Kindergarten

First Grade

Syllables

• Understand that words that have one
  or more syllables
• Able to clap out syllables

Mastery of all Kindergarten
Benchmarks

Syllables

• Understand that every syllable has a
  vowel

Plurals

• Understand plurals and plural forms- s (frogs, hats, bees) and -es (x, ch, sh, ss, s, tch, zz)

Verb Endings

• Recognize and use endings that add
  -s to a verb to make it agree with the subject
• Recognize and use endings that add
  -ing to make a present tense verb
• Recognize and use endings that add
  -ed to make a past tense verb

Contractions

• Begin to use will, am, is and not in
  contractions

Possessives

• Begin to recognize that adding ‘s to a word creates a possessive noun

Base Words

• Recognize root words (clapping,
  clap)

Mastery of all First Grade
Benchmarks

Syllables

• Understand how to divide syllables in words with double consonants
  (muffin) and double vowel (liar).

Plurals

• Recognize changing spelling in
  irregular plurals (foot, feet)

Contractions

• Recognize and use will, am, is and
  not in contractions

Possessives

• Recognize that adding ‘s to a word
  creates a possessive noun

Verb Endings

• Add -er to a verb to make it a noun
  (play, player)

Adjective Endings

• Use -er and -est to show comparisons

Prefixes

• Recognize common prefixes re-, un

Base Words

• Remove the ending from a base word to make a new word

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Mastery of All Second Grade
Benchmarks

Syllables

• Begin to recognize open and closed
  syllables
  • Open syllable (ho-tel)
  • Closed syllable (kitten)
  • Syllable with a vowel and a silent e (hopeful)
  • Syllable with vowel combinations (poison)
  • Syllable with a vowel and r (corner)
  • Syllable in words with vv pattern (riot)
  • Plurals
• Change -y to -i before adding -es
• Understand singular and plural forms that stay the same (deer, lamb)

Verb Endings

• Recognize and form tenses by adding –es, -ed, -ing, -d to verbs

Adjectives

• Recognize and use endings that show comparisons (-er, -est)

Contractions

• Use have, would, not, and had in
  contraction

Mastery of All Third Grade
Benchmarks

Syllables

Recognize open and closed syllables

• Open syllable (ho-tel)
• Closed syllable (kitten)
• Syllable with a vowel and a silent e (hopeful)
• Syllable with vowel combinations
  (poison)
• Syllable with a vowel and r
  (corner)
• Syllable in words with vv pattern (riot)
• Plurals

Adverbs

• Form adverbs by adding -ly or -ally
• Adjectives
• Begin to change adjectives to nouns by adding -tion, -ible for partial words
  and -able for whole words

Suffixes

• Use suffixes -ily, -able, - ible, -ar,
  -less

Possessives

• Begin to use an apostrophe after a
  word that ends in “s” to show
  possession

Prefixes

• Begin to recognize and use the
  following prefixes (re-, un-, im-, in-,
  il-, dis-, non-, mis-)

Mastery of All Fourth Grade Benchmarks

Adjectives

• Change adjectives to nouns by adding -tion, -ible for partial words and -able for whole words

Suffixes

• Use suffixes -ous, -cious, -tious
  Possessives
• Use an apostrophe after a word that
  ends in s, to show possession

Prefixes

• Recognize and use the following
  prefixes (re-, un-, im-, in-, il-, dis-,
  non-, mis-)
• Begin to use prefixes that refer to
  numbers (uni-, bi-, tri-, cent-, dec-,
  mon-, multi-, pent-, poly-, quad-,
  semi-)

Plurals

• Add –s to words that end in a vowel
  plus o. Add –es to words that end in
  a consonant plus o or –es to words
  that end in a vowel plus o (radios,
  rodeos, potatoes, volcanoes)