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These documents are based on NWEA's Primary Grades Instructional Data. The numbers on the ladders indicate RIT scores, which the students receive on NWEA's MAP for Primary Grades Survey with Goals assessment.

The ladders visually demonstrate how math and reading skills increase in complexity, allowing teachers and parents to better identify the skills each child is ready to learn now and what each child may be ready for next.

Concepts of Print

• Developmental Reading Skills
  • Alphabet Order - Letters [w]
  • Alphabet Order - Words [w]
  • Book Concepts [w]
  • Recognition - Lower Case Letters [w]
  • Recognition - Upper and Lower Case Letters [w]
  • Recognition - Upper Case Letters [w]
  • Text Concepts [w]
  • Visual Discrimination [w]
  • Word Concepts [w]

• Developmental Writing Skills
  • Formation of Letters - Lower Case [w]
  • Formation of Letters - Upper Case [w]
  • Letters [w]
  • Recognition - Lower and Upper Case [w]

• Environmental Print
  • Advertisements [w]
  • Signs [w]
    

Comprehension

• Evaluative Comprehension
  • Author's Purpose [w]
  • Characterization and Classification [w]
  • Characteristics of Fiction and Nonfiction [w]
  • Compare/Contrast [w]
  • Fact/Opinion [w]
  • Figurative Language [w]
  • Predict, Infer, Conclude [w]
  • Supporting Details [w]

• Interpretive Comprehension
  • Author's Purpose [w]
  • Characterization and Classification [w]
  • Cause/Effect [w]
  • Compare/Contrast [w]
  • Figurative Language [w]
  • Literary Devices and Techniques [w]
  • Literary Elements [w]
  • Locate Information [w]
  • Main Idea - Stated [w]
  • Main Idea - Implied [w]
  • Predict, Infer, Conclude [w]
  • Summarize/Paraphrase [w]

• Literal Comprehension
  • Cause/Effect [w]
  • Characteristics of Fiction and Nonfiction [w]
  • Compare/Contrast [w]
  • Features of Text [w]
  • Follow Directions [w]
  • Literary Devices and Techniques [w]
  • Literary Elements [w]
  • Locate Information [w]
  • Main Idea - Stated [w]
  • Predict, Infer, Conclude [w]
  • Recall Supporting Details [w]
  • Supporting Events [w]

Phonics

• Consonants
  • Beginning Sound Consonant [w]
  • Consonant Blends and Clusters [w]
  • Consonant Digraphs [w]
  • Final Consonant [w]
  • Matching Letters to Sounds [w]
  • Medial Consonant [w]

• Sound Manipulation and Syllabication
  • Blending Three Sounds [w]
  • Sound Manipulation [w]
  • Syllabication [w]

• Spelling Patterns and Rhyming
  • Rhyming Words [w]

• Vowel Patterns
  • Diphthongs [w]
  • Identification of Vowels [w]
  • Long Vowel Combinations [w]
  • R-Controlled Vowels [w]
  • Short Vowel Combinations [w]
  • Vowel Combinations [w]
  • Vowel Digraphs [w]
  • Vowel Spelling Patterns [w]

Phonological Awareness

• Blending
  • Three and Five Sounds [w]

• Phoneme Identification
  • Beginning Sounds [w]
  • Ending Sounds [w]
  • Middle Sounds [w]

• Phonemic Manipulation of Sounds and Syllbication
  • Beginning and Ending Sounds [w]
  • One and Two Syllable Words [w]
  • Two and Three Syllable Words [w]

• Rhyming
  • One and Two Syllable Words [w]

Vocabulary and Word Structure

• Base Words, Prefixes, Suffixes
  • Prefixes [w]
  • Root or Base Words [w]
  • Suffixes [w]

• Compound Words, Contractions
  • Compound Words [w]
  • Contractions [w]

• Content Vocabulary and Context Clues
  • Content Vocabulary [w]
  • Context Clues [w]

• Sight Words
  • Sight Words [w]

• Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms, Homographs, Homophones
  • Antonyms [w]
  • Context Clues [w]
  • Homographs [w]
  • Homophones [w]
  • Synonyms [w]

Writing

• Conventions of Language
  • Capitalization [w]
  • Punctuation [w]
  • Spelling [w]

• Grammatical Patterns
  • Grammar [w]
  • Grammatical Patterns [w]
  • Oral Language - Grammar [w]
  • Parts of Speech [w]

• Language Structure, Phrase, Sentence, Paragraph
  • Format - Paragraph [w]
  • Format - Phrases [w]
  • Format - Sentences [w]
  • Types of Sentences [w]

• Writing Process
  • Characteristics of Fiction and Nonfiction [w]
  • Drafting [w]
  • Editing and Proofreading [w]
  • Format - Paragraph [w]
  • Prewriting and Planning [w]
  • Revising [w]

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