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Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.

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With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

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With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.

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With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.

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Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (See grade K Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.) CA

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Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, fantasy, realistic text). CA

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With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.

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Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is . . .).

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Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

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Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. a. Print all upper- and lowercase letters. b. Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. c. Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (e.g., He hops; We hop). d. Use personal (subject, object), possessive, and indefinite pronouns (e.g., I, me, my; they, them, their; anyone, everything). CA e. Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (e.g., Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home). f. Use frequently occurring adjectives. g. Use frequently occurring conjunctions (e.g., and, but, or, so, because). h. Use determiners (e.g., articles, demonstratives). i. Use frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., during, beyond, toward). j. Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts.