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Grade K

CC RL K-1

Key Ideas and Details

1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-1

Key Ideas and Details

 

1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-1

Key Ideas and Details

1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Grade 3

CC RL 3-1

Key Ideas and Details

1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.

Grade 4

CC RL 4-1

Key Ideas and Details

1. Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-1

Key Ideas and Details

1. Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

Grade K

CC RL K-2

Key Ideas and Details

2.  With prompting and support, retell familiar stories including key details.

 

 

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Grade 1

CC RL 1-2

Key Ideas and Details

 

2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

 

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-2

Key Ideas and Details

2.  Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Grade 3

CC RL 3-2

Key Ideas and Detailss

2. 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.

Grade 4

CC RL 4-2

Key Ideas and Details

2. Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-2

Key Ideas and Details

2. 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.

 

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Practice
 

Finding

the Theme

Assess

Deter-

mine the Theme

Grade K

CC RL K-3

Key Ideas and Details

3.  With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

 

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-3

Key Ideas and Details

 

3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

 

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-3

Key Ideas and Details

3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
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Practice  
   
Assess  

Major Events Assess-ment

2nd Grade Assess-ment

Grade 3

CC RL 3-3

Key Ideas and Detais

3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.

 

Teach
 

Terrific Traits

 
Practice
 
Assess

Contri-bution Assess-

ment

 

Litera-

ture

 
 
Grade 4

CC RL 4-3

Key Ideas and Details

3. 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).

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-3

Key Ideas and Details

3. 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).

 

 

 

 

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Practice
 
   
Assess

Trial Assess-

ment

Reading Liter-

ature

4th Q

ELA Check-

point

Grade K

CC RL K-4

Craft and Structure

4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (See grade K Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

 

 

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Unknown Words

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-4

Craft and Structure

 

4. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (See grade 1 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

 

 

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Senses Assessment

 
Grade 2

CC RL 2-4

Craft and Structure

4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. (See grade 2 Lan- guage standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA
Teach  

Theater Conve-rsation

 
Practice
Assess

Rhythm

2nd Grade

Grade 3

CC RL 3-4

Craft and Structure

4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. (See grade
3 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

 

Teach
 

Making Meaning

 
Practice

Twosies

 
 
Assess

Non-Literal Language

 
   
 
Grade 4

CC RI 4-4 Craft and Structure

 

4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words or phrases in a text relevant to a grade 4 topic or subject area. (See grade 4 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

 

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Grade 5

CC RI 5-4 Craft and Structure

 

4. Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 5 topic or subject area. (See grade 5 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

 

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Grade K

CC RL K-5

Craft and Structure

5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, fantasy, realistic text). CA

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-5

Craft and Structure

 

5. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.

 

 

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Types of Books

 
Grade 2

CC RL 2-5

Craft and Structure

5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
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2.R.L.5

2nd Grade

Story Structure

 

Grade 3

CC RL 3-5

Craft and Structure

5. 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.

 

Teach
 

Bitesize

Practice

Twosies

 
 
Assess

Parts of Stories, Plays, and Poems

 
   
 
Grade 4

CC RL 4-5

Craft and Structure

5. 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.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-5

Craft and Structure

5. Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to provide the overall structure of a particular story, drama, or poem.

 

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Practice
 

Dr Strip

 
Assess

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Grade K

CC RL K-6

Craft and Structure

6. With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

 

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-6

Craft and Structure

 

6.  Identify words and . Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

 

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-6

Craft and Structure

6. Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.

Grade 3

Grade 4

CC RL 4-6

Craft and Structure

6. Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-6

Craft and Structure

6. Describe how a narrator’s or speaker’s point of view influences how events are described.

 

Grade K

CC RL K-7

Craft and Structure

7. With prompting and support, describe
the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).

 

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-7

Craft and Structure

 

7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

 

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-7

Craft and Structure

7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.

Grade 3

CC RL 3-7

Craft and Structure

Grade 4

CC RL 4-7

Craft and Structure

7. Make connections between the text of a story or drama and a visual or oral presentation of the text, identifying where each version reflects specific descriptions and directions in the text.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-7

Craft and Structure

7. Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty
of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem)

 

Grade K

CC RL K-9

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

9. With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

 

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-9

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

9. Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories.

 

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-9

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

 

9. Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.

Grade 3

Grade 4

CC RL 4-9

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

9. Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-9

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

9. Integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Grade K

CC RL K-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

 

10. Activate prior knowledge related to the information and events in texts. CA

1.  Use illustrations and context to make predictions about text. CA

 

2.  With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.

 

 

 

Grade 1

CC RL 1-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

10. With prompting and support, read prose and

poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.

1.  Activate prior knowledge related to the information and events in a text. CA

 

 

2.  Confirm predictions about what will happen next in a text. CA

 

Grade 2

CC RL 2-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

 

10. 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.

Grade 3

CC RL 3-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

Grade 4

CC RL 4-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

 

10. By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 4–5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.

 

 

 

Grade 5

CC RL 5-10

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

10. 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 4–5 text complexity band independently and proficiently.