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Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach

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Genre Study: A Collaborative Approach

Grade Levels

3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade

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Related Academic Standards
CC.1.1.3.D CC.1.1.3.D
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Identify and know the meaning of the most common prefixes and derivational suffixes. • Decode words with common Latin suffixes. • Decode multisyllable words. • Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
CC.1.1.4.E CC.1.1.4.E
Read with accuracy and fluency to support comprehension: • Read on-level text with purpose and understanding. • Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. • Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary.
CC.1.1.5.D CC.1.1.5.D
Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. • Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words.
CC.1.2.3.A CC.1.2.3.A
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
CC.1.2.3.B CC.1.2.3.B
Ask and answer questions about the text and make inferences from text; refer to text to support responses.
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  • Big Ideas
    Comprehension requires and enhances critical thinking and is constructed through the intentional interaction between reader and text
    Effective use of vocabulary builds social and academic knowledge
    Information to gain or expand knowledge can be acquired through a variety of sources.
    Language is used to communicate and to deepen understanding.
    Spoken language can be represented in print.
  • Concepts
    Acquiring and applying a robust vocabulary assists in constructing meaning
    Changes in word parts affect meaning.
    Complex letter combinations are used to represent sounds in words that convey meaning.
    Essential content of text, including literary elements and devices, inform meaning
    Essential content, literary elements and devices inform meaning
    In the English language words can be understood by analyzing both the phonetic and the morphological parts.
    Informational sources have unique purposes.
    Textual features and organization inform meaning
    Textual features inform meaning
    Validity of information must be established.
    Word choice and sentence structure are used to express ideas.
    Letters are used to represent sounds and are combined to form words that convey meaning.
    Words have various forms.
  • Competencies
    Apply academic vocabulary across disciplines
    Apply an increasingly complex and varied vocabulary during reading, writing and speaking.
    Apply word analysis skills (e.g.: syllabication, root words, prefixes, suffixes, inflectional endings) to read and unlock meaning of words.
    Articulate the semantic features or purposes of common ideas or concepts
    Build fluency, accuracy and prosody by reading words in connected text.
    Combine sentences in an increasingly complex and organized manner to convey meaning.
    Compile information from resource materials.
    Develop an increasingly sophisticated working vocabulary including specialized vocabulary from academic content areas.
    Distinguish between essential and non-essential information within and among texts, identifying exaggeration and stereotype where present
    Distinguish between essential and non-essential information within texts, identifying exaggeration and stereotype where present
    Distinguish between essential and non-essential information within texts, identifying exaggeration where present
    Distinguish gradations in meanings or words, including synonyms and antonyms
    Generate connections between and among words based on meaning, content, and context
    Group concepts and ideas by common semantic features and/or purposes
    Identify and analyze the characteristics of various genre (e.g. poetry, drama, fiction)
    Identify and correctly use regular and irregular plurals, affixes, and inflectional endings.
    Identify literary devices within texts (e.g. personification, simile, alliteration, and metaphor)
    Identify relationships between characters, topics, events, ideas, setting, and/or plot in and among texts (i.e. literary elements)
    Identify resource materials to achieve a research goal.
    Locate credible sources of information, including information gathered from web sites.
    Question, reflect on, and interpret essential content of text
    Read with fluency, accuracy and prosody appropriate to task and text.
    Recognize and access meaning of words in text by using phonics and word analysis skills.
    Recognize and identify the characteristics of various genre (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama)
    Summarize key information and the implied or stated main idea of texts
    Summarize key information from a text (e.g. major points, processes and/or events)
    Summarize relevant information from source material to achieve a research goal.
    Understand that roots assist in unlocking the meaning of words.
    Understand the relationship of words within sentences. (i.e. semantics; syntax)
    Use and cite evidence from texts to make assertions, inferences, generalizations, and to draw conclusions
    Use contextual cues to confirm the literal and figurative meaning of vocabulary
    Use contextual cues to test meaning of vocabulary
    Use the knowledge of language, including word origins and morphology to unlock meaning.
    Apply knowledge of advanced letter sound patterns to read and spell multisyllabic words in text. (i.e.: oi, tion)
    Apply knowledge of letter sound correspondence to read and spell simple words.
    Build fluency by reading words in connected text.
    Decode and encode regularly spelled words fluently and accurately.(ie: blends, digraphs and vowel combinations.
    Demonstrate the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words (i.e.: segmenting and blending phonemes).
    Demonstrate the ability to hear and manipulate sounds in words (i.e.: substitution, deletion, addition).
    Read and spell high frequency, non-decodable words.
    Read high frequency, non-decodable words.
    Recognize and apply changes in word form that affect meaning (i.e.: baby, babies, make, making).
    Recognize and identify upper and lower case letters.
    Recognize that in oral language and/or print, changes in word parts and form affect meaning (i.e.: regular plurals, simple pronouns).
    Understand that roots assist in unlocking the meaning of words
    Use an increasingly complex and varied spoken vocabulary.

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Students explore literary genres by completing a series of genre studies, each spanning two to three weeks. The concept of genres is introduced through class discussion, during which students determine the main characteristics of various genres. Students are then assigned a genre to explore, and they use printable bookmarks to record evidence that their book fits the assigned genre. Finally, students complete a book review and share summaries of the books they read with their classmates. Conducting studies of multiple genres can help students to achieve a better understanding of their characteristics.

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