Clear as Mud
The movement from print concepts to phonological awareness to phonics, to word analysis, and finally fluency.
What is the Progression of Foundations benchmarks?
Reading Prose and Poetry; Reading Informational Text; and Reading Across Genres
What are the reading standards?
Benchmarks that are no longer taught in sixth grade except as needed for intervention.
What are the foundational benchmarks?
Some examples are Annotation, Caption, Footnote, Heading, Illustration, and Table of Contents.
What are text features?
Foundations, Reading, Communication, and Vocabulary
What are the four BEST strands? Or What are the four strands?
Communicating Through Writing; Communicating Orally; Following Conventions; Researching and Creating and Collaborating
What are the communication standards?
Literary Elements, Theme, Perspective and Point of View, and Poetry
What are the Reading Prose and Poetry Benchmarks?
Alliteration, idiom, metaphor, and personification are a few examples.
What is figurative language?
These will often provide definitions, teacher guidance, or may clarify mastery expectations.
What are the benchmark clarifications?
Finding meaning
What is the vocabulary standard?
Handwriting, Narrative Writing, Argumentative Writing, Expository Writing, and Improving Writing
What are the Communicating Through Writing Benchmarks?
Antithesis and irony are two types of these devices.
What are rhetorical devices? or What is a rhetorical device?
Dolch Word List, Fry Word List, Measures of Fluency, and Fluency Rubrics
What resources are found in the Reading Foundations Appendix?
LEARNING AND APPLYING FOUNDATIONAL READING SKILLS
What is the Foundations standard?
Interpreting Figurative Language, Paraphrasing and Summarizing, Comparative Reading, and Understanding Rhetoric (in 6th grade)
What are the Reading Across Genres benchmarks?
This is counted by Words Per Minute and should be used along with comprehension checks.
What are fluency measures? What is a fluency measure?
The overarching skills that run through every component of language arts.
What are the ELA Expectations?
Academic Vocabulary, Morphology, and Context and Connotation
What are the Finding Meaning Benchmarks?
Narrative, argumentative, and expository are types of this.
What are writing types?