Develop foundational active listening skills by practicing clarifying questions, pertinent comments, and building on classmates' ideas.

Use a variety of response strategies—annotating, note-taking, freewriting, illustrating, vocabulary use, discussion, and combining strategies—to deepen understanding of texts.

Use common prefixes and suffixes to decode longer words, recognize high-frequency words automatically, and spell multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns.

Alphabetize words to the third letter and use print and digital resources to find information.

Identify and analyze a story's theme and characters, using evidence from the text to understand messages and character relationships.

Learners will explain how authors use imagery, figurative language, sound devices, point of view, and voice to achieve specific purposes, and analyze how these elements work together.