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.

• Throughout history, humans have used literature as a record of their experiences.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

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

• What is critical thinking? Why is critical thinking important? How do we apply 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 and why do humans use literature to record their experiences? How has history influenced literature and vice versa?

CSAP Tested Standards
Highest Frequency High Frequency Other Standards & E-skills

Colorado Basic Literacy Act (CBLA) Proficiencies for 4^th Grade
Standard 1: Comprehension
a. Use a full range of strategies to comprehend a variety of texts, such as non-fiction, rhymes, poems, and stories (for example, skim and scan, self-monitor for understanding.)
b. Summarize long text passages.
c. Identify supporting details and main idea.
d. Draw inferences using contextual clues.
e. Identify sequential order in expository text.
f. Set a purpose for reading.
g. Use bold print, italics, titles, sub-titles, quotations, and underlined words to comprehend text.
h. Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, reference guides, roots, prefixes and suffixes of words) for comprehension.

Standard 4: Thinking Skills
a. Determine author’s purpose.
b. Use reading to define and solve problems.
c. Differentiate fact from opinion.
d. Make predictions and draw conclusions.
e. Identify sequential order in expository text.
f. Recognize the author’s point of view.

Standard 5:  Research Skills
a. Use organizational features of printed text (for example, page numbering, alphabetizing, glossaries, chapter heading, table of contents, indexes, captions) to locate information.
b. Recognize organizational features of electronic information (for example, pull-down menus, keyword searches, and icons) to locate information.
c. Take notes, outline, and identify main ideas in resource materials.
d. Sort information as it relates to a specific topic or purpose.
e. Give credit for borrowed information by listing sources.
f. Select appropriate definitions from the dictionary, glossaries, and other sources.

Standard 6:  Literature
a. Read and respond to a variety of literature (for example, folk tales, legends, myths, fiction, rhymes and poems, non-fiction).
b. Identify setting, plot, character, problem, and solution.
c. Use new vocabulary from literature in another context.
d. Read and respond to literature as a way to explore the similarities and differences among stories and the ways in which those stories reflect the ethnic background of the  author and the culture in which they were written.

Grade 5, Quarter 1
1.c Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in fiction and non-fiction.
1.h Use word recognition skills and resources (for example, phonics, context clues, picture clues, reference guides, roots, prefixes and suffixes of words) for comprehension.
4.d Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre
action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme, and sequence in literature.
6.b Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, action/plot/events, resolution/solution, theme, and sequence in literature.
6.c Identify characters, setting, problem / conflict, and resolution

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