Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

  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

Unit 1 “Reading Detective Part 1: context clues, paraphrasing, and writing narratives”

Unit 2 “Everyone Has a Story: Narrative Writing”

Unit 3 “Reading Detective Part 2: organization, locate, find, paraphrase”

Unit 4 “What’s the Plot? Part 1 Literary elements, characters, setting, sequence”

Unit 5 “What’s the Plot? Part 2 Literary elements, characters, setting, sequence”

Unit 6 “Author’s Purpose & More Part 1: drawing conclusions, making predictions & inferences

Unit 7 “Author’s Purpose & More Part 2: drawing conclusions, making predictions & inferences

Unit 8 “What’s Important? Content Review & Writing

Integrated Reading and Writing