Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

• 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 a variety of resources? How do I access information and use it responsibly? How do I evaluate resources?

• How can I access information from 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 knowledge of blending, segmenting, and manipulating phonemes in one or more syllable words.  

Phonics

See Correct Letter Formation from August

    Recognize and use knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including diphthongs, common vowel patterns, and common word endings to decode unknown words

Fluency

    Orally read grade level materials attending to phrasing, intonation, and punctuation.

    Adjust reading pace to accommodate purpose, style, and difficulty of text.

Vocabulary

        Use sentence structure and background knowledge to understand word meanings.

        Understand and generate vocabulary specific to content.

        At the end of quarter three, students will be able to read 300 of D11 sight words.

        Other words will be learned from phonics, spelling and vocabulary programs to total the expected 1000+ words.

Comprehension

Draw inferences.

Use a variety of strategies to monitor and maintain comprehension.

    Generate a written or oral response to what has been read.

    Connect information and events in texts to life experiences.

    State the purpose for reading.

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