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Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

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Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

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Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.

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Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

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Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Use collective nouns (e.g., group). b. Form and use frequently occurring irregular plural nouns (e.g., feet, children, teeth, mice, fish). c. Use reflexive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves). d. Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told). e. Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified. f. Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy). g. Create readable documents with legible print. CA

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Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. a. Capitalize holidays, product names, and geographic names. b. Use commas in greetings and closings of letters. c. Use an apostrophe to form contractions and frequently occurring possessives. d. Generalize learned spelling patterns when writing words (e.g., cage → badge; boy → boil). e. Consult reference materials, including beginning dictionaries, as needed to check and correct spellings.

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Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

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Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.