CURRICULUM MAP
Curriculum Map of Unit
Key Learning(s):
Topic:
1.2 Reading Informational Text--Students read, understand, and
respond to informational text – with emphasis on comprehension, making
connections among ideas and between texts with focus on textual evidence.
Unit Essential Question(s):
Grade: 8
Optional Instructional Tools:
Read and comprehend literary
non-fiction and informational
text on grade level, reading
independently and proficiently.
What are strategies that readers
use to understand and respond to
informational text on grade level,
independently and proficiently?
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Key Ideas and Details-Main Idea
Key Ideas and Details-Text
Analysis
Craft and Structure-Point of View
Craft and Structure-Text Structure
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does a good reader
determine a central idea of a
text and analyze its
development over the course of
the text, including its
relationship to supporting
ideas?
How does a good reader cite the
textual evidence that
most strongly supports an
analysis of what the text says
explicitly as well as inferences,
conclusions, and/or
generalizations drawn from the
text?
CC.1.2.8.A
How does a good reader analyze
how a text makes connections
among and distinctions between
individuals, ideas, or events?
CC.1.2.8.C
How does a good reader
determine an author’s point of
view or purpose in a text and
analyze how the author
acknowledges and responds to
conflicting evidence or
viewpoints?
CC.1.2.8.D
How does a good reader analyze
the structure of the text
through evaluation of the
author’s use of specific
sentences and paragraphs to
develop and refine a concept?
CC.1.2.8.A
CC.1.2.8.E
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Main/central idea
Supporting details
Implied
Stated
Summary
Textual evidence
Inference
Conclusion
Generalization
Author’s point of view
Other Information:
Vocabulary:
Concept:
Concept:
Concept:
Integration of Knowledge and
Ideas-Diverse Media, Evaluating
Arguments, Analysis Across Texts
Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
Vocabulary Craft and Structure
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
Lesson Essential Questions:
How does a good reader evaluate
the advantages and
disadvantages of using different
media (e.g. print or digital
text, video, multimedia) to
present a particular topic or
idea?
CC.1.2.8.G
How does a good reader acquire
and use accurately gradeappropriate general academic and
domain-specific words and
phrases?
CC.1.2.8.J
How does a good reader analyze
the influence of the words and
phrases in a text including
figurative, connotative, and
technical meanings, and how they
shape meaning and tone?
How does a good reader gather
vocabulary knowledge when
considering a word or phrase
important to comprehension or
expression?
CC.1.2.8.J
CC.1.2.8.F
How does a good reader evaluate
an author’s argument,
reasoning, and specific claims
for the soundness of the
argument and the relevance of
the evidence?
CC.1.2.8.H
How does a good reader analyze
two or more texts that
provide conflicting information
on the same topic and identify
where the texts disagree on
matters of fact or
interpretation?
CC.1.2.8.I
Vocabulary:
Media
Author’s argument
Interpretation
How does a good reader determine
or clarify the meaning of unknown and
multiple-meaning words, choosing
flexibly from a range of strategies and
tools?
CC.1.2.8.K
Vocabulary:
Vocabulary:
Connotation
Figurative meaning
Technical meaning