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Tennessee State Standards Alignments Grades Four through Eight

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Tennessee State Standards Alignments

Standards List with Aligned Product Skills

The Standards List with Aligned Product Skills Report is a standards-oriented document showing the entire list of standards for the subject and grade on the left side of the report with the aligning product objectives on the right side. This alignment report shows the breadth of standards coverage for the purpose and focus of this product.

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Grade 5 ..................................................... 7

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill DescriptionTN SPI 0401.1 - *LanguageTN SPI 0401.1.1 - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common and proper, plurals, possessives) and pronouns (i.e., subject, object, and agreement) within context.TN SPI 0401.1.2 - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., agreement, tenses, action and linking) within context.

TN SPI 0401.1.3 - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., comparison forms and articles) and adverbs (i.e., comparison forms and negatives) within context.TN SPI 0401.1.4 - *Identify declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences by recognizing appropriate end marks.TN SPI 0401.1.5 - *Select the best way to correct incomplete sentences within context.TN SPI 0401.1.6 - *Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., series, dates, addresses, friendly letters, introductory words, compound sentences) within context.

TN SPI 0401.1.7 - *Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., double negatives, troublesome words: to/too/two; their/there/they're; sit/set; lie/lay).TN SPI 0401.1.8 - *Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context.TN SPI 0401.1.9 - Choose the correct formation of plurals, contractions, and possessives within context.TN SPI 0401.1.10 - *Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas in direct quotations.TN SPI 0401.1.11 - *Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person and number).

TN SPI 0401.1.12 - Select appropriate antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 13 - VA13 Applying knowledge of synonyms to determine meaning

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Successful Reader Grade 4

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0401.1.13 - Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary within context.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 4 - OP04 Building vocabulary knowledge

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 3 - VA03 Recalling word meaningSkill 4 - VA04 Recognizing and reading words

TN SPI 0401.1.14 - Use prefixes, suffixes, and root words as aids in determining meaning within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through context

TN SPI 0401.1.15 - Identify grade level compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 7 - VA07 Recognizing compound words through context

TN SPI 0401.1.16 - Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words using context clues, dictionaries, and glossaries.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 4 - OP04 Building vocabulary knowledge

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 1 - VA01 Acquiring vocabulary by encountering words in context

Skill 20 - VA20 Using a glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of unknown words

TN SPI 0401.2 - *CommunicationTN SPI 0401.2.1 - *Identify the main idea and supporting points of a speech.TN SPI 0401.2.2 - Given a list of interactive behaviors (i.e., taking turns, behaving courteously, not interrupting, listening, remaining on task), identify those that are appropriate (or inappropriate) for group activities.TN SPI 0401.2.3 - Select the best summary of a speech.TN SPI 0401.3 - *WritingTN SPI 0401.3.1 - Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, to inform, to share experiences).

TN SPI 0401.3.2 - Identify the audience for which a text is written.

TN SPI 0401.3.3 - *Choose a topic sentence for a paragraph.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 8 - WR08 Writing a topic sentence

Successful Reader Grade 4

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0401.3.4 - *Select details that support a topic sentence.TN SPI 0401.3.5 - *Rearrange sentences to form a sequential, coherent paragraph.TN SPI 0401.3.6 - *Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.TN SPI 0401.3.7 - Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.TN SPI 0401.3.8 - Select appropriate time-order or transitional words to enhance the flow of a writing sample.

TN SPI 0401.3.9 - *Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.TN SPI 0401.3.10 - *Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) to group ideas for writing.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0401.4 - *ResearchTN SPI 0401.4.1 - *Select appropriate sources from which to gather information on a given topic.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0401.4.2 - *Rank the reliability of sources on a given topic.

TN SPI 0401.4.3 - *Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., chart, web) organizing material collected from text or technological sources.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0401.4.4 - Differentiate among the kinds of information available in a variety of reference materials (i.e., dictionary, thesaurus, atlas, encyclopedia).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0401.5 - *LogicTN SPI 0401.5.1 - *Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.TN SPI 0401.5.2 - Recognize cause-effect relationships within context.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effect

TN SPI 0401.5.3 - *Distinguish between fact/opinion and reality/fantasy.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 10 - CS10 Differentiating fact and opinion

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0401.5.4 - *Choose a logical word to complete an analogy using synonyms and antonyms.

TN SPI 0401.5.5 - *Make inferences and draw appropriate conclusions from text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 9 - OS09 Drawing conclusions from passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 19 - CS19 Drawing conclusions

Skill 20 - CS20 Making inferencesTN SPI 0401.5.6 - Indicate the sequence of events in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 14 - OS14 Sequencing events within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequence

TN SPI 0401.6 - *Informational Text Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0401.6.1 - Select questions used to focus and clarify thinking before, during, and after reading text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 7 - CS07 Asking and answering questions about the text

Skill 25 - CS25 Identifying reading strategies

TN SPI 0401.6.2 - *Identify the stated main idea and supporting details in text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

TN SPI 0401.6.3 - *Use table of contents, title page, and glossary to locate information.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 20 - VA20 Using a glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of unknown words

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0401.6.4 - *Use headings, graphics, and captions to make meaning from text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0401.6.5 - *Interpret information using a chart, map, or timeline.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0401.6.6 - *Use available text features (e.g., graphics and illustrations) to make meaning from text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0401.6.7 - Arrange instructions in sequential order.TN SPI 0401.7 - *Media

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0401.7.1 - *Select the most appropriate and reliable media for accessing information, writing a report, or making a presentation.

TN SPI 0401.7.2 - *Identify the main idea in a visual image.TN SPI 0401.7.3 - Choose the most effective medium to enhance a short oral presentation (e.g., still pictures, model, diorama, PowerPoint, recording).TN SPI 0401.7.4 - From a list of media, identify the medium that is available to you that was probably not available to previous generations.

TN SPI 0401.8 - *LiteratureTN SPI 0401.8.1 - *Recognize plot features of fairy tales, folk tales, fables, and myths.

Skill Area 3 - Literacy Experience and Appreciation (LE)

Skill 5 - LE05 Understanding literary types

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0401.8.2 - *Identify characters, setting, and plot in a passage.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

Skill 15 - CS15 Recognizing setting

Skill 16 - CS16 Understanding characterization

TN SPI 0401.8.3 - *Determine the problem in a story and recognize its solution.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 11 - OP11 Applying comprehension strategies to reading literature

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0401.8.4 - *Make appropriate predictions about text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 2 - CS02 Making predictions about text

TN SPI 0401.8.5 - *Identify the forms of text (e.g., poems, drama, fiction, nonfiction).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

TN SPI 0401.8.6 - *Identify and interpret similes and metaphors.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0401.8.7 - *Identify the author's purpose (e.g., to entertain, to inform, to persuade, to share feelings).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 24 - CS24 Understanding text/author's purpose

Successful Reader Grade 4

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 4, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 10 - WR10 Summarizing the author's purpose

TN SPI 0401.8.8 - *Recognize the sounds of language (i.e., alliteration, rhyme, and repetition).

Successful Reader Grade 4

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill DescriptionTN SPI 0501.1 - *LanguageTN SPI 0501.1.1 - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., singular/plural, possessives, predicate nouns, nouns as objects) and pronouns (i.e., agreement, subject, object) within context.TN SPI 0501.1.2 - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, tenses) within context.TN SPI 0501.1.3 - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative forms, predicate adjectives) and adverbs (i.e., comparative forms, negatives) within context.TN SPI 0501.1.4 - *Recognize usage errors occurring within context (e.g., double negatives, troublesome words: {to/too/two, their/there/they're, lie/lay, sit/set, leave/let, learn/teach}).

TN SPI 0501.1.5 - *Identify sentences with correct use of commas (i.e., series, dates, addresses, friendly letters, compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, and introductory words) and of colons within context.

TN SPI 0501.1.6 - *Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas in direct quotations.TN SPI 0501.1.7 - *Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context, including the correct spelling of plurals and possessives.

TN SPI 0501.1.8 - *Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma+ coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases and/or clauses).

TN SPI 0501.1.9 - *Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, periods to join or separate elements) within context.

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Successful Reader Grade 5

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0501.1.10 - *Select the best way to correct incomplete sentences within context.TN SPI 0501.1.11 - Determine word meanings within context.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 4 - OP04 Building vocabulary knowledge

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 1 - VA01 Acquiring vocabulary by encountering words in context

Skill 10 - VA10 Using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words

TN SPI 0501.1.12 - Recognize root words, prefixes, and syllabication as aids in determining meaning within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

TN SPI 0501.1.13 - Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 13 - VA13 Applying knowledge of synonyms to determine meaning

TN SPI 0501.1.14 - Identify compound words, contractions, and common abbreviations within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 7 - VA07 Recognizing compound words through context

TN SPI 0501.1.15 - Recognize and use grade appropriate vocabulary within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 3 - VA03 Recalling word meaning

Skill 4 - VA04 Recognizing and reading wordsSkill 21 - VA21 Using targeted vocabulary

TN SPI 0501.1.16 - Determine the correct meaning/usage of multiple meaning words within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 19 - VA19 Using context to determine the correct definition of a word that has multiple meanings

TN SPI 0501.2 - *CommunicationTN SPI 0501.2.1 - *Identify the audience for a given speech.TN SPI 0501.2.2 - Identify the criteria necessary for a good group leader appropriate to a particular task (i.e., understands the group task, works well with others, keeps the group on task).TN SPI 0501.2.3 - Choose the best summary of a speech.TN SPI 0501.2.4 - *Organize ideas in the most effective order for an oral presentation.TN SPI 0501.3 - *Writing

Successful Reader Grade 5

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0501.3.1 - *Identify the audience for which a text is written.

TN SPI 0501.3.2 - *Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to entertain, to inform, to share experiences, to persuade, to report).

TN SPI 0501.3.3 - *Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.TN SPI 0501.3.4 - Identify the sentence irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.TN SPI 0501.3.5 - Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph.TN SPI 0501.3.6 - *Rearrange sentences to form a sequential, coherent paragraph.TN SPI 0501.3.7 - *Select details that support a topic sentence.TN SPI 0501.3.8 - *Select vivid and active words for a writing sample.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 6 - WR06 Demonstrating a command of language including precision in word choice

TN SPI 0501.3.9 - Choose the sentence that best supports the topic sentence and fits the flow of ideas in a paragraph.TN SPI 0501.3.10 - *Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.

TN SPI 0501.3.11 - *Rearrange paragraphs in a narrative writing selection in sequential and chronological order.TN SPI 0501.3.12 - *Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.TN SPI 0501.3.13 - *Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) to group ideas for writing.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0501.4 - *ResearchTN SPI 0501.4.1 - *Identify the most reliable information sources available for preparing a research report.

Successful Reader Grade 5

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0501.4.2 - Identify information that should or should not be included in a citation.TN SPI 0501.4.3 - *Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., chart, web) organizing material collected from text or technological sources.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0501.4.4 - Select appropriate sources from which to gather information on a given topic.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0501.5 - *LogicTN SPI 0501.5.1 - *Locate information to support opinions, predictions, and conclusions.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 33 - CS33 Locating information for specific purposes

TN SPI 0501.5.2 - *Identify stated or implied cause and effect relationships in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 12 - OS12 Identifying cause and effect relationships within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effect

TN SPI 0501.5.3 - *Distinguish between fact/opinion and reality/fantasy.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 10 - CS10 Differentiating fact and opinion

TN SPI 0501.5.4 - *Determine the conflict in a text and recognize its solution.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0501.5.5 - *Select a logical word to complete an analogy using synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, categories, and subcategories.TN SPI 0501.5.6 - *Make inferences and draw appropriate conclusions from text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 9 - OS09 Drawing conclusions from passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 19 - CS19 Drawing conclusions

Skill 20 - CS20 Making inferencesTN SPI 0501.5.7 - *Indicate the correct sequence of events in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 14 - OS14 Sequencing events within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequence

TN SPI 0501.6 - *Informational Text

TN SPI 0501.6.1 - Select questions used to focus and clarify thinking before, during, and after reading text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 7 - CS07 Asking and answering questions about the text

Successful Reader Grade 5

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Skill 25 - CS25 Identifying reading strategies

TN SPI 0501.6.2 - *Select and use common text features to make meaning from text (e.g., headings, key words, graphics, captions, sidebars).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0501.6.3 - Locate information using available text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphics).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0501.6.4 - *Identify the stated main idea and supporting details in text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

TN SPI 0501.6.5 - Select the best summary of a text.TN SPI 0501.6.6 - Arrange a set of instructions in sequential order.TN SPI 0501.7 - *MediaTN SPI 0501.7.1 - *Select the most appropriate medium or media for accessing information, writing a report, or enhancing an oral presentation.TN SPI 0501.7.2 - *Determine the main idea in a visual image.TN SPI 0501.7.3 - Identify the mood created by a visual image.TN SPI 0501.7.4 - Identify the various functions of media in daily life (i.e., communication, entertainment, information, persuasion).

TN SPI 0501.8 - *LiteratureTN SPI 0501.8.1 - *Identify setting, characters, plot, and theme.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

Skill 15 - CS15 Recognizing setting

Skill 16 - CS16 Understanding characterizationSkill 27 - CS27 Identifying theme

TN SPI 0501.8.2 - *Recognize reasonable predictions of future events within a given context.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 2 - CS02 Making predictions about text

TN SPI 0501.8.3 - *Distinguish among various literary genres (e.g., poetry, drama, letters, ads, historical fiction, biographies, autobiographies).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

Successful Reader Grade 5

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 5, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0501.8.4 - *Identify and interpret the main incidents of a plot, their causes, how they influence future actions, and how they are resolved.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

Skill 23 - CS23 Identifying significant events

TN SPI 0501.8.5 - Recognize that a story is told from first person point of view.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 26 - CS26 Identifying point of view

TN SPI 0501.8.6 - *Determine whether the theme is stated or implied within a passage.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 27 - CS27 Identifying theme

TN SPI 0501.8.7 - *Identify similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole in context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0501.8.8 - *Identify the effect of sound within context (i.e., onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhythm, rhyme, repetition).

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0501.8.9 - Identify the author's purpose (i.e., to inform, to entertain, to share feelings, to describe, to persuade).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 24 - CS24 Understanding text/author's purpose

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 10 - WR10 Summarizing the author's purpose

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill DescriptionTN SPI 0601.1 - *LanguageTN SPI 0601.1.1 - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives) and pronouns (i.e., agreement, subject, object) within context.

TN SPI 0601.1.2 - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action, linking, regular/irregular, agreement) within context.TN SPI 0601.1.3 - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative forms) and adverbs (i.e., comparative forms) within context.TN SPI 0601.1.4 - Identify the correct use of prepositional phrases (place prepositional phrases correctly according to the words they modify within the sentence) within context.

TN SPI 0601.1.5 - Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating and subordinating) and interjections within context.TN SPI 0601.1.6 - *Choose the correct use of quotation marks, commas (i.e., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, proper use with end marks) and colons (i.e., in business letters, preceding a list of items).TN SPI 0601.1.7 - Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters).TN SPI 0601.1.8 - Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, and periods to join or separate elements).

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.1.9 - *Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., double negatives, troublesome words {to/to/two, their/there/they're, its/it's, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, sit/set, lie/lay, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among}).

TN SPI 0601.1.10 - *Identify the correct spelling of plurals and possessives.TN SPI 0601.1.11 - *Identify sentences with correct subject-verb agreement (person/number) within context.TN SPI 0601.1.12 - *Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters) within context.TN SPI 0601.1.13 - *Choose the appropriate interjection to complete a sentence.TN SPI 0601.1.14 - *Select appropriate synonyms, antonyms, and homonyms within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 13 - VA13 Applying knowledge of synonyms to determine meaning

TN SPI 0601.1.15 - *Use context clues and prior knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of multi-meaning words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 19 - VA19 Using context to determine the correct definition of a word that has multiple meaningsSkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

TN SPI 0601.1.16 - Use context clues and prior knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 10 - VA10 Using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar wordsSkill 15 - VA15 Using background knowledge to develop vocabulary

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Skill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

TN SPI 0601.1.17 - *Use dictionaries, thesauruses, electronic sources, and glossaries as aids in determining the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 20 - VA20 Using a glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of unknown words

TN SPI 0601.1.18 - *Identify correctly ands incorrectly spelled words in context.TN SPI 0601.1.19 - *Recognize and use grade-appropriate and content-specific vocabulary within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 3 - VA03 Recalling word meaning

Skill 4 - VA04 Recognizing and reading wordsSkill 21 - VA21 Using targeted vocabulary

TN SPI 0601.1.20 - Use knowledge of root words, affixes, syllabication, and/or spelling patterns as aids in determining meaning within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

TN SPI 0601.2 - *CommunicationTN SPI 0601.2.1 - *Identify the purpose of a speech (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade, to entertain).TN SPI 0601.2.2 - *Identify the targeted audience of a speech.TN SPI 0601.2.3 - *Identify the thesis and main points of a speech.

TN SPI 0601.2.4 - *Select the most appropriate behaviors for participating productively in a team (e.g., contribute appropriate and useful information and ideas, understand the purpose for working as a team, understand the responsibilities of various roles within the team).

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.2.5 - Identify the functions and responsibilities of individual roles within an organized group (i.e., reporter, recorder, information gatherer, leader, timekeeper).TN SPI 0601.2.6 - *Determine the most effective methods for engaging an audience during an oral presentation (e.g., making eye contact, adjusting speaking rate).TN SPI 0601.2.7 - *Organize ideas in the most effective order for an oral presentation.TN SPI 0601.2.8 - Select the best summary of a speech.TN SPI 0601.3 - *WritingTN SPI 0601.3.1 - *Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade).

TN SPI 0601.3.2 - *Identify the audience for which a text is written.

TN SPI 0601.3.3 - *Select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample.TN SPI 0601.3.4 - *Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.TN SPI 0601.3.5 - *Select illustrations, descriptions, and/or facts to support key ideas.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 3 - WR03 Supporting ideas in writing using examples and evidence

Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0601.3.6 - *Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context flow of ideas in a paragraph.

TN SPI 0601.3.7 - *Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.TN SPI 0601.3.8 - *Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.

TN SPI 0601.3.9 - *Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph.

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.3.10 - *Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.TN SPI 0601.3.11 - *Complete a graphic organizer (e.g., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0601.3.12 - Select the most appropriate format for writing a specific work-related text (i.e., instructions, directions, letters, memos, e-mails, reports).TN SPI 0601.4 - *ResearchTN SPI 0601.4.1 - *Select the most focused research topic.TN SPI 0601.4.2 - *Rank research resources according to reliability.TN SPI 0601.4.3 - *Determine the most appropriate research source for a given research topic.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0601.4.4 - *Distinguish between primary (i.e., letters, interviews, diaries, newspapers) and secondary (i.e., reference books, periodicals, Internet, biographies) sources.TN SPI 0601.4.5 - *Discern irrelevant research material from written text.

TN SPI 0601.5 - *LogicTN SPI 0601.5.1 - *Predict future events of a given text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 2 - CS02 Making predictions about text

TN SPI 0601.5.2 - *Determine whether a given statement in text is fact or opinion.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 10 - CS10 Differentiating fact and opinion

TN SPI 0601.5.3 - *Identify stated or implied cause-effect relationships.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 12 - OS12 Identifying cause and effect relationships within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effect

TN SPI 0601.5.4 - *Identify examples of persuasive devices (i.e., bandwagon, loaded terms, testimonial, name-calling).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 32 - CS32 Identifying persuasive language

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.5.5 - *Specify a logical word choice to complete an analogy, using synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, and functions.TN SPI 0601.5.6 - *Indicate the sequence of events in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 14 - OS14 Sequencing events within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequence

TN SPI 0601.5.7 - *Make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 9 - OS09 Drawing conclusions from passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 19 - CS19 Drawing conclusions

Skill 20 - CS20 Making inferencesTN SPI 0601.6 - *Informational Text

TN SPI 0601.6.1 - Formulate clarifying questions for use before, during, and after reading.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 7 - CS07 Asking and answering questions about the text

Skill 25 - CS25 Identifying reading strategies

TN SPI 0601.6.2 - *Identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

TN SPI 0601.6.3 - *Use text features to locate information and make meaning from text (e.g., headings, key words, captions, footnotes).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0601.6.4 - Interpret factual, quantitative, technical, or mathematical information presented in text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphs, time lines, tables, and diagrams).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0601.6.5 - *Locate and verify information in text to support inferences, opinions, predictions, and conclusions.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 33 - CS33 Locating information for specific purposes

TN SPI 0601.6.6 - *Select the best summary of a text.TN SPI 0601.6.7 - *Recognize that purpose determines text format.TN SPI 0601.6.8 - Choose the correct order of a set of instructions.

TN SPI 0601.7 - *Media

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.7.1 - *Select the medium that best reinforces a viewpoint or enhances a presentation.TN SPI 0601.7.2 - *Select the visual image that best reinforces a viewpoint or enhances a presentation.TN SPI 0601.7.3 - *Identify the purpose of a medium (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to describe).TN SPI 0601.7.4 - *Draw an inference from a non-print medium.TN SPI 0601.7.5 - *Choose the statement that best summarizes/communicates the message presented by a medium.TN 0601.7.6 - Identify the type of conflict (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology) represented in a non-print medium.

TN SPI 0601.8 - *LiteratureTN SPI 0601.8.1 - *Distinguish among various literary genres (e.g., fiction, drama, nonfiction, poetry).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

TN SPI 0601.8.2 - *Identify the setting and conflict of a passage.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

Skill 15 - CS15 Recognizing setting

TN SPI 0601.8.3 - *Determine the main ideas of plots, their causes, how they influence future actions, and how they are resolved.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plotTN SPI 0601.8.4 - Distinguish between first and third person points of view.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 26 - CS26 Identifying point of view

TN SPI 0601.8.5 - Identify the kind(s) of conflict present in a literary plot (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 6, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0601.8.6 - Identify the stated or implied theme of a literary text.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 27 - CS27 Identifying theme

TN SPI 0601.8.7 - *Analyze figurative language (i.e., hyperbole, similes, metaphors, personification,) within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0601.8.8 - *Identify examples of sound devices (i.e., accent, alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, and repetition).

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0601.8.9 - *Identify patterns of rhyme and rhythm.TN SPI 0601.8.10 - *Determine the author's purpose for writing.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 24 - CS24 Understanding text/author's purpose

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill DescriptionTN SPI 0701.1 - *LanguageTN SPI 0701.1.1 - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives, direct/indirect objects, predicate) and pronouns (i.e., agreement, reflexive, interrogative, demonstrative) within context.

TN SPI 0701.1.2 - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, perfect tenses, verb phrases) within context.

TN SPI 0701.1.3 - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative/superlative, adjective clauses) and adverbs (comparative and superlative forms) within context.

TN SPI 0701.1.4 - Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating, correlative, subordinating) and interjections within context.TN SPI 0701.1.5 - Identify the correct use of prepositional phrases (place correctly according to the words they modify within the sentence) within context.TN SPI 0701.1.6 - *Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters) within context.TN SPI 0701.1.7 - Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases or clauses).TN SPI 0701.1.8 - Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, periods to join or separate elements) within context.

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.1.9 - *Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., double negatives, troublesome word pairs: {to/to/two, their/there/they're, its/it's, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, sit/set, lie/lay, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among, rise/raise, stationary/stationery}).TN SPI 0701.1.10 - *Identify the correct use of colons (i.e., in business letters, preceding list of items) within context.TN SPI 0701.1.11 - *Identify the correct use of appositives and appositive phrases within context.TN SPI 0701.1.12 - Identify the correct use of infinitives and infinitive phrases within context.TN SPI 0701.1.13 - *Select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, and letters.

TN SPI 0701.1.14 - *Form singular and plural possessives using apostrophes correctly.TN SPI 0701.1.15 - *Choose the correct use of quotation marks and commas (i.e., in direct quotations, with explanatory material within the quote, proper use with end marks).TN SPI 0701.1.16 - *Identify correctly and incorrectly spelled words in context.TN SPI 0701.1.17 - *Use context clues and background knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of multi-meaning words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 19 - VA19 Using context to determine the correct definition of a word that has multiple meaningsSkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.1.18 - Use context clues and background knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 10 - VA10 Using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar wordsSkill 15 - VA15 Using background knowledge to develop vocabularySkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

TN SPI 0701.1.19 - *Replace unknown words in context with appropriate synonyms or antonyms.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 13 - VA13 Applying knowledge of synonyms to determine meaning

TN SPI 0701.1.20 - Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 3 - VA03 Recalling word meaning

Skill 4 - VA04 Recognizing and reading wordsSkill 21 - VA21 Using targeted vocabulary

TN SPI 0701.1.21 - Decode unknown grade level words in context, using previously learned strategies as aids in determining meaning.

TN SPI 0701.1.22 - Identify commonly used foreign words and phrases (i.e., RSVP, déjà vu, faux pas, du jour, bon voyage).TN SPI 0701.2 - *CommunicationTN SPI 0701.2.1 - *Identify the purpose of a speech (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade, to entertain).TN SPI 0701.2.2 - *Identify the targeted audience of a speech.TN SPI 0701.2.3 - *Identify the thesis and main points of a speech.

TN SPI 0701.2.4 - *Determine the most effective methods for engaging an audience during an oral presentation (e.g., making eye contact, adjusting speaking rate).

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.2.5 - *Organize ideas in the most effective order for an oral presentation.TN SPI 0701.2.6 - *Discern the organizational pattern of a speech (e.g., sequential, chronological, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, cause-effect).TN SPI 0701.2.7 - *Select the most appropriate behaviors for participating productively in a team (e.g., ask primarily relevant questions that move the team toward its goal and contribute to the topic of discussion, articulate the goals that have been provided for the team work and ask clarifying questions, come to agreement by seeking consensus or following the majority) .

TN SPI 0701.2.8 - Identify the functions and responsibilities of individual roles within an organized group (i.e., reporter, recorder, information gatherer, leader, timekeeper).TN SPI 0701.2.9 - Distinguish between a summary and a critique.TN SPI 0701.3 - *WritingTN SPI 0701.3.1 - *Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade, to entertain).TN SPI 0701.3.2 - *Identify the audience for which a text is written.

TN SPI 0701.3.3 - *Select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample.TN SPI 0701.3.4 - *Rearrange a multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order,TN SPI 0701.3.5 - *Select the appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.

TN SPI 0701.3.6 - *Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.3.7 - *Identify the sentence(s) irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.TN SPI 0701.3.8 - *Select an appropriate concluding sentence for a well-developed paragraph.TN SPI 0701.3.9 - *Select illustrations, explanations, anecdotes, descriptions and/or facts to support key ideas.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 3 - WR03 Supporting ideas in writing using examples and evidence

Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0701.3.10 - Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.TN SPI 0701.3.11 - *Identify individual writing selections as technical, narrative, persuasive and/or descriptive in mode.TN SPI 0701.3.12 - *Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0701.3.13 - Select the most appropriate format for writing a specific work-related text (i.e., instructions, directions, letters, memos, e-mails, reports).TN SPI 0701.4 - *ResearchTN SPI 0701.4.1 - *Select the most focused research topic.TN SPI 0701.4.2 - *Identify levels of reliability among resources (e.g., eyewitness account, newspaper account, supermarket tabloid account, Internet source).TN SPI 0701.4.3 - *Determine the most appropriate research source for a given research topic.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0701.4.4 - *Distinguish between primary (i.e., interviews, letters, diaries, newspapers, personal narratives) and secondary (i.e., reference books, periodicals, Internet, biographies) sources.TN SPI 0701.4.5 - *Discern irrelevant research material from written text.

TN SPI 0701.5 - *Logic

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 7, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill Description

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.5.1 - *Make predictions about the outcome of a given text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 2 - CS02 Making predictions about text

TN SPI 0701.5.2 - Evaluate text for fact and opinion.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 10 - CS10 Differentiating fact and opinion

TN SPI 0701.5.3 - Identify stated or implied cause-effect relationships.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 12 - OS12 Identifying cause and effect relationships within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effect

TN SPI 0701.5.4 - *Identify examples of persuasive devices (i.e., bandwagon, loaded terms, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 32 - CS32 Identifying persuasive language

TN SPI 0701.5.5 - *Select the correct word or phrase to complete an analogy, using synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, categories, subcategories, whole/part, functions, verb forms).TN SPI 0701.5.6 - Identify an example of deductive or inductive reasoning in text.TN SPI 0701.5.7 - Identify a false premise in text.TN SPI 0701.5.8 - Make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 9 - OS09 Drawing conclusions from passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 19 - CS19 Drawing conclusions

Skill 20 - CS20 Making inferencesTN SPI 0701.6 - *Informational Text

TN SPI 0701.6.1 - *Formulate clarifying questions before, during, or after reading.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 7 - CS07 Asking and answering questions about the text

Skill 25 - CS25 Identifying reading strategies

TN SPI 0701.6.2 - *Identify the main idea and supporting details in text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

TN SPI 0701.6.3 - *Use text features to locate information and make meaning from text (e.g., headings, key words, captions, footnotes).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

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TN SPI 0701.6.4 - Interpret factual, quantitative, technical, or mathematical information presented in text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphs, time lines, tables, and diagrams).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0701.6.5 - *Choose the correct order of a set of instructions.

TN SPI 0701.6.6 - *Identify the organizational structure of an informational text (i.e., chronological, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, sequential, problem-solution).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 5 - CS05 Comparing and contrasting

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effectSkill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequenceSkill 29 - CS29 Understanding text organization

TN SPI 0701.7 - *MediaTN SPI 0701.7.1 - *Choose the most appropriate medium for a prescribed purpose and audience.TN SPI 0701.7.2 - *Select the visual image that best reinforces a viewpoint or enhances a presentation.TN SPI 0701.7.3 - *Identify the purpose of a medium (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to describe).TN SPI 0701.7.4 - *Draw an inference from a non-print medium.TN SPI 0701.7.5 - *Choose the statement that best summarizes/communicates the message presented by a medium.TN SPI 0701.7.6 - Identify the type of conflict (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology) represented in a non-print medium.

TN SPI 0701.8 - *LiteratureTN SPI 0701.8.1 - Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0701.8.2 - Identify the author's point of view (i.e., first person, third person, third-person limited, third-person omniscient).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 26 - CS26 Identifying point of view

TN SPI 0701.8.3 - *Distinguish among different genres (e.g., poetry, drama, biography, novel) using their distinguishing characteristics.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

TN SPI 0701.8.4 - *Determine the common characteristics of literary drama, nonfiction, novels, poetry, and short stories.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

TN SPI 0701.8.5 - Identify the stated or implied theme of a literary text.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 27 - CS27 Identifying theme

TN SPI 0701.8.6 - Identify how the author reveals character (i.e., what the author tells us, what the characters say about him or her, what the character does, what the character says, what the character thinks).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 16 - CS16 Understanding characterization

TN SPI 0701.8.7 - *Identify flashback, foreshadowing, and symbolism within context.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

TN SPI 0701.8.8 - *Analyze the effects of sound (i.e., accent, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme, internal rhyme) in context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0701.8.9 - Identify the kind(s) of conflict present in a literary plot (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0701.8.10 - *Identify and analyze figurative language (i.e., hyperbole, simile, metaphor, personification, pun) within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0701.8.11 - *Recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time periods and cultures.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 4 - OP04 Building vocabulary knowledge

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 17 - CS17 Understanding historical/cultural factors

TN SPI 0701.8.12 - *Identify the author's purpose for writing.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequence

Skill 24 - CS24 Understanding text/author's purpose

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 10 - WR10 Summarizing the author's purpose

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Agency Tag Set NameTennessee, ELA, 2008, Grade 8, Performance Indicators State, State Department of EducationStandard Skill Area Description Skill DescriptionTN SPI 0801.1 - *LanguageTN SPI 0801.1.1 - Identify the correct use of nouns (i.e., common/proper, singular/plural, possessives, direct/indirect objects, predicate nouns) and pronouns (i.e., reflexive, interrogative, demonstrative) within context.

TN SPI 0801.1.2 - Identify the correct use of verbs (i.e., action/linking, regular/irregular, agreement, perfect tenses, verb phrases) within context.

TN SPI 0801.1.3 - Identify the correct use of adjectives (i.e., common/proper, comparative/superlative, adjective clauses) and adverbs (i.e., comparative/superlative) within context.TN SPI 0801.1.4 - Identify the correct use of conjunctions (i.e., coordinating, correlative, subordinating) and interjections within context.TN SPI 0801.1.5 - *Identify the correct use of prepositional phrases (place correctly according to the words they modify within the sentence) within context.TN SPI 0801.1.6 - *Identify the correct use of commas (i.e., compound sentences, coordinating conjunctions, introductory words, appositives, interrupters) within context.TN SPI 0801.1.7 - Identify within context a variety of appropriate sentence-combining techniques (i.e., comma + coordinating conjunction, use of semicolon, introductory phrases or clauses).TN SPI 0801.1.8 - *Select the most appropriate method to correct a run-on sentence (i.e., conjunctions, semicolons, periods to join or separate elements).TN SPI 0801.1.9 - Identify the appropriate use of gerund and participial phrases.

Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

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TN SPI 0801.1.10 - *Identify the correct use of appositives/appositive phrases and infinitive/ infinitive phrases within context.

TN SPI 0801.1.11 - *Select the correct pronoun-antecedent agreement for personal pronouns within context.TN SPI 0801.1.12 - *Identify correctly or incorrectly spelled words in context.TN SPI 0801.1.13 - *Form singular and plural possessive using apostrophes correctly.TN SPI 0801.1.14 - *Recognize usage errors occurring within context (i.e., subject-verb agreement, pronoun case, double negatives, comparative/superlative forms, troublesome word pairs: {to/too/two, their/there/they're, its/it's, sit/set, lie/lay, affect/effect, may/can, leave/let, teach/learn, accept/except, capitol/capital, principle/principal, between/among, rise/raise, stationary/stationery, where/were, which/that/who})within context.

TN SPI 0801.1.15 - *Select the appropriate use of underlining/italicizing with titles, specific words, numbers, letters, and figures.TN SPI 0801.1.16 - *Use context clues and/or knowledge of roots and affixes to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 5 - VA05 Recognizing prefixes through context

Skill 6 - VA06 Recognizing suffixes through contextSkill 10 - VA10 Using context clues to infer the meaning of unfamiliar wordsSkill 15 - VA15 Using background knowledge to develop vocabularySkill 22 - VA22 Using root words to determine the meaning of unknown words

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.1.17 - *Choose the correct meaning/usage of a multi-meaning word by replacing the word in context with an appropriate synonym or antonym.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 12 - VA12 Determining the definition of words with multiple meanings

Skill 13 - VA13 Applying knowledge of synonyms to determine meaning

TN SPI 0801.1.18 - *Recognize the effect of stressed or unstressed syllable to aid in identifying the meaning of multiple meaning words.

TN SPI 0801.1.19 - Recognize and use grade appropriate and/or content specific vocabulary.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 3 - VA03 Recalling word meaning

Skill 4 - VA04 Recognizing and reading wordsSkill 21 - VA21 Using targeted vocabulary

TN SPI 0801.1.20 - Identify commonly used foreign words and phrases (i.e., RSVP, déjà vu, faux pas, du jour, bon voyage, alma mater, cum laude, femme fatale, esprit de corps, verbatim).TN SPI 0801.2 - *CommunicationTN SPI 0801.2.1 - *Identify the purpose of a speech (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade, to entertain).TN SPI 0801.2.2 - *Identify the targeted audience of a speech.TN SPI 0801.2.3 - *Identify the thesis and main points of a speech.

TN SPI 0801.2.4 - *Determine the most effective methods of engaging an audience during an oral presentation (e.g., making eye contact, adjusting speaking rate).TN SPI 0801.2.5 - *Organize a series of note cards in the most effective order for an oral presentation.

TN SPI 0801.2.6 - *Identify and analyze the organizational structure of a speech (e.g., sequential, chronological, problem-solution, comparison-contrast, cause-effect).

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.2.7 - *Select the most appropriate strategies for participating productively in a team (e.g., gain the floor in orderly ways, meet or set deadlines for completing each task, come to agreement by seeking consensus or following the majority).TN SPI 0801.2.8 - Identify the functions and responsibilities of individuals within an organized group (i.e., reporter, recorder, information gatherer, leader, timekeeper).

TN SPI 0801.2.9 - Distinguish between a summary and a critique.TN SPI 0801.3 - *WritingTN SPI 0801.3.1 - *Identify the purpose for writing (i.e., to inform, to describe, to explain, to persuade, to entertain).TN SPI 0801.3.2 - *Identify the targeted audience for a selected passage.TN SPI 0801.3.3 - *Select an appropriate thesis statement for a writing sample.TN SPI 0801.3.4 - *Rearrange multi-paragraphed work in a logical and coherent order.TN SPI 0801.3.5 - *Select appropriate time-order or transitional words/phrases to enhance the flow of a writing sample.

TN SPI 0801.3.6 - *Choose the supporting sentence that best fits the context and flow of ideas in a paragraph.TN SPI 0801.3.7 - *Identify sentences irrelevant to a paragraph's theme or flow.TN SPI 0801.3.8 - *Select vivid words to strengthen a description (adjective or adverb) within a writing sample or passage.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 6 - WR06 Demonstrating a command of language including precision in word choice

TN SPI 0801.3.9 - Select illustrations, explanations, anecdotes, descriptions and/or facts to support key ideas.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 3 - WR03 Supporting ideas in writing using examples and evidence

Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.3.10 - *Select an appropriate title that reflects the topic of a written selection.TN SPI 0801.3.11 - *Identify individual written selections as technical, narrative, persuasive, and/or descriptive in mode.TN SPI 0801.3.12 - *Complete a graphic organizer (i.e., clustering, listing, mapping, webbing) with information from notes for a writing selection.

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 4 - WR04 Using graphic organizers to aid writing

TN SPI 0801.3.13 - Select the most appropriate format for a work-related text.TN SPI 0801.4 - *ResearchTN SPI 0801.4.1 - *Select the most focused research topic.TN SPI 0801.4.2 - *Identify levels of reliability among resources (e.g., eyewitness account, newspaper account, supermarket tabloid account, Internet source).TN SPI 0801.4.3 - *Determine the most appropriate research source for a given research topic.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 31 - CS31 Using research skills and strategies

TN SPI 0801.4.4 - *Distinguish between primary (i.e., interviews, letters, diaries, newspapers, autobiographies, personal narratives) and secondary (i.e., reference books, periodicals, Internet, biographies, informational texts).

TN SPI 0801.4.5 - *Discern irrelevant research material from written text.

TN SPI 0801.5 - *LogicTN SPI 0801.5.1 - *Recognize a reasonable prediction of future events of a given text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 2 - CS02 Making predictions about text

TN SPI 0801.5.2 - *Evaluate text for fact or opinion.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 10 - CS10 Differentiating fact and opinion

TN SPI 0801.5.3 - *Analyze cause-effect relationships in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 12 - OS12 Identifying cause and effect relationships within passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effect

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.5.4 - *Identify examples of persuasive devices (i.e., bandwagon, loaded words, testimonial, name-calling, plain folks, snob appeal).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 32 - CS32 Identifying persuasive language

TN SPI 0801.5.5 - *Choose a logical word to complete an analogy, using synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, categories/subcategories, whole/part, functions, verb forms, rhymes, scrambled words, homophones.

TN SPI 0801.5.6 - *Identify an example of deductive or inductive reasoning in text.TN SPI 0801.5.7 - *Identify a false premise in text.TN SPI 0801.5.8 - *Identify instances of bias and stereotyping in print and non-print texts.TN SPI 0801.5.9 - *Make inferences and draw conclusions based on evidence in text.

Skill Area 6 - Oral Comprehension and Speaking Skills (OS)

Skill 9 - OS09 Drawing conclusions from passages read aloud

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 19 - CS19 Drawing conclusions

Skill 20 - CS20 Making inferencesTN SPI 0801.6 - *Informational Text

TN SPI 0801.6.1 - Formulate appropriate questions before, during, and after reading.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 7 - CS07 Asking and answering questions about the text

Skill 25 - CS25 Identifying reading strategies

TN SPI 0801.6.2 - *Identify the main idea and supporting details in text.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 8 - CS08 Identifying main idea and details

TN SPI 0801.6.3 - *Use text features to locate information and make meaning from text (e.g., headings, key words, captions, footnotes).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0801.6.4 - Interpret factual, quantitative, technical, or mathematical information presented in text features (e.g., maps, charts, graphs, time lines, tables, and diagrams).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 30 - CS30 Using informational text features

TN SPI 0801.6.5 - *Choose the correct order of a set of instructions.

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.6.6 - *Identify the organizational structure of a text (i.e., chronological, cause-effect, comparison-contrast, sequential, problem-solution).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 5 - CS05 Comparing and contrasting

Skill 9 - CS09 Identifying cause and effectSkill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequenceSkill 29 - CS29 Understanding text organization

TN SPI 0801.7 - *MediaTN SPI 0801.7.1 - *Choose the most appropriate medium for a prescribed purpose and audience.TN SPI 0801.7.2 - *Select a visual image that best reinforces a viewpoint or enhances a presentation.TN SPI 0801.7.3 - *Identify the purpose of a medium (i.e., to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to describe).TN SPI 0801.7.4 - *Draw an inference from a non-print medium.TN SPI 0801.7.5 - *Choose the statement that best summarizes/communicates the message presented by a medium.TN SPI 0801.7.6 - *Select the type of conflict (e.g., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology) represented in a non-print medium.

TN SPI 0801.8 - *LiteratureTN SPI 0801.8.1 - Demonstrate an understanding of the basic elements of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution/denouement.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0801.8.2 - *Identify and analyze the author's point of view (i.e., first person, third person, third-person limited, third-person omniscient).

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 26 - CS26 Identifying point of view

TN SPI 0801.8.3 - *Determine how a story changes if the point of view is changed.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

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Standards List with Aligned Product SkillsProduct NameSuccessful Reader

TN SPI 0801.8.4 - *Distinguish among different genres (e.g., poetry, drama, biography, novel) using their distinguishing characteristics.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 34 - CS34 Recognizing text type and genre

TN SPI 0801.8.5 - Analyze the development of similar themes across two or more literary texts.TN SPI 0801.8.6 - *Identify and analyze how the author reveals character (i.e., what the author tells us, what the other characters say about him or her, what the character does, what the character says, what the character thinks).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 16 - CS16 Understanding characterization

TN SPI 0801.8.7 - *Identify and analyze examples of literary elements that shape meaning within context (i.e., flashback, foreshadowing, irony, mood, symbolism, tone).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 12 - CS12 Understanding sequence

TN SPI 0801.8.8 - *Analyze figurative language (i.e., idiom, metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, pun) within context.

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0801.8.9 - *Analyze examples of sound devices within context (i.e., rhyme scheme, alliteration, free verse, repetition, internal rhyme, slant rhyme).

Skill Area 4 - Vocabulary Acquisition (VA)

Skill 17 - VA17 Understanding figurative language

TN SPI 0801.8.10 - Identify the kind(s) of conflict present in a literary plot (i.e., person vs. person, person vs. self, person vs. environment, person vs. technology).

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 7 - OP07 Acquiring an understanding of literary features

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 14 - CS14 Recognizing plot

TN SPI 0801.8.11 - Identify and analyze a literary character's moral dilemma.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 16 - CS16 Understanding characterization

TN SPI 0801.8.12 - *Recognize and identify words within context that reveal particular time periods and cultures.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 4 - OP04 Building vocabulary knowledge

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Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 17 - CS17 Understanding historical/cultural factors

TN SPI 0801.8.13 - *Determine the influence of culture and ethnicity on the themes and issue of literary texts.

Skill Area 1 - Overall Product(OP)

Skill 11 - OP11 Applying comprehension strategies to reading literature

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 17 - CS17 Understanding historical/cultural factors

Skill 27 - CS27 Identifying themeTN SPI 0801.8.14 - Identify the author's purpose for writing.

Skill Area 7 - Comprehension Strategies for Literature and Content Area Reading (CS)

Skill 24 - CS24 Understanding text/author's purpose

Skill Area 8 - Writing Skills (WR) Skill 10 - WR10 Summarizing the author's purpose

Successful Reader Grade 8

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