Middle School English Language Arts Instructional Guide

●​ Objective: To assess students' ability to use context clues, affixes, roots, and reference materials to determine word meanings.

Reference Materials Research Task: ●​ Activity: Students select unknown words from a text and use reference materials (dictionary, thesaurus, online resources) to find their pronunciations, meanings, and parts of speech. They create a table to record their findings and present one example to the class.

●​ Objective: To assess students' ability to consult reference materials to determine word meanings, pronunciations, and parts of speech

Standard: Reading 10

Learning Intentions and Success Criteria

Learning Intentions: ●​ Students will understand how individual elements of a text (sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, section) fit into the overall structure. ●​ Students will learn how these elements contribute to the development of the theme, main idea, settings, or plot. Success Criteria: ●​ I can analyze how a sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section

a. ​ Analyze how a sentence, paragraph, stanza, chapter, scene, or section fits into the overall structure and how it contributes to the development of theme, main idea, settings, or plot. (RL) b. ​ Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and how it contributes to the development of the main idea. (RI)

Nouns (Know)

Verbs (Do)

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