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Enduring Understandings
- important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the
instruction received this year.
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Effective readers analyze text to make predictions and draw conclusions;
infer purpose of text.
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Effective readers apply different strategies and skills to understand a
variety of texts.
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Effective readers can locate meanings, pronunciations, spellings, and
derivations of unfamiliar words, and can use and apply new words in
other contexts to improve vocabulary.
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Effective readers identify and incorporate relevant, personal knowledge
in order to connect with the text.
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Effective writers utilize the writing process to organize and strengthen
all modes of writing.
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Effective writers practice and use editing skills for self and peer
writing evaluation.
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Effective writers use conventions correctly.
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Effective writers write in complete sentences varying the types such as
compound and complex, and use appropriately punctuated dependent
clauses.
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Effective writers identify parts of speech correctly, such as nouns,
verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and
interjections.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to
answer after completing learning activities.
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What is text? How do we apply different strategies and skills to
understand a variety of texts?
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How do we communicate? What is effective communication? Why does
effective communication require a process?
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What is standard English? Why do we need to know and use standard
English rules?
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How do we apply stylistic elements and appropriate formats?
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What is critical thinking? How do we think critically in our lives?
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What is literature? How can we make personal connections through
literature?
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What makes us human? |
