ELA Resources

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Unit 3: The American Revolution

Throughout this unit, students will have opportunities to engage with and practice the following literature skills:

-Read and analyze informational texts pertaining to various perspectives

-Read and analyze informational texts to build background knowledge about the Revolutionary war

-Identify the main idea and supporting details of a text

-Analyze text structure

Unit 2: Animal Defenses

Throughout this unit, students will have opportunities to engage with and practice the following literature skills:

-Identify main idea and supporting details

-Analyze diagrams

-Summarize a text

-Use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word

Unit 1: Reading and Analyzing Poetry: Love That Dog and Other Poems

Throughout this unit, students will have opportunities to engage with and practice the following literature skills:

-What makes a poem a poem

-What inspires writers to write poetry

-Summarizing a poem and comparing prose and poetry

-Analyzing changes in character