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Enduring Understandings
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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.
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Literature provides an understanding of human experiences.
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/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.
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 and author's or speaker's point
of view and purpose.
4c. Distinguish between fact and opinion.
6a/6d. Read,
respond to a variety of fiction and poetry/Read, respond to, and discuss
literature that represents points of view from places, people, and events
that are familiar and unfamiliar.
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 a voice appropriate to purpose
and audience.
2h. Choose a range of words that are precise
and vivid.
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