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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.
Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text
Compare and contrast topics or ideas within a thematic or author study heard, read, or viewed.
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.
Identify words, phrases, illustrations, and photographs used to provide information.
Identify the author’s purpose – to explain, entertain, inform, or convince.
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
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.
Read words with inflectional endings.
Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence
4.1 Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. 4.4 Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future.
Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text
Retell text, including beginning, middle, and end; use key details to determine the theme in a text heard or read.
a.describe characters’ actions and feelings; b.compare and contrast characters’ experiences to those of the reader; c.describe setting
Distinguish who is telling the story at various points in a text, the narrator or characters.