🎯 Unit 8
❓How do Earth’s natural processes impact our lives?
Reading
🎯 I can explain why readers analyze text structure, use context clues, and pay attention to graphic features.
🎯 I can read to identify key details to summarize the main idea.
🎯 I can use understanding of cause/effect relationships to respond to a close reading prompt.
🎯 I can reread a text to find text evidence and draw an inference from the evidence.
🎯 I can integrate information from two texts.
Word Study
🎯 I can use context clues and references to determine the technical meanings of words.
🎯 I can use Greek and Latin roots to read unfamiliar words.
Writing
🎯 I can write an engaging introduction for my informative report.
🎯 I can use specific details to develop my informative report topic.
🎯 I can use linking words and phrases to connect ideas.
🎯 I can write a concluding statement.
🎯 I can correctly use relative adverbs.
During this unit, you will have the opportunity to write and create an informative presentation about a natural disaster that interests you.
Writing Goals:
🎯 I can write an engaging introduction for my informative report.
🎯 I can use specific details to develop my informative report topic.
🎯 I can use linking words and phrases to connect ideas.
🎯 I can write a concluding statement.
🎯 I can correctly use relative adverbs.