It is essential that students have learned the following content and skills in order to show competency within our ELA curricular area. These competencies are measurable.
Essential Questions for literacy
1.How can a goal support our learning?
2.Why is fluency so important as a reader?
3.How does literacy connect to your other subject areas?
4.How do mental images support comprehension and making inferences?
5.How does literacy connect to your other subject areas?
6.What is the connection from decoding and comprehension?
7.Why do we need to celebrate?
8.How does literacy connect to your other subject areas?
9.Why is it important to be able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes?
10.Why might the author choose to tell the story from one character’s perspective versus another’s?
11.How can comparing your point of view to the character lead to greater understanding?
12.How can understanding multiple points of view be beneficial?
13.What do I already know about the character that can help me predict?
14.How does an author help us understand the characters in the stories we read?
15.How does expanding our vocabulary add meaning to a story?
16.What type of thinking is involved in understanding a character in literature?
17.How can comparing your point of view to the character lead to greater understanding?
18.How can understanding multiple points of view be beneficial?
19.How are text structures supporting your comprehension?
20.What strategies can I use to help comprehend informational text?
21.As a reader, why is it important to synthesize the text you are reading?
22.What small ideas need to be put them together to see the bigger idea?
23.How will our conversations with partners support comprehension?
24.Why is it important to celebrate your learning?
Writing
1.Why is daily writing important? 2.How do the processes in Writer’s Workshop make us a better writer?
Math
How can I divide two whole numbers using the following strategies?