Standard (Curriculum)

Instruction and Assessment

Standard 1. The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.

1.1 Uses word recognition and word meaning skills to read and comprehend text
* Uses knowledge of phonetic principles (common letter/sound patterns) for word recognition
* Uses word and sentence structure (syllabification, affixes, roots, compound words, contractions) to decode
* Discusses reading strategies for identifying unknown words (e.g., context, re-reading, self-correcting, phonics, structure)

1.2 Builds vocabulary through reading
* Has substantial sight vocabulary of high-frequency words
* Increases vocabulary through listening to and reading fiction and nonfiction
* Uses a glossary

1.3 Reads fluently, adjusting reading for purpose and material
* Reads familiar text with confidence at Stages C and/or D
* Practices reading for accuracy and fluency
* Reads aloud with appropriate expression to convey meaning

1.4 Understands elements of literature
*  Identifies dialogue
* Understands simple sentence and paragraph structure
* Identifies story elements: character, setting, plot
* Understands and uses previously introduced text features: cover information, title page, table of contents
* Learns new text features: dedication, glossary

1.5 Uses features of nonfiction text and computer software
* Uses previously introduced text features:

Computer: keyboard, icon, mouse
Text: title, page number, caption, label, chart, author, and illustrator

* Identifies and understands new features:
Glossary, map and keys, index, chapter heading, pie chart/ bar graph, directions

Instructional Support Materials
* Legacy of Literacy (Houghton Mifflin)
* Pegasus II (Kendall Hunt) 

Instructional Strategies
1.1
* Phonics/decoding strategy
*  Guided reading
* Shared writing
* Highly recurring phonics elements
* Phonic pattern hopscotch

1.2
* Sight vocabulary
* Shared reading
* Word wall
* Word study (e.g., phonological awareness activities, word sorts)
* Dancing definitions
* Taxonomies
*  Bridge map

1.3
*  Choral reading
*   Echo reading
* Reader's theater

1.4
* Character profile or analysis
*  Story map
* Flow map
*  Chants (e.g., "He said, she said")

1.1 - 1.5
* Word wall
* Taxonomies
* Independent reading (DEAR, WEB, SSR)
* Flow map
* Echo reading
* Shared reading
* Reader's theatre
* Guided reading

Assessment
*  Developmental Reading Assessment K-3 (DRA)
* Quick Phonics Assessment
* Sight Word Check

Standard 2. The student understands the meaning of what is read.

2.1 Comprehends important ideas and details
* Retells in correct sequence with detail
* Identifies and discusses main idea and details
* Connects text and personal experience
* Understands stories with a number of characters, events, and scene changes
* Predicts or infers with supporting evidence

2.2 Expands comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas
* Predicts, infers, and compares with supporting evidence
* Summarizes text

2.3 Thinks critically and analyzes authors' use of language, style, purpose, and perspective
* Discusses author's purpose and point of view
* Differentiates between reality and fantasy, fiction and nonfiction

Instructional Support Materials
* Legacy of Literacy (Houghton Mifflin)
* Pegasus II (Kendall Hunt)

Instructional Strategies
2.1
* Retelling
*  Think-pair-share
* Double bubble map
* Tree map

2.1 - 2.3
* Read aloud
* Independent reading (DEAR, WEB, SSR)
* Student-generated questions
* Think aloud
* Preview and predict with evidence
* Number notes
* Character profile or analysis
*  DRTA
* Key word
* Panoramic books
* Read-talk-write
* Think-pair-share
* Concept map
* Flow map
* Opinion proof chart
* Multi-flow map

Assessment
*  Developmental Reading Assessment K-3 (DRA)
*  Anecdotal records
* Comprehension CBA Owls
* Collection of student work

Standard 3. The student reads different materials for a variety of purposes.

3.1 Reads to learn new information and
3.2 Reads to perform a task
* Reads nonfiction from previous years:

Instructions
Report
Recount
Question and answer
Nonfiction text (science, social studies, math, etc.)

* Reads new forms of nonfiction:

Reference: glossary, dictionary, map

3.3 Reads for literary experience in a variety of forms
* Reads a variety of fiction representing different cultures, perspectives, and issues:

Narrative (realistic, fantasy, traditional, folktale, legend)
Verse (counting, number, playground, personal)
Rhyme
Letter
Journal/Diary
Songs
Drama

3.4 Reads for career applications
* Identifies ways people use reading in their work

Instructional Support Materials
* Legacy of Literacy (Houghton Mifflin)
* Pegasus II (Kendall Hunt)

Instructional Strategies
3.1 - 3.4
* Read aloud
* Shared reading
* Guided reading
* Independent reading (DEAR, WEB, SSR)
* Circle frame map
*  Bubble map
* Double bubble map
* Tree map
* List-group-label

Assessment
* Learning logs
* Teacher observation
* Anecdotal records

Standard 4. The student sets goals and evaluates progress to improve reading.

4.1 Assesses strengths and need for improvement
* Sees self as a reader
* Assesses own progress in vocabulary development, reading and comprehension strategies, and reading a variety of texts with teacher guidance
*  Sets specific goals based on progress

4.2 Seeks and offers feedback to improve reading
* Gives and receives feedback on progress toward reading standards (e.g., vocabulary learned, comprehension strategies)
* Discusses own and others' responses to reading

4.3 Develops interests and shares reading experiences
* Reads independently
*  Discusses favorite books and authors

Instructional Strategies
4.1 - 4.3
* KWL
* Learning logs
* Individual assessment checklist
* Journals
* Reading logs
* Guided reading
* Independent reading (DEAR, WEB, SSR)

Assessment
*  End-of-year student self-assessment
*  Reading conferences
* Self-evaluation checklist