Funny Bone Readers: Developing Character
Content Unit Report
Grades: K, 1, 2, 3
States: Michigan Curriculum Standards
Fun in the Mud
Summary: Standards Correlation to FUN IN THE MUD It's another beautiful day on the farm and Pig wants to play in the
mud. But when his friends decide to join him, Pig isn't ready to share the fun. 16pp RCP-151 (978-1-936163-02-1)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
MI.PE. Physical Education
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
MI.R. Reading
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
Helping Hands
Summary: Standards Correlation to HELPING HANDS Giving a helping hand to others comes easily to Ocho the
Octopus. It should; he has eight hands to offer. Ocho learns that kindness gets returned by those he helps. 16pp RCP-236
(978-1-936163-10-6)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.7. Demonstrate giving and accepting a compliment or
statement of appreciation.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.9. Demonstrate giving and accepting a compliment or
statement of appreciation.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Demonstrate ways to express appreciation.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
MI.L. Listening and Viewing
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.P. Public Discourse, Decision Making, and Citizen
CATEGORY Involvement (P3, P4)
STANDARD P4.2. Citizen Involvement
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-P4.2.2. Participate in projects to help or inform others.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.2. Identify situations in which people act as good
citizens in the school community (e.g., thoughtful and
effective participation in the school decisions, respect
for the rights of others, respect for rule of law, voting,
volunteering, compassion, courage, honesty).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.P. Public Discourse, Decision Making, and Citizen
CATEGORY Involvement (P3, P4)
STANDARD P4.2. Citizen Involvement
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-P4.2.2. Participate in projects to help or inform others.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 2-C5.0.2. Distinguish between personal and civic
responsibilities and explain why they are important in
community life.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 2-C5.0.3. Design and participate in community improvement
projects that help or inform others. (See P4.2.2)
STRAND / STANDARD MI.P. Public Discourse, Decision Making, and Citizen
CATEGORY Involvement (P3, P4)
STANDARD P4.2. Citizen Involvement
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 2-P4.2.2. Participate in projects to help or inform others.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.P. Public Discourse, Decision Making, and Citizen
CATEGORY Involvement (P3, P4)
STANDARD P4.2. Citizen Involvement
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 3-P4.2.2. Participate in projects to help or inform others.
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Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01.
Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Lying Around
Summary: Standards Correlation to LYING AROUND When Leon the lion is asked about his friends missing items, Leon
decides not to tell the truth. Then something happens and Leon's lies are out in the open for everyone to see. 16pp
RCP-243 (978-1-936163-04-5)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.7. Demonstrate giving and accepting a compliment or
statement of appreciation.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.DM. Decision Making: All students will use
decision-making skills to enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.5. Describe characteristics of people who can help make
decisions and solve problems.
EXPECTATION 4.6. Explain the decision making and problem solving
steps.
EXPECTATION 4.7. Apply the steps to making a decision or solving a
problem.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.9. Demonstrate giving and accepting a compliment or
statement of appreciation.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.AI. Access Information: All students will access valid
health information and appropriate health promoting
products and services.
EXPECTATION 4.4. Identify people who can help make decisions and
solve problems.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.DM. Decision Making: All students will use
decision-making skills to enhance health
EXPECTATION 4.5. Explain the decision making and problem solving
steps.
EXPECTATION 4.6. Demonstrate the ability to make a decision or solve a
problem using the steps.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Demonstrate ways to express appreciation.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
Miss Moo Goes to the Beach
Summary: Standards Correlation MISS MOO GOES TO THE BEACH A day at the beach with a friend sounds like a
good idea. But when Miss Moo brings all the wrong things with her, the problems it creates become more than her friend
can handle. 16pp RCP-229 (978-1-936163-09-0)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02.
Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
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Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04.
Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03.
Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03.
Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03.
Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.1. Identify some reasons for rules in school (e.g., provide
order, predictability, and safety).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
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Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS.
Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3.
Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03.
Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02.
Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
Squid and Pickles
Summary: Standards Correlation to SQUID AND PICKLES Roy uses bad manners with his friends Helen and Ethan. So
his friends team up to teach Roy a lesson. 16pp RCP-199 (978-1-936163-06-9)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01.
Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
MI.S. Speaking
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
The Best Birthday Gift
Summary: Standards Correlation to THE BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT Nate wants to take his Nana a birthday cake and
bouquet. He picks flowers. His Mom helps him make a cake. But he doesn't listen and it all adds up to no gift for Nana.
Then Nana helps Nate realize the best gift he can give someone is to truly listen. 16pp RCP-168 (978-1-936163-03-8)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09.
Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
MI.R. Reading
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
The Clean Team
Summary: Standards Correlation to THE CLEAN TEAM Someone is leaving their trash all over town. Neat Nick tries to
keep up with the garbage-tossing trouble maker but it's dirty work. Sloppy Joe has to decide to join Nick on the Clean
Team or continue his sloppy ways. 16pp RCP-267 (978-1-936163-13-7)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02.
Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.G. Geography
CATEGORY
STANDARD G5. Environment and Society: Understand the effects of
human-environment interactions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 2-G5.0.1. Suggest ways people can responsibly interact with the
environment in the local community.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 2-G5.0.2. Describe positive and negative consequences of
changing the physical environment of the local
community.
The Magic Words
Summary: Standards Correlation to THE MAGIC WORDS When Scruff has had it with the fleas, he tries and tries to get
them to leave. But two cats come along with the right words that get the fleas attention. 16pp RCP-205
(978-1-936163-07-6)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS.
Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3.
Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03.
Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02.
Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Turbo Turtle to the Rescue
Summary: Standards Correlation to TURBO TURTLE TO THE RESCUE When the bunny troop is bullied by Duck Girl,
the call goes out for help. It's Turbo Turtle to the rescue. 16pp RCP-243 (978-1-936163-11-3)
Michigan Curriculum Standards
Health and PE / Language Arts / Mathematics / Science / Social Studies
Grade: K - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.8. Describe situations when it is appropriate to use
''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am sorry.''
EXPECTATION 4.9. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.HE. Health Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD HE.4. Social and Emotional Health
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 4.SS. Social Skills: All students will demonstrate effective
interpersonal communication and other social skills
which enhance health.
EXPECTATION 4.10. Apply ''please,'' ''thank you,'' ''excuse me,'' and ''I am
sorry'' to appropriate situations.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.02.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2008
STRAND / STANDARD MI.PE. Physical Education
CATEGORY
STANDARD PE.K. Content Knowledge
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K.PS. Personal/Social Behaviors
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.01. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
responsibility, best effort, cooperation, and
compassion in isolated settings.
EXPECTATION K.PS.03.02. Students will identify key behaviors which exemplify
each of the personal/social character traits of
constructive competition, initiative, and leadership in
isolated settings.
Grade: K - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.05. Students will automatically recognize a small number
(about 18) of frequently encountered, personally
meaningful words in print.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing a few of the 220 Dolch basic sight words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.07. Students will follow familiar written text while
pointing to matching words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.08. Students will narrow possibilities in predicting words
using initial letters/sounds (phonics), patterns of
language (syntactic), and picture clues (semantic).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.00.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of a
few words, familiar and repeated phrases including
objects, actions, concepts, content vocabulary, and
literary terms, using strategies and resources including
picture clues, prediction, and other people.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.00.01. Students will automatically apply the following
aspects of fluency: naming of letters, association of
letters and their sounds, recognition of a few words
both when encountered in context and isolation, and
demonstrating understanding of concepts of print.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.03. Students will discuss setting, characters, and events in
narrative text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.04. Students will identify how authors/illustrators use
literary devices including pictures and illustrations to
support the understanding of settings and characters.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.00.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make meaning, and make
connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.02. Students will listen to or view knowledgeably, and
respond thoughtfully to both classic and contemporary
texts recognized for quality and literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.00.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, drawing,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in and out of context with the
number of words that can be read fluently increasing
steadily across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.07. Students will use strategies to identify unknown words
and construct meaning by using initial letters/sounds
(phonics), patterns of language (syntactic), picture
clues (semantic), and applying context clues to select
between alternative meanings.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.08. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including picture clues, word chunks, and the structure
of book language to determine the meaning of words
in grade-appropriate texts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.01.10. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.01.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.01.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge and connecting personal knowledge and
experience to ideas in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.01.02. Students will retell in sequence up to three important
ideas and details of familiar simple oral and written
text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.02. Students will self-monitor comprehension by using
strategies including asking questions before, during,
and after reading and discussing the most important
ideas and themes in a text.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.01.03. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning and discuss which comprehension
strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.01.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making meaning, and making connections.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.01.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make meaning, and
make connections.
Grade: 2 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.2. Word Recognition and Word Study - Phonics
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.04. Students will use structural cues to recognize and
decode words with long and short vowels, consonant
digraphs, and irregular vowels in isolation and in
context including: letter-sound, onset and rimes,
whole word chunks, word families, long and short
vowels, digraphs wh, ph, irregular vowels ei, ie, ea,
ue.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.05. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.06. Students will make progress in automatically
recognizing the 220 Dolch basic sight words and 95
common nouns for mastery in third grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.07. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.08. Students will use previously learned and new
strategies to identify unknown words and construct
meaning by re-reading a sentence or paragraph when
meaning is unclear, using context as a basis for
predicting meaning of unfamiliar words,
sub-vocalization, and/or sounding out unknown
words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.09. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.10. Students will use syntactic and semantic cues
including reading context; picture clues; prefixes re-,
un-; and suffixes -s, -ed, -ing to determine the
meaning of words in grade-appropriate texts.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.02.11. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including objects, actions,
concepts, content vocabulary, and literary terms, using
strategies and resources including context clues,
mental pictures, and questioning.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.5. Fluency
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.FL.02.01. Students will automatically recognize and fluently
read identified grade-level high frequency words
encountered in or out of context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.01. Students will describe the similarities of plot and
character in classic, multicultural, and contemporary
literature that is recognized for quality and literary
merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.03. Students will identify and describe characters' actions
and motivations, setting (time and place),
problem/solution, and sequence of events.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.04. Students will identify and explain how
authors/illustrators use literary devices including
illustrations and titles to depict major story events, and
comparisons including metaphors or similes to reveal
characters' thoughts and actions.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.02.05. Students will respond to individual and multiple texts
by finding evidence, discussing, illustrating, and/or
writing to reflect, make connections, take a position,
and/or show understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.8. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.02.01. Students will make text-to-self and text-to-text
connections and comparisons by activating prior
knowledge, connecting personal knowledge,
experience, and understanding of others to ideas in
text through oral and written responses.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.02.04. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, and evaluate
skills, strategies, and processes to construct and
convey meaning (e.g., using context to predict
meaning of unfamiliar words), and discuss which
comprehension strategies worked and did not work.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.11. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.02.02. Students will do substantial reading and writing on
their own during free time in school and at home.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.1. Conventions
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.CN.02.02. Students will explore and use language to
communicate effectively with a variety of audiences
and for different purposes including questions and
answers, discussions, and social interactions.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.L. Listening and Viewing
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.02.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
Grade: 3 - Adopted 2006
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.1. Word Recognition and Word Study - Word
Recognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.01. Students will automatically recognize frequently
encountered words in print whether encountered in
connected text or in isolation with the number of
words that can be read fluently increasing steadily
across the school year.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.02. Students will use structural, syntactic, and semantic
cues including letter-sound, rimes, base words, and
affixes to automatically read frequently encountered
words, decode unknown words, and decide meanings
including multiple meaning words.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.03. Students will know the meanings of words
encountered frequently in grade-level reading and oral
language contexts.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.04. Students will automatically recognize the 220 Dolch
basic sight words and 95 common nouns.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.05. Students will make progress to automatically read by
sight the Dolch First 1000 Words for mastery in fifth
grade.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.06. Students will acquire and apply strategies to identify
unknown words or word parts; self-monitor and
construct meaning by predicting and self-correcting,
applying knowledge of language,
sound/symbol/structural relationships, and context.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.3. Word Recognition and Word Study - Vocabulary
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.WS.03.08. Students will in context, determine the meaning of
words and phrases including synonyms, homonyms,
multiple meaning words, content vocabulary, and
literary terms using strategies and resources including
context clues, concept mapping, and the dictionary.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.4. Narrative Text
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.01. Students will explain how characters express attitudes
about one another in familiar classic, multicultural,
and contemporary literature recognized for quality and
literary merit.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.03. Students will identify and describe characters'
thoughts and motivations, story level themes (good vs.
evil), main idea, and lesson/moral (fable).
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.NT.03.04. Students will explain how authors use literary devices
including prediction, personification, and point of
view to develop a story level theme, depict the setting,
and reveal how thoughts and actions convey important
character traits.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.6. Comprehension
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.01. Students will connect personal knowledge,
experiences, and understanding of the world to themes
and perspectives in text through oral and written
responses.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.CM.03.02. Students will retell in sequence the story elements of
grade-level narrative text and major idea(s) and
relevant details of grade-level informational text.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.7. Metacognition
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.MT.03.02. Students will plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills,
strategies, and processes to construct and convey
meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use
graphic organizers to deepen understanding of
problem/solution and organizational patterns.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.R. Reading
CATEGORY
STANDARD R.9. Reading Attitude
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION R.AT.03.01. Students will be enthusiastic about reading and do
substantial reading and writing on their own.
STRAND / STANDARD MI.S. Speaking
CATEGORY
STANDARD S.2. Discourse
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.02. Students will discuss narratives (e.g., folktales, fables,
realistic fiction), conveying the story grammar (e.g.,
characters' thoughts and motivation, setting, plot,
story level theme) and explain why the story is
worthwhile and how it is relevant to the storyteller or
the audience.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION S.DS.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types by
reflecting, making connections, taking a position,
and/or showing understanding.
MI.L. Listening and Viewing
STRAND / STANDARD
CATEGORY
STANDARD L.2. Response
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.03. Students will respond to multiple text types listened to
or viewed knowledgeably, by discussing, illustrating,
and/or writing in order to reflect, make connections,
take a position, and/or show understanding.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION L.RP.03.04. Students will combine skills to reveal strengthening
literacy (e.g., viewing then analyzing orally, listening
then summarizing orally).
Grade: K - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Role of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION K-C5.0.1. Describe situations in which they demonstrated
self-discipline and individual responsibility (e.g.,
caring for a pet, completing chores, following school
rules, working in a group, taking turns).
Grade: 1 - Adopted 2007
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C1. Purposes of Government: Explain why people create
governments.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C1.0.3. Give examples of the use of power without authority
in school (e.g., types of bullying, taking cuts in line).
STRAND / STANDARD MI.C. Civics and Government
CATEGORY
STANDARD C5. Roles of the Citizen in American Democracy: Explain
important rights and how, when, and where American
citizens demonstrate their responsibilities by
participating in government.
GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATION 1-C5.0.1. Describe some responsibilities people have at home
and at school (e.g., taking care of oneself, respect for
the rights of others, following rules, getting along with
others).