Kensa Advanced Literacy

Advanced Reader

1. Use words appropriately that sometimes have multiple meanings
   and apply this knowledge to literature and texts
2. Apply academic and social vocabulary to achieve
   independent reading
3. Use idioms, analogies, and metaphors
4. Read increasingly complex narrative and expository texts with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression
5. Use a dictionary to determine meanings of unknown words
6. Identify the main idea and details in informational materials,
   literary text, and thematic texts

Advanced Writer

1. Produce narrative, expository, and persuasive writing
2. Develop a clear thesis and organized points of support in
   persuasive and expository compositions
3. Write narratives that include plot development, characterization, setting, dialogue and suspense
4. Write multiple-paragraph expository that develops the topic with supporting details and concludes with a detailed summary linked
   to the purpose of the composition
5. Quote or paraphrase information sources, citing them appropriately
6. Use various reference materials (e.g. dictionary, thesaurus, card catalog, encyclopedia, online information) as an aid to writing
7. Revise writing for appropriate word choice, organization,
   consistent point of view, and transitions
8. Edit writing for conventions of writing to approximate standard grammatical form