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Enduring Understandings
Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of
texts. An effective communicator
knows 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. Literature provides an understanding of human experience.
Essential Questions
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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 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 in
fiction and nonfiction.
1g. Identify the meaning of unfamiliar words in context using word
recognition skills and context clues.
4a. Determine author's purpose.
5c. Summarize and organize information about a topic in a variety of ways
(for example, Venn diagram, graphic
organizer, outline, timeline, plot chart) from references, technical
sources, and media.
6a.Read and respond to a variety of literature (fiction/poetry).
6b. Identify characters, setting, problem/conflict, plot, resolution, theme,
sequence.
6c. Use knowledge of literary techniques and terminology (dialogue, scene,
flashback, figurative language).
1b. Summarize and synthesize fiction.
Writing
2a. Write in a variety of modes and genres (descriptive/narrative paragraph
and intro extended writing).
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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