Decoding
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Decode unfamiliar words using context clues, roots and affixes, and syllabication patterns.
Read aloud accurately and fluently.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
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Describe the organizational structure of a text.
Explain how text features and visual or multimedia presentations of information help organize a text.
Text Features
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Use headings, formatting, and other text features to help the audience understand a text's ideas.
Text Types
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Compare poems, fictional prose, nonfiction prose,m and dramas.
Write an informational text.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
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Summarize a text by describing its main idea and related details.
Identify a theme in a text.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
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Explain how reasons and evidence support an author's opinion.
Analyzing Narratives
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Describe a character, event, or setting using specific details from a narrative text.
Analyzing Point of View
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Describe a character, event or setting using specific details from a narrative text.
Comparing Texts
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Compare a firsthand and secondhand account of the same event topic.
Compare a visual or oral representation of a text to the source text.
Compare two myths from different cultures
Analyzing Words
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Use context clues and text resources to determine the meaning of domain-specific and academic vocabulary.
Explain the relationships between synonyms, antonyms and homophones.
Analyzing Language
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Describe the purpose of similes and metaphors.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
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Introduce a topic by providing relevant background information.
Group related information into paragraphs or sections.
Use words and phrases to link details to a topic or claim.
Conclude a topic by explaining why it is important.
Generating Claims, Evidence and Reasoning
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State an opinion and clear reasons for that opinion.
Give evidence to support an opinion, answer, or inference.
Sources and Research
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Gather information about a particular topic from two texts.
Explain specific concepts, procedures, or events in nonfiction texts.
Generating Narratives
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Organize the events in a narrative chronologically or logically, using transitions to indicate order.
Use descriptive language to convey events and character experiences in a narrative.
Use dialogue to convey a narratives conflict or problem.
Revision
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Combine sentences to add complexity to a draft.
Clarify a draft's main ideas and focus.
Parts of Speech
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Use modal auxiliary verbs correctly.
Use progressive verb tenses correctly.
Use relative adverbs and pronouns correctly.
Order adjectives in a sentence correctly.
Editing
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Edit for subject/verb agreement and the use of double negatives.
Edit for capitalization.
Edit punctuation so that it accurately expresses meaning and follows standard punctuation rules.
Edit for spelling.