Playbook® Applicability to

NEVADA

State Standards in Language Arts

Kindergarten through Fourth Grade

 

Reading a Playbook® in the classroom meets the following Nevada standards in English Language Arts and Reading:

 

Kindergarten

By the end of Kindergarten, students know and are able to:

Content Standard 1.0:

Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
  • Identify and use knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to understand text.
  • Use high-frequency words and environmental print to read simple texts.
  • Use high-frequency words and environmental print to read simple texts.
  • Identify and use letter/sound relationships.

Content Standard 2.0:

Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
  • Use prior knowledge and picture clues as pre-reading strategies to aid comprehension.

Content Standard 3.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
  • Retell beginning, middle, and end of familiar stories.
  • Listen to stories from different cultures and eras.
  • Listen for rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration.
  • Listen and respond to poetry and prose.

Content Standard 4.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
  • Demonstrate an understanding that printed materials provide information.

Content Standard 5.0:

Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
  • Draw or write responses to literature.

Content Standard 8.0:

Students listen to and evaluate oral communications for content, style, speaker's purpose, and audience appropriateness.
  • Listen for a variety of purposes such as to obtain information, to solve problems, or for enjoyment.
  • Attend and respond to stories and group discussions.

Content Standard 9.0:

Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.

  • Use and expand vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Speak clearly at an understandable pace.
  • Share and respond to ideas.
  • Relate experiences and retell stories.

Content Standard 10.0:

Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.

  • Demonstrate turn-taking in conversations and group discussions.
  • Ask and answer questions.
  • Share ideas and information.

 

Grade One

By the end of Grade 1, students know and are able to

do everything required in the previous grade and:

Content Standard 1.0:

Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
  • Use knowledge of high-frequency words to read texts aloud with fluency, accuracy, and expression.
  • Read texts aloud with fluency, accuracy, and appropriate intonation and expression; read high-frequency words to build fluency.
  • Use phonics to decode words in context.
  • Identify simple prefixes, common suffixes, and abbreviated words in context. Use knowledge of simple spelling patterns (e.g., CVC=cat, CVCe=cake, CVVC=boat), blends, and digraphs when reading; apply basic knowledge of alphabetical order.
  • Identify synonyms and antonyms in context.

Content Standard 2.0:

Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
  • Use, with teacher assistance, pre-reading strategies that aid comprehension such as accessing prior knowledge, predicting, previewing, and setting a purpose.
  • Use, with teacher assistance, self-correcting strategies such as rereading, substituting (replacing a known word), and reading on.
  • Recall details of the text while reading.
  • Retell details of text.

Content Standard 3.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
  • Identify characters, setting, and sequence of events.
  • Identify simple character traits.
  • Listen to and read stories from different cultures and eras.
  • Identify rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration.
  • Read and identify poetry and prose.

Content Standard 4.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
  • Locate and use title, pictures, and names of author and illustrator to obtain information.
  • Use information from titles, tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, indexes, diagrams, charts, and maps to comprehend text.
  • Use text to answer questions.

Content Standard 5.0:

Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
  • Write, with teacher assistance, responses to literature.

Content Standard 9.0:

Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.

  • Use varied vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Speak clearly at an understandable pace.
  • Present ideas and ask questions in small and large groups.
  • Recount experiences and retell stories in sequence.

Content Standard 10.0:

Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.

  • Demonstrate turn-taking in conversations and group discussions.
  • Ask and answer questions to gather and provide information.
  • Share ideas and information in small groups.

 

Grade 2

By the end of Grade 2, students know and are able to

do everything required in previous grades and:

Content Standard 1.0:

Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
  • Use knowledge of phonics and structural elements (e.g., syllables, basic prefixes, roots, and suffixes) to decode unfamiliar words of one or more syllables in context.
  • Identify the meanings of simple prefixes, common suffixes, and abbreviated words in context.
  • Identify and use knowledge of spelling patterns such as diphthongs and special vowel spellings when reading; apply knowledge of basic syllabication rules when reading (e.g., V/CV= su/per, VC/CV= sup/per).
  • Identify and use knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to understand text.

Content Standard 2.0:

Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
  • Identify pre-reading strategies that aid comprehension such as accessing prior knowledge, predicting, previewing, and setting a purpose.
  • Identify self-correcting strategies such as self-questioning and rereading.
  • Recall the main idea of the text while reading.
  • Retell the main idea of text.

Content Standard 3.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
  • Analyze simple elements of a story such as settings, characters, and plot (e.g., restate the logical and sequential development of a story and generate alternative endings to stories).
  • Compare and contrast different versions of the same stories from different cultures and eras.
  • Compare rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration in poetry.
  • Distinguish between poetry and prose.

Content Standard 4.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
  • Locate table of contents and chapter headings and interpret information from diagrams, charts, and graphs.
  • Identify and explain cause and effect and determine the main idea of a passage.
  • Ask questions to gain understanding of important information in a text.

Content Standard 5.0:

Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
  • Write responses to literature.

Content Standard 6.0:

Students write with a clear focus and logical development, evaluating, revising, and editing for organization, style, tone, and word choice.
  • Generate possible ideas for future writing by recalling experiences, talking, drawing, and hearing stories.

Content Standard 9.0:

Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.

  • Select and use specific vocabulary to communicate ideas.
  • Speak clearly at an understandable pace.
  • Recount experiences and tell stories that move through a logical sequence of events and include character and setting.

Content Standard 10.0:

Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.

  • Demonstrate turn-taking and eye contact in conversations and group discussions.
  • Ask and answer questions to gather and provide information.
  • Present ideas and information in groups.

 

Grade 3

By the end of Grade 3, students know and are able to

do everything required in previous grades and:

Content Standard 1.0:

Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
  • Use knowledge of word families, phonics, and structural elements to read and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in context.
  • Use knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, roots, or base words to determine the meaning of words in context.
  • Use dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meanings and other features of unknown words.
  • Use knowledge of synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and homographs to expand vocabulary.

Content Standard 2.0:

Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
  • Use pre-reading strategies such as accessing prior knowledge, predicting, previewing, and setting a purpose to improve comprehension.
  • Use self-correcting strategies such as self-questioning and rereading to gain meaning from text.
  • Recall essential points in text while reading; make and revise predictions about coming information.
  • Restate facts and details in text to share information and organize ideas.
  • Adjust reading rate to suit difficulty of text.

Content Standard 3.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
  • Compare plots, settings, and characters in a variety of works and by a variety of authors.
  • Make inferences about a character’s traits and check text for verification.
  • Compare plots, settings, characters, and points of view in a variety of works and by a variety of authors from different cultures and times.
  • Identify simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole in text.
  • Read and identify stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction selections.
  • Distinguish essential information from titles, tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, indexes, diagrams, charts, and maps to locate information in texts for specific purposes.

Content Standard 4.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
  • Distinguish between cause and effect, fact and opinion, and main idea and supporting details in text.
  • Draw conclusions about texts and support them with textual evidence and experience.
  • Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge with literal and inferential information in text.

Content Standard 5.0:

Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
  • Write responses to literature and experiences.

Content Standard 9.0:

Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.

  • Use specific vocabulary and apply standard English to communicate ideas.
  • Use appropriate public speaking techniques such as volume control and eye contact.
  • Present ideas and supporting details in a logical sequence with a beginning, middle, and ending.
  • Read aloud and recite prose and poetry with fluency, rhythm, pace, appropriate intonation, and vocal patterns.

Content Standard 10.0:

Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.

  • Speak and listen attentively in conversations and group
  • Ask pertinent questions; respond to questions with relevant details.
  • Share ideas and information to complete a task.
  • Distinguish between a speaker’s opinion and verifiable facts.

 

Grade 4

By the end of Grade 4, students know and are able to

do everything required in previous grades and:

Content Standard 1.0:

Students know and use word analysis skills and strategies to comprehend new words encountered in text.
  • Use knowledge of phonics, structural elements, and syntax to read and to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in context.
  • Identify and use knowledge of common Greek- and Latin- derived roots and affixes to determine the meaning of words in context.
  • Use dictionaries and glossaries to determine the meanings and other features of unknown words and derivations of words.
  • Use knowledge of vocabulary and context clues to determine meanings of unknown words.

Content Standard 2.0:

Students use reading process skills and strategies to build comprehension.
  • Use graphic organizers to access prior knowledge, predict, preview, and set a purpose to aid comprehension.
  • Select and use self-correcting strategies to gain meaning from text.
  • Apply skills and strategies of summarizing, paraphrasing, and drawing conclusions to aid comprehension
  • Use note taking, outlining, and summarizing to organize and understand information from text.

Content Standard 3.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate literature from a variety of authors, cultures, and times.
  • Use knowledge of character, setting, plot, conflict, and resolution to comprehend a variety of works.
  • Make inferences about and compare characters’ traits using text for verification.
  • Identify an historical event or cultural influence as portrayed in literature.
  • Inferences - Conclusions arrived at by reasoning from evidence.
  • Identify implied themes in a variety of reading selections.
  • Locate figurative language, including simile, metaphor, and personification in text.
  • Identify structures of stories, plays, poetry, and non-fiction selections.

Content Standard 4.0:

Students read to comprehend, interpret, and evaluate informational texts for specific purposes.
  • Use information from titles, Tables of contents, chapter headings, glossaries, indexes, diagrams, charts, and maps to comprehend text.
  • Compare main ideas and important concepts of various texts.
  • Develop hypotheses based upon prior knowledge and information from a text
  • Draw conclusions about texts and support them with evidence from a variety of sources. Identify authors’ purposes for writing.

Content Standard 5.0:

Students write a variety of texts that inform, persuade, describe, evaluate, or tell a story and are appropriate to purpose and audience.
  • Write responses with supporting details to literary selections.

Content Standard 9.0:

Students speak using organization, style, tone, voice, and media aids appropriate to audience and purpose.

  • Select and use varied vocabulary and apply standard English to communicate ideas.
  • Select and use appropriate public speaking techniques such as rate, pace, and enunciation.
  • Give organized presentations that demonstrate a clear viewpoint.
  • Read aloud and recite literary, dramatic, and original works.

Content Standard 10.0:

Students participate in discussions to offer information, clarify ideas, and support a position.

  • Contribute to and listen attentively in conversations and group discussions.
  • Ask and answer questions with relevant details to clarify ideas.
  • Share ideas, opinions, and information clearly and effectively.
  • Identify and express opinions and state facts.