Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.īefore teaching this lesson, make sure your students are familiar with the idea of character traits and character development in stories. Students use a variety of technological and information resources (e.g., libraries, databases, computer networks, video) to gather and synthesize information and to create and communicate knowledge.ġ1. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries in ways that suit their purpose and audience.Ĩ.

Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions (e.g., spelling and punctuation), media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create, critique, and discuss print and nonprint texts.ħ. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).Ħ. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. Among these texts are fiction and nonfiction, classic and contemporary works.ģ. Students read a wide range of print and nonprint texts to build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world to acquire new information to respond to the needs and demands of society and the workplace and for personal fulfillment.

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