Our first theme of the year is "The Reader in You: Developing Characters." In this unit, students will study characters and pose questions as they develop throughout a text. Students will also make inferences about characters feelings and actions, in addition to supporting these inferences by quoting directly from the text. Students will each be assigned a novel, and will be challenged to use the skills we are learning about investigating characters as they complete independent reading at home.
Students will also be writing a Personal Narrative by following the standard steps of the writing process.
Below are some resources to support our first unit in ELA:
DPI Unpacking Tool: Here, you can see the Common Core standards "unpacked."
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/common-core-tools/
http://www.thedailycafe.com/public/672.cfm
Students will also be writing a Personal Narrative by following the standard steps of the writing process.
Below are some resources to support our first unit in ELA:
DPI Unpacking Tool: Here, you can see the Common Core standards "unpacked."
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/acre/standards/common-core-tools/
http://www.thedailycafe.com/public/672.cfm