Grades PK-12

Learners build new knowledge by inquiring, reading, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems.

Learners demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to inclusiveness and respect for diversity in the learning community.

Learners work effectively with others to broaden perspectives and work toward common goals.

Learners make meaning for themselves and others by collecting, organizing, and sharing resources of personal relevance.

Learners read, discover and innovate with a growth mindset developed through experience and reflection. 

Learners demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world.

Constructing Questions for Research and Inquiry

Using Information in Research and Inquiry Processes

Drawing Evidence from Literature and Nonfiction

Applying Strategies to Create Meaning in Literary Fiction

Summarizing Main Ideas and Details

Identifying Elements of a Story

Integrating Diverse Media

Examining Perspectives and Points of View

Developing Social Problem-Solving Skills 

Engaging in a Learning Community

Using Digital Tools for Collaboration

Communicating to Establish and Sustain Relationships

Using Sources of Information

Locating Nonfiction and Informational Texts

Evaluating Information Sources

Selecting Information for Use in Research and Inquiry Processes

Using and Synthesizing Information 

Identifying Fiction and Nonfiction

Selecting and Reading Literary Fiction, Nonfiction, and Informational Texts

Using and Presenting Information in Different Media Formats

Personalizing Lifelong Learning

Developing Self-Awareness and Self-Management

Attributing Information Sources

Creating Multimedia to Demonstrate Learning

Developing Digital Skills

Demonstrating Etiquette in Using Technology

Applying Principles of Intellectual Property

Using Information and Technology Safely and Responsibly

Communicating Effectively to Establish and Sustain Relationships 

Narrow a self-generated, broad research question.

Develop a self-generated, focused research question and sub-questions about a topic.

Choose aspects of a topic to investigate.

Develop questions to be answered about a topic for short research projects.

Choose a topic with guidance as part of grade-level appropriate research process. 

Participate in individual or shared research.

Ask questions about a topic of personal interest.

Use specific textual evidence from primary and secondary sources.

Use specific textual evidence from primary and secondary sources and analyze the relationship between these sources.

Use information to answer research questions and sub-questions about topic.

Recall information from past experiences.

Use information to answer questions.

Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. 

Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question, with guidance and support.

Draw supporting evidence from literature or nonfiction to make a point or express a personal opinion.

Draw supporting evidence from literature or nonfiction to make a point, express a personal opinion, or meet an information need.

Draw supporting evidence from literature or nonfiction to make a point, express a personal opinion, or meet an information need.

Use text features and search tools to locate and interpret information in print and digital sources.

Use various text features and search tools to locate key facts or information in text efficiently in print and digital sources. 

Identify text features to locate key facts or information in a text.

Identify parts of a book e.g., title, author and parts of text e.g., beginning, end, details.

Locate and identify the parts of a book.

Apply strategies to create meaning from literary fiction by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating. 

Apply strategies to create meaning from literary fiction by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating.

Apply strategies to create meaning from literary fiction by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating.

Apply strategies to create meaning from literature by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating.

Use illustrations and familiar words to create meaning from text by questioning, reflecting, responding, and evaluating.

Summarize main points from text read aloud or presented orally or in other media formats.

Paraphrase part of text read aloud or presented orally or in other media formats.

Identify main ideas and supporting details of text read aloud or presented orally or in other media formats.

Describe key ideas from text read aloud or presented orally or presented in another media format. 

Confirm understanding of text read aloud or presented orally by asking and answering questions about key details.

Ask and answer questions about key details in the text read aloud or presented orally.

Identify and explain characters, plot, and settings in a story told either in text or digital form and understand their impact on a story by using information from illustrations and words in text.

Identify characters and what happens to them in familiar stories and compare with characters from other familiar stories.

Describe illustrations in a story read aloud.

Make strategic use of digital media in presentations to add interest and enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence.

Integrate multimedia components and visual displays into presentations to clarify and show research. 

Add multimedia components and visual displays to presentations to clarify claims and research findings and point out important points in information.

Add multimedia components and visual displays to presentations to clarify information.

Add multimedia components and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.

Add drawings or other visual displays to recording to emphasize or enhance facts or details.

Add drawings or other visual displays to presentation to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

Compare and make connections among several points of view about the same issue, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of arguments.

Acknowledge controversy by using a variety of sources and incorporating opposing claims or differing viewpoints to present an argument. 

Identify and use texts and resources that represent a broad range of cultures and identities, with help and support.

Identify alternate or opposing claims.

Determine the author’s point of view or purpose in a text. 

Identify and use texts and resources that represent a broad range of cultures and identities, with help and support.

Compare and contrast accounts of the same event told from different points of view.

Explain the point of view of the author.

Identify and use texts and resources that represent a broad range of cultures and identities.

Define the roles of author and illustrator.

Identify similarities and differences among characters from different stories.

Identify and use texts and resources that represent a broad range of cultures and identities, with help and support.

Explain how you situate yourself in a diverse community.

Evaluate strategies to prevent and resolve conflicts.

Evaluate how societal conventions may influence the perspectives of individuals.

Interact with others demonstrating respect, cooperation, and acceptance. 

Identify conflict resolution skills to deescalate, diffuse, and resolve differences. 

Analyze various perspectives on a situation. 

Demonstrate respect for the uniqueness of others.

Identify multiple ways to solve conflicts and practice solving problems.

Respond to others given a sense of the others’ point of view. 

Identify similarities and differences between self and others.

Recognize that conflict occurs and identify ways to respond.

Recognize and respond to the feelings of others.

Engage actively in a learning group by establishing connections with other learners to build on prior knowledge and create new knowledge.

Solicit and respond to feedback from others. 

Include diverse perspectives in the inquiry process.

Recognize and contribute actively to learning as a social responsibility. 

Use a variety of different communication tools and resources to connect with others to build prior knowledge and create new knowledge.

Develop new understandings through engagement in a learning group. 

Solicit and respond to the feedback of others.

Contribute actively to group discussions. 

Contribute actively to group discussions. 

Engage in group reading activities related to nonfiction with purpose and understanding. 

Engage in group reading activities actively, with prompting and support. 

Use technology and keyboarding skills to interact and collaborate with others, with guidance and support. 

Use digital tools in collaboration with peers, with guidance and support.

Explore digital tools in collaboration with peers, with guidance and support.

Establish pro-social relationships to support self and others.

Select expressive communication strategies specific to context.

Explain how empathy and perspective taking foster relationship building.

Explain how expressive communication strategies can affect others. 

Explain ways to establish relationships that are positive and supportive of others.

Select and utilize expressive communication strategies (e.g., tone, body language, facial expressions) with an understanding of its effect on others.

Interact in pro-social ways (e.g. reciprocal conversation, turn taking, sharing) with peers and adults.

Engage in reciprocal communication with peers and adults.

Access print and digital resources including the library catalog and databases using features within the source itself.

Use search functions of a database to access digitally stored sources. Natural language searching, keyword, limiters subject headings.

Independently, use various print and digital reference sources.

Independently, use various print and digital reference sources. 

Gather information that pertains to topic from various print and digital sources.

Conduct a search using proper search terms.

Use various print and digital reference sources independently.

Locate nonfiction and informational texts using a variety of tools (e.g. library catalog, database index) independently. 

Locate, with support, nonfiction and informational texts using a variety of tools (e.g. library catalog, database index).

Locate and select literary nonfiction on grade level independently. 

Locate content-specific digital resources, with help and support.

Identify and evaluate an author’s credentials and background information to determine the author’s purpose or point of view. 

Analyze information and evaluate sources for authority, bias, accuracy, relevancy, and currency of information. 

Evaluate text based on the author's claim and relevant evidence.

Evaluate a source for authority, bias, accuracy, relevancy, and currency of information. 

Analyze information in different media formats, including main ideas and supporting details.

Interpret information presented in different media formats.

Discuss and apply criteria for evaluating a resource: authority, bias, accuracy, relevancy, readability, and currency of information. 

Select information from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Select information from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.

Integrate information from various mediums to understand a topic or issue.

Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of how information is presented in different mediums.

Locate information from sources, including both print and digital, to answer a question or solve a problem.

Explain how information from various sources contributes to understanding text.

Identify similarities and differences among text, graphics, audio, animation, and video, with help and support.

Locate author's and illustrator's name son a book cover or title page.

Synthesize information found in multiple sources.

Summarize, paraphrase, and quote from resources.

Take notes on relevant information to support one’s own position.

Summarize, paraphrase, and quote from resources.

Organize answers to questions by sorting information into provided categories.

Use grade-level-appropriate note-taking skills, including paraphrasing and/or summarizing. 

Explain the difference between fiction and nonfiction texts. 

Identify fiction and nonfiction.

Identify fiction and nonfiction texts, with prompting and support. 

Locate, select, and utilize literary fiction, nonfiction, and informational texts independently for personal growth or independent analysis, reflection, and research.

Locate and select independently literary nonfiction and informational texts on grade level. 

Select and read independently grade-level-appropriate literary fiction in a variety of genres and formats.

Select and read independently grade-level-appropriate literary fiction in a variety of genres and formats.

Select and read grade-level-appropriate literary fiction in a variety of genres and formats with support.

Select and read independently literary nonfiction and informational texts on grade level.

Select and read literary nonfiction and informational texts on grade level, with support.

Select and read independently grade-level-appropriate literature in a variety of genres and formats.

Select and read grade-level-appropriate literature in a variety of genres and formats, with guidance and support. 

Select grade-level-appropriate literature, with assistance.

Engage actively in group reading activities in a variety of genres, with prompting and support.

Integrate visual and audio representations of information in diverse media formats.

Integrate information presented in different media formats to demonstrate understanding. 

Use information from text to demonstrate understanding.

Explain how graphic representations contribute to and clarify the meaning of a text.

Describe key ideas through illustrations and text.

Describe relationships between illustrations and text.

Identify illustrations that connect with written words, with support.

Engage in sustained inquiry demonstrating interest in other perspectives.

Perform ongoing analysis of and reflection on the quality, usefulness, and accuracy of curated resources.

Respond iteratively to challenges, and recognize capabilities and skills can be developed, improved, and expanded.

Accept feedback open-mindedly for positive and constructive growth.

Personalize use of information and information technologies.

Identify formal and informal lifelong learning opportunities that support career retention and advancement. 

Describe how personal interests and abilities impact lifelong learning. 

Define and describe the importance of lifelong learning. 

Advocate for oneself in education, employment, and within the community. 

Analyze adverse situations for the purpose of identifying and selecting healthy coping skills.

Explain to others one’s own strengths, needs, and preferences specific to a context. 

Identify and select coping skills relevant to adverse situations.

Identify one’s own strengths, needs, and preferences.

Select coping skill strategies response to adverse situations (e.g. positive self-talk, talking to others, taking a break, taking care of oneself, avoiding negative self talk).

Demonstrate awareness of self and one’s own preferences.

Distinguish between situations that elicit positive or negative feelings. 

Use standard citation format e.g. endnotes, footnotes, parenthetical citation to document specific primary or secondary source information and include a standard citation page (e.g. bibliography, works cited).

Cite specific textual evidence from primary and secondary sources.

Cite sources using standard bibliographic citation format. 

Identify bibliographic information to create a list of sources used.

Create multimedia products to present relationships between information and ideas.

Select and utilize multimedia to create digital media appropriate to audience.

Select and utilize multimedia to create digital media appropriate to audience.

Use ongoing feedback and technology to produce, publish, and update individual or shared products ethically.

Use technology ethically to produce and publish as well as interact and collaborate with others. 

Use technology and keyboarding skills to produce and publish a product, with guidance and support.

Use digital tools to produce and publish writing, with guidance and support. 

Explore digital tools to produce and publish writing, with guidance and support.

Demonstrate technology etiquette skills and leadership when communicating with others.

Demonstrate proper etiquette when networking either face-to-face or online.

Apply proper etiquette when using technology. 

Demonstrate proper care of technology and equipment.

Demonstrate proper book handling skills and correct procedures for using eReader devices (e.g., how to turn device on and off, turn pages, protect screen). 

Demonstrate proper handling skills for print(e.g., how to open and hold properly, turn pages correctly, use bookmarks, and return materials to proper place).

Apply intellectual property principles (e.g., public domain, Creative Commons, educational fair use, copyright).

Apply intellectual property principles(e.g., public domain, Creative Commons, educational fair use, copyright). 

Apply intellectual property principles(e.g., public domain, Creative Commons, educational fair use, copyright).

Advocate and practice safe, legal, ethical, and responsible use of information and technology in school and in personal situations (e.g., public domain, Creative Commons, educational fair use, copyright). 

Practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.

Explain the importance of safe, legal and responsible use of technology. 

Answer questions about the importance of safe, legal, and responsible use of technology, with prompting and support.

Select expressive communication strategies specific to context.

Explain how expressive communication strategies can affect others.

Select and utilize expressive communication strategies (e.g., tone, body language, facial expressions) with an understanding of its effect on others.

Engage in reciprocal communication with peers and adults.