Unpacking This Week’s ELA Standards

1. Unpacking This Week’s ELA Standards Understanding what we are learning and why

2. Examine Key Words Circle Verbs • Tell what you should be able to do in each standard (explain, apply, interpret). • Tell what will be taught and tested . Underline Nouns Tells what topics, concepts, content will be covered. Tells what you should know. Tells what you will make or create. Parentheses around Adjectives & Adverbs • Tell key criteria on which you will be graded • Tell to what level you are expected to complete your work.

3. Let’s Unpack Together I can apply a writing process to develop text for audience and purpose which follows appropriate organizational structure to convey and support the intended purpose Note that this standard applies not only to ELA, but to science and social studies as well.

4. Big Ideas Let’s Unpack Together (Nouns & Adjectives) • Organizational (organization) • Structure • Intended (intent) • Writing • Process • Text • Audience • Purpose (Verbs) Tasks Apply Develop Follow • Convey • Support

5. Big Ideas Let’s Unpack Together (Nouns & Adjectives) • Purpose • Organizational (organization) • Structure • Intended (intent) • Writing • Process • Text • Audience Understandings Text Purpose Intent

6. Big Ideas Let’s Unpack Together (Nouns & Adjectives) • Purpose • Organizational (organization) • Structure • Intended (intent) • Writing • Process • Text • Audience Knowledge Writing Process Audience • Organization • Structure

7. (Verbs) Let’s Unpack Together • Convey • Support Tasks Apply Develop Follow Skills Apply Develop Follow • Convey • Support

8. To What Other Subjects Could This Standard Apply I can apply a writing process to develop text for audience and purpose which follows appropriate organizational structure to convey and support the intended purpose. Science SocialStudies

9. Your Turn Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the reading standards below: I can read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by reading text that is developmentally appropriate. I can read, infer, analyze and draw conclusions to compare and contrast the roles and functions of characters in various plots, their relationships and their conflicts. I can infer and draw conclusions by using text evidence to support my analysis of what the text says and my inference. • Remember: • Circle verbs. • Underline nouns. • Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs. I can use context clues, Greek and Latin roots, suffix and prefixes, to decode unknown words.

10. Your Turn Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the writing standards below: I can write opinion texts that organizes supporting details/ reasons into introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs. I can write opinion texts that uses transitions to connect opinion and reason. I can write opinion texts that introduce a topic or text being studied using an introductory paragraph that clearly supports my purpose. With assistance from adults/ peers, I can use technology, including the Internet, to write and publish an opinion text to state an opinion or establish a position, providing relevant reasoning supported by facts/ details using specific and accurate words related to topic, audience and purpose. • Remember: • Circle verbs. • Underline nouns. • Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.

11. Your Turn Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the speaking and listening standards below: I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by ​posing and responding to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and making comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others. I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by ​following, restating, and giving multi-step instructions from or to others in collaborative groups. • Remember: • Circle verbs. • Underline nouns. • Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs. I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by evaluating and modifying my own active listening skills

12. Your Turn Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the number operations standards below: I can understand that parts of a whole can be expressed as fractions and/or decimals. I can convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals. I can compare and order fractions and/or decimals to the thousandths place using the symbols >, = or <, and justify the solution. • Remember: • Circle verbs. • Underline nouns. • Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.

13. Your Turn Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the earth’s speres standards below: I can read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by reading text that is developmentally appropriate. I can read, infer, analyze and draw conclusions to compare and contrast the roles and functions of characters in various plots, their relationships and their conflicts. I can infer and draw conclusions by using text evidence to support my analysis of what the text says and my inference. • Remember: • Circle verbs. • Underline nouns. • Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs. I can use context clues, Greek and Latin roots, suffix and prefixes, to decode unknown words.