Acquire and accurately use grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words, including signal words for contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.

Learners will analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting similarities and differences in point of view.

Learners will describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.

Learners will explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text.

Learners will compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events using specific details from the text.

Learners will compare and contrast stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics.

Learners will compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts.

Learners will conduct short research projects using several sources, gather and summarize information from print and digital sources, and create a list of sources.

Learners will use letter-sound correspondences, syllabication, and morphology to read unfamiliar multisyllabic words.

Learners will determine themes in stories, dramas, and poems from text details and write concise summaries.

Learners will strengthen their opinion writing by crafting clear thesis statements, ordering reasons strategically, using advanced linking words, and writing strong conclusions.