English Language Arts K – KDU (*use the planner to adjust Big Ideas, Activities and Content for each of the terms) CORE COMPETENCIES CORE COMPETENCIES CORE COMPETENCIES COMMUNICATION THINKING (CRITICAL/CREATIVE) (PERSONAL/SOCIAL) CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES BIG IDEA What do we want students to Content (& Elaborations) (Understand…) DO? (Activities, lessons…) (Know) Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts Story Language and story Questions to support students: (Text and texts are generic terms referring all (narrative texts, structure of story (beginning, forms of oral, written, visual, and digital whether real or middle, end (or first, then, last)) communication: Oral texts include speeches, imagined, that teach us literary elements and devices poems, plays, and oral stories; Written texts about human nature, include sound (examples include novels, articles, and short stories; motivation, and concepts (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, Visual texts include posters, photographs, and experience, and often musical, and poetical qualities other images; Digital texts include electronic reflect a personal of language) and humorous forms of all the above; Oral, written, and journey or strengthen a and creative texts (e.g., tongue visual elements can be combined (e.g., in sense of identity. They twisters, nursery rhymes, dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, may also be considered fables, traditional stories)) web pages, advertisements), students are the embodiment of Strategies and processes expected individually and collaboratively to be collective wisdom. reading strategies (making able to: Stories can be oral, meaning using predictions and written, or visual, and Comprehend and connect (reading, connections; making meaning used to instruct, inspire, listening, viewing) from story using pictures, and entertain listeners Use sources of information and prior patterns, memory, and prior and readers.) can be a knowledge (personal stories and knowledge; retelling some source of creativity and experiences) to make meaning elements of story; and joy. Use developmentally appropriate reading, recognizing familiar listening, and viewing strategies words/names and Stories and other texts (distinguishing drawing from writing, environmental print (e.g., (Text and texts are asking questions to construct and clarify street signs, food packaging)) generic terms referring meaning, using active listening, oral language strategies all forms of oral, (adjusting volume, pace, tone, written, visual, and
English Language Arts K – KDU (*use the planner to adjust Big Ideas, Activities and Content for each of the terms) CORE COMPETENCIES COMMUNICATION CORE COMPETENCIES THINKING (CRITICAL/CREATIVE) CORE COMPETENCIES (PERSONAL/SOCIAL) CURRICULAR COMPETENCIES BIG IDEA (Understand…) What do we want students to DO? (Activities, lessons…) Content (& Elaborations) (Know) Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts (Text and texts are generic terms referring all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication: Oral texts include speeches, poems, plays, and oral stories; Written texts include novels, articles, and short stories; Visual texts include posters, photographs, and other images; Digital texts include electronic forms of all the above; Oral, written, and visual elements can be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements), students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to: Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing) Use sources of information and prior knowledge (personal stories and experiences) to make meaning Use developmentally appropriate reading, listening, and viewing strategies (distinguishing drawing from writing, asking questions to construct and clarify meaning, using active listening, Language and story (narrative texts, whether real or imagined, that teach us about human nature, motivation, and experience, and often reflect a personal journey or strengthen a sense of identity. They may also be considered the embodiment of collective wisdom. Stories can be oral, written, or visual, and used to instruct, inspire, and entertain listeners and readers.) can be a source of creativity and joy. Stories and other texts (Text and texts are generic terms referring all forms of oral, written, visual, and Questions to support students: Story structure of story (beginning, middle, end (or first, then, last)) literary elements and devices (examples include sound concepts (e.g., rhyme, rhythm, musical, and poetical qualities of language) and humorous and creative texts (e.g., tongue twisters, nursery rhymes, fables, traditional stories)) Strategies and processes reading strategies (making meaning using predictions and connections; making meaning from story using pictures, patterns, memory, and prior knowledge; retelling some elements of story; and recognizing familiar words/names and environmental print (e.g., street signs, food packaging)) oral language strategies (adjusting volume, pace, tone,
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