Deepen understanding of stories by analyzing dialogue and character relationships, explaining how events connect, comparing character reactions, and describing a setting's mood using text evidence.

Identify the reasons and evidence authors use to support particular points in informational texts, and evaluate whether claims are sufficiently supported.

Apply combined syllabication and morphology knowledge to accurately decode multisyllabic words of increasing length and complexity, both in isolation and within sentences and passages.

Learners will enrich narrative scenes with dialogue, sensory description, temporal and transitional phrases, and concrete language, then plan and draft a complete narrative piece.

Identify, compare, and contrast firsthand and secondhand accounts of the same event, using text evidence to explain differences in focus and information.

Describe characters, settings, and events in depth using specific text evidence including thoughts, words, actions, and sensory details.

Identify and describe how informational texts are organized, including chronology, comparison, cause/effect, and problem/solution structures across whole texts and sections.

Learners will support their informative writing with relevant facts, definitions, quotations, and concrete examples drawn from sources.