ORANGE A

GOALS/STANDARDS and BENCHMARKS:

• 1B3a: Preview reading materials, make predictions and relate reading to information from other sources.
  
  • Preview reading materials, make predictions, and relate reading to information from other sources across content and literary areas
    
  • Devise personal reading strategies to improve comprehension and fluency
    
  • Select and justify reading strategies to improve comprehension
    
• 1B3c: Continuously check and clarify for understanding.
  
  • Evaluate understanding by comparing and contrasting to other readings
    
  • Do various exercises of reading comprehension strategies including predicting, questioning, forming vocabulary schemas and responding to text.
    
  • Respond verbally and written to critical thinking questions about assignment reading selections
    
• 1B3d: Read age-appropriate material with fluency and accuracy
  
  • Read age appropriate material with fluency
    
• 1C3a: Use information to form, explain and support questions and predictions.
  
  • Interpret written material by forming questions and predictions
    
  • Use information to form, explain and support questions and predictions
    
• 1C3b: Interpret and analyze entire narrative text using story elements, point of view and theme.
  
• 16.A.3c: Identify the differences between historical fact and interpretation.
  
  • Interpret and analyze historical fiction text for story elements, point of view and theme.
    
• 1C3c: Compare, contrast and evaluate ideas and information from various sources and genre.
  
  • Compare and contrast various historical information focusing on common ideas, themes, and topics
    
• 1C3d: Summarize and make generalizations from content and relate them to the purpose of the material.
  
  • Paraphrase and summarize
    
• 1C3e: Compare how authors and illustrators use text and art across materials to express their ideas (e.g. foreshadowing, flashbacks, color, strong verbs, language that inspires)
  
  • Identify and recognize the author's use of literary devices and illustrations to enhance comprehension
    
  • Discriminate how authors, artists and illustrators use text and art across materials to express their ideas

OTHER OBJECTIVES:

• Students will learn about the Russian Empire & art related to this era.

• Students will take reading comprehension quizzes and tests throughout the course.

• Angel on the Square, Impossible Journey, Burying the Sun, The Turning by Gloria Whelan
• Post-its for marking skill integration
• DVD-Nicholas and Alexandra, Dr. Zhivago, The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Born to be Wild, Anasstasia
• CD-Non-fiction clips of the Russian Empire, Rah-Rah Rasputin, Closer to Fine

• This is a reading comprehension course versus a literature course.
• We are teaching the overt skills of reading comprehension keeping in mind our ESL student population.
• Strategy programs such as Guided Reading® can be useful.

CURRICULUM MAP

DESCRIPTIONS AND DIRECTIONS FOR TOPIC CLUSTERS, UNITS, CHAPTERS with assessments.

DAY-BY-DAY LESSON PLANS