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HOME > FCAT EXPLORER PROGRAMS > 4th GRADE READING > STANDARDS
Reading touches almost every aspect of your child's life. Florida teachers and administrators have designated ten Benchmarks to assess your child's reading skills. These Benchmarks are part of the Sunshine State Standards and reflect specific skills that are part of effective reading.
The table below lists the eight Benchmarks that 4th grade students need to know for FCAT Reading. This chart will help you understand what is expected of your child in the reading sections of the FCAT.
Using the Explorer Skills Map
Read specific definitions and summaries of the Benchmarks below. Click the Benchmark name to see information on the Explorer Skills related to that Benchmark. To read more about the Florida Department of Education's Sunshine State Standards,
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Benchmarks |
L.A.A.1.2.3
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's vocabulary, as it relates to finding the meaning of unknown words and understanding word relationships.
Benchmark: The student uses simple strategies to determine meaning and increase vocabulary for reading, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, root words, multiple meanings, antonyms, synonyms, and word relationships. |
L.A.A. 2.2.1
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to understand the main idea and the details that support that idea. In addition, the benchmark includes the student's ability to understand the order of events in a text.
Benchmark: The student reads text and determines the main idea or essential message, identifies relevant supporting details and facts, and arranges events in chronological order. |
L.A.A. 2.2.2
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to understand why an author writes a text (for example, to inform, to tell a story, to explain).
Benchmark: The student identifies the author's purpose in a simple text. |
L.A.A. 2.2.7
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to recognize when an author compares or contrasts things in a text. The benchmark expects that students will be able to recognize differences or similarities and explain how things are different or similar.
Benchmark: The student recognizes the use of comparison and contrast in a text. |
L.A.A. 2.2.8
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to find information in a text for a variety of purposes. The student might be asked to locate information in the text, a map, chart, or photo, or gather information for a research project.
Benchmark: The student selects and uses a variety of appropriate reference materials, including multiple presentations of information such as maps, charts, and photos, to gather information for research projects. |
L.A.E. 1.2.2
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to understand how a story line unfolds or develops in a narrative. This benchmark also focuses on the student's ability to understand how conflicts in the story are resolved. In addition, the student may be asked to make inferences (informed guesses) or draw conclusions about a story.
Benchmark: The student understands the development of plot and how conflicts are resolved. |
L.A.E. 1.2.3
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to find similarities and differences between the characters, settings, and events of a story. The student may be asked to recognize when a character changes (or stays the same) over the course of a story.
Benchmark: The student knows the similarities and differences among the characters, settings, and events presented in various texts. |
L.A.E. 2.2.1
Summary: This benchmark focuses on the student's ability to see cause and effect relationships in stories and articles. Students may be asked to find causes or effects in fiction (stories), non-fiction (essays), poetry, or plays.
Benchmark: The student recognizes cause-and-effect relationships in literary texts. |
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