Trimester 3 Standards
Reading Literature and Informational Text
CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian. These standards apply to all languages of instruction.
PowerStandards
Recount/retell text to express an understanding of the author’s main purpose supported by evidence from information presented visually and in words. (RL & RI 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, SL 1.4 & SL 1.5)
Compare and contrast the most important information presented by two texts on the same topic in order to describe connections between two individuals, events, and ideas. (RL & RI 1.3, 1.7 & 1.9)
Ask and answer questions about key details and illustrations in order to demonstrate understanding of the text. (RI 1.1 & 1.7 & SL 1.2 & 1.3)
Year Long Standards
- Ask questions and answer questions about what was read.
- Ask and answer literal questions.
- Clarify the meaning of words or phrases not understood in a text, by asking and answering questions.
- Ask and answer open-ended/higher-level questions.
- Explain which parts of a text one understands and which parts one does not understand.
- Learn new words and use words that have to do with a topic one is learning about.
- Ask questions to clear up any confusion about topics and texts.
- Retell the setting, characters, and events (problem/solution) in a story.
Tri 3 Standards
- Find an illustration in a story, describe it, and explain why it is part of the page it is on.
- Identify who is telling the story at different times of the story.
- Talk about how:
- Two individuals are connected in a text (ex., Clifford is Emily Elizabeth’s dog, etc.)
- Two ideas are connected in a text (ex., Florida is a state in the United States)
- Two events are connected in a text
- Describe two characters from different stories that have similar or different adventures and retell these adventures or experiences.
- Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Read two resources by the same author and share one’s opinion.
- Learn new words and use words that have to do with a topic.
Speaking and Listening
CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian. These standards apply to all languages of instruction.
PowerStandards
Build on others’ talk in academic conversations by linking comments and questions to the key points and evidence provided by others. (SL.1.1b & RI 1.8)
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. (SL 1.4)
Year Long Standards
- Participate in conversations with many different people, including adults.
- Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topic, speaking at an appropriate time).
- Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comment of others through multiple exchanges.
- Ask and answer questions about a presentation to clear up confusion and to get more information.
- Speak in complete sentences.
- Create audio recordings and use visuals such as drawings to draw attention to details.
- Tell a story or share an experience with relevant facts and descriptive details using complete sentences and speaking in a clear voice.
Tri 3 Standards
- Read a text and identify the author’s key points.
- Make connections between the comments of others.
- Ask questions when one does not understand.
- Look for reasons an author gives to say why his or her ideas make sense.
- Ask and answer questions about a presentation.
- Create audio recordings of stories or poems and use visuals, such as drawings or photographs to draw attention to certain facts or details.
- Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
- Identify and describe key ideas and details presented visually or orally.
Writing
CCSD 21 offers programs that provide instruction in English, Spanish & Russian. These standards apply to all languages of instruction.
PowerStandards
Write opinion pieces on authentic topics/texts incorporating a clear topic statement, state a singular opinion, supply logical reasons for the opinion, and provide a sense of closure. (W 1.1 & L 1.1, 1.2, 1.4 & 1.5)
Year Long Standards
- Write routinely over extended time frames and shorter time frames for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audience.
- With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers
- Print all upper- and lowercase letters.
- Explain the extent and reasons for revisions, based on self-assessment and reflection, in conference with a teacher.
- With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
- With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
- Write and publish using digital tools (media compositions or productions) independently and with others, which conveys meaning visually for a variety of purposes.
- Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer questions.
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (See each trimester for specific critical content).
Tri 3 Standards
- Write a topic sentence that states one’s opinion.
- Give reasons for one’s opinion.
- Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g. and, but, because)
- Write a concluding sentence that restates one’s opinion.
- Answer questions, add details, and read and explain one’s writing to others.
- Write a sentence that says and explains how one feels about a topic or book read aloud (in all reading, not just inside the Opinion Writing Unit of Study).
- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. (See each trimester for specific critical content).
English Reading Foundations
PowerStandards
Demonstrate an understanding of the distinguishing features of a sentence, phonological awareness, word analysis and decoding skills in order to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RF 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, & 1.4)
Year Long Standards
- Read orally with accuracy, fluency, and with expression.
- Self-correct to understand what one is reading.
- Recognize and read High-frequency words.
- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text.
- Ask for help to understand texts that are difficult.
Tri 3 Standards
- Read irregularly spelled words.
- Use common, proper, and possessive nouns.
- Use plurals that add -es to words that end with a consonant and y after changing the y to i.
- eg. countries
- Identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms
- Read words with inflectional endings.
- Identify and use nouns and verbs appropriately in various tenses.
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Identify the silent -e at the end of a word.
- Know common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds
- Hear and say words with two letters that make one sound.
- Read and spell words with two letters that make one sound.
- Know the spelling-sound correspondence for common consonant digraphs
- Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns
- With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings:
- Recognize words that may have more than one meaning.
- Put words into categories.
- Define one word by listing other words that describe it.
- Provide real-world examples of words.
- Describe how similar verbs look, peek, and stare have slightly different meanings.
- Describe how similar adjectives like large and gigantic have slightly different meanings
Spanish Reading Foundations
PowerStandards
Demonstrate an understanding of the distinguishing features of a sentence, phonological awareness, word analysis and decoding skills in order to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RF 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, & 1.4)
Year Long Standards
- RF 1.1 Demuestran comprensión de la organización y características básicas de los materiales impresos.
- RF 1.2 Demuestran comprensión de las palabras pronunciadas oralmente, las sílabas y los sonidos (fonemas).
- RF 1.4. Leen con suficiente precisión y fluidez para apoyar la comprensión.
Tri 3 Standards
RF 1.2 Demuestran comprensión de las palabras pronunciadas oralmente, las sílabas y los sonidos (fonemas).
- Distinguen oralmente los sonidos de las vocales en una sola sílaba que forman un diptongo (auto, lluvia, agua, aire, ciudad).
- Reconocen combinaciones consonánticas (consonante + l; consonante + r ) en palabras ya conocidas que contienen letras líquidas (blanco, planta, grande, tronco, traspaso, claro, trabajo, otra, cuatro).
- Reconocen que el acento escrito (acento ortográfico) es una marca colocada sobre una vocal que indica cuál es la sílaba de mayor énfasis de la palabra y que sigue las reglas ortográficas.
RF 1.4. Leen con suficiente precisión y fluidez para apoyar la comprensión.
- Leen textos a nivel de grado, con propósito y comprensión. b. Leen oralmente textos a nivel de grado con precisión, ritmo adecuado y expresión en lecturas sucesivas.
- Usan el contexto para confirmar o autocorregir el reconocimiento de las palabras y la comprensión, releyendo cuando sea necesario.
Russian Reading Foundations
PowerStandards
Demonstrate an understanding of the distinguishing features of a sentence, phonological awareness, word analysis and decoding skills in order to read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RF 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, & 1.4)
Year Long Standards
- Read orally with accuracy, fluency, and with expression.
- Self-correct to understand what one is reading.
- Recognize and read High-frequency words.
- Read grade level text with purpose and understanding.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text.
- Ask for help to understand texts that are difficult.
Tri 3 Standards
- Use common, proper nouns.
- Recognize and use singular/plural endings in nouns and adjectives
- Recognize and use proper masculine/femenine/neutral endings in nouns and adjectives
- Recognize and use proper verbs endings for masculine/femenine/neutral
- Read grade level text with purpose and understanding
- Identify and use nouns and verbs appropriately in various tenses.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide range of text
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- писать буквы и, у, а после шипящих (в буквосочетаниях жи-ши, ча-ща, чу-щу
- )обозначать мягкость согласных на письме с помощью ь
- ставить знак препинания в конце предложения
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