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 are rooted in the research behind the Science of Reading and support critical word recognition and language comprehension.
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Foundational Skills
Vocabulary
N onfiction Comprehension
Print Concepts: Understand basic features of print and components of a sentence.
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
Text Features: Identify illustrations, pictures , labels , captions, headings, maps; get information from pictures and words ; with support , use features to locate facts.
Decoding: Listen to word sounds and rhymes.
Learn suffixes for plurals and tense.
Main Idea: With support , identify main idea.
Text Structures: Identify structures including compare and contrast.
Grade 1
Fluency: Listen to read- alouds online to model fluency; with support , read aloud grade-level texts with fluency
Acquire grade- level academic and domain-specific vocabulary.
Text Features: Identify and analyze illustrations, photos , captions, headings, maps; use features to locate facts.
Main Idea: Identify main idea.
Learn common affixes.
Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence , problem and solution , compare and contrast.
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.
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 .
Learn word roots and affixes.
Text Structures: Identify structures including sequence, problem and solution, cause and effect , compare and contrast, and description .
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.
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.
Grades 4–6
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