Key Concepts to Be Developed
Concepts and Skills: What Students Need to Know and Be able to Do
Reading
Writing
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Speaking/Listening
Language
Foundational Skills
Reading
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
- 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.
- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language.
- 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.
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
- Comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
Writing
Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.
Speaking/Listening
- Report on a topic, or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
Language
- Capitalize appropriate words and titles
- Use commas in addresses
- Consult reference materials including beginning dictionaries as needed to check and correct spellings
- Use conventional spelling for high frequency and other studied words and for adding suffixes to base words
- Use sentence level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
- Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word
- Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases
Foundational Skills
- Decode words with common Latin suffixes
- Read grade appropriate irregularly spelled words
- Read on level text with purpose and understanding
- Read on level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings
- Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary
