Form and use the past tense of frequently occurring irregular verbs (e.g., sat, hid, told).

I can recognize the main idea in a text with more than one paragraph. I can identify what each paragraph [...]

I can identify historical events. I can identify scientific ideas or concepts. I can identify the steps in a process. [...]

I can identify words and phrases that are specific to a the topic of a text. I can use information [...]

I can identify and give examples of text features. I can explain how text features help locate key facts or [...]

I can identify purposes for reading. I can read a text and identify the author's main purpose for writing it.

I can explain how the images add meaning to words. I can use images and words in a text to [...]

I can identify specific points the author makes in a text. I can describe the reasons the author uses to [...]

I can identify the most important points found in two texts on the same topic. I can compare the most [...]

I can decode words with short vowel sounds. I can recognize familiar short vowel spelling patterns. I can decode words [...]

Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.

Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams.

Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels.

Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes.

Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences.

Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

I can fluently read. I can self-correct if I make a mistake when I read. I can understand what I [...]

Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.

Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.

Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.

I can state an opinion. I can give reasons to support my opinion using linking words. I can write a [...]

I can ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading a text. I can recall who, what, where, when, [...]

I can fluently read fictional grade level text. I can read at an appropriate rate, with expression, and pay attention [...]

I can identify characteristics and recall details of stories (including fables and folktales from diverse cultures). I can determine the [...]

I can identify characters in a story. I can describe how characters react to events and challenges in a story.

I can identify words and phrases that create a beat in a poem or song. I can identify words and [...]

Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the [...]

I can define point of view. I can identify a character's point of view in a story. I can show [...]

I can identify illustrations that support a story. I can explain how illustrations add meaning to the words in a [...]

I can retell two or more versions of the same story. I can compare and contrast two or more versions [...]

I can recall who, what, where, when, why, and how to show understanding of details in a informational text. I [...]

I can fluently read informational grade level texts. I can read at an appropriate rate, with expression, and pay attention [...]

Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or [...]

Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number [...]

Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations. (Explanations may be supported by [...]

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring [...]

Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the [...]

Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters.

Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard [...]

Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, e.g., [...]

Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points corresponding to the numbers [...]

Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ (dollars) and ¢ (cents) symbols appropriately. Example: [...]

Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four [...]

Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit, or by making repeated measurements of [...]

Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal [...]

Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares and count to find the total number of them.

Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half [...]

Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, [...]

Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of [...]