I can read multisyllabic and irregularly spelled words.
I can read words with common roots and affixes.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
I can explain relationships between elements of a nonfiction text.
I can explain how later parts of a story, drama, or poem build on earlier sections.
I can explain how an illustration develops details or topics in the text.
Text Features
I can use illustrations to help an audience understand ideas or events in a text.
Text Types
I can write an explanatory text.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
I can explain the main idea of a text using specific details.
I can explain the message, lesson, or moral in a fairytale, folktale, or myth.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, or Reasoning
I can identify evidence in a text that supports the reason given for a specific opinion.
Analyzing Narratives
I can recount plots with single storylines.
I can explain how character actions affect the events in a narrative text.
Analyzing Point of View
I can compare my own point of view on a specific event or issue to the point of view of an author, narrator, or character in a text about the same event or issue.
Comparing Texts
I can compare the main ideas and their supporting details in two texts on the same topic.
I can compare narrative elements in two texts from a series.
Analyzing Words
I can determine the meaning of an unknown word using context.
I can compare words with similar, nuanced, or multiple meanings.
Analyzing Language
I can distinguish nonliteral meaning from literal meaning.
Generating Sentences
I can generate simple, compound, and complex sentences.
I can use linking words and phrases to show how sentences relate to each other.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
I can introduce ideas at the beginning of a text.
I can organize information into categories.
I can generate a conclusion for a text.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
I can state an opinion supported by multiple reasons.
I can identify sources of information related to an opinion.
Sources and Research
I can ask questions about specific details in a text.
I can identify sources of information about a topic that will help answer a question.
Generating Narratives
I can organize the events in a narrative chronologically.
I can use descriptive language to convey settings.
I can use dialogue to show how characters respond to an event or experience.
Revision
I can replace overused or generic words with more specific synonyms in a draft.
I can ensure that important ideas are well-explained in a draft.
Parts of Speech
I can use simple tenses of irregular and regular verbs correctly.
I can use plural, possessive, and abstract nouns correctly.
I can use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs correctly.
I can use pronouns that agree with their antecedents.
