Standards

Enduring Understandings

• Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of materials.

• People apply critical thinking skills when reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing.

• People access, read, evaluate, and use a variety of resources to get information.

Essential Questions

• What does it mean to "understand," why do we need to understand what we read or hear, and what strategies and skills can we use to understand a variety of materials?

• What is critical thinking, why is important, and how can we use critical thinking skills?

• Why do I need ?

• How can I access information from a a variety of resources, evaluate it, and use it responsibly?

Standards
Must be Mastered by End of Year Must be Introduced Other Standards & E-skills
 

Phonemic Awareness:

Use onset and rime to create new words that include blends and digraphs.

Hear and identify initial, medial, and final sounds of a given word.

Hear the similarities of sounds in words and rhythmical patterns in a sequence.

Recognize alliteration.
 

Phonics/Alphabetic Principle and Word Study:
See Correct Letter Formation from August

Recognizes and applies knowledge of letter sound relationships including consonants, consonant blends, digraphs, common short and vowel patterns to decode unknown words.
 

Fluency:

Read orally grade level materials, attending to phrasing, intonation, and punctuation.
 

Vocabulary:

At the end of quarter two, students will be able to read 100 of D11 sight words. Other words will be learned from phonics, spelling and vocabulary programs to total the expected 300-500 + words.
 

Comprehension:

Connects information and events in text to life

Use a range of strategies (http://www.pplsp.org) to make meaning from a variety of text;

Activate schema / background knowledge.

Writing: Writes for a Variety of Purposes  Quarter 1 Writing Rubric 
    Move from topic generation and detailed plan to writing a first draft with two or more sentences in logical order.
    Stays focused on one idea or topic.
    Words show details.
 
Writing: Conventions, Mechanics, and Grammar
Tries interesting words.
    Sentences are complete.
    Subject/verb agreement.
    Writes words from left to write with return sweep.

During the 2007-2008 school year,  Literacy Resource Teachers and classroom teachers will be correlating textbook pages to the emphasized standards for each month. Also, teachers will be developing District 11 Diamond Lessons for each quarter.
 

Reading Programs

Writing Programs

Lessons