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.
 

C.     Decoding and Word Recognition 

  By the end of Kindergarten, students will:
 

 1.         Recognize some words by sight.
 

 2.         Recognize and name most uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet.
   3.         Recognize and read one’s name.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 1, students will:
  1.         Identify all consonant sounds in spoken words (including blends such as bl, br; and digraphs such as th, wh).
  2.         Recognize and use rhyming words to reinforce decoding skills.
  3.         Decode regular one-syllable words and nonsense words (e.g., sit, zot).
  4.         Use sound-letter correspondence knowledge to sound out unknown words when reading text.
  5.         Recognize high frequency words in and out of context.
  6.         Decode unknown words using basic phonetic analysis.
  7.         Decode unknown words using context clues.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 2, students will:
  1.         Look for known chunks or small words to attempt to decode an unknown word.
  2.         Reread inserting the beginning sound of the unknown word.
  3.         Decode regular multisyllable words and parts of words (e.g., capital, Kalamazoo).
 

4.         Read many irregularly spelled words and such spelling patterns as diphthongs, special vowel spellings, and common endings.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 3, students will:
  1.      Know sounds for a range of prefixes and suffixes (e.g., re-, ex-, -ment, -tion).
  2.      Use letter-sound knowledge and structural analysis to decode words.
  3.      Use context to accurately read words with more than one pronunciation.
 

Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 4, students will:
  1.      Use letter-sound correspondence and structural analysis (e.g., roots, affixes) to decode words.
  2.      Know and use common word families to decode unfamiliar words.
  3.      Recognize compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 5, students will:
  1.         Use the pronunciation key of a dictionary to decode new words.
  2.         Use context clues or knowledge of phonics, syllabication, prefixes, and suffixes to decode new words.
  3.         Interpret new words correctly in context.
  4.         Apply spelling and syllabication rules that aid in decoding and word recognition.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 6, students will:
  1.         Use a dictionary to decode new words independently.
  2.         Use context clues or knowledge of phonics, syllabication, prefixes, and suffixes to decode new words.
  3.         Apply knowledge of new words correctly (refer to word parts and word origin).
  4.         Apply spelling and syllabication rules that aid in decoding and word recognition.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 7, students will:
 

1.         Distinguish among the spellings of homophones (e.g. cite, site, sight).
  2.         Apply spelling rules and syllabication that aid in correct spelling.
  3.         Continue to use structural analysis and context analysis to decode new words.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 8, students will:
  1.         Distinguish among the spellings of homophones to determine meaning (e.g. cite, site, sight).
  2.         Apply spelling and syllabication rules that aid in decoding and word recognition.
  3.         Continue to use structural analysis and context analysis to decode new words.
  4.         Apply knowledge of word structures and patterns to read with automaticity.
  Building upon knowledge and skills gained in preceding grades, by the end of Grade 12, students will:
  No additional indicators at this grade level