Learning and Performance Attributes
READING
Learning Team B
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Basic Reading Skills:
Letter naming: the student is asked to orally identify letters from a list of 100 capital and lowercase letters randomly ordered in serial format.
Letter Sound Fluency: each student is asked to orally state sounds from a list of 110 capital and lowercase letters and basic letter combinations (e.g., th, sh, ch) randomly ordered in serial format.
Word Reading Fluency: student is asked to read a list of printed words and or passages of increasing difficulty.
First Grade
1st Grade Basic Reading Skills:
- Identifying stories theme: Student is able to read a story and extract the stories main purpose
- Ability to determine point of view: students is able to decipher from who's point of view is a story is written.
- Ability to distinguish between literary genres: Student is able to determine what literary genre the work is.
2nd Grade
Second grade will be a time of immense growth in reading skills as students are required to improve their proficiency to read for meaning (Kelmon, n.d.). In addition to strengthening skills that have already been taught, and in accordance with the English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence (n.d), students in second grade will be able to:
- Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how to show comprehension of key details.
- Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story. Or key facts described by two texts on the same topic.
- Explain the correlation between a sequence of historical events, scientific concepts, or steps in a procedure in a text.
- Find the main purpose or central meaning of various genres of literature using the text and illustrations.
- Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud.
- Give reasons that validate specific viewpoints the author makes in a text.
- Explain how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
- Describe the organization of a story, including understanding that the beginning is the introduction, and the ending is the conclusion.
- Understand characters from the story have distinct viewpoints, and use different voices when reading to represent the various characters.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read and comprehend grade level text with purpose and understanding.
3rd Grade
Third grade focuses on building knowledge and expanding vocabulary. The level of reading will increase as students attempt increasingly difficult reading material with more independence (Kelmon, n.d.). In addition to improving skills that have already been taught, and in accordance with the English Language Arts Georgia Standards of Excellence (n.d), students in third grade will learn to;
- Use supporting information taken directly from the text to ask and answer questions.
- Describe the key details of a variety of literary genres, and explain how they support the main idea.
- Use context clues to determine word meaning.
- Differentiate literal from non-literal language.
- Explain how illustrations contribute to what is expressed in a story.
- Separate their own point of view from that of the author, narrator, or story characters.
- Understand and use comparison, cause/effect, and sequences within a text.
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series).
- Identify parts of stories, dramas, and poems such as chapter, scene, and stanza; and explain how each succeeding part builds on previous sections.
- Describe the qualities, motivations, and thoughts of characters in a story, and give details of how their behavior influences the storyline.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Read with adequate skill fluency to support comprehension.
Fourth Grade
Reading Standards for Learning: Key Ideas and Details
- Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text.
- Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character’s thoughts, words, or actions).
An example of identifying key ideas and details for fourth graders in the hierarchy of skills would be:
- Level 1 (Bottom)- After reading the context identify the main characters and summarize the roles they played in the story.
- Level 2 (Middle)- Identify a main character and give three characteristics of that person
- Level 3 (Top)- Name a character and explain what you liked and disliked about them
Fifth Grade
- Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
- Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., how characters interact).
An example of identifying key ideas and details for fifth graders in the hierarchy of skills would be:
- Level 1 (Bottom)- Compare and contrast two or more characters and then summarize how they could responded to conflict
- Level 2 (Middle)- Identify two characters and then explain how they handled conflict
- Level 3 (Top)- List all characters who were "good guys" and then list all characters who were "bad guys"
References
Clemens, N. H., Hagan-Burke, S., Luo, W., Cerda, C., Blakely, A., Frosch, J., . . . Jones, M. (2015). The predictive validity of a computer-adaptive assessment of kindergarten and first-grade reading skills. School Psychology Review, 44(1), 76-97. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1685000392?accountid=35812
English language arts georgia standards of excellence (GSE) K-5. (n.d.). Retrieved from
https://www.georgiastandards.org/Common-Core/Pages/ELA-K-5.aspx
Kelmon, J. (n.d.). Your second grader's reading under the common core standards.
Retrieved from http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/second-grade-reading/
Kelmon, J. (n.d.). Your third grader's reading under the common core standards. Retrieved
from http://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/third-grade-reading/