By the end of the unit, students will have read a variety tales; myths, fables, and folktales. They will reference texts and retell stories to communicate their opinion of characters’ motivations and traits. This introductory unit is aimed at building enduring habits of good readers, writers, and speakers and listeners to comprehend and communicate.
Essential Questions:
Think about a fable you have read in class. What was the lesson or moral? Write a narrative with the same moral or lesson we have read using effective techniques.
Knowing the lesson that a character has learned, continue the story from that changed character’s point of view.
Essential Questions:
- How do good readers actively interact with the text and task?
- How do readers ensure they understand what they read?
- How does purpose influence writing?
- How does the selection of genre shape the author’s message?
- How can independent reading deepen my understanding of the world around me?
- As readers and writers, we use strategies to make sense of what we read.
- Effective communication involves expressing and responding to varied beliefs for varied audiences.
- New information may result in a new idea or a change of stance.
- Knowledge is developed by independent, purposeful and engaged reading at various literary text.
Think about a fable you have read in class. What was the lesson or moral? Write a narrative with the same moral or lesson we have read using effective techniques.
Knowing the lesson that a character has learned, continue the story from that changed character’s point of view.