Decoding
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Read multisyllabic and irregularly spelled words.
Read words with common roots and affixes.
Analyzing Text Organization and Structure
I can:
Explain relationships between elements of a nonfiction text.
Explain how later parts of a story, drama or poem build on earlier sections.
Explain how an illustration develops details or topics in the text.
Text Features
Use illustrations to help an audience understand ideas or events in a text.
Text Types
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Write an explanatory text.
Analyzing Ideas and Themes
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Explain the main idea of a text using specific details.
Explain the message, lesson, or moral in a fairytale, folktale or myth.
Analyzing Claims, Evidence, or Reasoning
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Identify evidence in a text that supports the reason given for a specific opinion.
Analyzing Narratives
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Recount plots with single storylines.
Explain how character actions affect the events in a narrative text.
Analyzing Point of View
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Compare one's 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
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Compare the main ideas and their supporting details in two texts on the same topic.
Compare narrative elements in two texts from a series.
Analyzing Words
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Determine the meaning of an unknown word using context.
Compare words with similar, nuanced, or multiple meanings.
Analyzing Language
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Distinguish nonliteral meaning from literal meaning.
Generating Sentences
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Generate simple, compound, and complex sentences.
Use linking words and phrases to show how sentences relate to each other.
Generating Text Organization and Structure
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Introduce ideas at the beginning of a text.
Organize information into categories.
Generate a conclusion for a text.
Generating Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning
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State an opinion supported by multiple reasons.
Identify sources of information related to an opinion.
Sources and Research
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Ask questions about specific details in a text.
Identify sources of information about a topic that will help answer a question.
Generating Narratives
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Organize the events in a narrative chronologically.
Use descriptive language to convey settings.
Use dialogue to show how characters respond to an event or experience.
Revision
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Replace overused or generic words with more specific synonyms in a draft.
Ensure that important ideas are well-explained in a draft.
Parts of Speech
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Use simple tenses of irregular and regular verbs correctly.
Use plural, possessive, and abstract nouns correctly.
Use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs correctly.
Use pronouns that agree with their antecedents.
Editing
I can:
Edit for correct capitalization.
Edit for correct punctuation.
Edit for correct spelling.