ELA
ReadyGen Brochure.pdfStudents will be following the ReadyGen curriculum for ELA! This program includes foundational skills, conventions, reading, and writing.
Units:
Every unit has two modules, including both literary and informational texts.
Each lesson has these essential components: turn & talk, close read, vocabulary, analysis, conventions/parts of speech, and writing
1: Understanding Communities
Readers will understand that characters in stories have unique points of view.
Writers will understand that signal word tell the sequence of events in a story.
2: Making Decisions
Readers will understand that knowing the structure of a story helps them comprehend the text.
Writers will understand that describing a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings enhances a story.
3: Building Ideas
Readers will understand that illustrations in literary texts and specific features in informational texts can help them understand what they read.
Writers will understand that using multiple sources makes research-based writing stronger.
4: Facing Challenges and Change
Readers will understand that characters face challenges in stories.
Writers will understand that a character's actions, thoughts, and feelings are revealed through details.
5: Pioneering New Ideas and New Worlds
Readers will understand that texts on the same topic have similarities and differences.
Writers will understand that opinions need strong reasons to support them.
6: Changing the World
Readers will understand specific strategies they can use to improve their understanding of texts.
Writers will understand that opinions and reasons are connected.
Word Work:
Each week, the students will work on a different pattern or rule for spelling. We focus on 5 words each week that follow the particular rule or pattern. The students do activities with these words, such as writing them in sentences, finding them in their word dictionaries, and "fencing them in" to distinguish between tall and short letters. The students go to their Word Work Center 2-3 times a week.
Centers:
In addition to Ready Gen, we will also have centers most days of the week. During centers, I will be meeting with small groups for reading, and the rest of the class will rotate through various other centers, including word work, silent or buddy reading, and other language arts activities.
Scholastic Book Orders:
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