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Enduring Understandings
Different strategies and skills are required to understand a variety of
texts. 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. 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. Using nonfiction literature, locate/paraphrase 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.
6a.
Read and respond to a variety of literature (nonfiction / short constructed
response).
1d. Infer using information in a variety of texts and genre.
4b. Use reading to solve a variety of problems and answer questions.
5e. Locate others' ideas, image, or information in a bibliography.
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of unfamiliar words.
5b. Use organizational features of electronic information.
Writing
2a. Write in a
variety of modes and genres (expository multi-paragraph essay).
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 (using a rubric).
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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