Child uses and names a variety of digital tools that support and enhance learning.
recognize characteristics of multimodal and digital texts.
Child uses digital learning applications to contribute to class-made digital products that express own ideas, as appropriate.
Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:
Child uses technology to access appropriate information, with adult assistance.
discuss the author's purpose for writing text;
discuss how the use of text structure contributes to the author's purpose;
discuss the author's use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes;
discuss the use of descriptive, literal, and figurative language;
identify the use of first or third person in a text; and
identify and explain the use of repetition.
Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to: