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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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Different strategies and skills are required to
understand a variety of texts.
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An effective communicator knows his/her
audience and purpose.
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An effective communicator uses standard English language rules.
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Independent learners use critical thinking skills.
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Literature provides an understanding of human experience.
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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How can we make personal connections through literature?
Standards
 Highest
Frequency Standards  High
Frequency Standards  Other
Standards & E-skills
Reading
1c/1f/4e. Determine the main idea or essential message in a text/Find
support in the text for main ideas/Explain the text's main point and use
relevant details to support the explanation.
1i. Use context clues to determine the meaning
of unfamiliar words.
4d.
Make predictions, draw conclusions, and analyze.
5a. Use
organizational features of printed text (for example, chapter preview and
summaries, prefaces, annotations, bold face print, or appendices) to locate
information.
5d. Locate
and select relevant information and justify the information selection.
6b. Use
literary terminology accurately (for example, setting, character, conflict,
plot resolution, dialect, and point of view).
6c. Apply
knowledge of literary techniques (for example, foreshadowing, metaphor,
simile, personification, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and flashback) to
understand text.
1d. Make
reasonable inferences from information that is implied but not directly
stated.
1g. Use words recognition skills (roots,
prefixes, suffixes) to comprehend text.
4a. Recognize an author's or speaker's point of view and purpose.
4c.
Distinguish between fact and opinion.
5b. Use
library and interlibrary catalog databases and organizational features of
electronic information (for example, Internet, electronic mail, CD-ROM, or
laser disc) to locate information.
5c.
Paraphrase, summarize, organize, and synthesize information about a topic in
a variety of ways (for example, graphic organizer, Venn Diagram, outline, or
timeline).
6a. Read,
respond to, and discuss a variety of novels, poetry, short stories,
nonfiction, and plays.
6d. Read,
respond to, and discuss literature that represents points of view from
places, people, and events that are familiar and unfamiliar.
1a. Compare and contrast texts with similar characters, plots, and/or
themes.
1b.
Summarize text read.
4b. Use
reading to solve problems and answer questions.
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of
unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources.
Writing
2a. Write in a
variety of genre - expository.
2b. Develop ideas and content with significant
details, examples, and/or reasons.
2c. Organize
ideas so that there is an inviting introduction, logical arrangement of
ideas, and a satisfying conclusion.
3a. Identify parts of speech, such as nouns, pronouns,
verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.
3b. Use standard English usage in writing, including
subject/verb agreement (pronoun referents, modifiers, homonyms, and
homophones.)
3c. Write in complete sentences.
3d. Use
paragraphs correctly so that each paragraph is differentiated by indenting
or blocking and includes one major but focused idea.
3e. Use conventional spelling in published work.
3f. Punctuate correctly (for example: apostrophes,
quotation marks, end marks, and commas).
2d. Use
transitions to link ideas.
2e. Plan, draft, revise, and edit for a
legible final copy.
2f. Use a
variety of sentence structures with varied length.
2g. Write with
voice appropriate to purpose and audience.
2h. Choose a range of words that are precise
and vivid.
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