Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate.

Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.

Discuss meanings of words and develop vocabulary through meaningful/concrete experiences.

Respond through talk, movement, music, art, drama, and writing to a variety of stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding and interpretation.

Identify relevant questions for inquiry such as "Why did knights wear armor?"

Draw conclusions from information gathered.

Write labels, notes, and captions for illustrations, possessions, charts, centers.

Generate ideas before writing on self-selected topics.

Use available technology to compose text.

Record or dictate his/her own knowledge of a topic in various ways such as by drawing pictures, making lists, and showing connections among ideas.

Read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, including classic and contemporary works, for pleasure and/or information.

Draw and discuss visual images based on text descriptions.

Analyze characters, including their traits, feelings, relationships, and changes.

Recognize the story problem(s) or plot.

Write to communicate with a variety of audiences.

Develop drafts.

Compose complete sentences in written texts and use the appropriate end punctuation.

Respond constructively to others' writing.

Read from a variety of genres for pleasure and to acquire information from both print and electronic sources.

Use resources and references such as beginners' dictionaries, glossaries, available technology, and context to build word meanings and to confirm pronunciation of words.

Respond to stories and poems in ways that reflect understanding and interpretation in discussion (speculating, questioning) in writing, and through movement, music, art, and drama.

Identify text as written for entertainment (narrative) or for information (expository).

Interpret and use graphic sources of information such as maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams.

Demonstrate learning through productions and displays such as murals, written and oral reports, and dramatizations.

Edit writing toward standard grammar and usage, including subject-verb agreement; pronoun agreement, including pronouns that agree in number; and appropriate verb tenses, including to be, in final draft.

Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of polished writings.

Demonstrate understanding of language use and spelling by bringing selected pieces frequently to final form and "publishing" them for audiences.

Review a collection of his/her own written work to monitor growth as a writer.

Take simple notes from relevant sources such as classroom guests, information books, and media sources.

Understand and identify literary terms such as title, author, illustrator, playwright, theater, stage, act, dialogue, and scene across a variety of literary forms (texts).

Organize information in systematic ways, including notes, charts, and labels.

Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays to communicate.

Select varied sources such as nonfiction, novels, textbooks, newspapers, and magazines when reading for information or pleasure.

Use multiple reference aids, including a thesaurus, a synonym finder, a dictionary, and software, to clarify meanings and usage.

Offer observations, make connections, react, speculate, interpret, and raise questions in response to texts.

Identify the purposes of different types of texts such as to inform, influence, express, or entertain.

Form and revise questions for investigations, including questions arising from interests and units of study.

Use multiple sources, including electronic texts, experts, and print resources, to locate information relevant to research questions.

Summarize and organize information from multiple sources by taking notes, outlining ideas, or making charts.