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READING

SECOND GRADE

Foundational Skills

• Decodes by applying grade level phonics and word analysis skills
• Reads grade-appropriate high frequency words by sight
• Reads grade level texts with accuracy to support comprehension
• Reads grade level texts fluently with appropriate rate and expression

Literature

• Retells stories, including key details, such as setting and plot
• Determines the central message, lesson or moral
• Identifies characters’ points of view and how they respond to challenges
• Compares and contrasts two or more versions of the same story
• Reads and comprehends literature independently at grade level

Informational Text

• Identifies main topics throughout a multiparagraph text
• Determines the meaning of unknown words
• Uses various text features to locate key facts or information
• Compares and contrasts important points within two texts on the same topic
• Reads and comprehends informational texts independently at grade level

THIRD GRADE

Foundational Skills

• Decodes by applying grade level phonics and word analysis skills
• Reads grade level texts with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

Literature

• Retells with key details, character’s actions, and evidence from the text
• Understands how successive parts of texts build on earlier sections
• Understands varying points of view
• Compares and contrasts story elements
• Reads and comprehends literature independently at grade level

Informational Text

• Provides evidence from a text to demonstrate comprehension
• Determines the main idea using key details to summarize
• Uses text features to understand relevant vocabulary and comprehend text
• Compares and contrasts nonfiction texts
• Reads and comprehends informational texts independently at grade level

FOURTH GRADE

Foundational Reading Skills

• Demonstrates skills by applying grade level phonics and word analysis
• Reads grade level texts with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension

Literature

• Uses key ideas and details to summarize
• Uses key ideas and details to infer
• Understands varying text structures
• Compares and contrasts ideas and knowledge in literature
• Reads and comprehends literature independently at grade level

Informational

• Uses key ideas and details to summarize and explain information
• Uses key ideas and details to infer
• Uses text structure and understands relevant vocabulary to comprehend text
• Uses text features to integrate knowledge and ideas
• Reads and comprehends informational texts independently at grade level