC7
  • IC7

 

 

  • IC6

 

 

  • ID3

 

  • IC3

 

 

  • IC10

 

 

  • ID6

 

  • ID7

 

 

 

Sept.-May

  • Listening
  • Listen and respond appropriately
  • Group Discussions
  • Teacher observation
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