This unit focuses on reading and responding to a variety of texts, including
nonfiction and chapter books. This unit is taught including read-alouds and
shared, guided, and independent reading. All independent reading activities
require text that is at least 95% decodable for the individual student.
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This unit focuses on critical thinking skills, including identifying cause
and effect relationships, making predictions, inferring, and comparing and contrasting.
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Writing is used as a response to all of the units, but this unit focuses on
the writing process, writing applications, and standard English language usage.
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This unit focuses on locating, gathering, and interpreting information from
a variety of sources. The unit also focuses on reading, organizing, and interpreting
data from simple timelines, charts, diagrams, graphs, and maps.
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This unit focuses on poetry as a way to communicate. The sounds of poetry reveal
a rhythm or cadence to create moods and feelings. Poetry is shared throughout
the school year, however this unit provides students with various forms of poetry
to read, interpret, and try to emulate on their own.
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This unit focuses on reading and writing informational texts. Students learn
to formulate their own questions and respond both orally and in writing to informational
texts.
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This unit focuses on reading and writing biography and autobiography. This
unit should be linked to content areas when appropriate.
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This unit focuses on oral communication. It should be linked to presentations
of classroom stories, poems, plays, writing projects, and other content areas,
when appropriate.
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