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Elementary Reading TAKS

Objective 1:
The student will demonstrate a basic understanding of culturally diverse written texts.
Word Identification: How?
Use context Use syntax
Relate to own experiences Use a dictionary
Use root words and prefixes and suffixes
Vocabulary Development: How?
Use context Use antonyms and synonyms
Relate to own experiences Interpret figurative language
Use root words and affixes Practice using new words
Use a dictionary Explore multiple meaning words
Participate in meaningful concrete experiences
Experience many different kinds of texts: How?
Read: Expository text, Functional text, Literary text, Narrative text
Use basic comprehension strategies: How?
Recall (retell) important facts or events from text
Determine the main idea (gist) supported by details
Paraphrase
Summarize / Objective 3:
The student will use a variety of strategies to analyze culturally diverse written texts.
Analyze and then adjust to different types of texts: How?
Determine the type of text based on characteristics
Determine the purpose of this kind of text
Decide how I will change my reading style for this kind of text
Use graphic organizers to analyze the text: How?
Outlines Timelines Mind-maps Diagrams Story maps Graphs
Charts Picture maps
Determine how author’s point of view affects the text: How?
Tone/Attitude Development of ideas
Determine the sequence of events: How?
Analyze how events relate to each other and how the events affect the central meaning of the text
Locate and identify purpose of specific parts of the text
Compare similarities and differences
Judge internal logic of text
Objective 2:
The student will apply knowledge of literary elements to understand culturally diverse written texts.
Literary Elements:
Characters
Who? What traits? Why? Relationships to each other and the storyline?
Setting
Identify main conflict (Problem/Solution)
Identify the important events and how they contribute to the story
/ Objective 4:
The student will apply critical-thinking skills to analyze culturally diverse written texts.
(Beyond Basic Understanding)
Read and think inferentially: How?
Draw conclusions
Make reasonable predictions
Understand relationships between different parts of the text
Relate text to our own lives
Find implied deeper meaning
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Use higher level questioning strategies
Make and support interpretations: How?
Support with information in the text
Connect, contrast, compare ideas, themes and issues
Recognize how authors organize information: How?
Sequencing Description
Compare/contrast Problem Solving
Cause/effect

PK-5 TEKS-TAKS Reading Connections

Overarching Idea: Reading is essential in life. Proficient readers learn, practice, and apply specific strategies to obtain meaning from a variety of culturally diverse written texts.

Word Identification
Demonstrate knowledge of concepts of print
Demonstrate phonological awareness orally
Use letter-sound knowledge to decode written language
Use word attack strategies
Use context clues
Fluency
Demonstrate fluency
Read independently
Variety of Texts
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Vocabulary
Establish and increase vocabulary (including sight words)
Comprehension
Draw inferences
Retell or act out sequence of events
Summarize
Distinguish between fact and opinion
Distinguish between detail and main idea
Use comprehension strategies
Make reasonable predictions
Compare and contrast
Understand cause and effect relationships
Literary Response
Draw conclusions
Respond to written texts and justify responses
Text Structure/Literary Concepts
Analyze character traits, settings, plots
Analyze author’s purpose/point of view
Create and interpret graphic organizers
Compare and contrast
Recognize how authors organize information in systematic ways
Inquiry/Research
Know and use parts of a book
Use reference/resource materials
Use study strategies
Apply test-taking skills
Apply problem solving skills
Generate and conduct research
Culture
Connect and compare cultures / Word Identification
Print Awareness
Kindergarten
Recognize that print conveys meaning
Know own name and major signs: danger and exit
Know print moves left to right/top to bottom
Understand words in sentences are separated by space
Know difference between letters and words
Know difference between capital and lowercase letters
Recognize how readers use capitalization and punctuation to comprehend
Understand that spoken words become written words with a specific sequence of letters
Recognize parts of a book: cover, title page, author, illustration
First Grade
Know the order of the alphabet
Recognize there are correct spellings for words
Recognize features of paragraphs
Recognize the table of contents as part of a book
Phonological Awareness
Kindergarten
Demonstrate concept of words by dividing spoken sentences into words
Identify and segment spoken words by clapping
Move manipulatives to represent syllables
Produce rhyming/non-rhyming words
Identify initial and final sounds
Blend sounds to make words
Segment one-syllable words into beginning, medial and final sounds
First Grade
Blend sounds to make spoken words, including 3 and 4 phoneme words
Letter/Sound Relations
Kindergarten
Name and identify letters of the alphabet
Understand that letters represent sounds to make words
Learn and apply letter sounds to a set of consonants and vowels to begin to read
First Grade
Blend initial letter sound with vowel patterns to read words
Decode using letter/sound correspondences to spell and read
Learn and apply common letter sounds, consonants, vowels, consonant blends, consonant digraphs, vowel digraphs, diphthongs
Use letter sound knowledge to read and decode text / Essential questions students must be able to answer:
1.  What do I do if I do not know how to read a word?
2.  What do I do if I do not understand what a word means?
3.  What strategies can I use to help me understand the basic content?
4.  How can I tell the differences among a variety of genre or literary forms?
5.  How should I change my reading style for each form of text?
6.  What can I do to increase my vocabulary?
7.  What strategies can I use to increase my fluency?
8.  What strategies can I use to understand the text beyond the basic content?
9.  What strategies can I use to analyze written texts to find the literary elements?
10.  Can I understand written texts with the same content when presented in different forms?
11.  What strategies/resources can I use for doing research?
12.  How do I choose a library book that is appropriate for me?
13.  How can I connect what I learn in reading to other subject areas and to my life outside of school?
14.  How can my experiences outside of school help me in reading?
antonyms
author’s point of view
beginning
captions
cause
characters
chart
classic
clue
compare
compound
conclusions
consonant
contemporary
context
context clues
differences
descriptions
draw conclusions
effect
evidence
expository
facts & details
fact & opinion / fiction/non-fiction
figurative language
genre
gist
graph(s)
graphic organizer(s)
homonyms
illustrations
implied meaning
inferences
informational text
literature
logic
main idea
mental images
multi-meaning words
multi-syllabic
nouns
paraphrase
paragraph
plot
poetry
prediction
prefix / problem/solution
reference
relationships
represent
resource
root words
sentence
sequence
setting
similarities
story map
strategy
suffix
summary
syllable
synonyms
syntax
technology
traits
verbs (action words)
vocabulary
vowel