Literacy
Unit 5 Making Real World Connections through Multiple Genres
Students will be able to independently use their learning to…
Read and comprehend a variety of texts written for different purposes.
Communicate ideas effectively in writing and orally to suit a particular audience and purpose.
Evaluate and synthesize ideas and information.
Students will understand that…
Language is written and printed in an organized manner.
Words and images impact meaning.
Effective readers apply the relationship between letters and sounds, spelling
patterns, and morphological analysis to decode language.
A writer’s purpose, audience, and text structure shape the style, development,
and organization of reading and writing.
Listening and speaking are critical components to communicate effectively.
Students will keep considering…
Why do words and images matter?
What do readers do?
How do I understand what I read?
How can I help others understand what I am thinking?
What is a complete thought?
Students will know …
genres have different structures and communicate different ideas.
use of repetition contributes to the author’s purpose.
authors write for a specific purpose.
writing is a process.
Students will be skilled at …
analyzing genres based on structural elements.
describing and understanding plot elements.
making connections to personal experiences.
using text evidence to support an appropriate response.
composing correspondence such as letters.
Foundational Standards
2.2 Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking--beginning reading and writing. The student develops word structure knowledge through phonological awareness, print concepts, phonics, and morphology to communicate, decode, and spell. The student is expected to:
(B) demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by:
(iii) decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables;
(vii) identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research-based list.
Reading Standards
2..6 Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses metacognitive skills to both develop and deepen comprehension of increasingly complex texts. The student is expected to:
(E) make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society;
(F) make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
2.7 Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:
(C) use text evidence to support an appropriate response;
(D) retell and paraphrase texts in ways that maintain meaning and in logical order.
2.8 Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts. The student is expected to:
(C) describe and understand plot elements, including the main events, the conflict, and the resolution, for texts read aloud and independently.
2.9 Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts. The student is expected to:
(D) recognize characteristics and structures of informational text including:
(i) the central idea and supporting evidence with adult assistance.
2.10 Author’s purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, and writing using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the author's choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author’s craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:
(A) discuss the author’s purpose for writing text.
Grammar/Editing Standards
2.11 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions.
Composition Standards
2.11 Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:
(B) develop drafts into a focused piece of writing by:
(i) organizing with structure;
(ii) developing an idea with specific and relevant details.