Recite two short poems or nursery rhymes from memory before an audience of at least three people.

Listen attentively to forty read-aloud books across the year and narrate something from each.

Name who the story was about, where it happened, and what happened, for any story read aloud.

Recite six poems from memory, at least two of them eight lines or longer, with audible voice and appropriate pace.

Narrate twenty books — read aloud or read independently — identifying character, setting, problem, and resolution for each.

Read independently for twenty minutes a day without supervision and report what was read.

Recite eight selections from memory, including at least one of sixteen lines or more and one psalm.

Read twelve full-length books independently and discuss each with a parent.

Distinguish fable, fairy tale, myth, legend, history, and biography, and state one mark of each.

Identify the plot structure, central conflict, and theme of a book read independently.

Recite ten selections from memory including one Shakespeare passage of at least twelve lines and one full psalm.

Read sixteen full-length books independently, spanning at least four genres and at least three centuries.

Identify and explain the effect of allusion, metaphor, simile, personification, foreshadowing, and irony in a text.

Write a literary analysis of 600–800 words arguing a claim about a book, supported by at least four quotations correctly cited.

State what a book treats as good, true, and beautiful, and evaluate that vision against Scripture — without reducing the book to a moral lesson or condemning it merely for depicting sin.