Reading
In the next several weeks, students elaborate ideas in a text to make inferences and determine theme in poetry and realistic fiction and analyze visual elements to enhance their understanding of graphic texts. Students take intellectual risks when they engage in collaborative discussions, and share their ideas about text and ask questions of others to gain clarity.
Early in this marking period, students summarize poetry and realistic fiction by determining theme, the meaning of figurative language, and how point of view influences text. Students engage in a Junior Great Books instructional sequence using realistic fiction to quote accurately from a text and to compare and contrast two stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics. Students read poetry and explain how a series of stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a poem and review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of discussion.
Students read narrative and informational graphic texts focusing on the unique characteristics and structure of graphic texts and how visual elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text. Students review key ideas and draw conclusions in light of discussions and summarize the points a speaker makes by explaining how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence. Readers summarize informational text by determining two or more main ideas. Students analyze multiple accounts of the same event, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.
Early in this marking period, students summarize poetry and realistic fiction by determining theme, the meaning of figurative language, and how point of view influences text. Students engage in a Junior Great Books instructional sequence using realistic fiction to quote accurately from a text and to compare and contrast two stories in the same genre on their approaches to similar themes and topics. Students read poetry and explain how a series of stanzas fit together to provide the overall structure of a poem and review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of discussion.
Students read narrative and informational graphic texts focusing on the unique characteristics and structure of graphic texts and how visual elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text. Students review key ideas and draw conclusions in light of discussions and summarize the points a speaker makes by explaining how each claim is supported by reasons and evidence. Readers summarize informational text by determining two or more main ideas. Students analyze multiple accounts of the same event, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they represent.