LANGUAGE ARTS PROFICIENCIES
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KINDERGARTEN
GRADE ONE
GRADE TWO
GRADE THREE
GRADE FOUR
GRADE FIVE

KINDERGARTEN
• Print the alphabet, full name, and numbers
• Print a specific letter when asked
• Print from left to right and top to bottom
• Identify and print upper-case letters
• Identify and print lower-case letters
• Hear likenesses and differences with sounds
• Relate letters to their corresponding sounds
• Identify rhyming words
• Write and/or copy a simple sentence
• Identify and group objects
• Remember the order of the objects
• Recognize and name the color of objects
• Identify left from right
• Identify objects in pictures
• Compare objects according to size and to position (above, below, in front of, etc.)
• Note likenesses and differences in letters and pictures
• Match words
• Remember order of four letters
• Repeat a rhythm
• Reproduce rhyming words
• Identify initial and final consonant sounds
• Identify the initial and final consonant sound from a picture prompt
• Repeat a word sequence
• Identify words that sound the same
• Listen to locate specific details in a picture
• Listen to follow three or more directions
• Listen to memorize poems, refrains, or repetitive phrases
• Listen to recall parts of a story
• Listen to retell parts of a story
• Listen to retell events in a story in sequence
• Listen to understand cause and effect
• Listen with pleasure with an awareness of mood

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GRADE ONE
• Write the letters of the alphabet in alphabetical order
• Listen to and reproduce rhymes
• Listen to and reproduce numbers and words in sequence
• Listen to and reproduce a simple sentence
• Retell a story in sequence
• Understand story events have a beginning, middle, and end
• Recite a simple poem
• Indicate likeness or difference between pairs of words and letter sounds
• Indicate rhyming and non-rhyming pairs
• Indicate whether a given sound occurs at the beginning, middle, or end of a given word
• Identify missing objects from a limited group previously viewed
• Select a pattern similar to a pattern previously viewed
• Draw a shape previously viewed
• Recall the contents of a picture previously viewed
• Identify gross likenesses and differences in pictures, objects, and shapes
• Demonstrate recognition of colors
• Match corresponding form of simple design, letter, word and numeral

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GRADE TWO
• Alphabetize words by first letter
• Write sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with a period
• Write sentences that begin with a capital letter and end with a question mark
• Capitalize proper nouns
• Understand that a paragraph has a main idea and details
• Understand that story events have a beginning, middle and an end
• Identify and write pronouns
• Identify and write verbs
• Use present and past tense verbs correctly
• Identify and use consonant correspondence in initial, medial, and final positions
• Identify consonant digraphs taught in initial, medial, and final positions
• Recognize short and long vowel sounds
• Recognize sound patterns (word families)
• Identify synonyms and antonyms

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GRADE THREE
• Alphabetize words correctly
• Identify complete sentences a
• Identify sentence fragments
• Identify and punctuate a statement
• Identify and punctuate a question
• Identify and punctuate a command
• Identify and punctuate an exclamation
• Identify the simple subject of a sentence
• Identify nouns (common and proper)
• Capitalize proper nouns
• Identify singular and plural nouns
• Spell plural nouns with various endings
• Identify pronouns
• Identify compound words
• Punctuate parts of a friendly letter
• Proofread for spelling and end marks
• Identify a helping verb
• Form contractions correctly
• Form contractions made with verbs correctly
• Use –er and –est endings correctly
• Use, a, an, and the correctly
• Identify homophones
• Identify a synonym / antonym

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GRADE FOUR
• Identify complete sentences and sentence fragments
• Identify and punctuate declarative sentences
• Identify and punctuate interrogative sentences
• Identify and punctuate imperative sentences
• Identify and punctuate exclamatory sentences
• Identify simple and complete subjects
• Identify complete and compound predicates
• Identify nouns
• Identify singular / plural nouns
• Identify common / proper nouns
• Capitalize proper nouns
• Spell plural nouns using various endings
• Identify compound words
• Identify pronouns
• Identify subject pronouns
• Identify homophones
• Identify action verbs and linking verbs
• Use contractions with not
• Use contractions with verbs
• Identify adjectives
• Use a / an / the
• Identify adjectives that tell how many
• Identify adjectives that tell what kind
• Identify antonyms
• Identify suffixes

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GRADE FIVE
• Identify the simple and complete subjects in a sentence
• Identify the compound subject in a sentence
• Identify the simple and complete predicate in a sentence
• Identify nouns
• Identify singular and plural nouns
• Identify common and proper nouns
• Write abbreviations correctly
• Use commas correctly in a series, after yes/no, direct address, last name written first
• Use action verbs and linking verbs in writing
• Use the present tense of verbs correctly
• Identify and use the prefixes dis, mis, un, re, and pre
• Identify pronouns and the nouns they replace
• Use pronouns in writing
• Identify and use subject pronouns
• Identify adjectives
• Identify and use the adjective suffixes able, ful, less, and y
• Use adverbs in writing
• Avoid using double negatives
• Identify form and use of negative contractions
• Identify prepositional phrases
• Identify synonyms and antonyms
• Identify parts of speech
• Identify the parts of a business letter
• Recognize words with positive and negative connotation

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