Summary of Skills
Moving Beyond the Page is based on state and national standards. These standards are covered in this unit.
- Choose and adapt spoken language appropriate to the audience, purpose, and occasion, including use of appropriate volume and rate. (Language Arts)
- Compare experiences of characters across cultures. (Language Arts)
- Compare language and oral traditions (stories) that reflect customs, regions, and cultures. (Language Arts)
- Compose sentences with interesting, elaborate subjects. (Language Arts)
- Demonstrate understanding by using a variety of complete sentences. (Language Arts)
- Develop drafts. (Language Arts)
- Edit writing for standard grammar and usage, including subject-verb agreement. (Language Arts)
- Generate ideas for writing by using pre-writing techniques such as drawing and making lists. (Language Arts)
- Identify similarities and differences across texts in topics, characters, and themes. (Language Arts)
- Identify the conflict and resolution of a story. (Language Arts)
- Identify the importance of the setting to a story's meaning (Language Arts)
- Increase knowledge of other cultures by reading stories from around the world. (Language Arts)
- Locate information from text for specific purposes. (Language Arts)
- Make inferences and draw conclusions based on events in the story. (Language Arts)
- Participate in creative interpretations of stories. (Language Arts)
- Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays. (Language Arts)
- Recognize the distinguishing features of familiar genres, including myths and folktales. (Language Arts)
- Recognize the problem or plot of a story. (Language Arts)
- Record and recognize synonyms and antonyms for words. (Language Arts)
- Reflect on learning, gain new insights from text, and identify areas for further study. (Language Arts)
- Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive and evaluative processes. (Language Arts)
- Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying. (Language Arts)
- Understand literary forms by distinguishing among stories, poems, myths, legends, and folktales. (Language Arts)
- Use capitalization with proper nouns and punctuation, such as commas, in a series. (Language Arts)
- Use correct subject/verb agreement. (Language Arts)
- Use relative pronouns (who, whose, whom, which, that) and relative adverbs (where, when, why). (Language Arts)
- Use singular and plural forms of regular nouns and adjust verbs for agreement. (Language Arts)
- Use written language to report information on a topic. (Language Arts)
- Write in different forms for different purposes. (Language Arts)
- Analyze similarities and differences among families in different times and in different places. (Social Studies)
- Describe similarities and differences among communities in different times and in different places. (Social Studies)
