Elementary English and Language Arts Unit Standards Overview

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Common Core State Standard (CCSS)

Reading Literature RL 3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. RL 4.3 Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g., a character's thoughts, words, or actions). RL 3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. RL 4.2 Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, summarizes the text.

Reading Informational Text RI 3.2 Determine and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. RI 4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. RI 4.8 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. RL 4.9 Integrate information from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably.

Writing W 3.8 Recall information from experiences or gather information from print and digital sources; take brief notes on sources and sort evidence into provided categories. W 4.8. Recall relevant information from experiences or gather relevant information from print and digital sources; take notes and categorize information, and provide a list of sources.

Learning Progressions Frameworks Progress Indicator

E.RL.h Describing relationships among characters, setting, key events, and conflicts. E.RL.k Identifying central ideas and key details to derive author's purpose, message or theme E.RL.l Using supporting evidence to analyze character development and character traits (e.g. deeds, dialogue, description, motivation, interactions). E.RL.k Identifying central ideas and key details to derive author's purpose, message or theme. E. RI.i Identifying, paraphrasing, or summarizing central ideas and supporting details; determining importance of information E.RI.K Using supporting evidence to analyze or compare texts or parts of texts; author's purpose, points of view, key ideas/details, different accounts E.WL.i Using strategies (e.g., notes, graphic organizers, webbing, mentor texts) to develop and organize ideas (e.g., chronology, problem-solution)

Instructional Family: Retelling Texts Using Details

Reading Literary Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 3.RL.K1 Use details to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures. 3.RL.i2 Answer literal questions and refer to text to support your answer. 3.RL.k3 Use information in the text when explaining what the text says explicitly. 4.RL.i1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly. 4.RL.i3 Use evidence from the text to summarize a story, poem or drama.

Instructional Family: Drawing Relationships

Reading Literary Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 3.RL.h1 Answer questions related to the relationship between characters, setting, events, or conflicts (e.g., characters and events, characters and conflicts, setting and conflicts). 3.RL.l1 Describe a character's traits in a story using details from the text and illustrations. 3.RL.l2 Explain a character's motivation in a story using the character's thoughts, words, and actions as evidence from the text. 3. RL.l3 Explain a character's feelings in a story using the character's thoughts, words, and actions as evidence from the text. 4.RL.l1 Describe character traits (e.g., actions, deeds, dialogue, description, motivation, interactions); use details from text to support description. 4.RL.l2 Describe character motivation (e.g., actions, thoughts, words); use details from text to support description.

Instructional Family: Describing the Central Message / Theme

Reading Literary Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 3.RL.i1 Identify the central message (theme), lesson, or moral within a story, folktale, or fable from diverse cultures. 3.RL.k2 Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 4.RL.k2 Determine the theme of a story, drama, or poem; refer to text to support answer.

Instructional Family: Retelling Texts Using Details

Reading Informational Text Core Content Connectors addressed 3.RI.i1 Answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. 3.RI.i3 Identify supporting details of an informational text read, read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 4.RI.i1 Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly. 4.RI.i4 Identify supporting details of an informational text.

Instructional Family: Describing the Main Idea

Reading Informational Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 3.RI.k5 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. 4.RI.i2 Refer to details and examples in a text when drawing basic inferences from an informational text. 4.RI.i3 Determine the main idea of an informational text. 5.RI.c4 Determine the main idea, and identify key details to support the main idea.

Instructional Family: Distinguishing a Point of View

Reading Informational Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 3.RI.k1 Identify the author's purpose in an informational text. 3.RI.n1 Identify facts that an author uses to support a specific point or opinion. 4. RI.k5 Identify reasons that the author uses to support ideas in an informational text. 5.RI.e2 Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text. 5.RI.e3. Identify reasons and evidence that support an author's point(s) in a text. 5.RI.g2 Identify evidence the author uses to support stated thesis/claim/opinion..

Instructional Family: Using Multiple Texts

Reading Informational Text Core Content Connectors addressed: 4.RI.m1 Identify the most important information about a topic gathered from two texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably. 5.RI.e1 Note important similarities and differences in the point of view of multiple accounts of the same event or topic.