Standards Overview
This level of responsibility chooses instructional practices to deliver academic content.
What is the Teacher?
These types of verbs—such as compare, paraphrase, and summarize—indicate deeper levels of student thinking.
What are higher‑order verbs?
These standards must be examined as a whole at each grade level to understand what learners are required to know and do.
What are the grade‑level ELA standards?
This purpose states that all learners must see their own heritage reflected in literature and be able to express their chosen voices in writing.
What is creating an inclusive language arts classroom?
This term refers to the materials chosen to meet or exceed standards.
What is curriculum?
This research area informs the ordered progression of early reading and writing skills.
What is the science of reading?
When a skill disappears from a later grade level, this is implied about the student’s ability.
What is mastery?
This purpose emphasizes that learners must be able to interpret literature, technical texts, and lengthy informational passages on their own.
What is supporting independent reading across disciplines?
This level of responsibility sets the standards.
What is the State?
This term describes the level of thinking students must demonstrate when performing a standard.
What is depth of knowledge?
When students conduct research, they must draw on skills from multiple standards, including listening/speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and multimodal literacies—this demonstrates the need for this type of approach.
What is an integrated approach to ELA?
This purpose focuses on helping students write for different audiences and purposes using multiple strategies and formats.
What is supporting independent writing?
This level selects curriculum materials to meet or exceed standards.
What is the District?
In Standard 2, these letters indicate a research‑based sequence of foundational reading and writing skills.
What are lowercase letters?
As students move through grade levels, this aspect of reading assignments increases, even though simpler texts may still be used for deeper understanding.
What is text complexity?
This purpose highlights the need for citizens who can analyze, evaluate, act upon, and compose a wide range of communications.
What is developing a literate citizenry?
This term refers to the practices teachers use to deliver academic content.
What is instruction?
This Oklahoma resource provides extended examples, explanations, and support for understanding ELA standards.
What is the Oklahoma Curriculum Framework for ELA?
In the standards, reading and writing are shown in this format to encourage an integrated approach.
What is a side‑by‑side format?
This ultimate goal of language arts education prepares students to contribute thoughtfully and responsibly to society.
What is contributing to the common good?