English Language Arts
Specific expectations in English Language Arts include:
Language
- Follows rules for discussion
- Uses strategies to identify word meaning
Reading and Literature
- Sounds out words
- Reads orally with fluency and expression
- Reads with comprehension
- Identifies characters, setting, and elements of plot
- Makes predictions about text
- Distinguishes cause and effect
- Identifies differences between fiction and non-fiction
Composition
- Writes a paragraph with topic sentence, details, and clincher
- Writes stories and narratives with a beginning, middle, and end
- Uses capitalization and punctuation appropriately
- Applies spelling skills in writing
- Prints upper and lowercase letters and numbers legibly