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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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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.
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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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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.
6b. Use
literary terminology accurately (for example, setting, character, conflict,
plot, resolution, dialect, and point of view).
1g. Use words recognition skills (roots,
prefixes, suffixes) to comprehend text.
4a. Recognize an author's or speaker's point of view and purpose.
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.
5f. Locate meanings and pronunciations of
unfamiliar words using dictionaries, glossaries, and other sources.
Writing
2a. Write in a
variety of genre - narrative.
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.)
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, apostrophe, 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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