Book and Print Awareness

• Knows parts of books and functions of each part.
• Demonstrates understanding of directionality and voice-print match by following print word for word when listening to familiar text read aloud.
• Demonstrates understanding of letters, words, and story.

• Demonstrates understanding of literary language.

Language, Comprehension, and Response to Text

• Demonstrates sense of story.
• Connects information and events in text to experience.
• Demonstrates familiarity with a variety of types of books and selections.
• Reads or begins to read.

Phonemic Awareness

• Can blend the phonemes of one-syllable words.
• Can segment the phonemes of one-syllable words.

Decoding and Word Recognition

• Uses phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
• Recognizes many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text
• Reads aloud with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for the first half of grade one.
• Uses pronunciation, sentence meaning, story meaning, and syntax to confirm accurate decoding or to self-correct errors.

Language, Comprehension, and Response to Text

• Reads and comprehends both narrative and expository text appropriate for grade one.
• Self-monitors in decoding, comprehending, and composing text by using one or two strategies.
• Predicts and explains what will happen next in stories.
• Discusses and explains responses to how, why, and what-if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
• Retells new information in own words.
• Responds and elaborates in answering what, when, where, and how questions.
• Uses new vocabulary and language in both speech and writing.
• Demonstrates familiarity with a variety of types of text

Decoding and Word Recognition

• Uses phonics knowledge and structural analysis to decode regular multi-syllable words when reading text.
• Accurately read most high frequency and many irregularly spelled words in text.
• Read aloud with fluency and comprehension any text appropriate for the first half of grade two.

Language, Comprehension and Response To Text

• Reads and comprehends both narrative and expository text that is appropriate for grade two.
• Self-monitors own difficulties in decoding, comprehending, and composing text by using several strategies.
• Recalls facts and details from text.
• Read expository material for answers to specific questions.
• Discusses similarities and differences in events and characters across stories.
• Connects and compares information across expository selections to experience and knowledge.
• Poses possible how, why, and what -if questions to understand and/or interpret text.

Characteristics of the Reader: Exhibits the attitudes, habits, and dispositions of a reader.

• Describes personal reactions to poetry, informational, practical, and narrative texts.

Reading Strategies: Uses one or more of the following strategies as appropriate to construct meaning from text.

• Continues to predict based on semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues
• Searches, predicts, monitors, and cross-checks using semantic, syntactic, and graphophonic cues independently.
• Reads on and rereads to check predictions and clarify meaning.
• Uses analogy by identifying a word as being the same or almost the same as a known word.
• Uses chunking by using familiar word parts to identify increasingly complex unknown words.
• Notes unknown words for later study. Paraphrases information from text in own words.

Reading Comprehension: Constructs meaning from literary informational, and practical texts.

• Reads literary, informational, and practical text.
• Interprets poetry and recognizes stanza and rhyme as characteristics of poetry.
• Infers main idea, lesson, or moral in a variety of prose including fairy tales, tall tales, fables, legends, and myths.
• Compares traits of characters as evidenced in the text.
• Compares and contrasts characters, events, episodes, and/ or stories.
• Compares and contrasts poems, informational selections, or other literary selections.
• Distinguishes between fact and opinion.
• Recognizes the author's use of figurative language such as simile or metaphor.
• Supports ideas by reference to evidence presented in texts.
• Discriminates between cause and effect relationships.

Reading Competencies

Characteristics of the Reader: Exhibits the attitudes, habits, and dispositions of a reader.

• Describes personal reactions to narratives, biographies, and autobiographies.

Reading Strategies: Uses one or more of the following strategies as appropriate to construct meaning from text.

• Uses strategies of sampling, predicting, confirming, and self-correcting quickly, confidently, and independently.
• Adjusts reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of material.
• Summarizes information from literary and informational materials.
• Questions to assess point of view.

Reading Comprehension: Constructs meaning from literary, informational, and practical texts.

• Reads literary, informational, and practical text.
• Reads material on a variety of topics beyond personal experiences.
• Discusses motives of characters as evidenced in the text.
• Recognizes simple themes related to personal experience.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions from informational texts and stories beyond personal experiences.
• Recognizes that authors and illustrators have individual voices and styles.
• Analyzes the structure of an informational selection.

Reading Competencies

Characteristics of the Reader: Exhibits the attitudes, habits, and dispositions of a reader.

• Reads literary, informational, and practical materials beyond personal experience.
• Reads widely for pleasure, for interest, or for learning.
• Makes comments and expresses feelings about characters beyond own experiences.

Reading Strategies: Uses one or more of the following strategies as appropriate to construct meaning from text.

• Varies reading strategies according to purposes for reading and the nature of the text.
• Selects relevant passages or phrases to answer questions without necessarily reading the whole text.
• Scans, skims, or reads carefully as appropriate.

Reading Comprehension: Constructs meaning from literary informational, and practical texts.

• Reads literary, informational, and practical text.
• Recognizes the characteristics of descriptive text.
• Recognizes coherence, logic, and organization in descriptive text.
• Recognizes relatedness and sufficiency of details in descriptive text.
• Recognizes the similarities and differences between selections.
• Recognizes the organizational patterns in informational and practical text.
• Discusses implied motives of characters as evidenced in the text.
• Describes the function of dialogue in revealing character traits.
• Recognizes the presence of archetypal characters such as hero, heroine, or villain.
• Recognizes evidence presented in text that supports a recommendation, opinion, or argument.
• Supports recommendation, opinion, or argument by reference to evidence presented in text.
• Compares different versions of the same stories from different cultures.
• Discusses author's purpose in a selection.
• Describes links between personal experiences and arguments and ideas in text.