Standards
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
texts. 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 - 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? 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?
 Highest
Frequency Standards
1c. Locate and paraphrase the key/main ideas and supporting details in
fiction and poetry
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
 High
Frequency Standards
1d. Infer using a variety of texts and genre
4b. Use reading to solve a variety of problems and answer questions
 Other
Standards & E-skills
1b. Summarize and synthesize fiction and poetry
1e. Identify sequential order in fiction and poetry
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Sample Units
Week 1 “Reading
Detective Part 1: context clues, paraphrasing, and writing narratives”
Week 2 “Everyone Has a
Story: Narrative Writing”
Week 3 “Reading Detective Part 2: organization, locate, find, paraphrase”
Week 4 “What’s the Plot? Part 1 Literary elements, characters, setting,
sequence”
Week 5 “What’s the Plot? Part 2 Literary elements, characters, setting,
sequence”
Week 6 “Author’s Purpose & More Part 1: drawing conclusions, making
predictions & inferences
Week 7 “Author’s Purpose & More Part 2: drawing conclusions, making
predictions & inferences
Week 8 “What’s Important? Content Review & Writing
 Integrated
Technology Lessons
Each student will save this sample of first quarter writing to his or her
Electronic Portfolio. See a
Sample Student Portfolio of technology skills.
Pop-Up Book Report - Use a word processor to complete a book report.
Label
Design Book Report - Use Microsoft Publisher to create a label for a
book you have read. Wrap the label around a canned food and bring it in for
display in the library. At the end of the display period, the canned food
items will be given to needy families.
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Teacher Resources
New Curriculum Alignment Format
Over the past few years, D11 teachers and instructional leaders have
developed the
Curriculum Alignment Guide,
Middle School Literacy Pacing
Guide and
6th Grade, Quarter 1, Week-by-Week Summary documents. This work
provides a strong foundation for consistent curriculum delivery across the
district. However, teacher feedback on the format of those documents
revealed that although the documents are comprehensive, they lack the
simplicity needed for effective everyday lesson planning.
All three documents have been combined in this electronic format. One will
find the Enduring Understandings, Essential Questions, and standards listed
on each quarter overview and on each sample lesson page. The strategies
section of the Curriculum Alignment Guide has been expanded for each lesson
or unit, and now includes specific MCREL and SIOP strategies appropriate for
each lesson or unit. The main goal of his revision was to incorporate the
information from three separate documents into a user-friendly format that
can easily be updated based on user response. If you have suggestions or ideas that will
improve the curriculum alignment process or products, please let us know.
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