English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 1 ) Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. [RL.3.1]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 9 ) By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, at the high end of the Grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently. [RL.3.10]
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.3.3]
a. Establish a situation and introduce a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.3.3a]
b. Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations. [W.3.3b]
c. Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order. [W.3.3c]
d. Provide a sense of closure. [W.3.3d]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 40 ) Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on Grade 3 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. [L.3.4]
a. Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. [L.3.4a]
b. Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/disagreeable, comfortable/uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/preheat). [L.3.4b]
c. Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion). [L.3.4c]
d. Use glossaries or beginning dictionaries, both print and digital, to determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words and phrases. [L.3.4d]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 41 ) Demonstrate understanding of word relationships and nuances in word meanings. [L.3.5]
a. Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context (e.g., take steps). [L.3.5a]
b. Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., describe people who are friendly or helpful). [L.3.5b]
c. Distinguish shades of meaning among related words that describe states of mind or degrees of certainty (e.g., knew, believed, suspected, heard, wondered). [L.3.5c]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 3
| 42 ) Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate conversational, general academic, and domain-specific words and phrases, including those that signal spatial and temporal relationships (e.g., After dinner that night we went looking for them). [L.3.6]
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 1 ) Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. [RL.4.1]
NAEP Framework
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 2 ) Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text. [RL.4.2]
NAEP Framework
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 4
| 24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.4.3]
a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.4.3a]
b. Use dialogue and description to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. [W.4.3b]
c. Use a variety of transitional words and phrases to manage the sequence of events. [W.4.3c]
d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. [W.4.3d]
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. [W.4.3e]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 5
| 1 ) Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. [RL.5.1]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 5
| 7 ) Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem). [RL.5.7]
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 5
| 21 ) Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. [RF.5.4]
a. Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. [RF.5.4a]
b. Read on-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. [RF.5.4b]
c. Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. [RF.5.4c]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 5
| 24 ) Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences. [W.5.3]
a. Orient the reader by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator, characters, or both; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. [W.5.3a]
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, description, and pacing, to develop experiences and events or show the responses of characters to situations. [W.5.3b]
c. Use a variety of transitional words, phrases, and clauses to manage the sequence of events. [W.5.3c]
d. Use concrete words and phrases and sensory details to convey experiences and events precisely. [W.5.3d]
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events. [W.5.3e]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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English Language Arts
ELA2015 (2015)
Grade: 5
| 30 ) Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research. [W.5.9]
a. Apply Grade 5 Reading standards to literature (e.g., "Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or a drama, drawing on specific details in the text [e.g., how characters interact]"). [W.5.9a]
b. Apply Grade 5 Reading standards to informational texts (e.g., "Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text, identifying which reasons and evidence support which point[s]"). [W.5.9b]
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
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