Academic Standards
Oklahoma uses Oklahoma Academic Standards to guide teaching and learning. This unit covers a broad selection of reading, writing, and thinking objectives. Regardless of the standards documented, teachers can easily adjust the unit to include more specific or additional objectives.
Standard 1: Speaking and Listening: Reading Standards 1-3; Writing Standards 1-2
Students will speak and listen effectively in a variety of situations, including, but not limited to, responses to reading and writing (including active-listening, interpreting speaker’s messages, identifying speaker’s purpose, engaging in collaborative discussion, and participating in informal and formal presentations)
Standard 2: Reading and Writing Process: Reading Standards 2-3; Writing Standard 1
Students will analyze details in literary and nonfiction/informational texts to distinguish genres. Students will paraphrase main ideas with supporting details in a text. Students will apply components of a recursive writing process for multiple purposes to create a focused, organized, and coherent piece of writing.
Standard 3: Critical Reading and Writing: Reading Standards 2-4, 7; Writing Standards 2-4
Students will evaluate how the point of view and perspective grade-level literary and/or informational text. Students will analyze key literary elements that contribute to meaning: setting, plot, characters (i.e. protagonist, antagonist), characterization, theme, and conflict (internal, external). Students will engage in informative and persuasive writing.
Standard 4: Vocabulary: Reading Standards 1, 3, 5; Writing Standards 1-2
Students will increase vocabulary knowledge through inference, context clues, and electronic dictionaries. Students will use appropriate vocabulary to communicate clearly in writing and achieve a specific purpose.
Standard 5: Language: Writing Standards 1-2
Students will apply knowledge of grammar and rhetorical style to writing. Students will use correct mechanics with a focus on commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, colons, and semi-colons. Students will compose simple, compound, complex, and compound complex sentences and questions to signal differing relationships among ideas.
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