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Reading Standards for Literature Pre-K–5 [RL] The following standards offer a focus for instruction each year and help ensure that students gain adequate exposure to a range of texts and tasks. Rigor is also infused through the requirement that students read increasingly complex texts through the grades. Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades. Pre-Kindergartners (older 4-year-olds to younger 5-year-olds): Kindergartners: Key Ideas and Details MA.1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or poem 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. read aloud. MA.2. With prompting and support, retell a sequence of events from a story read 2. With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details. aloud. MA.3. With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or 3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. poem read aloud. Craft and Structure MA.4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words 4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. in a story or poem read aloud. 5. (Begins in kindergarten or when the individual child is ready) 5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems). MA.6. With prompting and support, “read” the illustrations in a picture book by describing a character or place depicted, or by telling how a sequence of 6. With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. events unfolds. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas MA.7. With prompting and support, make predictions about what happens next in a picture book after examining and discussing the illustrations. 7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts). 8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. (Not applicable to literature) MA.8.A. Respond with movement or clapping to a regular beat in poetry or song. MA.8.A. Identify and respond to characteristics of traditional poetry for children: rhyme; regular beats; and repetition of sounds, words, and phrases. MA.9. With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences. 9. With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity MA.10. Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of ageappropriate 10. Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. literature read aloud. 14 Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy, March 2011
Reading Standards for Literature Pre-K–5 [RL] Grade 1 students: Grade 2 students: Grade 3 students: Key Ideas and Details 1. Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. 1. Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text. as the basis for the answers. 2. Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. 3. Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. Craft and Structure 4. Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. 5. Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types. 6. Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text. Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. 2. Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. 3. Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges. 4. Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song. 5. Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action. 6. Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. 7. Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot. 1. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text 2. Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. 3. Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events. 4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. 5. Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. 6. Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters. 7. Explain how specific aspects of a text’s illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting). 8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. (Not applicable to literature) 8. (Not applicable to literature) MA.8.A. Identify characteristics commonly shared by folktales and fairy tales. 9. Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity 10. With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. MA.8.A. Identify dialogue as words spoken by characters (usually enclosed in quotation marks) and explain what dialogue adds to a particular story or poem. 9. Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures. 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range. MA.8.A. Identify elements of fiction (e.g., characters, setting, plot, problem, solution) and elements of poetry (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, figurative language, alliteration, onomatopoeia). 9. Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series). 10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for English Language Arts and Literacy, March 2011 15
Page 1 and 2: MASSACHUSETTS CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK
Page 3 and 4: TABLE OF CONTENTS Commissioner’s
Page 5 and 6: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Lead Writers David
Page 7: INTRODUCTION
Page 10 and 11: Key Design Considerations for the S
Page 12 and 13: What is Not Covered by the Standard
Page 14 and 15: Guiding Principles for English Lang
Page 16 and 17: Standards Organization and Key Feat
Page 19: College and Career Readiness Anchor
Page 23 and 24: Reading Standards for Informational
Page 27 and 28: Reading Standards: Foundational Ski
Page 29 and 30: College and Career Readiness Anchor
Page 31 and 32: Writing Standards Pre-K-5 [W] Grade
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Page 41 and 42: Language Standards Pre-K-5 [L] Pre-
Page 43 and 44: Language Standards Pre-K-5 [L] Grad
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Page 47 and 48: Language Progressive Skills, by Gra
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Page 51: STANDARDS FOR English Language Arts
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College and Career Readiness Anchor
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Language Standards 6-12 [L] Grade 6
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Language Progressive Skills, by Gra
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Texts Illustrating the Complexity,
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College and Career Readiness Anchor
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Reading Standards for Literacy in S
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Writing Standards for Literacy in H
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Writing Standards for Literacy in H
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English Language Learners The Natio
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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McNamara, D. S., Graesser, A. C., &
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Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., & Kuca
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
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Characterization/Character developm
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Extended metaphor A comparison betw
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Infinitive A verb form that is usua
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Personification A form of metaphor
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Rule of three When the number three
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Theme A central idea or abstract co
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All American students should acquir
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Grades 3-4, in addition to the grad
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in addition to the grades 5-8 selec
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Grades 9-12, in addition to the gra
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A LITERARY HERITAGE: Suggested Cont
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Jon Agee (fiction, wordplay) Edward
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Akhil Reed Amar (government, histor
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