• Reading
• Writing
• Oral Language

• discuss and apply strategies to solve problems while reading, including rereading, adjusting reading rate, stopping to review, and using prior knowledge
  
• use characteristics and structure of a variety of informational texts, the basal textbook, and fiction genres for comprehension
  
• use prior knowledge to interpret explicit and inferred information while reading
  
• refer to context and resources to verify meaning of new vocabulary related to literature and content area study
  
• extend understanding of related words, such as synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, metaphors, similes, idioms, and homophones
  
• apply knowledge of structural analysis to extend understanding of vocabulary
  
• locate information using features of nonfiction text and technology resources
  
• evaluate and analyze interrelationships among story elements, cause-and-effect relationships, sequences, comparisons, contrasts, and main ideas in various genres
  
• support opinions with statements from text or return to text to verify information
  
• make decisions about important and less important information
  
• ask why, if, and how questions to understand an author’s message or moral
  
• recognize the poetic sound devices of alliteration and onomatopoeia

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• write in a variety of genres and respond to a variety of genres
  
• use elements of author’s craft, such as dialogue, poetic devices, and leads
  
• organize and revise writing for logical sequence around a main idea for specific audiences
  
• revise to capture reader’s interest, use vivid and specific language, and find synonyms for overused words
  
• combine sentences to form compound and complex sentences and create paragraphs
  
• demonstrate functional use of parts of speech, including subject-verb agreement
  
• develop and use knowledge of conventional spelling, including word derivations
  
• edit for capitalization, punctuation, and spelling, including homophones
  
• use word processing, telecommunications, and multimedia software
  
• compile information from several sources and organize informational writing

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• participate in choral reading and dramatic interpretations of literature
  
• gather information with interview questions according to a plan for research
  
• discuss vocabulary, content of reading, and topics of study in groups of various sizes
  
• participate in classroom activities by asking questions, retelling, giving directions, reporting ideas discussed in small groups, and persuading others