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Digital Citizenship
Star: writing exercise, using grammar, being respectfulStar: reading practice
Star: Word wallStar: Impact of digital footprint
Wish: profiles are of older students
Essential Question(s): How do readers apply comprehension strategies to improve understanding of text? How do readers construct meaning from text? How do people of different cultural backgrounds and traditions shape the way we see the world, others, and ourselves?
Reading/Language Arts Strategies
Beginning, middle, endSequencingConstructing MeaningText ConnectionsQuestioningRetelling
Multicultural Literature/Global Awareness
Stories from different culturesGeography – use of digital
resourcesAppeal
Learning Styles/Digital Resources
Brain PopTumblebooks Culture GramsAlternative texts providedWorking in pairs
Big Ideas/Enduring UnderstandingsStudents will recognize national symbols and icons and learn how they relate to patriotism.
Essential QuestionsHow do the symbols representing America contribute to patriotism?Why do Americans need patriotic symbols?
Learning Target:Students will analyze text from the author Jon Scieszka in order to connect their understanding to the real world. Essential Questions:How can I make meaningful connections with the texts that I am reading?How can studying an author influence our own writing?
Lesson 1
Culminating Activity: Create a voki that compares and contrasts two characters in a story to express point of view using reading strategies taught during this unit.
Reading Strategies
• making connections• predicting• inferring• comparing and contrasting• identifying point of view
Lesson 2
• make predictions and use context clues in order to make inferences and gather meaning
Learning Target
Lesson 3
Learning Target:compare and contrast elements of a fractured fairy tale in order to produce and publish their own writing
Side note: Assumes students are familiar with traditional fairy tales: Cinderella, The Three Bears, The Three Pigs, and Little Red Riding Hood. Time Limitations: Requires 2 stories be read/listened to in one lesson and write their own fractured tale.
Lesson 4
Learning Target
compare and contrast two characters in a story in order to express whose point of view is correct.
Digital Citizenship
Star: writing exercise, using grammar, being respectfulStar: reading practice
Star: Word wallStar: Impact of digital footprint
Wish: profiles are of older students
Unit-Award Winning Books
Cross Curricular Alignment: Languages Arts Recommended Time: 5, 50 minute classes
Overview: Students will read award winning titles from 5 different awards and analyze a different element for each lesson. Coldecott (characters), Theodor Seuss Geisel Award (non-fiction)Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award (setting) , Pura Belpré (plot),, Black eyed Susan (student choice)
Culminating Activity: Students will apply what they have learned regarding award winning books, authors and illustrators to design criteria for a book award that they name and create.