Quarter 1 - ELA
Comprehension: Learning Goals
Sequence of events: correctly recalls the events in fictional text using key transition/time order words
Describes characters in a story and explains how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Determines the setting of a story and how it affects the character(s) and events
Compare and Contrast identifies similarities and differences between themes, characters, settings or events/plot of fictional texts (stories, dramas and/or poems)
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Word Study: Learning Goals
Context Clues: determines the meaning of unknown words using a variety clues in fiction and nonfiction texts
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Quarter 2 -ELA
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Comprehension: Learning Goals
Author’s Viewpoint determines the author’s point of view and/or bias and cites supporting evidence
Compare and Contrast Text Structure identifies and explains similarities and differences between text structures (chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution), Events, Ideas, Concepts, Information or Features in two or more nonfiction texts
Compare and Contrast Informational Text the most important points and key details presented in two texts
Uses Text Features and Graphic Sources to locate and interpret information
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Quarter 3 - ELA
Comprehension: Learning Goals
Compare and Contrast identifies similarities and differences between stories, dramas and/or poems
Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text; refer to text to support responses.
Plot: identifies the elements of plot (conflict, rising action, climax, resolution)
Figurative Language identifies and explains similes, metaphors and personification
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Quarter 4 - ELA
Comprehension: Learning Goals
Determine two or more main ideas in a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
Summarize key details & events in fiction and nonfiction
Determine the central message (theme), lesson or moral in literary text; explain how it is conveyed in text.
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Word Study: Learning Goals
Determines or clarifies the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade-level reading and content
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Writing, Speaking & Listening: Learning Goals
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.