The following is a guide for choosing targeted objectives and assessing the students’ learning. These grade level expectations for Grades 3-8 are not to be taught in isolation. This guide identifies featured skills that will be assessed at the end of the appropriate quarter. Each assessment is cumulative, so all the expectations need to continue to spiral throughout the year with a new group of identified skills featured. Some GLEs targeted in previous grades may also be assessed. The March CMT will test all skills expected to be mastered.  These skills come from the reading comprehension GLEs. 

The * indicates a featured skill for the quarter. 

The x indicates continued instruction and possible assessment.

P indicates a prior grade’s GLE

Grade Level Expectations — Grade 1

Students:

Fall

Winter

CMT

Spring

Answer “who,” “what,” “when,” “where,” “why” and “how” questions about nonfiction text.

*

x

x

Identify story elements (e.g., characters, setting, plot, theme, conflict, and point of view).

*

x

x

Identify the topic of and two facts about a nonfiction text.

*

Follow one-step written directions.

*

x

x

Summarize information with a beginning, middle and end.

*

x

Identify whether text is fiction or nonfiction.

*

x

Make text-to-self and text-to-text connections.

*

x

Support oral and written responses with evidence from text.

*

Identify the words an author or orator uses to create an image in the reader’s mind.

*

Develop and ask one question that would provide more information about a topic after reading a nonfiction text.

*

Write a different ending to a story.

*