Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words: Use knowledge of letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and word origin (Anglo-Saxon) to decode and comprehend unfamiliar multi-syllabic words in and out of context.
Read grade-level texts fluently, with sufficient accuracy, rate, and expression to support comprehension.
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text; summarize the text.
Determine a theme or central idea of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text.
Describe a literary element in detail, drawing on specific details from literary text
Explain events, concepts, or steps in a procedure, including what happened and why, based on specific details, in informational text.
Determine the impact on the text of literary text features and narrative point of view (first person, second person, third person point of view).
Interpret the ideas/ information conveyed through illustrations, graphics, and other audiovisual elements to support understanding and compare and contrast illustrations, graphics and other audiovisual elements in a wide variety of texts.
Determine the author’s, including Dakota and Anishinaabe authors, stated or implied purpose (i.e., entertain, inform, persuade) and how it is conveyed by the words or characters.
Identify fact and fiction/opinion in a text and place on a continuum of fact to fiction.
Distinguish literal from figurative language in stories, poems, or songs.
Use correct punctuation (including punctuation of dialogue and commas with clauses), spelling, capitalization, and grammar, authentically in writing.
Apply spelling patterns and rules to spell words with Anglo-Saxon word origin, authentically in writing.
Demonstrate subject-verb and pronoun-antecedent agreement in simple compound, and complex sentences, authentically in writing
Write routinely for a range of tasks, purposes, and audiences. (e.g., personal interest, enjoyment, academic tasks)
Write to compare and contrast personal perspectives and identities to those of a character in a literary text or a human subject in an informational text.