Apply academic vocabulary across disciplines
Apply an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary during reading, writing and speaking.
Apply word analysis skills (e.g.: syllabication, root words, prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings) to read and unlock meaning of words.
Articulate the semantic features or purposes of common ideas or concepts
Build fluency, accuracy and prosody by reading words in connected text.
Combine sentences in an increasingly complex and organized manner to convey meaning.
Develop a network of related words based on gradations of meanings, including synonyms and antonyms
Develop an increasingly sophisticated working vocabulary including specialized vocabulary from academic content areas.
Distinguish gradations in meanings or words, including synonyms and antonyms
Generate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context
Group concepts and ideas by common semantic features and/or purposes
Identify and correctly use regular and irregular plurals, affixes, and inflectional endings.
Recognize and access meaning of words in text by using phonics and word analysis skills.
Understand that roots assist in unlocking the meaning of words.
Understand the relationship of words within sentences. (i.e. semantics; syntax)
Use contextual cues to confirm the literal and figurative meaning of vocabulary
Use contextual cues to confirm the literal, figurative, and idiomatic meaning of vocabulary
Use contextual cues to extend meaning of vocabulary (e.g. multiple meaning words)
Use contextual cues to test meaning of vocabulary
Use grade appropriate resources to confirm and extend meaning of vocabulary
Use the knowledge of language, including word origins and morphology to unlock meaning of specialized vocabulary across disciplines
Use the knowledge of language, including word origins and morphology to unlock meaning.
Apply knowledge of advanced letter sound patterns to read and spell multisyllabic words in text. (i.e.: oi, tion)
Apply knowledge of letter sound correspondence to read and spell simple words.
Build fluency by reading words in connected text.
Decode and encode regularly spelled words fluently and accurately.(ie: blends, digraphs and vowel combinations.
Demonstrate the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words (i.e.: segmenting and blending phonemes).
Demonstrate the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words (i.e.: substitution, deletion, addition).
Read and spell high frequency, non-decodable words.
Read high frequency, non-decodable words.
Recognize and apply changes in word form that affect meaning (i.e.: baby, babies, make, making).
Recognize and identify upper and lower case letters.
Recognize that in oral language and/or print, changes in word parts and form affect meaning (i.e.: regular plurals, simple pronouns).
Understand that roots assist in unlocking the meaning of words
Use an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary.
