OAK HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

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Reading & Math Benchmarks

 

Star Enterprise Reading and Math Benchmarks

Star Reading

Star Reading measures 36 reading skills within five domains:

  • Word Knowledge and Skills
    Analyzing Literary Text
    Understanding Author's Craft
    Comprehension Strategies and Constructing Meaning
    Analyzing Argument and Evaluating Text

Word Knowledge and Skills 

Vocabulary Strategies
  • Use context clues
  • Use structural analysis
Vocabulary Knowledge
  • Recognize and understand synonyms
  • Recognize and understand homonyms and multi-meaning words
  • Recognize connotation and denotation
  • Understand idioms
  • Understand analogies
Analyzing Literary Text

Literary Elements
 
  • Identify and understand elements of plot
  • Identify and understand setting
  • Identify characters and understand characterization
  • Identify and understand theme
  • Identify the narrator and point of view
Genre Characteristics
 
  • Identify fiction and nonfiction, reality and fantasy
  • Identify and understand characteristics of genres
Understanding Author's Craft

Author's Choices
 
  • Understand figurative language
  • Understand literary devices
  • Identify sensory detail
Comprehension Strategies and Constructing Meaning

Reading Process Skills
  • Make predictions
  • Identify author's purpose
  • Identify and understand text features
  • Recognize an accurate summary of text
Constructing Meaning
  • Understand vocabulary in context
  • Draw conclusions
  • Make inferences
  • Identify and understand main ideas
  • Identify details
  • Extend meaning or form generalizations
Organizational Structure
  • Identify organizational structure
  • Understand cause and effect
  • Understand comparison and contrast
  • Identify and understand sequence
Analyzing Argument and Evaluating Text

Analysis
 
  • Identify bias and analyze text for logical fallacies
  • Identify and understand persuasion
Evaluation
 
  • Evaluate reasoning and support
  • Evaluate credibility

Star Math:

STAR Math measures math skills within four domains that include:

  • Numbers and Operations
  • Algebra
  • Geometry and Measurement
  • Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

Numbers and Operations

  • Count with objects and numbers
  • Differentiating words from letters
  • Relate place and value to a whole number
  • Add and subtract whole numbers without regrouping
  • Add and subtract whole numbers with regrouping
  • Multiply whole numbers
  • Divide whole numbers without a remainder in the quotient
  • Divide whole numbers with a remainder in the quotient
  • Identify, compare, and order fractions
  • Add and subtract fractions with like denominators
  • Find prime factors, common factors, and common multiples
  • Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators
  • Convert between an improper fraction and a mixed number
  • Relate a decimal to a fraction
  • Relate place and value to a decimal number
  • Add or subtract decimal numbers
  • Divide a whole number resulting in a decimal quotient
  • Multiply and divide with fractions
  • Relate a decimal number to a percent
  • Solve a proportion, rate, or ratio
  • Evaluate a numerical expression
  • Perform operations with integers
  • Determine a square root
  • Solve a problem involving percentages

Data Analysis, Statistics, and Probability

  • Read or answer a question about charts, tables, or graphs
  • Use a chart, table, or graph to represent data
  • Determine a measure of central tendency
  • Use a proportion to make an estimate
  • Determine the probability of one or more events

Algebra

  • Relate a rule to a pattern
  • Determine the operation given a situation
  • Graph on a coordinate plane
  • Evaluate an algebraic expression or function
  • Solve a linear equation
  • Determine a linear equation
  • Identify characteristics of a linear equation or function
  • Solve a system of linear equations
  • Determine a system of linear equations
  • Simplify an algebraic expression
  • Solve a linear inequality
  • Solve a nonlinear equation
  • Graph a 1-variable inequality

Geometry and Measurement

  • Relate money to symbols, words, and amounts
  • Use the vocabulary of geometry and measurement
  • Determine a missing figure in a pattern
  • Determine a measurement
  • Tell time
  • Calculate elapsed time
  • Solve a problem involving the perimeter of a shape
  • Solve a problem involving the area of a shape
  • Identify congruence and similarity of geometric shapes
  • Solve a problem involving the surface area or volume of a solid
  • Determine a missing measure or dimension of a shape