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• Determine pronunciations and meanings
of words, as well as alternate word choices and parts of speech, using
dictionaries and thesauruses.
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• Determine the meaning of unfamiliar
words using context clues (for example, definitions, examples, explanations
in the text).
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• Determine the meaning of unfamiliar
words using knowledge of common Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, and
prefixes.
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• Reading
and Literature Strand
Continue to address the grades PreK-4 standards as needed and as they apply
to more difficult texts.
Standard 11: Theme
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the theme in a
literary work and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
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• Apply knowledge of the concept that
theme refers to the main idea and meaning of a literary passage or selection.
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• Reading
and Literature Strand
Continue to address the grades PreK-4 standards as needed and as they apply
to more difficult texts.
Standard 12: Fiction
Students will identify, analyze, and apply knowledge of the structure and
elements of fiction and provide evidence from the text to support their
understanding.
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• Describe how main characters change
over time.
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• Identify personality traits of characters and how their thoughts, words, and actions reveal
their personalitites.
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• Identify the elements of setting,
characterization, conflict, and plot structure.
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• Identify sensory details, figurative
language, and rhythm or flow when responding to literature.
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• General Standard 9: Making Connections
Students will deepen their understanding of a literary or non-literary work
by relating it to its contemporary context or historical background.
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• Grades 5-6
9.4 Relate a literary work to information about its setting.
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• General Standard 15: Style and Language
Students will identify and analyze how an author's words appeal to the
senses, create imagery, suggest mood, and set tone and provide evidence from
the text to support their understanding. (See also Standard 14.)
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• Grades 5-6
15.3 Identify imagery, figurative language, rhythm, or flow when responding
to literature.
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• Grades 5-6
15.4 Identify and analyze the importance of shades of meaning in determining
word choice in a piece of literature.
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• Grades 5-6
11.3 Apply knowledge of the concept that theme refers to the main idea and
meaning of a selection, whether it is implied or stated.
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• Grades 5-6
8.19 Identify and analyze sensory details and figurative language.
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• Grades 5-6
12.3 Identify and analyze the elements of setting, characterization, and plot
(including conflict).
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• Grades 5-6
6.5 Write stories using a mix of formal and informal language.
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• Grades 5-6
6.6 Identify differences between oral and written language patterns.
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• General Standard 4: Vocabulary and
Concept Development
Students will understand and acquire new vocabulary and use it correctly in
reading and writing.
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• Grades 5-6
4.17 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues
(definition, example).
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• Grades 5-6
4.18 Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using knowledge of common
Greek and Latin roots, suffixes, and prefixes.
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• Grades 5-6
4.19 Determine pronunciations, meanings, alternate word choices, and parts of
speech of words using dictionaries and thesauruses.
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