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Reading: Informational Text

Meanings and Feelings

RL.9.2 Identify how an author’s choice of words, phrases, conventions, and illustrations suggest feelings, appeal to the senses, and contribute to meaning. RI.9.2 Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately.

Meanings and Feelings

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RL.9.2; RI.9.2
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Ask and Answer Questions (info)

Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text

Ask and Answer Questions (info)

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RI.5.1
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Making Connections

Compare and contrast topics or ideas within a thematic or author study heard, read, or viewed.

Making Connections

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RI.7.1
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Text Features

Use front cover, title page, illustrations/ photographs, fonts, glossary, and table of contents to locate and describe key facts or information; describe the relationship between these features and the text.

Text Features

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RI.8.2
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Pictures and Illustrations

Identify words, phrases, illustrations, and photographs used to provide information.

Pictures and Illustrations

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RI.8.1
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Author's Purpose

Identify the author’s purpose – to explain, entertain, inform, or convince.

Author's Purpose

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RI.10.1
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Reading: Foundational Skills

Vowel Sounds

Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.

Vowel Sounds

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RL.2.1
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Syllables

3.3 Read a two-syllable word by breaking the word into syllables. 3.2 Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in words.

Syllables

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RL.3.2; RL.3.3
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Word Endings

Read words with inflectional endings.

Word Endings

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RL.3.5
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Sentences

Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence

Sentences

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RL.1.1
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Verbs and Nouns

4.1 Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. 4.4 Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future.

Verbs and Nouns

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RI.4.1; RI.4.4
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Reading: Literature

Ask and Answer Questions (Lit)

Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text

Ask and Answer Questions (Lit)

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RL.5.1
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Details, Message, and Retelling

Retell text, including beginning, middle, and end; use key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read.

Details, Message, and Retelling

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RL.7.1
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Characters, Settings, Events

a.describe characters’ actions and feelings; b.compare and contrast characters’ experiences to those of the reader; c.describe setting

Characters, Settings, Events

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RL.8.1.abc
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Storytellers

Distinguish who is telling the story at various points in a text, the narrator or characters.

Storytellers

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RL.11.2
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