Prodigy English curriculum standards
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Grade 1 language skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Identifying common nouns in sentences
- Identifying proper nouns
- Selecting possessive nouns
- Selecting and identifying singular or plural nouns
- Selecting matching verbs for plural or singular nouns
- Identifying the subject of a sentence
- Selecting subject or object personal pronouns
- Selecting subject or object personal pronouns
- Selecting personal pronouns
- Selecting possessive pronouns
- Matching verbs with pronouns
- Selecting pronouns as subjects (pronoun-verb agreement)
- Identifying sentences that tell about the present
- Identifying sentences that tell about the past
- Identifying sentences that use future tense
- Identifying irregular past tense sentences
- Selecting adjectives
- Using conjunctions
- Selecting articles
- Selecting prepositions
- Identifying declarative sentences
- Identifying questions
- Identifying exclamatory sentences
- Identifying imperative sentences
- Selecting ending punctuation
- Identifying sentence types
- Identifying subject or verb
- Identifying complete sentences
- Creating complete sentences
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Capitalizing dates
- Capitalizing names
- Selecting ending punctuation
- Identifying sentence types
- Using commas in dates
- Using commas in lists
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Finding the meaning of a word in the context of a sentence
- Selecting a word with an inflectional ending that completes a sentence
- Identifying the meaning of a word with an affix
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Categorizing words
- Identifying categories
- Using adjectives
- Using verbs
- Selecting adjectives
- Categorizing adjectives
- Using shades of meaning
- Using adjectives
- Selecting prepositions
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: With guidance and support from adults, demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Selecting prepositions
- Using adjectives
Grade 1 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in a text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.2
Key Ideas and Details: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence that describes a story element
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence that describes a story element
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.4
Craft and Structure: Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Skills include:
- Identifying feelings in poetry
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.5
Craft and Structure: Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
Skills include:
- Identifying passages that are based on facts or made-up events
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.6
Craft and Structure: Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying who is telling the story
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.
Skills include:
- Selecting the setting, character description, or problem in a story with an illustration
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.
Skills include:
- Comparing or contrasting two stories
9) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in a text
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in informational text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.2
Key Ideas and Details: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Skills include:
- Retelling the key details on a topic
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Skills include:
- Connecting information across sentences
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.4
Craft and Structure Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
Skills include:
- Finding the meaning of a word in context
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.6
Craft and Structure: Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text.
Skills include:
Identifying whether information is from a text or picture
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.
Skills include:
- Retelling the key details on a topic
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.8
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Skills include:
- Selecting the sentence in the text that supports a specific point
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).
Skills include:
- Identifying similarities or differences in two texts on the same topic
9) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.1.10
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in informational text
Foundational
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.1
Print Concepts: Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
Skills include:
- Recognizing features of a sentence
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.2
Phonological Awareness: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
Skills include:
- Identifying short and long vowel sounds
- Completing a sentence with words that have short or long vowel sounds
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3
Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Skills include:
- Identifying digraphs and trigraphs
- Completing a sentence with words that have short or long vowel sounds
- Identifying the letter that makes a vowel sound in a word
- Identifying the letters that make vowel sounds in a word
- Identifying the number of syllables in a word
- Selecting the verb with an inflectional ending
- Completing a sentence using a word in context
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4
Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Skills include:
- Completing the rhyme in a sentence or a poem
- Identifying digraphs and trigraphs
- Identifying who is telling the story
- Identifying the letters that make vowel sounds in a word
- Completing a sentence using a word in context
- Finding the meaning of a word in context
Grade 1 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply a reason for the opinion, and provide some sense of closure.
Skills include:
- Retelling the key details on a topic
- Identifying key details in informational text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some sense of closure.
Skills include:
- Identifying passages that are based on facts or made-up events
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Skills include:
- Selecting the setting, character description, or problem in a story with an illustration
Grade 2 language skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Selecting collective nouns
- Selecting the noun
- Common and proper nouns
- Identifying regular and irregular plural nouns
- Identifying singular and plural nouns
- Identifying reflexive pronouns
- Select the irregular past tense verb
- Select the sense adjective
- Using adjectives or adverbs
- Identify between adjectives and adverbs
- Identify between complete sentences and sentence fragments
- Identifying between complete sentences and run-on sentences
- Identifying between complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences
- Identifying the subject
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Capitalizing geographic names
- Using commas in letters
- Forming contractions
- Forming possessives
- Identifying short and long vowel sounds
- Using guide words
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 2 reading and content, choosing the flexibility from an array of strategies.
Skills include:
- Using sentence context clues
- Identifying synonyms
- Identifying antonyms
- Identifying base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Identifying the meaning of prefixes
- Selecting prefixes
- Identifying suffixes
- Reviewing prefixes and suffixes
- Defining compound words
- Using guide words
- Ordering alphabetically
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Selecting action verbs
- Select the sense adjective
- Selecting adjectives
- Choosing the closest meaning
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe (e.g., When other kids are happy that makes me happy).
Skills include:
- Using homophones
- Choosing prepositions
Grade 2 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in a story
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.2
Key Ideas and Details: Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.
Skills include:
- Recounting fables and identifying the moral of the story
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
Skills include:
- Identifying character responses, feelings, and descriptions after events and challenges
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4
Craft and Structure: Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
Skills include:
- Completing a poem with a rhyming line
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.5
Craft and Structure: Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence that begins or concludes a story
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
Skills include:
- Identifying the character, setting, problem, or solution in a story
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
Skills include:
- Comparing or contrasting two versions of a story
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in a story
- Recounting fables and identifying the moral of the story
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
Skills include:
- Asking and answering questions about key details in a text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2
Key Ideas and Details: Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the main topic
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
Skills include:
- Connecting information in a passage
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 2 topic or subject area.
Skills include:
- Identifying synonyms
- Identifying antonyms
- Using sentence context clues
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.5
Craft and Structure: Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
Skills include:
- Using guide words
- Identifying the meaning of a word used in a passage
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.6
Craft and Structure: Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
Skills include:
- Identifying the main topic
- Identifying the author's purpose with informational texts
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.7
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Explain how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
Skills include:
- Pairing the details from an image and informational text to determine the next sentence
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.8
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence that supports a specific point
9) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic.
Skills include:
- Comparing or contrasting two informational texts on the same topic
10) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2-3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Skills include:
- Identifying the main topic
- Asking and answering questions about key details in a text
Foundational
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.3
Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Skills include:
- Identifying long and short vowel sounds
- Selecting words that have short or long vowel sounds
- Identifying two-syllable words
- Identifying base words, prefixes, and suffixes
- Identifying the meaning of prefixes
- Identifying suffixes
- Reviewing prefixes and suffixes
- Selecting a word with a different vowel sound
- Completing sentences using words with vowel teams
- Using homophones
- Identifying long and short vowel sounds
- Selecting a sight word that is not spelled correctly
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4
Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Skills include:
- Recounting fables and identifying the moral of the story
- Identifying the main topic
- Asking and answering questions about key details in a text
- Using sentence context clues
- Selecting a sight word that is not spelled correctly
- Using sentence context clues
- Selecting a synonym in a sentence
- Completing sentences using words with vowel teams
- Identifying two-syllable words
- Selecting action verbs
- Select the sense adjective
Grade 2 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Skills include:
- Using conjunctions
- Identifying the main topic
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence that supports a specific point
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3
Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Skills include:
- Selecting the sense adjective
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.5
Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
Skills include:
- Identifying between complete sentences and sentence fragments
- Identifying run-on sentences
- Identifying between complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run-on sentences
- Identifying synonyms
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
Skills include:
- Identifying key details in a story
Grade 3 language skills
1) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Identifying nouns in a sentence
- Identifying collective nouns
- Selecting an adjective or adverb to complete a sentence
- Forming regular plural nouns
- Identifying irregular plural nouns
- Identifying abstract nouns in a sentence
- Identifying action verbs
- Using the irregular verb "to be"
- Identifying the correct use of the irregular verb "to have" in a sentence
- Identifying the verb tense in a sentence
- Selecting the sentence with the correct verb tense
- Changing the verb tense of a sentence
- Determining if the subject in a sentence is singular or plural
- Selecting the sentence that uses the correct subject or verb
- Selecting the sentence that uses the correct verb or pronoun
- Selecting the correct comparative or superlative adjective
- Selecting the correct comparative or superlative adverb
- Selecting the correct comparative or superlative adjective or adverb
- Selecting the subordinating conjunction to complete the (complex) sentence
- Completing a compound sentence
- Identifying the complete sentence
- Completing a simple sentence
- Completing a compound sentence
- Selecting the subordinating conjunction to complete the (complex) sentence
2) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct use of capital letters in titles
- Selecting the option that correctly uses commas when writing locations
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Using possessive nouns in a sentence
- Using possessive pronouns in a sentence
- Identifying the correct homophone
- Using dictionary guide words
3) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.3
Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Skills include:
- Selecting the adjective that best describes the character in a sentence
- Selecting the synonym of a word
- Selecting the antonym of a word
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
4) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning word and phrases based on grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Skills include:
- Selecting the meaning of a simile
- Selecting a sentence that uses the context of a word with a specific definition
- Selecting a definition that matches the meaning of a word used in a sentence
- Selecting the meaning of a word with an added affix
- Identifying the prefix that matches the word meaning
- Selecting the word with the prefix (pre, re, un) that completes the sentence
- Identifying the suffix that matches the word meaning
- Selecting the word with the suffix (ful, less, able) that completes the sentence
- Using a given definition to determine the root meaning within a word
- Using a root word to determine the definition of a word
- Using dictionary guide words
5) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.3.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Selecting the meaning of a simile
- Selecting the adjective that best describes the character in a sentence
- Identifying action verbs
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them).
Skills include:
- Using a given definition to determine the root meaning within a word
- Using a root word to determine the definition of a word
- Identifying the correct homophone
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
Grade 3 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Skills include:
- Selecting the inference that is most likely true
- Identifying the setting, plot, character, problem and solution in a story
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2
Key Ideas and Details: Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Skills include:
- Recounting fables and identifying the moral of the story
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Skills include:
- Selecting an emotion or trait to describe a character
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
Skills include:
- Understanding the meaning of figurative speech in literature passages
- Identifying the passage that uses a word in a specific context
- Identifying the passage that uses a word in a specific context
- Identifying the meaning of a word in context
- Identifying the correct use of vocabulary in context
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.5
Craft and Structure: Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
Skills include:
- Identifying what happened at particular parts of a story or poem
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.6
Craft and Structure: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Skills include:
- Identifying the point of view
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
Skills include:
- Comparing and contrasting story elements between two texts
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.10
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Skills include:
- Identifying the setting, plot, character, problem, and solution in a story
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Key Ideas and Details: Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Skills include:
- Demonstrating an understanding of informational text passages
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Skills include:
- Determining the main idea or key details from an informational text passage
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Skills include:
- Identifying the key words and text structure in informational passages
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Skills include:
- Identifying the meaning of academic words in context
- Determining the definition of a word based on how it is used in a passage
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.5
Craft and Structure: Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Skills include:
- Selecting text features in informational text passages
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.6
Craft and Structure: Distinguish their own point of view from that of the author of a text.
Skills include:
- Selecting an opinion or a fact from a text
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.8
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Describe the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs in a text (e.g., comparison, cause/effect, first/second/third in a sequence).
Skills include:
- Identifying the key words and text structure in informational passages
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.
Skills include:
- Comparing and contrasting passages about a similar topic
9) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.10
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Skills include:
- Answering questions to demonstrate an understanding of informational text passages
Foundational
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.3
Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Skills include:
- Selecting the word with a prefix or suffix that matches the definition
- Identifying the prefix that matches the word meaning
- Selecting the word with the prefix (pre, re, un) that completes the sentence
- Identifying the suffix that matches the word meaning
- Selecting the correctly spelled word and suffix
- Selecting the word with the correct affix
- Identifying the meaning of a word with a suffix in context
- Selecting the syllables that make up a word
- Selecting the sentence with the correct irregularly spelled word
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4
Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Skills include:
- Making predictions about a story
- Identifying the setting, plot, character, problem and solution in a story
- Identifying the passage that uses a word in a specific context
- Identifying the passage that uses a word in a specific context
Grade 3 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Skills include:
- Selecting the coordinating conjunction to complete a compound sentence
- Selecting the subordinating conjunction to complete the (complex) sentence
- Determining the main idea or key details from an informational text passage
- Selecting an opinion or a fact from a text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Skills include:
- Determining the main idea or key details from an informational text passage
- Selecting an opinion or a fact from a text
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Selecting an emotion or trait to describe a character
- Identifying the setting, plot, character, problem, and solution in a story
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.4
Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Skills include:
- Selecting the correct subject or verb to complete a sentence
- Identifying the key words and text structure in informational passages
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.5
Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Skills include:
- Identifying irregular plural nouns
- Forming regular plural nouns
- Selecting the option that correctly uses commas when writing locations
- Identifying the correct use of capital letters in titles
- Identifying the complete sentence
- Completing a simple sentence
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Selecting the coordinating conjunction to complete a compound sentence
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories.
Skills include:
- Determining the main idea or key details from an informational text passage
Grade 4 language skills
1) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Identifying the missing relative pronoun or relative adverb
- Identifying the missing helping verb
- Selecting the modal auxiliary verb that has a specific meaning
- Selecting the appropriate modal auxiliary verb to complete a sentence
- Identifying the complete sentence or sentence fragment
- Selecting the complete or run-on sentences
- Selecting the complete sentence, sentence fragment, or run-on sentence
- Selecting the correct homophone to complete a sentence
2) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Identifying correct capitalization in sentences
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Completing a compound sentence
- Complete the compound sentence
- Selecting the correct homophone to complete a sentence
- Using dictionary guide words
3) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.3
Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Skills include:
- Selecting the adjective that best describes the character in a sentence
- Selecting the synonym of a word
- Selecting the antonym of a word
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
- Using a thesaurus
4) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 4 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Skills include:
- Selecting the meaning of a simile or metaphor
- Selecting a sentence that uses a word with a specific definition in context
- Selecting a definition that matches the meaning of a word used in a sentence
- Determining the meaning of idioms in context
- Identifying the meaning of academic vocabulary in context
- Identifying the prefix, suffix, or base word
- Identifying the meaning of a word with a prefix (pre, re, mis)
- Selecting the word with a prefix (pre, re, mis) that completes the sentence
- Identifying the meaning of words with suffixes (ly, ful, less)
- Identifying the meaning of words with suffixes (able, ment, ness)
- Selecting the word with the correct affix
- Identifying the meaning of a Greek or Latin root
- Using dictionary guide words
- Using a thesaurus
5) CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.4.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Selecting the meaning of a simile or metaphor
- Determining the meaning of idioms in context
- Identifying the meaning of idioms
- Selecting the synonym of a word
- Selecting a sentence with the same meaning
- Selecting the antonym of a word
- Selecting a sentence with the opposite meaning
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal precise actions, emotions, or states of being (e.g., quizzed, whined, stammered) and that are basic to a particular topic (e.g., wildlife, conservation, and endangered when discussing animal preservation).
Skills include:
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
Grade 4 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.1
Key Ideas and Details: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting the inference that is more likely to be true
- Identify story elements
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the theme of a passage
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions).
Skills include:
- Identify story elements
- Understanding character traits in literary text
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean).
Skills include:
- Identifying the meaning of a simile or metaphor
- Identifying the meaning of an idiom
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.5
Craft and Structure: Explain major differences between poems, drama, and prose, and refer to the structural elements of poems (e.g., verse, rhythm, meter) and drama (e.g., casts of characters, settings, descriptions, dialogue, stage directions) when writing or speaking about a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying poetry form and rhyme scheme
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6
Craft and Structure: Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.
Skills include:
- Identifying the narrator's point of view
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.1
Key Ideas and Details: Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Skills include:
- Using key details to answer questions and draw inferences
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
Skills include:
- Determining the main idea of an informational text passage
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.3
Key Ideas and Details: Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the text structure in informational passages
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area.
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5
Craft and Structure: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the text structure in informational passages
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.8
Integration and Knowledge of Ideas: Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.
Skills include:
- Finding evidence in a text to support an idea
Foundational
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.3
Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Skills include:
- Identifying the meaning of a Greek or Latin root
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4
Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Skills include:
- Selecting the inference that is more likely to be true
- Selecting the inference that is more likely to be true
- Making predictions about a story
- Identifying the definition that matches the meaning of a word used in a passage
- Identifying the passage that uses a word with a specified meaning
- Identifying the meaning of an idiom
- Identifying the meaning of academic vocabulary in context
Grade 4 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Skills include:
- Selecting the subordinating conjunction to complete the (complex) sentence
- Determining the main idea of an informational text passage
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Skills include:
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
- Selecting the subordinating conjunction to complete the (complex) sentence
- Identifying the meaning of academic vocabulary in context
- Determining the main idea of an informational text passage
- Finding evidence in a text to support an idea
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.3
Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Skills include:
- Selecting a phrase with a positive or negative connotation
- Using precise academic and domain-specific words
- Understanding character traits in literary text
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.4
Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Skills include:
- Identifying the text structure of informational passages
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.5
Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, and editing.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Identifying the complete sentence or sentence fragment
- Selecting the complete or run-on sentences
- Selecting the complete sentence, sentence fragment, or run-on sentence
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.4.8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.
Skills include:
- Determining the main idea of an informational text passage
- Finding evidence in a text to support an idea
Grade 5 language skills
1) CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.L.5.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct coordinating conjunction
- Identifying prepositions and prepositional phrases
- Identifying interjections in sentences
- Identifying coordinating conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections in sentences
- Selecting the correct tense of verb
- Identifying helping verbs for perfect tense sentences
- Identifying the function of modal verbs
- Correcting incorrect verb tense
- Identifying the tense of a sentence
- Identifying the correct progressive tense verb
- Selecting the correct correlative conjunctions
2) CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.L.5.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Punctuating and Capitalizing Titles
- Selecting the correct frequently confused word
- Selecting the correct homophone
- Using guide words to find definitions
3) CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.L.5.3
Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct coordinating conjunction
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
- Formal and informal writing
4) CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 5 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Skills include:
- Using context to define words
- Matching definitions to a word in a sentence
- Matching a definition to a sentence
- Defining words based on synonyms in context
- Using words with prefixes pre- and re-
- Using words with prefixes sub- and mis-
- Using words with prefixes un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
- Using words with suffixes -ful and -less
- Using words with suffixes -able and -ible
- Defining words with Greek and Latin Roots
- Defining Greek and Latin roots
- Defining Greek and Latin roots across several words
- Using roots to complete sentences
- Understanding dictionary definitions
- Understanding thesaurus entries
5) CCSS-ELA-LITERACY.L.5.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Interpreting similes and metaphors
- Using context to define words
- Defining words based on synonyms in context
- Understanding idioms and adages
- Identifying synonyms
- Identifying antonyms
- Solving word analogies
- Selecting the correct homophone
- Matching definitions to a word in a sentence
- Matching a definition to a sentence
- Describing the difference between related words
- Identifying positive and negative connotation
- Understanding thesaurus entries
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal contrast, addition, and other logical relationships (e.g., however, although, nevertheless, similarly, moreover, in addition).
Skills include:
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
- Identifying positive and negative connotation
Grade 5 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.1
Key Ideas and Details: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting the inference that is more likely to be true
- Finding details in a text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the theme of a passage
- Identifying the tone of a poem
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.3
Key Ideas and Details: Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g. how characters interact).
Skills include:
- Comparing and contrasting elements of stories to identify similar settings, character traits, and themes
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes.
Skills include:
- Selecting the figurative speech (simile or metaphor) that matches the meaning provided
- Identifying the meaning of a hyperbole or personification within a passage
- Selecting the passage passage containing a specific simile, metaphor, hyberbole, or personification
- Understanding idioms and adages
- Defining words based on synonyms in context
- Using context to define words
- Matching definitions to a word in a sentence
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.6
Craft and Structure: Describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.
Skills include:
- Identifying the narrator's point of view
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.1
Key Ideas and Details: Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting a sentence from a text that can be quoted to answer a question
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting the headings that match the paragraphs in an informational text
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.3
Key Ideas and Details: Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.
Skills include:
- Answering questions to explain the relationships between ideas in an informational text passage
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area.
Skills include:
- Identifying the definition of a word that matches its meaning as used in a passage
- Selecting the word from an informational text that matches the definition provided
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5
Craft and Structure: Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.
Skills include:
- Selecting informational text passages with matching text structures
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.6
Craft and Structure: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Skills include:
- Selecting the passage that is based only on facts
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.8
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point(s).
Skills include:
- Finding evidence in a text to support an idea
Foundational
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.3
Phonics and Word Recognition: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Skills include:
- Using words with prefixes pre- and re-
- Using words with prefixes sub- and mis-
- Using words with prefixes un-, dis-, in-, im-, and non-
- Using words with suffixes -ful and -less
- Using words with suffixes -able and -ible
- Identifying the meaning of a Greek or Latin root
- Selecting the passage that correctly uses a word containing a root
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4
Fluency: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Skills include:
- Selecting the inference that is more likely to be true
- Identifying the theme of a passage
- Identifying the tone of a poem
- Understanding idioms and adages
- Defining words based on synonyms in context
- Using context to define words
- Matching definitions to a word in a sentence
Grade 5 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct coordinating conjunction
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
- Selecting the correct correlative conjunctions
- Selecting the passage that is based only on facts
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct coordinating conjunction
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
- Selecting the correct correlative conjunctions
- Describing the difference between related words
- Identifying positive and negative connotation
- Selecting the headings that match the paragraphs in an informational text
- Selecting the passage that is based only on facts
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.3
Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Skills include:
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
- Describing the difference between related words
- Identifying positive and negative connotation
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.4
Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Skills include:
- Answering questions to explain the relationships between ideas in an informational text passage
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.5
Production and Distribution of Writing: With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Skills include:
- Identifying the correct use of commas and quotation marks
- Creating compound, shortened, and compound-complex sentences from simple sentences
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.5.9
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Skills include:
- Comparing and contrasting elements of stories to identify similar settings, character traits, and themes
- Finding evidence in a text to support an idea
Grade 6 language skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.1
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
Skills include:
- Selecting the pronoun that completes the sentence
- Selecting the pronoun that completes a sentence containing a compound subject or object
- Selecting the relative pronoun (who or whom) that completes a sentence
- Selecting the intensive pronoun that completes the sentence
- Selecting the intensive pronoun in a sentence
- Selecting the sentence that correctly shifts the use of pronouns
- Selecting the vague pronoun in sentences
- Identifying the antecedents of a vague pronoun
- Selecting the text that represents formal or informal conversational writing
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.2
Conventions of Standard English: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Skills include:
- Selecting the sentence that correctly uses commas to separate a nonrestrictive clause
- Selecting the sentence that correctly uses parentheses or dashes to separate a nonrestrictive clause
- Selecting the incorrect word in a sentence
- Selecting the correct homophone
- Identifying the correct plural form of a word to use in a sentence
- Selecting incorrectly spelled plural or possessive words in a sentence
- Selecting the past tense or past participle form of an irregular verb
- Selecting the correct comparative or superlative adjective or adverb
- Selecting the correct contraction
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.3
Knowledge of Language: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Skills include:
- Identifying subordinating or correlative conjunctions that best complete a sentence
- Selecting the best conjunctive adverb to complete a sentence
- Selecting the text that represents formal or informal conversational writing
- Identifying the tone of a given passage
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.4
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
Skills include:
- Selecting synonyms or antonyms based on context
- Selecting a word with a given definition using context clues
- Defining words using Greek or Latin roots
- Selecting the word with the appropriate prefix or suffix
- Using thesaurus entries to determine the part of speech or understand the meaning of a word
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.5
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
Skills include:
- Identifying the meaning of a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or idiom used in a sentence
- Selecting synonyms or antonyms based on context
- Identifying the connotation of a sentence and understanding the difference between related words
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.6.6
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use: Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; gather vocabulary knowledge when considering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.
Skills include:
- Selecting a word with a given definition using context clues
- Selecting the word with the appropriate prefix or suffix
- Defining words using Greek or Latin roots
- Selecting the best conjunctive adverb to complete a sentence
Grade 6 reading skills
Literature
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
Key Ideas and Details: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting evidence in a text to support an explicit analysis
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Skills include:
- Identifying the theme of a passage
- Identifying the setting or theme of a poem with multiple stanzas
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Key Ideas and Details: Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
Skills include:
- Identifying how a character changed their perspective or actions by the end of a story
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone.
Skills include:
- Selecting a word with a given definition using context clues
- Identifying the meaning of a simile, metaphor, hyperbole, personification, or idiom used in a sentence
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5
Craft and Structure: Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
Skills include:
- Identifying the setting or theme of a poem with multiple stanzas
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
Craft and Structure: Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the point of view of a text
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
Skills include:
- Identifying the common theme that a story and poem share
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.10
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Skills include:
- Identifying the theme of a passage
- Identifying how a character changed their perspective or actions by the end of a story
- Identifying the setting or theme of a poem with multiple stanzas
Informational Text
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1
Key Ideas and Details: Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Skills include:
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
- Comparing and contrasting passages about a similar topic to answer questions
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2
Key Ideas and Details: Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
Skills include:
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
- Determining the central idea of an informational text passage
- Analyzing information in a passage to answer comprehension questions
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3
Key Ideas and Details: Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
Skills include:
- Analyzing information in a passage to answer comprehension questions
- Identifying the sentence that would best fit in the introduction, conclusion, or middle of a passage
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4
Craft and Structure: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
Skills include:
- Selecting a word with a given definition using context clues
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5
Craft and Structure: Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
Skills include:
- Analyzing information in a passage to answer comprehension questions
- Identifying the sentence that would best fit in the introduction, conclusion, or middle of a passage
- Comparing and contrasting passages about a similar topic to answer questions
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6
Craft and Structure: Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Skills include:
- Identifying the author's purpose in an information text
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
Skills include:
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
8) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.9
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
Skills include:
- Comparing and contrasting passages about a similar topic to answer questions
9) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.10
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6-8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Skills include:
- Determining the central idea of an informational text passage
Grade 6 writing skills
1) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.1
Text Types and Purposes: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
Skills include:
- Selecting the best conjunctive adverb to complete a sentence
- Identifying subordinating or correlative conjunctions that best complete a sentence
- Selecting the text that represents formal or informal conversational writing
- Selecting evidence in a text to support an explicit analysis
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
- Identifying the author's purpose in an informational text
2) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.2
Text Types and Purposes: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
Skills include:
- Selecting the best conjunctive adverb to complete a sentence
- Identifying subordinating or correlative conjunctions that best complete a sentence
- Selecting the text that represents formal or informal conversational writing
- Identifying the connotation of a sentence and understanding the difference between related words
- Selecting evidence in a text to support an explicit analysis
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
- Identifying the sentence that would best fit in the introduction, conclusion, or middle of a passage
- Analyzing information in a passage to answer comprehension questions
3) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.3
Text Types and Purposes: Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
Skills include:
- Selecting the best conjunctive adverb to complete a sentence
- Identifying the tone of a given passage
- Identifying the connotation of a sentence and understanding the difference between related words
4) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.4
Production and Distribution of Writing: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Skills include:
- Identifying the sentence that would best fit in the introduction, conclusion, or middle of a passage
- Analyzing information in a passage to answer comprehension questions
- Identifying the author's purpose in an informational text
5) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.5
Production and Distribution of Writing: With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach.
Skills include:
- Selecting the correct tense of verb
- Identifying helping verbs for perfect tense sentences
- Identifying the correct progressive tense verb
- Selecting the verb that has an inappropriate shift in tense
- Punctuating and Capitalizing Titles
- Selecting the incorrect word in a sentence
6) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.8
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
Skills include:
- Selecting evidence in a text to support an explicit analysis
- Determining the central idea of an informational text passage
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
7) CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.6.9
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Skills include:
- Identifying the tone of a given passage
- Identifying the theme of a passage
- Selecting evidence in a text to support an explicit analysis
- Selecting supporting evidence in a text
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