PK - 3 LITERACY CURRICULUM
Standard 1: Students read and understand a variety of materials.
Language use is an ever-expanding and ever-evolving art. Skills, concepts, and certain basic behaviors are repeated across grade levels with the
understanding students will use them differently as they mature developmentally. What changes is the quality and depth of the task and how effectively the
student uses the language arts tools to communicate.
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1 Students will be exposed to a 1 Connect information and events 1 Orally answer comprehension 1 Students read and understand a 1 Students read and understand a
variety of materials through in texts to life experiences questions about passage read variety of materials variety of materials
Read alouds (fiction, non- Big books during an IRI at level 17 or above Short stories Short fictional
fiction) Fiction leveled readers Short stories Nonfiction Long fictional
Big books Nonfiction Fiction Non-fiction
Poems Fiction Poetry
Rhymes
Songs
Picture books
1.a Use a full range of strategies to 1.a Use a full range of strategies to 1.a Use a full range of strategies to 1.a Use a full range of strategies to 1.a Use a full range of strategies to
comprehend a variety of texts comprehend a variety of texts comprehend a variety of texts comprehend a variety of texts comprehend a variety of texts
1.b Students will be able to retell a 1.b Talk about words and word 1.b 1.b 1.b Summarize text passages
story and/or relate to personal meaning as encountered in books
experience. and conversation
1.c 1.c Orally identify the main idea of a 1.c Identify main idea and details in a 1.c Identify main idea and use
1.c information to support ideas
passage and details during retell story
of passage
1.d Concepts of Print: Use pictures to 1.d Use character clues to orally 1.d 1.d Draw inferences using contextual
1.d Predict using pictures clues
predict print identify story plot
1.e Concepts of Print: Focus on word 1.e Identify events in the beginning, 1.e Identify sequence of events in a 1.e Sequence events and steps in a
1.e Students can give a three step
after word in sequence (voice- middle, and end of a reading story story
sequence of events
print match) passage 1.e2
1.e2 Say letters of alphabet in
sequence
1.f Fits materials into organizational
1.f Students will identify 1.f Concepts of print 1.f Orally identify problem and 1.f Compare and contrast patters
Cover of books Parts of a book solution of a story Chronological order
Hold book correctly Title, author and illustrator Compare/contrast
Understand the print carries Purpose of print – realize
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meaning print carries meaning
Left to right direction
Return sweep
Concept of letter and word
Punctuation
1.g Letter recognition 1.g Recognize, hear and produce 1.g Use word recognition skills and 1.g Decode words containing 1.g Use word recognition skills and
10-15 letters patterns of sound in oral language resources for comprehension Complex word families resources for comprehension
Identify letters in first name (i.e., rhyming words) One to one correspondence r-controlled er, ir, ur, at, or Phonics
– name, recognize, and write Read orally simple text Picture clues Dipthongs, prefixes, Picture clues
Letter sounds containing familiar word patterns Context clues contractions, and compound Context clues
10+ letter sounds Apply knowledge of letter sounds Skips a word and rereads for words Root words
to decode single syllable words meaning Prefixes
(e.g., dog, cat). Self corrects Suffixes
Identify, blend, and segment the Rhyming Captions
phonemes of most one-syllable
Syntax clues Definitions
words (e.g., dog, /d/ /o/ /g/). Tip boxes
Decoding words
Letter recognition
Short/long vowels (ae, ee, ie,
45 capital and lowercase
oe, ue, oa, ai, ea)
letters
Word family patterns to
Letter sounds
decode suffixes
20 letter sounds
Phoneme segmentation
Letters in name
Letter recognition
Complete name assessment
52 letter, capital/lower
at proficient level
Letter sounds
52 basic sounds
+ch, th, sh, wh
Recognize 95-100% vocabulary
on an individual reading
inventory at level 17 or above
1.j Emphasis on academic 1.j Identify high frequency words 1.j Identify high frequency words 1.j Emphasis on academic 1.j Emphasis on academic
vocabulary 10 words 150 words vocabulary vocabulary
STANDARD 4: Students apply thinking skills to their reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.
Language use is an ever-expanding and ever-evolving art. Skills, concepts, and certain basic behaviors are repeated across grade levels with the
understanding students will use them differently as they mature developmentally. What changes is the quality and depth of the task and how effectively the
student uses the language arts tools to communicate.
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4.a 4.a 4.a 4.a 4.a Identify the author’s purpose in
different types of writing
4.b 4.b 4.b 4.b Identify questions 4.b
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4.c 4.c 4.c 4.c 4.c Distinguish between fact and
opinion
4.d 4.d Concepts of Print: Use pictures to 4.d Use pictures to orally predict 4.d Make predictions using picture 4.d Make predictions and draw
predict print character an main idea in stories clues, titles, and content conclusions
4.e 4.e 4.e 4.e 4.e
4.f 4.f 4.f 4.f 4.f
STANDARD 5: Students read to locate, select, and make use of relevant information from a variety of media, reference, and technological sources.
Language use is an ever-expanding and ever-evolving art. Skills, concepts, and certain basic behaviors are repeated across grade levels with the
understanding students will use them differently as they mature developmentally. What changes is the quality and depth of the task and how effectively the
student uses the language arts tools to communicate.
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5.a 5.a Use organizational features of 5.a 5.a Use organizational features of 5.a Use organizational features of
printed text to locate information printed text to locate information printed text to locate information
Title page Alphabetize words to the Page numbering
Author second letter Alphabetizing
Illustrator Glossaries
Chapter headings
Table of contents
5.b 5.b 5.b 5.b 5.b Use electronic information for
researching various nonfiction
topics
Library card catalog
5.c 5.c 5.c Organize information utilizing
5.c 5.c
Story map
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5.d 5.d 5.d 5.d 5.d
5.e 5.e 5.e 5.e 5.e
5.e2 5.e2
5.f 5.f 5.f
5.f 5.f Use a dictionary to find the
meanings and spellings of words
STANDARD 6: Students read and recognize literature as a record of human experience.
Language use is an ever-expanding and ever-evolving art. Skills, concepts, and certain basic behaviors are repeated across grade levels with the
understanding students will use them differently as they mature developmentally. What changes is the quality and depth of the task and how effectively the
student uses the language arts tools to communicate.
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6.a 6.a Listens to and comprehend a 6.a 6.a 6.a
variety of genres
6.b 6.b 6.b Identify characters, setting, 6.b Use the correct vocabulary to 6.b Identify story elements
problem and solution orally for identify the important parts of a Setting
reading passages fiction passage Plot
Main characters Character
Setting Problem
Plot or problem Solution
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Solution
6.c 6.c 6.c 6.c 6.c
6.d 6.d Connects information and events 6.d 6.d
6.d
in texts to life experiences
6.e 6.e 6.e 6.e
6.e
6.f 6.f 6.f 6.f
6.f
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