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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 text.
- An effective communicator
know his/her audience and purpose.
- An effective communicator uses standard English language rules.
- Independent learners use critical thinking skills.
- The selection and use of relevant information requires evaluating a
variety of sources.
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?
How do we communicate? What is effective communication? Why does effective communication require a
process? What is standard English? Why do we need to know and use standard
English rules? How do we apply stylistic elements and
appropriate formats? What is responsible research? What makes information relevant? How do I use information?
Standards
 Highest
Frequency Standards
 High
Frequency Standards
 Other
Standards & E-skills
Reading
1c. Using a variety of nonfiction, locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas
and supporting details.
1g. Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word
recognition skills and context clues.
5a. Use organizational features of text.
5c.
Summarize and organize info about a topic in a variety of ways (graphic
organizers, etc.)
from
various sources.
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words.
Writing
2a. Write in a
variety of modes and genres (expository; paragraph).
2b. Organize
writing using a logical arrangement of ideas.
2g.
Develop ideas and content with relevant details, examples, and/or reasons.
3a. Identify subject, verb,
pronouns, and adjectives.
3c. Write in complete sentences.
3d. Use conventions correctly
(end-marks and apostrophes in contractions and singular possessives).
3e. Identify and use conventional
spelling.
2e. Use
transitions to link ideas.
2f. Use a variety
of sentence structures.
3b. Use homonyms and homophones.
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