Westmoreland Elementary

Reading Skill Focus for Grade 2 

• Reading Literature

  • Retell a story

  • Understand central message

  • Use illustrations/details to describe characters, setting, or events

• Reading Informational Text

  • Ask and answer questions about details

  • Identify main topic and retell key details

  • Reads appropriate grade level text

• Phonics and Decoding skills/ Fluency

Reading Skill Focus for Grade 3 

• Reading Literature

  • Use reading strategies such as asking questions, making inferences and summarizing

  • Describe characters in a story

  • Understand the different genres of fiction

• Reading Informational Text

  • Determine the main idea and details in non-fiction texts

  • Use and understand the text features in non-fiction texts

  • Compare and contrast information from texts

• Phonics and Decoding skills/ Fluency

Reading Skill Focus for Grade 4 

• Reading Literature

  • Use reading strategies such as asking questions, making inferences and summarizing

  • Describe characters in a story

  • Understand the different genres of fiction including historical fiction

• Reading Informational Text

  • Determine the main idea and details in non-fiction texts

  • Use and understand the text features in non-fiction texts

  • Compare and contrast information from texts

• Phonics and Decoding skills/ Fluency