Child understands (receptive) and uses (expressive) the instructional language of the classroom.
make inferences and use evidence to support understanding with adult assistance;
Child consistently understands (receptive) and uses (expressive) new vocabulary acquired through books, conversations, and play.
evaluate details to determine what is most important with adult assistance;
synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance; and
monitor comprehension and make adjustments such as re-reading, using background knowledge, checking for visual cues, and asking questions when understanding breaks down.
Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
Sentences and Structure
describe personal connections to a variety of sources;
Child typically uses complete sentences of four or more words with age-appropriate grammatical complexity, usually in standard word order.
write brief comments on literary or informational texts;
Child correctly uses regular and irregular plurals, regular past tense, personal and possessive pronouns, and subject‐verb agreement.
use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
Child uses sentences that combine multiple phrases or ideas.