Marking Period 1

Book Handling Skills

Left-to-right Tracking

Listen and respond to stories

Generate inferences while listening to stories

Ask & Answer Questions

Make Predictions

Read high frequency words

Recognize consonant and vowel letters

Write upper and lower case letters

Match letters to their corresponding sound

Short Vowel Sounds

Blend syllables to say words

Count and track words in a spoken sentence

Orally tell a story

Use pictures and writing to express ideas

Write first name

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Identify the Beginning, Middle and End of a story

Orally Summarize a story

Identify Characters

Draw Conclusions

Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel and final sound in three phoneme words

Identify phonograms

Decode CVC words in a text

Recognize and produce rhyming words

Isolate initial and final sounds in words

Recognize and blend syllables to say words

Apply initial letter sounds when writing

Group words together to form sentences

Marking Period 3

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Note details in stories

Setting

Fiction/Nonfiction

Segment words into syllables

Apply initial & final letter sounds in writing

Use sight words in writing

Appropriate word spacing

Phonetically spell simple words

Capitalize the first word in a sentence

Capitalize the pronoun, I

Recognize & use end punctuation

Describe experiences and events in writing

Marking Period 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Identify character’s emotions

Identify basic similarities and differences in characters, settings, etc.

Read emergent-reader text with purpose and understanding

With prompting, identify the main idea and key details in a story

Blend onsets and rimes

Segment words into sounds

Express personal opinion

Write 2-3 sentences on one topic

Marking Period 1

Key Details

Labels

Rhymes

Short A, E, I, O, and U

Ask and Answer Questions

Sentence Punctuation (periods, question and exclamation marks)

-s (inflectional ending and plural nouns)

Phoneme Blending, Deletion & Segmentation

Diagrams

Blends: R & S

Sentence Capitalization

Beginning Blends

Consonant Sounds

Book Handling

Track Print and Return Sweep

Visualization

Phrasing and Intonation

High Frequency Words

Alphabetical Order (first letter)

Writing Sentences

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Character, Setting and Events

Short E: spelled e and ea

Nouns

Commas in a series

Contractions

Captions

Quotations

Make and Confirm Predictions

Nouns: Plural, Possessive (w/apostrophe, Proper

-ed, -ing, -es (inflectional endings)

Main Idea with Key Details

Lists

Ending Consonant Blends

Map Skills

Consonant Blends (nd, nk, nt, st, sk,mp)

Consonant Digraphs (th, sh, ng, ch, tch, wh, ph

Long A, I,

Contractions with not

Verbs: Present, Past & Future

Cause and Effect

Soft C and G

Marking Period 3

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Long O, U and E

Commas in Dates

Compare and Contrast

State an Opinion

Sequence Words

Theme

Long A: a, ai, ay

Long E: e, ee, ea, ie, y, ey

Context Clues

Point of View

Long O: o, oa, ow, oe

Long I: i, y, igh, ie

Change y to I (inflectional ending)

Root Words

Compound Words

Adverbs that tell when

Marking Period 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Shades of Meaning/Word Intensity

Multiple Word Meanings

Adjectives

R-Controlled Vowels: ar, er, ir, ur, or, ore, oar,

Problem and Solution

Suffixes: -ful, -less

Prefixes

-er and –est (comparative inflectional endings)

Abbreviations/ Name Titles

Synonyms/Antonyms

Pronouns/Possessive Pronouns

Dipthongs: ou, ow, oy, oi,

Similes

Three Letter Blends

Variant Vowel Digraphs: oo, u, u_e, ew, ue, ui, ou, a, aw, au, augh, al

Silent Letters: wr, kn, gn

Marking Period 1

Point of View

Understand Story Elements

Main Idea and Key Details

Narrative Writing

Author’s Purpose

Text Features

Sounds can be manipulated to make new words.

Word Choice

Some words do not follow a pattern.

Root words, prefixes and suffixes

Ask and answer questions about a text.

Write a topic sentence.

Engage in collaborative conversations.

Writing Conventions (capital letters, end punctuation, commas)

Identify and correctly use parts of speech.

Write a concluding statement.

Editing is part of the writing process.

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Main Idea of a paragraph.

Explain how key details support the main idea.

Writing an Address with commas

Story Themes

Vowel Patterns

Figurative Language

Linking Verbs

Possessives

Marking Period 3 & 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Story Lessons and Morals

Dialogue and appropriate use of quotation marks.

Introduce a topic and state an opinion.

Similarities and differences between texts.

Sequential Order

Verb and pronoun agreement

Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.

Marking Period 1

Character, Setting and Plot

Story Sequence

Synonyms & Antonyms

Inflectional Endings

Compound Words

Text Features: Headings, maps, diagrams, sidebars

Commands and Exclamations

Sentences: Compound and fragment

Cause & Effect

Predicates

Figurative Language

Compound Words

Multiple meaning words

Main Idea and Key Details

Write a personal narrative piece

Write a narrative, opinion and informative paragraph

Identify the theme of the text

Make and Confirm Predictions

Linking words

Nouns: Proper, Plural

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Author’s Point of View

Prefixes and Suffixes

Summarize text

Use commas to combine sentences

Singular and plural possessives

Write an informative piece

Opening and closing statements

Problem and Solution

Verbs: Present, past, & future

Quotation Marks

Contractions

Subject-verb agreement

Marking Period 3 & 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Write an opinion piece

Punctuation in letters, dates, addresses and locations

Root Words

Linking & Irregular Verbs

Compare and Contrast

Use context clues to understand unknown words

Homophones & Homographs

Subject and Object Pronouns

Adjectives

Adverbs

Marking Period 1

Cite Evidence

Determine the theme of a text

Main Idea & Key Details

Summarize

Interpret Text Features

Understand various genres

Engage in collaborative conversations

Write a personal narrative piece

Write an opinion and informative paragraph.

Figurative language

Choose words and punctuation correctly

Subjects & Predicates

Nouns: plural, proper, common

Correctly use frequently confused words (ex: to, too, two)

Sentence Fragments and run-on sentences

Decode unfamiliar multi-syllable words

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Point of View

Author’s Purpose

Text Structure

Suffixes, Prefixes and Root Words

Antonyms/Synonyms

Use context clues to determine word meaning

Verbs: main, linking, helping

Adjectives

Titles

Phrases & Interjections

Write a poetry piece

Use verb tenses to convey time and sequence

Marking Period 3 & 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Connotations of words with similar denotations (shades of meaning)

Homographs

Write an Opinion Piece

Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech

Form and Use Prepositional Phrases

Write an Informative Piece

Homophones

Analyze two texts to find similarities and differences

Marking Period 1

Point of View

Understand Story Elements

Analyzing texts using evidence

Compare & contrast stories, characters, and settings

Author’s Purpose

Text Features

Compare & contrast genre, theme, and topics.

Ask and answer questions about a text

Text features

Summarize the text.

Ask and answer questions about a text.

Using context clues to determine unknown words

Engage in collaborative conversations

Narrative Writing

Organizational structure (character, setting, plot)

Narrative techniques (description, pacing, and dialogue)

Expand, combine, and reduce sentences for meaning.

Writing Conventions (punctuation, grammar, capitalization, and spelling)

Editing is part of the writing process

Conjunctions

Marking Period 2

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Explain relationships in texts

Greek and Latin affixes and roots

Quoting from the text

Use domain specific vocabulary

Prepositions and interjections

Verbs (tenses, agreement)

Commas in appositives

Punctuation in titles of works

Informative writing

Marking Period 3 & 4

Continue the skills above in addition to the ones listed here.

Two or more main ideas and supporting details

Overall structure of a story, drama, and poem

Identify an author’s reasons and evidence to support a point

Group related information

Use commas appropriately

Opinion writing

Narrative / poetry