Standard 3

Standard 3: Language Arts Literacy

Language Arts Literacy Cumulative Progress Indicators (CPIs) for the end of the designated grade span

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STANDARD 3.1 (READING) ALL STUDENTS WILL UNDERSTAND AND APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUNDS, LETTERS, AND WORDS IN WRITTEN ENGLISH TO BECOME INDEPENDENT AND FLUENT READERS, AND WILL READ A VARIETY OF MATERIALS AND TEXTS WITH FLUENCY AND COMPREHENSION.

	G. Comprehension Skills and Response to Text
	By the end of Kindergarten, students will:
	1. Respond to a variety of poems and stories through movement, art, music, and drama.
	2. Verbally identify the main character, setting, and important events in a story read aloud.
	3. Identify favorite books and stories.
	4. Retell a story read aloud using main characters and events.
	5. Participate in shared reading experiences.
	6. Make predictions based on illustrations or portions of stories.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 1, students will:
	1. Draw simple conclusions from information gathered from pictures, print, and people.
	2. Demonstrate familiarity with genres of text, including storybooks, expository texts, poetry, and newspapers.
	3. Sequence information learned from text into a logical order to retell facts.
	4. Identify, describe, compare, and contrast the elements of plot, setting, and characters.
	5. Make simple inferences.
	6. Read regularly in independent-level materials.
	7. Engage in silent independent reading for specific purposes.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 2, students will:
	1. Demonstrate ability to recall facts and details of text.
	2. Recognize cause and effect in texts.
	3. Make inferences and support them with textual information.
	4. Continue to identify story elements in texts.
	5. Respond to text by using how, why, and what-if questions.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 3, students will:
	1. Recognize purpose of the text.
	2. Distinguish cause/effect, fact/opinion, main idea/supporting details in interpreting texts.
	3. Interpret information in graphs, charts, and diagrams.
	4. Ask how, why, and what-if questions in interpreting nonfiction texts.
	5. Recognize how authors use humor, sarcasm, and imagery to extend meaning.
	6. Discuss underlying theme or message in interpreting fiction.
	7. Summarize major points from fiction and nonfiction texts.
	8. Draw conclusions and inferences from texts.
	9. Recognize first-person "I" point of view.
	10. Compare and contrast story plots, characters, settings, and themes.
	11. Participate in creative responses to texts (e.g., dramatizations, oral presentations).
	12. Read regularly in materials appropriate for their independent reading level.
	13. Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction that is appropriately designed for grade level.
	14. Use information and reasoning to examine bases of hypotheses and opinions.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:
	1. Discuss underlying themes across cultures in various texts.
	2. Distinguish cause and effect, fact and opinion, main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts (e.g., science, social studies).
	3. Cite evidence from text to support conclusions.
	4. Understand author’s opinions and how they address culture, ethnicity, gender, and historical periods (cf. social studies standards).
	5. Follow simple multiple-steps in written instructions
	6. Recognize an author’s point of view.
	7. Identify and summarize central ideas in informational texts.
	8. Recognize differences among forms of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
	9. Recognize literary elements in stories, including setting, characters, plot, and mood.
	10. Identify some literary devices in stories.
	11. Identify the structures in poetry.
	12. Identify the structures in drama
	13. Read regularly in materials appropriate for their independent reading level.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 5, students will:
	1. Identify author’s purpose, views, and beliefs.
	2. Identify genre by their distinctive elements (e.g. tall tale-exaggeration).
	3. Use cause and effect and sequence of events to gain meaning.
	4. Anticipate and construct meaning from text by making conscious connections to self, an author, and others.
	5. Recognize persuasive and propaganda techniques used to influence readers.
	6. Recognize historical and cultural biases and different points of view.
	7. Understand that theme refers to the central idea or meaning of a selection and recognize themes, whether implied or stated directly.
	8. Distinguish between major and minor details.
	9. Make inferences using textual information and provide supporting evidence.
	10. Recognize common organizational patterns in text that support comprehension (e.g., headings, captions).
	11. Identify and analyze text types, formats, and elements in nonfiction.
	12. Recognize literary elements in stories, including setting, characters, plot, and mood.
	13. Recognize figurative language in text (e.g. simile, metaphor, personification, alliteration).
	14. Identify and respond to the elements of sound and structure in poetry.
	15. Identify the structures in drama.
	16. Read regularly in materials appropriate for their independent reading level.
	17. Interpret idiomatic expressions.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:
	1. Respond critically to an author’s purpose, ideas, views, and beliefs.
	2. Identify genre by their distinctive elements (e.g. tall tale-exaggeration).
	3. Use cause and effect and sequence of events to gain meaning.
	4. Construct meaning from text by making conscious connections to self, an author, and others.
	5. Recognize persuasive and propaganda techniques used to influence readers.
	6. Recognize and understand historical and cultural biases and different points of view.
	7. Identify and analyze features of themes conveyed through characters, actions, and images.
	8. Distinguish between major and minor details.
	9. Make inferences using textual information and provide supporting evidence.
	10. Recognize common organizational patterns in text that support comprehension (e.g., headings captions).
	11. Identify and analyze text types, formats, and elements in nonfiction.
	12. Recognize characterization, setting, plot, theme, and point of view in fiction.
	13. Recognize sensory details, figurative language, and other literary devices in text.
	14. Identify and respond to the elements of sound and structure in poetry.
	15. Analyze drama as a source of information, entertainment, persuasion, or transmitter of culture.
	16. Identify and analyze elements of setting, plot, and characterization in plays that are read, written, or performed.
	17. Explain ways that the setting contributes to the mood of a novel, play, or poem.
	18. Interpret idiomatic expressions.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 7, students will:
	1. Speculate about text by generating literal and inferential questions.
	2. Distinguish between essential and nonessential information.
	3. Differentiate between fact, opinion, bias, and propaganda in newspapers, periodicals, and electronic texts.
	4. Articulate the purposes and characteristics of different genres.
	5. Analyze ideas and recurring themes found in texts, such as bravery, loyalty, friendship, and loneliness.
	6. Develop an awareness of a variety of perspectives on a single event, setting, character, personality, or topic as expressed by different authors.
	7. Locate and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot to construct understanding of how characters influence the progression and resolution of the plot.
	8. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the purpose, structure, and elements of nonfiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
	9. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the theme, structure, style, and literary elements of fiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
	10. Respond critically to text ideas and the author’s craft by using textual evidence to support interpretations.
	11. Identify and analyze literary techniques and elements, such as figurative language, meter, rhetorical and stylistic features of text.
	12. Identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works.
	13. Identify and understand the author’s use of idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry.
	14. Compare and contrast the perspectives of authors in a variety of interdisciplinary works.
	15. Interpret text ideas through journal writing, discussion, and enactment.
	16. Demonstrate the use of everyday texts (e.g., train schedules, directions, brochures) and make judgments about the importance of such documents.
	17. Interpret idiomatic expressions.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:
	1. Differentiate between fact/opinion and bias and propaganda in newspapers, periodicals, and electronic texts.
	2. Compare and analyze several authors’ perspectives of a character, personality, topic, setting, or event.
	3. Analyze ideas and recurring themes found in texts, such as good versus evil, across traditional and contemporary works.
	4. Locate and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot to construct understanding of how characters influence the progression and resolution of the plot.
	5. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the purpose, structure, and elements of nonfiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
	6. Read critically by identifying, analyzing, and applying knowledge of the theme, structure, style, and literary elements of fiction and providing support from the text as evidence of understanding.
	7. Respond critically to text ideas and the author’s craft by using textual evidence to support interpretations.
	8. Identify and analyze literary techniques and elements, such as figurative language, meter, rhetorical, and stylistic features of text.
	9. Identify and analyze recurring themes across literary works.
	10. Read critically and analyze poetic forms (e.g., ballad, sonnet, couplet).
	11. Identify and understand the author’s use of idioms, analogies, metaphors, and similes in prose and poetry.
	12. Understand perspectives of authors in a variety of interdisciplinary works.
	13. Interpret text ideas through journal writing, discussion, and enactment.
	14. Demonstrate the use of everyday texts (e.g., train schedules, directions, brochures) and make judgments about the importance of such documents.
	15. Compare and analyze the various works of writers through an author’s study.
	Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
	1. Identify, describe, evaluate, and synthesize the central ideas in informational texts.
	2. Understand the study of literature and theories of literary criticism.
	3. Understand that our literary heritage is marked by distinct literary movements and is part of a global literary tradition.
	4. Compare and evaluate the relationship between past literary traditions and contemporary writing.
	5. Analyze how works of a given period reflect historical and social events and conditions.
	6. Recognize literary concepts, such as rhetorical device, logical fallacy, and jargon, and their effect on meaning.
	7. Interpret how literary devices affect reading emotions and understanding.
	8. Analyze and evaluate the appropriateness of diction and figurative language (e.g., irony, paradox).
	9. Distinguish between essential and nonessential information, identifying the use of proper references and propaganda techniques where present.
	10. Differentiate between fact and opinion by using complete and accurate information, coherent arguments, and points of view.
	11. Analyze how an author’s use of words creates tone and mood, and how choice of words advances the theme or purpose of the work.
	12. Demonstrate familiarity with everyday texts such as job and college applications, W-2 forms, and contracts.
	13. Read, comprehend, and be able to follow information gained from technical and instructional manuals (e.g., how-to books, computer manuals, or instructional manuals).