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Reading K-2 CCSS 2010 1.1

Reading K-2 CCSS 2010 1.1

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Learning Continuum - Reading K-2 CCSS 2010 1.1

RIT 111-120

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Matches the letter z to the initial sound in spoken words

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Identifies a question mark

RIT 121-130

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Matches a letter to its sound, given a picture
      - Matches the letter b to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter k to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter m to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter t to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter z to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Recognizes the letter b makes the /b/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter d makes the /d/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter f makes the /f/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter g makes the /g/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter k makes the /k/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter m makes the /m/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter p makes the /p/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter r makes the /r/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter s makes the /s/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter t makes the /t/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter w makes the /w/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter x makes the /ks/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter y makes the /y/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter z makes the /z/ sound
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /wh/

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CVC words

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Matches the letter a to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter o to the initial sound of spoken words

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Identifies a question mark

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Book Concepts
      - Identifies the front and back of a book

  • Locating Information
      - Recalls details from informational text read aloud

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares topics of books using pictures and titles read aloud
      - Matches pictures to the main idea in informational text
      - Understands the topic of informational text from pictures or title read aloud

RIT 131-140

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Distinguishes letter sounds within consonant blends
      - Distinguishes the initial sounds of multiple spoken words
      - Identifies the word with a given initial consonant sound
      - Matches the letter b to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter c to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter f to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter g to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter h to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter j to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter k to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter l to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter m to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter n to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter p to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter r to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter s to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter t to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter v to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter w to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter y to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letters qu to the initial sounds in a spoken word
      - Recognizes the letter b makes the /b/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter d makes the /d/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter f makes the /f/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter g makes the /g/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter h makes the /h/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter j makes the /j/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter k makes the /k/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter l makes the /l/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter n makes the /n/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter p makes the /p/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter r makes the /r/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter t makes the /t/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter v makes the /v/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter w makes the /w/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter x makes the /ks/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter y makes the /y/ sound
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /wh/

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CVC words
      - Decodes CVCe words
      - Decodes CVCe words in context
      - Decodes CVVC words

  • Phonics: High Frequency and Sight Words
      - Locates high-frequency words in a list
      - Locates high-frequency words in context

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Identifies vowels that differ in similarly spelled words
      - Matches the letter a to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter e to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter i to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter o to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter u to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Recognizes the letter a makes the /ă/ sound

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Distinguishes a sentence ending with a period
      - Distinguishes a sentence ending with a question mark
      - Identifies a period
      - Identifies a period in context

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Determines spelling patterns that complete words

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Book Concepts
      - Identifies the front and back of a book

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Makes inferences from pictures

  • Locating Information
      - Recalls details from informational text read aloud

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares topics of books using pictures and titles read aloud
      - Understands the topic of informational text from pictures or title read aloud

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word

RIT 141-150

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Classifies pictures by initial letter sound
      - Matches the letter b to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter c to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter l to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter l to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter m to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter s to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter y to the initial sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter z to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letters qu to the initial sounds in a spoken word
      - Recognizes the letter b makes the /b/ sound
      - Substitutes the initial consonant in similarly spelled words
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /ch/
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /ck/
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /sh/
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /th/

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CVC words
      - Decodes CVCe words
      - Decodes CVCe words in context
      - Decodes CVVC words
      - Decodes regularly spelled two-syllable words
      - Decodes single‑syllable words with r‑controlled vowels
      - Decodes words ending in -s, -ed, or -ing
      - Decodes words with prefixes
      - Decodes words with suffixes

  • Phonics: High Frequency and Sight Words
      - Locates high-frequency words in a list
      - Locates high-frequency words in context

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Identifies vowels that differ in similarly spelled words
      - Matches the letter e to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter i to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Matches the letter u to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Recognizes the letter i makes the /ĭ/ sound
      - Recognizes the letter u makes the /ŭ/ sound
      - Understands the sound of the ow diphthong

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Capitalization: First Word Rules
      - Capitalizes the first word in a sentence

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Distinguishes a sentence ending with a period
      - Identifies a period
      - Identifies a period in context
      - Names a period
      - Names a question mark

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Determines spelling patterns that complete words
      - Recognizes correct spelling of single-syllable r-controlled words
      - Spells CVC words
      - Spells high frequency words correctly

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Book Concepts
      - Identifies the front and back of a book

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Makes inferences from an informational passage read aloud

  • Locating Information
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Recalls details from informational text read aloud

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares topics of books using pictures and titles read aloud
      - Understands the main idea of informational paragraphs read aloud
      - Understands the topic of informational text from pictures or title read aloud

  • Predictions
      - Predicts events in an informational passage read aloud

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Applies understanding of word meaning to define a compound word
      - Understands the meaning of a word with the prefix un-
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending -ing
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending -s
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix re-
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix un-

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Uses context and an illustration to determine the meaning of a word
      - Uses context clues to define homophones
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word

RIT 151-160

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Classifies pictures by initial letter sound
      - Matches the letter d to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter k to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter m to the final sound in spoken words
      - Matches the letter n to the final sound in spoken words
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /th/

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CCVCC words
      - Decodes CVCC words
      - Decodes CVCe words
      - Decodes CVCe words in context
      - Decodes CVVC words
      - Decodes regularly spelled two-syllable words
      - Decodes words ending in -s, -ed, or -ing
      - Decodes words with prefixes
      - Decodes words with suffixes

  • Phonics: High Frequency and Sight Words
      - Locates high-frequency words in a list
      - Locates high-frequency words in context

  • Phonics: Rhyming
      - Distinguishes rhyming words with different spelling patterns
      - Identifies rhyming words with the same spelling pattern

  • Phonics: Syllabication
      - Finds the printed word with a given number of syllables

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Identifies vowels that differ in similarly spelled words
      - Matches the letter e to the initial sound of spoken words
      - Sorts CVC words based on rime
      - Understands the final -e rule for long vowel sounds
      - Understands the sound of the ow diphthong
      - Understands the sounds of the oo vowel team

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Capitalization: First Word Rules
      - Capitalizes the first word in a sentence

  • Capitalization: Proper Nouns and Personal Titles
      - Capitalizes names of geographic locations

  • Contractions
      - Understands the contraction for "we will"

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Identifies an exclamation mark
      - Names a question mark
      - Names an exclamation mark
      - Uses a period to punctuate a sentence
      - Uses a question mark to punctuate a sentence

  • Spelling: Commonly Misspelled Words
      - Identifies correct/incorrect spelling of a high frequency word

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Determines spelling patterns that complete words
      - Recognizes correct spelling of single-syllable r-controlled words
      - Recognizes when a word with a regular pattern is misspelled
      - Spells CVC words
      - Spells high frequency words correctly

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Academic and Content Vocabulary
      - Determines the meaning of academic words or phrases in context
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word or phrase in informational text read aloud

  • Assertions and Claims
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text read aloud

  • Book Concepts
      - Understands the role of an author or illustrator

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Infers the meaning of an advertisement from text and pictures
      - Makes inferences from an informational passage read aloud
      - Makes inferences from informational text and illustrations

  • Locating Information
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Locates information in a caption
      - Recalls details from informational text read aloud

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares main ideas in two informational passages
      - Determines the topic in informational text
      - Understands the main idea of informational paragraphs read aloud
      - Understands the topic of informational paragraphs read aloud

  • Purpose
      - Determines specific purpose of an advertisement

  • Supporting Details
      - Compares and contrasts details in informational text read aloud
      - Determines details that support a stated idea in informational text

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
      - Locates information in a caption

  • Text Structure: Organization
      - Compares and contrasts details in two informational texts

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Applies understanding of word meaning to define a compound word
      - Identifies base words in words containing inflectional endings
      - Understands how the prefix dis- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the prefix re- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands the meaning of a word with the prefix re‑
      - Understands the meaning of a word with the prefix un-
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending -ing
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending -s
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix re-
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix un-
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑ful
      - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Understands the meaning of homophones
      - Uses context and an illustration to determine the meaning of a word
      - Uses context clues to define homophones
      - Uses context clues to define multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word

RIT 161-170

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Consonants
      - Classifies pictures by initial letter sound
      - Understands the sound of the digraph /ph/

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CVCe words
      - Decodes CVVC words
      - Decodes irregularly spelled single-syllable words
      - Decodes multisyllable words
      - Decodes regularly spelled two-syllable words
      - Decodes single-syllable words with vowel diphthongs
      - Decodes two-syllable words with irregular spellings
      - Decodes words ending in -s, -ed, or -ing
      - Decodes words with prefixes
      - Decodes words with suffixes
      - Decodes words with variant spelling patterns or silent consonants

  • Phonics: High Frequency and Sight Words
      - Locates high-frequency words in a list
      - Locates high-frequency words in context

  • Phonics: Rhyming
      - Distinguishes rhyming words with different spelling patterns
      - Identifies rhyming words with the same spelling pattern

  • Phonics: Syllabication
      - Determines the number of syllables in a given word
      - Divides printed words into syllables
      - Finds the printed word with a given number of syllables

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ā/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ă/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ĕ/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ī/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ĭ/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ō/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ū/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ŭ/ sound
      - Matches the /ō/ sound to final‑e words
      - Understands the final -e rule for long vowel sounds

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Apostrophes
      - Uses an apostrophe to form a singular possessive

  • Capitalization: First Word Rules
      - Understands the capitalization rule for the first word in a sentence

  • Capitalization: Proper Nouns and Personal Titles
      - Capitalizes days of the week
      - Capitalizes months of the year
      - Capitalizes names of geographic locations
      - Capitalizes proper names and abbreviated titles/suffixes
      - Capitalizes the pronoun "I"

  • Contractions
      - Understands the contraction for "I have"
      - Understands the contraction for "had not"
      - Understands the contraction for "has not"
      - Understands the contraction for "should not"
      - Understands the contraction for "we have"
      - Understands the contraction for "you are"
      - Understands the contraction for "you have"

  • Ending Punctuation
      - Recognizes errors in ending punctuation
      - Uses an exclamation mark to punctuate a sentence

  • Spelling: Affixes and Roots
      - Identifies correct/incorrect spelling of a word beginning with un-
      - Identifies correct/incorrect spelling of a word ending in -ing

  • Spelling: Commonly Misspelled Words
      - Identifies correct/incorrect spelling of a high frequency word

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Determines spelling patterns that complete words
      - Recognizes correct spelling of single-syllable r-controlled words
      - Recognizes when a word with a regular pattern is misspelled
      - Spells high frequency words correctly
      - Spells single-syllable short-vowel words with blends or digraphs
      - Spells single-syllable words with long vowel patterns
      - Spells words with r-controlled patterns

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Academic and Content Vocabulary
      - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word or phrase in informational text read aloud

  • Assertions and Claims
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text read aloud

  • Cause and Effect
      - Determines the effect of a situation or event in informational text

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Infers the meaning of an advertisement from text and pictures
      - Makes inferences from informational text and illustrations

  • Locating Information
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Locates information in a caption
      - Locates information in tables of contents
      - Locates word meaning in informational text
      - Recalls details from informational text read aloud

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares main ideas in two informational passages
      - Determines main/central idea in informational text
      - Determines the topic in informational text
      - Understands the main idea of informational paragraphs read aloud
      - Understands the topic of informational paragraphs read aloud

  • Purpose
      - Determines specific purpose of a letter
      - Determines specific purpose of an informational text
      - Infers the author's purpose in a passage
      - Recognizes when the general purpose of a passage is to give directions
      - Understands the general purpose of an informational report

  • Sequencing
      - Identifies steps in a set of directions

  • Supporting Details
      - Compares and contrasts details in informational text read aloud

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
      - Identifies a table of contents
      - Locates information in a caption
      - Locates information in tables of contents

  • Text Structure: Organization
      - Compares and contrasts details in two informational texts

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Applies understanding of word meaning to define a compound word
      - Understands how the prefix dis-, mis- or non- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix -able or -ible changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix ‑en changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix ‑y changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands the meaning of a word with the prefix re‑
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending -ing
      - Understands the meaning of the inflectional ending ‑ed
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix dis‑
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix non-
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix un-
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑ful
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑less
      - Uses a defined base word as a clue to the meaning of a word
      - Uses a defined root and/or affix to determine word meaning
      - Uses the base word to determine the meaning of a word

  • Reference Materials
      - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Determines which homophone completes a sentence
      - Uses context clues to define homophones
      - Uses context clues to define multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a phrase
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word

RIT 171-180

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes CVCe words
      - Decodes CVVC words
      - Decodes irregularly spelled single-syllable words
      - Decodes multisyllable words
      - Decodes single-syllable words with vowel diphthongs
      - Decodes two-syllable words with irregular spellings
      - Decodes words with suffixes
      - Decodes words with variant spelling patterns or silent consonants

  • Phonics: Rhyming
      - Distinguishes rhyming words with different spelling patterns

  • Phonics: Syllabication
      - Divides printed words into syllables
      - Finds the printed word with a given number of syllables
      - Matches words with the same number of syllables

  • Phonics: Vowels
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ā/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ă/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ĭ/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ō/ sound
      - Distinguishes single‑syllable words with the /ŏ/ sound
      - Matches the /ē/ sound to vowel teams
      - Matches the /ō/ sound to final‑e words
      - Matches the /ō/ sound to vowel teams
      - Matches the /ū/ sound to final‑e words
      - Understands the final -e rule for long vowel sounds
      - Understands the sound of the /ay/ vowel team
      - Understands the sound of the aw vowel team

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Apostrophes
      - Uses an apostrophe to form a singular possessive

  • Capitalization: Proper Nouns and Personal Titles
      - Capitalizes days of the week
      - Capitalizes names of geographic locations
      - Capitalizes proper names and abbreviated titles/suffixes
      - Capitalizes the pronoun "I"
      - Recognizes errors in capitalization

  • Commas
      - Understands how to punctuate the opening or closing of a letter
      - Uses commas to punctuate written dates

  • Quotation Marks and Dialogue
      - Understands that quotation marks set off dialogue

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Determines spelling patterns that complete words
      - Recognizes correct spelling of single-syllable r-controlled words
      - Spells high frequency words correctly
      - Spells single-syllable short-vowel words with blends or digraphs
      - Spells single-syllable words with CVCe vowel patterns
      - Spells single-syllable words with diphthongs
      - Spells single-syllable words with long vowel patterns
      - Spells words with consonant +le patterns
      - Spells words with r-controlled patterns

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Academic and Content Vocabulary
      - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word or phrase in informational text read aloud

  • Assertions and Claims
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text read aloud

  • Cause and Effect
      - Determines the cause of a situation or event in informational text

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Makes inferences from informational text
      - Makes inferences from informational text and illustrations

  • Locating Information
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Locates information in tables of contents
      - Locates word meaning in informational text
      - Understands explicit relationships between ideas in informational text

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Compares main ideas in two informational passages
      - Determines main/central idea in a portion of an informational text
      - Determines main/central idea in informational text
      - Determines main/central idea in persuasive text
      - Determines the topic in informational text

  • Purpose
      - Determines specific purpose of a set of directions
      - Determines specific purpose of an informational text

  • Sequencing
      - Determines logical order of ideas or events in informational text
      - Identifies steps in a set of directions
      - Understands sequence in informational text

  • Supporting Details
      - Compares and contrasts details in informational text
      - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
      - Determines details that support main/central idea in informational text

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
      - Locates information in tables of contents
      - Understands text features in informational text
      - Understands the purpose of headings
      - Understands the purpose of subheadings

  • Text Structure: Organization
      - Compares and contrasts details in two informational texts

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Applies understanding of word meaning to define a compound word
      - Understands how the prefix dis-, mis- or non- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the prefix over‑ changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix ‑er or ‑est changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands the meaning of the prefix mis-
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑less
      - Uses a defined base word as a clue to the meaning of a word
      - Uses the base word to determine the meaning of a word

  • Reference Materials
      - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
      - Uses context and dictionary or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Uses context and glossary entries to determine word meaning

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Completes sentences with the correct homophone(s)
      - Completes sentences with the correct multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context clues to define homophones
      - Uses context clues to define multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word
      - Uses words correctly based on definitions from a glossary or a dictionary

RIT 181-190

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Decoding
      - Decodes irregularly spelled single-syllable words

  • Phonics: Syllabication
      - Finds the printed word with a given number of syllables

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Capitalization: Proper Nouns and Personal Titles
      - Capitalizes names of geographic locations

  • Commas
      - Understands how to punctuate the opening or closing of a letter
      - Uses commas to separate items in a series

  • Spelling: Affixes and Roots
      - Spells VCe words with inflectional endings

  • Spelling: Commonly Misspelled Words
      - Spells calendar words correctly

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Recognizes correct spelling of single-syllable r-controlled words
      - Spells high frequency words correctly
      - Spells single-syllable short-vowel words with blends or digraphs
      - Spells single-syllable words with long vowel patterns
      - Spells single‑syllable words with complex patterns
      - Spells words with consonant +le patterns
      - Spells words with irregular patterns
      - Spells words with r-controlled patterns

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Academic and Content Vocabulary
      - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

  • Assertions and Claims
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text

  • Cause and Effect
      - Determines the cause of a situation or event in informational text

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Compares or contrasts details/ideas described in informational text
      - Draws conclusions from informational text
      - Makes inferences from informational text
      - Makes inferences from informational text and illustrations

  • Locating Information
      - Distinguishes whether information comes from text or an illustration in informational text
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Locates word meaning in informational text
      - Understands explicit relationships between ideas in informational text
      - Uses information found in text and in illustrations to determine key details in a text

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Determines main/central idea in a portion of an informational text
      - Determines main/central idea in informational text
      - Determines main/central idea in literary nonfiction

  • Purpose
      - Determines specific purpose of an informational text
      - Recognizes when the general purpose of a passage is to inform

  • Sequencing
      - Determines logical order of ideas or events in informational text
      - Identifies steps in a set of directions
      - Understands sequence in informational text

  • Summarizing, Paraphrasing
      - Summarizes informational text

  • Supporting Details
      - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
      - Determines details that support main/central idea in informational text

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Determines specific purpose of a graphic
      - Identifies a glossary
      - Understands the purpose of headings
      - Understands the purpose of subheadings
      - Understands the purpose of varied typeface in informational text

  • Text Structure: Organization
      - Compares and contrasts details in two informational texts

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Applies understanding of word meaning to define a compound word
      - Understands how the prefix dis-, mis- or non- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix ‑er or ‑est changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑est
      - Understands the meaning of the suffix ‑less
      - Uses a defined base word as a clue to the meaning of a word

  • Reference Materials
      - Locates information in dictionaries or glossaries
      - Uses context and dictionary or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Uses context and glossary entries to determine word meaning

  • Unknown and Multiple-Meaning Words
      - Completes sentences with the correct multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context clues to define homophones
      - Uses context clues to define multiple‑meaning words
      - Uses context to determine the meaning of a word
      - Uses the same definition of a multiple‑meaning word in different contexts

RIT 191-200

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Foundational Skills

Phonics and Word Recognition

  • Phonics: Syllabication
      - Finds the nonsense words with a given number of syllables

Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Commas
      - Uses a comma to punctuate the greeting/closing of a letter

  • Quotation Marks and Dialogue
      - Uses quotation marks to set off dialogue

  • Spelling: Affixes and Roots
      - Spells VCe words with inflectional endings

  • Spelling: Commonly Misspelled Words
      - Spells calendar words correctly

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Spells high frequency words correctly

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Academic and Content Vocabulary
      - Determines the meaning of domain‑specific words or phrases in context

  • Assertions and Claims
      - Identifies evidence that supports a statement in informational text

  • Cause and Effect
      - Determines the cause of a situation or event in informational text

  • Inferences, Conclusions
      - Makes inferences from informational text and illustrations

  • Locating Information
      - Distinguishes whether information comes from text or an illustration in informational text
      - Locates details in informational text
      - Understands explicit relationships between ideas in informational text
      - Uses information found in text and in illustrations to determine key details in a text

  • Main or Central Idea, Topic
      - Determines main/central idea in a portion of an informational text

  • Purpose
      - Determines specific purpose of an informational text

  • Supporting Details
      - Determines details that support a claim in informational text
      - Determines details that support main/central idea in informational text

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Understands the purpose of varied typeface in informational text

  • Text Structure: Organization
      - Compares and contrasts details in two informational texts

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Understands how the prefix dis-, mis- or non- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the prefix pre- changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands how the suffix -or, -er, or -ist changes the meaning of a noun
      - Understands how the suffix ‑er or ‑est changes the meaning of a word
      - Understands the meaning of a word with a prefix
      - Uses a defined base word as a clue to the meaning of a word

  • Reference Materials
      - Uses context and dictionary or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

  • Text Features, Visuals
      - Uses context and glossary entries to determine word meaning

RIT 201-210

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Language and Writing

Capitalize, Spell, Punctuate

  • Spelling: Commonly Misspelled Words
      - Spells homophones correctly

  • Spelling: Patterns
      - Spells single‑syllable words with silent consonants

Literature and Informational Text

Informational Text: Key Ideas, Details, Craft, Structure

  • Locating Information
      - Uses information found in text and in illustrations to determine key details in a text

Vocabulary Use and Functions

Language: Context Clues and References

  • Base Words, Affixes
      - Understands the meaning of a word with a prefix
      - Uses a defined base word as a clue to the meaning of a word

  • Reference Materials
      - Uses context and dictionary or thesaurus entries to determine word meaning

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