Standards
Enduring
Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years
beyond the instruction received this year.
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Effective readers use different strategies and skills to understand a
variety of texts.
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Effective readers are independent learners who use critical thinking
skills.
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Effective readers are able to select and use relevant information that
requires evaluating a variety of sources.
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Effective readers know that literature provides an understanding of
human experience.
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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 sentence structure
and length using appropriately punctuated, dependent clauses.
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Effective writers identify and use the parts of speech correctly.
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Effective writers know their audience and purpose.
Essential Questions
- most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer
after completing learning activities.
- 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 critical
thinking? How do we think critically in our lives?
- What is responsible
research? What makes information relevant?
- How do I use
information?
- What is literature?
- How can we make personal
connections through literature?
- What makes us human?
Standards
 Highest
Frequency Standards
 High
Frequency Standards
 Other
Standards & E-skills
Reading
1c. 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.
4a.
Determine author's purpose.
4d.
Make predictions and draw conclusions from text in various genre.
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.
6a.
Read and respond to a variety of literature.
1d.
Infer using a variety of texts and genre.
4b.
Use reading to solve a variety of problems and answer questions.
4c.
Differentiate fact from opinion in a variety of texts.
5f.
Locate meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words.
1f. Locate and recall information in text with different
structures.
4e. Explain the text's main point and use relevant details.
5d. Select info to support ideas and justify.
Writing
2a. Write in a variety of modes - expository / persuasive.
2b.
Organize writing using a logical arrangement of ideas.
2g.
Develop ideas and content with relevant details, examples, and/or reasons.
3a.
Identify subjects, verbs, 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.
2c. Use language which supports and enriches the idea.
2d. Plan, draft, revise, and edit for a final copy.
2e. Use transitions to link ideas.
2f. Use a variety of sentence structures.
3b. Use subject/verb agreement, nouns, verbs, pronouns,
adjectives, adverbs, homonyms, and homophones.
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