Evidence of Student Vocabulary Knowledge Skills Common Core Instructional Achievement Level Descriptors Attainment Essential Elements Students, with scaffolding read and Students know: Students understand EERL.8.10. **This as needed: comprehend that/are able to: Essential Element techniques for references all read and actively engage in literature making meaning make meaning from elements above. comprehending from difficult stories difficult stories, stories appropriately complex and poetry dramas, and poems stories and poetry dramas techniques for engage with and engaging with and appreciate poetry appreciating appropriately difficult texts complex texts grade 6 - 8 text complexity band techniques for Students understand selecting texts that that a reader's independently are interesting, understanding of and and proficiently motiving, and appreciation for a text appropriate for who grows through deep they are as readers thinking and active collaboration with others about texts.
Evidence of Student Attainment Vocabulary Knowledge Skills Common Core Essential Elements Instructional Achievement Level Descriptors Students, with scaffolding as needed: read and actively engage in comprehending appropriately complex stories and poetry read and comprehend literature stories dramas poetry grade 6 - 8 text complexity band independently and proficiently Students know: techniques for making meaning from difficult stories and poetry techniques for engaging with and appreciating difficult texts techniques for selecting texts that are interesting, motiving, and appropriate for who they are as readers Students understand that/are able to: make meaning from difficult stories, dramas, and poems engage with and appreciate appropriately complex texts Students understand that a reader's understanding of and appreciation for a text grows through deep thinking and active collaboration with others about texts. EERL.8.10. **This Essential Element references all elements above.
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