Student Learning Map

STUDENT LEARNING MAP Decision One: Reading Topic: Unit 2: Do You Know Grade: 4 Content Map of Unit What I Mean?

Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Optional Instructional Tools: The goal of reading is to make What strategies should I use to meaning from the text. help comprehend stories? (reading)

In what ways do the characters express themselves? (theme)

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Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What conclusions can I 1. How can we differentiate 1. How do authors develop 1. What evidence does the draw based on comparing facts from opinions across characters that serve a author give me to draw a and contrasting? (compare texts? (fact vs. opinion) purpose? (Understanding reasonable conclusion and contrast) 2. How do I put the important characters) from the text? 2. What evidence does the ideas together in my own 2. How does characterization (Conclusions and author give me to draw a words to create a develop plot and influence generalizations) reasonable conclusion summary? (summarizing) the theme? 2. How can questioning from the text? (Understanding extend my understanding (predict/infer) Characters) of the text? (questioning) 3. What information in the text led me to create mental images? (visualize events) Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Rescue Refused Entertaining Critics Glorious Ruined Fault Local Hideous Invisible Promote Target Studio Yanked Borrow Apologize Exploding Hired Focus Thrilling Concern Streak Reference Proof Battle Immense Advertise Angles Model Schedule Fainted Slimy Wealthy Warrior Jolt Generated Smeared Feast Genuine Insisted STUDENT LEARNING MAP (page 2) Decision One: Reading Topic: Unit 2: Do You Know Grade: 4 Content Map of Unit What I Mean?

Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Optional Instructional Tools: The goal of reading is to make In what ways do the characters meaning from the text. express themselves? (theme)

What strategies should I use to help comprehend stories? (reading)

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Lesson Essential Lesson Essential Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Questions: Questions: 1. What is the author’s 1. What strategies can I use 1. How can I write a quality 1. How can I achieve purpose in writing the text? to learn how to spell words piece that conveys a clear understanding by reading (author’s purpose) correctly? (spelling) message to my audience? with appropriate 2. How does analyzing the 2. How do I determine if my (response to lit, writing expression? (stress, text help to identify the word choice effectively process) intonation and expression) author’s purpose? communicates my ideas? 2. How does a writer 2. How can I achieve (analyze/evaluate) (verbs, verb tenses, effectively and creatively understanding by reading conjunctions, pronouns) respond to a specific with appropriate phrasing? 3. What is an affix and how prompt? (Opinion (phrasing) does it change the paragraph/voice) 3. How can I achieve Vocabulary: meaning of the word root? 3. How do I identify sound understanding if a text by Debut Towered (suffixes, Greek and Latin and structure in poetry? self-monitoring and self- Stubborn Triumph roots) (poetry) correcting? (accuracy) Permission Discouraged What strategies should I Hauling Toured 4. Mournful Border use to identify and interpret the meanings of figurative language? (idioms) 5. How do I correctly punctuate sentences? (commas) 6. How do I determine if a higher level synonym/antonym is appropriate to use? (antonym, analogies)