Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of fiction, poetry, and drama and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.

Analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and persuasive text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.

Understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing.

Understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about how an author's sensory language creates imagery in literary text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding.

Analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about the author's purpose in cultural, historical, and contemporary contexts and provide evidence from the text to support their understanding.