Language Arts Essential Skills List
September 29, 2007
Standard Essential Reading Skills
4.1.1 b Decode words with dipthongs, digraphs, and controlled
vowels
4.1.2 e Identify the suffixes: ful, ly, less, and er/or
4.1.2 f Identify singular possessive, root words, and base
words
4.1.2 g Use context clues to determine word meaning
4.1.3 d State the main idea of a paragraph
4.1.3 f Make predictions based on headings and captions in a
story
4.1.4 d Identify and use resources (i.e. dictionary, globe, atlas,
and encyclopedia)
4.1.4 e Identify parts of a book (i.e. table of contents, glossary,
and title page)
4.1.4 f Alphabetize to the fourth letter
4.1.5 c Identify the characteristics of narratives, fairy tales,
fables, tall tales, poems, folk tales, and informational
paragraphs
4.1.5 d Identify authors purpose: Entertain/Inform
4.1.6 c Identify and name details of a plot, problem, and
setting
4.1.6 d Identify characters and their major traits in a story
4.1.7 c Identify the structure of nonfiction: similarities and
differences
4.1.8 b Identify similarities/differences between different
versions of the same story.
Standard
Essential Writing Skills
4.2.1 e Use commas in City/State and words in a series
4.2.1 f Use correct capitalization when using proper nouns
4.2.1 g Use nouns, pronouns, and verbs correctly
4.2.1 h Demonstrate standard use of spelling
• Plurals/Regular and irregular
• Double consonants
• Past tense
• Use of ou/oa
• r-controlled words
• Silent e
• Contractions
• Singular Possessives
• Consonant + le
• Silent letters
4.2.2 b Write a paragraph which includes a topic sentence, detail
sentences, and a concluding sentence
4.2.4 b Compose an informational paragraph
4.2.5 e Label a group of similar objects/ideas
Standard
Essential Listening Skills
4.3.2 b Read with expression
