English Language Arts
Kindergarten
- Texts: How can we organize information?
- Speaking and Listening: How can listening let us understand feelings, ideas, and information? How we speak to communicate the same?
- Vocabulary: How can we learn what words mean? How can we pick the best word?
- Phonics: How do letters and sounds work together to make words?
- Fluency: How can we read words without using phonics?
- Comprehension: How are messages understood?
- Writing: How can messages be recorded?
- Conventions: How do we make ourselves understood clearly?
Texts: How can we organize information?
Speaking and Listening: How can listening let us understand feelings, ideas, and information? How we speak to communicate the same?
Vocabulary: How can we learn what words mean? How can we pick the best word?
Phonics: How do letters and sounds work together to make words?
Fluency: How can we read words without using phonics?
Comprehension: How are messages understood?
Writing: How can messages be recorded?
Conventions: How do we make ourselves understood clearly?
1st Grade
- Texts: How does how we say something shape what we say?
- Speaking and Listening: How can listening let us understand feelings, ideas, and information? How we speak to communicate the same?
- Vocabulary: How do words work? Are there patterns? How can we figure out what a word means when we don't know it?
- Phonics: How can understanding relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) increase knowledge of words?
- Fluency: How do we learn to read so it sounds like talking? How does that help us understand what we are reading?
- Comprehension: What messages are conveyed through ideas and information within texts?
- Writing: How can writing be used to communicate meaning?
- Conventions: How does punctuation and capitalization help people understand us?
Texts: How does how we say something shape what we say?
Speaking and Listening: How can listening let us understand feelings, ideas, and information? How we speak to communicate the same?
Vocabulary: How do words work? Are there patterns? How can we figure out what a word means when we don't know it?
Phonics: How can understanding relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) increase knowledge of words?
Fluency: How do we learn to read so it sounds like talking? How does that help us understand what we are reading?
Comprehension: What messages are conveyed through ideas and information within texts?
Writing: How can writing be used to communicate meaning?
Conventions: How does punctuation and capitalization help people understand us?
2nd Grade
- Texts: How does how we say something shape what we say? How can you change a message by how you say it?
- Speaking and Listening: How can we make ourselves better at speaking so others can understand us better? How can we learn to be better listeners?
- Vocabulary: Can we look at how words are made and use that to learn what other words mean?
- Phonics: How can understanding the relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) enhance decoding and encoding?
- Fluency: In what ways does fluency support the development of reading?
- Comprehension: How can we better understand what a text means?
- Writing: How can we learn to write more clearly so that it conveys meaning?
- Conventions: How can we use writing conventions to better understand texts and to better convey our own meaning?
Texts: How does how we say something shape what we say? How can you change a message by how you say it?
Speaking and Listening: How can we make ourselves better at speaking so others can understand us better? How can we learn to be better listeners?
Vocabulary: Can we look at how words are made and use that to learn what other words mean?
Phonics: How can understanding the relationships between sounds and letters (phonics) enhance decoding and encoding?
Fluency: In what ways does fluency support the development of reading?
Comprehension: How can we better understand what a text means?
Writing: How can we learn to write more clearly so that it conveys meaning?
Conventions: How can we use writing conventions to better understand texts and to better convey our own meaning?
3rd Grade
- Texts: Why do we have all these rules about how we write things?
- Speaking and Listening: How can we learn to listen more effectively and speak more clearly?
- Vocabulary: How can building vocabulary and understanding how words change form make us better as using language and understanding it?
- Phonics: How does phonics support foundational literacy development?
- Fluency: In what ways does being able to read easily make it easier to understand what is being read?
- Comprehension: What skills and strategies make it easier to understand what we are reading?
- Writing: How can we build a process that helps us produce good writing?
- Conventions: How can we use writing conventions to better understand texts and to better convey our own meaning?
Texts: Why do we have all these rules about how we write things?
Speaking and Listening: How can we learn to listen more effectively and speak more clearly?
Vocabulary: How can building vocabulary and understanding how words change form make us better as using language and understanding it?
Phonics: How does phonics support foundational literacy development?
Fluency: In what ways does being able to read easily make it easier to understand what is being read?
Comprehension: What skills and strategies make it easier to understand what we are reading?
Writing: How can we build a process that helps us produce good writing?
Conventions: How can we use writing conventions to better understand texts and to better convey our own meaning?
4th Grade
- Texts: How can how we organize our messages make our communication more effective?
- Speaking and Listening: How can good listening and speaking skills help us connect with people and avoid misunderstanding?
- Vocabulary: How can building vocabulary and understanding how words change form make us better as using language and understanding it?
- Fluency: How does fluency support comprehension and proficient reading?
- Comprehension: How does using strategies for comprehension make us better understand texts?
- Writing: How can using our writing process enhance our ability to communicate?
- Conventions: How does understanding and using common writing conventions improve our writing?
Texts: How can how we organize our messages make our communication more effective?
Speaking and Listening: How can good listening and speaking skills help us connect with people and avoid misunderstanding?
Vocabulary: How can building vocabulary and understanding how words change form make us better as using language and understanding it?
Fluency: How does fluency support comprehension and proficient reading?
Comprehension: How does using strategies for comprehension make us better understand texts?
Writing: How can using our writing process enhance our ability to communicate?
Conventions: How does understanding and using common writing conventions improve our writing?
5th Grade
- Texts: How can we make it so what we write is really what we mean? What tools do we have and how can we use them effectively?
- Speaking and Listening: How can clear and effective speaking and listening improve our understanding of ideas and information?
- Vocabulary: How does a strong vocabulary support communication?
- Comprehension: How does the interpretation of evidence support comprehension of texts?
- Writing: How does proficient writing enhance communication skills?
- Conventions: How does understanding and using common writing conventions improve our writing?
Texts: How can we make it so what we write is really what we mean? What tools do we have and how can we use them effectively?
Speaking and Listening: How can clear and effective speaking and listening improve our understanding of ideas and information?
Vocabulary: How does a strong vocabulary support communication?
Comprehension: How does the interpretation of evidence support comprehension of texts?
Writing: How does proficient writing enhance communication skills?
Conventions: How does understanding and using common writing conventions improve our writing?
6th Grade
- Texts: How can we reverse what we've learned and use the tools to understand what writers are communicating to us?
- Speaking and Listening: What strategies can we use to be effective speakers? How do those strategies work?
- Vocabulary: How do we pick which words to use when? How can we tell what the best word is to use?
- Comprehension: How do we understand things in texts that aren't stated directly? What strategies do we need to use to figure this out?
- Writing: How can you write in a variety of forms and still have a distinctive personal style?
- Conventions: How does understanding and using common writing conventions improve our writing?