01/26/10 - 02/08/10

Author and Reader Purpose
What is the text about? What is the purpose? Who is the audience? What is your purpose? Will this text help you?       (3.1.1; 2.3.2)

Strategies: Predict; Reading Rate;
Involvement: highlight and question;
Visualize: sketch; Clarify: ideas/vocabulary;
Connect: self, class, world;
Question;
Evaluate

http://whatelse.pbworks.com/Reading-Strategies

PLOT
CHARACTER
Theme  Evaluate
Cause/Effect

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1/26 Raymond’s run lessons -- cause/effect; prediction; evaluate

1/27 Raymond’s run lessons-- characterization; Quiz 1

1/28 WASL Quiz; Reading Strategies
1/29  Raymond’s Run Project Work

2/1 Sub Plans
2/2 Sub Plans
2/3 Raymond’s Run: Cause/Effect; Conflict: Internal/External
2/4 Sub Plans -- Archetypes
2/5 Raymond’s Run Review (Conflict and Archetypes); Project work2/8 Junior Scholastic World Stats reading
If time: Do Try This At Home (p. 44)


2.3.2 Analyze and evaluate informational materials for relevance in meeting a specific purpose.

·      Examine information from a variety of sources, select appropriate information based on purpose, and defend selection citing evidence from text.

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EALR 1: The student understands and uses different skills and strategies to read.
1.4.3 Apply different reading rates to match text.
EALR 2: The student understands the meaning of what is read
2.1.3 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies during and after reading: determine importance using theme, main idea, and supporting details in grade-level informational/expository text and/or literary/narrative text. W
·      State both literal and/or inferred main ideas and provide supporting text-based details.
·      State the theme/message and supporting details in culturally relevant literary/narrative text
2.1.5 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies for informational and technical materials, complex narratives, and expositions: predict and infer. W  predictions
2.1.7 Apply comprehension monitoring strategies for informational and technical materials, complex narratives, and expositions: determine importance and summarize text. W
Component 2.2  Understand and apply knowledge of text components to comprehend text.2.2.2 Apply understanding of complex organizational features of printed text and electronic sources. W
Uses of electronic information to communicate, gain information, or research a topic.

2.2.3 Understand and analyze story elements. W  Allusion; Theme
Component 2.3  Expand comprehension by analyzing, interpreting, and synthesizing information and ideas in literary and informational text.
1.3.2 Understand and apply content/academic vocabulary critical to the meaning of the text, including vocabularies relevant to different contexts, cultures, and communities. W

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