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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.
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What is
text? How do we apply different strategies and skills to understand a
variety of texts?
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How do
we communicate? What is effective communication? Why does effective
communication require a process?
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What is
standard English? Why do we need to know and use standard English rules?
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How do
we apply stylistic elements and appropriate formats?
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What is
critical thinking? How do we think critically in our lives?
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What is
responsible research? What makes information relevant?
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How do I
use information?
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What is
literature?
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How can
we make personal connections through literature?
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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 in fiction and poetry.
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.
6b. Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, plot,
resolution, theme, sequence.
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.
5e. Locate other's ideas, image, or information in a bibliography.
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words
6c. Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology
(dialogue, scene, flashback, figurative language).
1a. Compare/contrast different texts with similar themes and
ideas.
1b. Summarize and synthesize fiction and poetry.
1e. Identify sequential order in fiction and poetry.
1f. Locate and recall information in text with different
structures.
4e. Explain the text's main point and use relevant details.
5b. Use organizational features of electronic information.
5d. Select information to support ideas and justify.
Writing
2a.
Write in a variety of modes - narrative and descriptive.
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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