Understanding Craft and Structure: Students will work across genres to identify the different parts of a story or text. Students will then identify point of view in varying genres, and express how their point of view as a reader is similar to or different from an author or narrator in both oral and written formats.
Students will identify central ideas and key supporting details, as well as develop and answer questions related to topics, key ideas, and claims within informational text(s). Through both discussion and writing, students will explore topics and convey appropriate details relevant to support a given or student-created topic.
Students will analyze literary texts to identify and describe literary elements and text features and how they are used to develop the plot of a story. Students will craft their own narrative piece applying their understanding of literary elements and text features to develop their story.
In this culminating unit, students will ask and answer questions and make text connections across various genres. Students will use this genre study to both create various forms of verbal and written responses.
