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A+ Learning Center LAK Curriculum Outline (Honor K/CCSS G1)

LA1A curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks:

Phonics and Vocabulary Acquisition:

Demonstrate knowledge of letter sounds, including long and short vowels, vowel teams and variant vowels, consonant clusters and digraphs.
Understanding word families to decode and use novel words.
Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllable, and sounds (phonemes).
Able to recognize and use the first 300 sight words.
Able to decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Know final-e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds.
Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables.

Reading Comprehension:

Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.
ldentify characters, setting, and major events in a story.
Able to answer text-related questions involving details, the main idea, making inferences, phonics, and the meaning of words and phrases.
Able to locate key facts and information in a text.

LA1B curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks:

Phonics and Vocabulary Acquisition:

Demonstrate knowledge of letter sounds, including consonant blends and digraphs, r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs and diphthongs, silent letters, plural forms, verb inflections, prefixes and suffixes.
Master grade-level vocabulary.
Understanding word patterns to decode, use, and correctly spell novel words.
Able to recognize, use and correctly spell sight words in reading and writing.

Reading Comprehension:

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension of both fiction and non-fiction texts.
ldentify characters, setting, and major events in a story.
Able to ask and answer text-related questions such as who, what, where, when, why and how.
Able to recognize the main idea, identify details, make generalizations, and draw conclusions from a text.
Assessing the author's purpose and point of view.

LA2 curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks:

Vocabulary Acquisition:

Master grade-level vocabulary.
Understanding complex word patterns to recognize, use, and correctly spell novel words.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings, and their relationships to other words.

Reading Comprehension:

Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension of both fiction and non-fiction texts.
Able to compare and contrast, recall details, and distinguish facts and opinions.
Know and use various text features to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
ldentify different types of sentences and the author's purpose.
Recognize the main idea, and describing character traits.
Able to ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of key details.

LA3 curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks
Vocabulary Acquisition:

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word.
Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships.
ldentify real-life connections between words and their use.

Reading Comprehension:

Describe characters in a story and how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details.
Answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a text.
Determine the logical connection between particular sentences and paragraphs.
Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator.

LA4 curriculum meets following standards and benchmarks:
Vocabulary Acquisition:

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases.
Use context as a cue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
Use common, grade-appropriate Greek and Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships.
Explain the meaning of simple similes, metaphors and common idioms.
Acquire and use appropriate academic and domain-specific words and phrases.

Reading Comprehension:

Determine a setting, character or event in a story from details in the text, and summarize the text.
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details.
Explain events, procedures, or ideas in scientific or technical text.
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text.
Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated.
Describe the overall structure of the text, including chronology, comparison, or cause-effect.
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points.
Integrate information from two texts on the same topic.