Objectives Covered

SOL Reading 5.6

5 LANGUAGE ARTS GRADE LEVEL OBJECTIVES

READING GOAL 1

CREATE, DERIVE, AND CONVEY MEANING THROUGH READING

-Set purpose

-Recall and relate prior knowledge

-Predict

-Generate questions

Post-reading 5.RC1.5C

-Confirm, disprove, or modify predictions (SOL 5.6)

-Make link to prior knowledge and experience

-Sequence

-Visualize

-Compare and contrast

-Use graphic organizers, maps, diagrams and webs 5.RC1.5D

-Ask, answer, and discuss questions

-Respond in various ways

-Create literary extensions

-Draw conclusions

-Evaluate

-Identify cause and effect relationships (SOL 5.6)

-Locate information to support opinions and conclusions

(SOL 5.6)

-Prioritize information according to purpose of reading (SOL 5.6)

 Writing: SOL 5.7

Continue to compose in a variety of written forms 5.WL3.2

·Poetry (for example, haiku, cinquain, patterned, rhymed, free verse) 5.WL3.2A

·Stories and personal narratives 5.WL3.2B

·Friendly letters and formal letters 5.WL3.2C

Continue to write personal observations, opinions, and publications

•Initiate personal writing for a variety of purposes

(SOL 5.7) 5.WC2.3

-To describe

-To inform

-To entertain

-To explain

·Respond to fiction and nonfiction

Access and retrieve resources (SOL 5.8) 5.RC2.3B -Use various means to access resources

-Recognize various systems of organizing information

-Retrieve resources using location guides

-Use available technology

·Evaluate available resources (SOL 5.8) 5.RC2.3C

-Evaluate search strategy, "Have I obtained all available resources?"

-Examine resource to determine usefulness

-Use established criteria to determine appropriateness of resources

·Analyze information (SOL 5.8) 5.RC2.3D

-Apply appropriate reading strategies to retrieve data and information

-Confirm or disprove prior knowledge

-Evaluate data

-Evaluate search strategy, "Has my question been answered?" 

Multicultural Education

Maintain high standards and expectations
Teachers maintain high standards and demonstrate high achievement expectations for all ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students; this includes offering challenging and advanced course work.

History/Geography Concepts:

CU.1 Examine the language, literature, arts, traditions, and religious beliefs within a culture.

CU.5 Identify and explain how cultural differences create differences of perspective.

Technology Competencies

NETS 1 – Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems. Students are proficient in the use of technology.

NETS 3 - Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity. Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare publications, and produce other creative works.

NETS 5 - Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources. Students use technology tools to process data and report results. Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.