Reading Literature
1.textual evidence, analyze, inference, explicit,
4.figurative language, literal language, denotative meaning,
connotative meaning
9. compare, contrast
Use of grade-level academic vocabulary
within written products and oral
presentations
Carousel Brainstorming, Ticket Out, ABC
Summary
Activating
Strategies
Holt:
Shining Star Level A:
“The Crane Wife”(folktale)
“Fact or Fiction”(sci./ss.)
“The Hitchhiker”(play)
“How Nature Works”(sci.)
“The Tell-Tale Heart”(short“The Universe”(sci.)
story)
Shining Star Level C:
Online:
“Earth and the Milky
“Who Has Seen the Wind”
Way”(sci.)
(poem)
“Solar Eclipses”(sci.)
The Skater of Ghost Lake
Worldbook Online Topics:
(poem)
Loch Ness Monster
Annabel Lee (poem)
Stonehenge
Novels:
Pyramids
The Westing Game
Can you believe everything you read, see, or hear?
What is mystery and what makes a thing mysterious?
How do people explain the unknown?
How are curiosity and mystery driving forces in science?
Supports and
Differentiation
Summarizing
Strategies
Learning
Targets
Essential
Questions
Readings/Resources
Essential
Terminology
Key Ideas and Details: 1
Craft and Structure: 4
Integration of Knowledge and
Ideas: 9
Reading Informational
Text
Key Ideas and Details: 1
Craft and Structure: 4
Integration of Knowledge
and Ideas: 7
Writing
Speaking and Listening
Language
Research to Build and Present
Knowledge: 7 and 8
Text Types and Purposes: 2
Comprehension and Collaboration: 2, 3
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 5
Conventions of Standard
English: 2
Vocabulary Acquisition and
Use: 4
7. research central question,
source
8. credibility, search terms,
plagiarism, paraphrase
2.organizational structures,
formatting structures, transitions,
cohesion
www.readwritethink.org
http://bibliobouts.org/
2. media, formats
3. argument, credibility, claim, fact,
opinion, soundness, relevant evidence
5. salient, clarification, media component,
visual display
2.coordinate adjectives,
noncoordinate adjectives
4. infer, context clues, affix,
root, reference, material
www.youtube.com
http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com
www.brainpop.com
Books on Tape/CD/IPod
Holt:
“The Crane Wife”(song)
What is a reliable source of information?
What is truth?
Why do we need to “know” the answers as human beings?
KWL, Think/Pair/Share, Brainstorming,
Wordsplash, Anticipation Guide
EC
Suggested
Instructional
Tasks
Common Core
State
Standards
Grades 6-8
Theme: Mysteries of the Universe
Oral Presentation of Research/ Projects
Debate, Research Report
PowerPoint, Visual Presentations (posters, diorama, etc.)
Peer Editing of Written Products
LEP
AIG
Suggested
Instructional
Tasks
Activating
Strategies
Learning
Targets
Essential
Questions
Readings/Resources
Essential
Terminology
Common Core
State
Standards
Grades 6-8
Reading Literature
Supports and
Differentiation
Summarizing
Strategies
Theme:
Reading Informational
Text
Writing
EC
Speaking and Listening
LEP
Language
AIG