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Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.

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Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.

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(Begins in grade 2) CA

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With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.

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With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.

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Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. a. Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (e.g., first word, capitalization, ending punctuation).

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Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words both in isolation and in text. CA a. Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs. b. Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. c. Know final -e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. d. Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word. e. Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. f. Read words with inflectional endings. g. Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

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Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas.

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Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

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Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).