Support Skills Development as Students Progress through the Grades
As a full-school solution, Storyworks builds students’ knowledge throughout the grades by increasing in rigor and relevance, ensuring purposeful practice of essential ELA skills across the content areas. We align to the Science of Reading and support critical word recognition and language comprehension.
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Foundational Skills
Vocabulary
Nonfiction Comprehension
Print Concepts: Understand basic features of print and components of a sentence. Phonological Awareness: Listen to word sounds and rhymes. Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; with support , read aloud grade-level texts with fluency
Text Features: Identify illustrations, pictures , labels , captions, headings, maps; get information from pictures and words ; with support , use features to locate facts. Main Idea: With support , identify main idea.
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Learn suffixes for plurals and tense. Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Learn common affixes.
Grade 1
Text Structures: Identify structures including compare and contrast.
Text Features: Identify and analyze illustrations, photos , captions, headings, maps; use features to locate facts. Main Idea: Identify main idea. Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence , problem and solution , compare and contrast. Text Features: Analyze pictures , captions, headings, maps, and sidebars and how they connect to the text . Main Idea: Identify main idea of whole piece and sections . Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect , compare and contrast, and description . Text Features: Analyze pictures, captions, headings, maps, charts , graphs , diagrams , and sidebars and how they connect to the text. Main Idea: Identify main idea(s) of whole piece and sections.
Grade 2
Fluency: Listen to read-alouds online to model fluency; read aloud grade-level texts, including plays , with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Learn word roots and affixes.
Grade 3
Fluency: Listen to read-alouds online to model fluency; read aloud grade-level texts, including plays , with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary. Determine the meaning of idioms in text.
Grades 4–6
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