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CCSS - Chapter 9: CCR Reading - Anchor Standard 3: Indiviudal Event and Idea Development: students learn how to analyze and why characters, events and ideas develop throughout a text or passage.
Successful Track For Kids: by the end of 5th grade students should have knowledge of this anchor and have bene working on improving this throughout the years, not just 5th grade. Students should be able to:
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determine the characters, setting and events/timeline
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compare and contrasts these things
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connect individuals and events from the book to real life
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explain a relationship between two characters or ideas
Literature: each grade should be working on improving literature as time goes on.
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K-1: identify and describe characters, settings and major events
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2nd: begin to respond to events and challenges the characters are faced with
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3-4: be able to describe characters, settings and events in depth
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5th: compare and contrast characters, settings and events
Informational Text: each grade should be focusing on building off of the previous grades work.
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K-1: describe connections between 2 characters, events, or information in the text
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2nd: describe connections between 2 series of events or steps
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3-4: describe the relationship amongst a series of events or steps and add detail
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5th: explain relationships between people, evetns or ideas and cites the specific information found
Literacy Skills and Strategies:
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teachers need to introduce and engage students to a variety of text in order to teach literacy
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stories, poems and dramas are helpful for this
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authors develop characters throughout the book
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teach students how to tell the ideas and events are developing
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to teach informational texts, teachers need to use passages that relate to social studies, science, etc.
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talk about historical events and sequences and how they develop
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talk about the use in everyday life these texts serve
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how events happened and unfold
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teach students to determine how authors demonstrate steps in a techinical procedure
Activites for the different grades:
Kindergarten: literature vs. informational
literature - identify and describe characters, settings and major events vs. informational - describe the connection between two people, events or ideas
Create your own character: the students choose a character and then anazlye what they like, don't like, look like, is their job, etc. and they draw it all on a person. It is helpful to know what the character looks like beforehand.
1st Grade: literature vs. informational
literature - identify and describe characters, setting and major events vs. informational - describe the connection between two people, events or information
Character, Trait or Quote Map: select a character and write their name in the middle. Then write a detail and find a quote following the detail. This is a good activity because you can use this with multiple grades by changing the number of details you request about the character to make things more challenging.
2nd Grade: literature vs. informational
literature - students respond to challenges and events vs. informational - students describe the connection of 2 events
Compare & Contrast Story Map: students read 2 texts and then find 3 key details and say how they differ or are the same.
3rd Grade: literature vs. informational
literature - students describe the contents of the story in depth vs. informational - expected to describe the relationship of a series of events or steps in a procedure
Sequence Chain: helps students see the story sequentially. Students read the text and then take out key events in order.
4th Grade: literature vs. informational
literature - students describe a story in depth vs. informational -
describe the relationship among a series of events or steps by adding more details to their work.
Cause and Effect Organizer: this is used to determine how events are a result of other actions. This can be used for both narrative and informational texts and the students just read and then fill in the chart.
5th Grade: literature vs. informational
literature - compare and contrast people and setting vs. informational - explain a relationship of events or characters by citing actual evidence and info found in the text.
Venn Diagram: good to compare and contrast two texts