Unpacking the Standard

Prerequisite Skills

1. Recognize words and phrases.

Key Terms (vocabulary)

Definition

Student-friendly language

· Context clues

· Figurative language

· Antonyms

· Synonyms

· Fables

· Legend

· Clues that readers use to find the meaning of unknown words

· Words that mean something other than their literal meaning.

· Words that mean the opposite of another word.

· Words that has the same or similar meaning to another word.

· Stories intended to teach a lesson, often in which animals speak like human beings.

· Stories that have been handed down by people for many years and that

· Nearby words, phrases, and sentences to figurative out its meaning

· Describe something by making a comparison to another thing

· Not the same

· Alike or the same

· Stories that teaches a lesson.

· Stories that describes how something derived to be.

Key Verbs (skills)

Definition

Student-friendly language

· Determine

· Distinguish

· Interpret

· Clarify

· To establish something using evidence or facts.

· To set apart as different or special

· To explain the meaning of something

· To make something more clear and easier to understand.

· To decide

· To recognize how things are difference

· To understand

· To make more easier to understand

“I Can” statements in student-friendly language

· I can determine the meaning of words and phrases based on how they are used in a text.

· I can figure out the meanings of words and phrases an author uses.

· I can understand words that comes from characters found in mythology. (Herculean)

· I can make meaning of words and phrases, when reading about characters in a myth, by using clues found within the story.

· I can use various strategies to determine the meaning of words and phrases.

Essential Questions

1. How can I use context clues to determine the meaning of an unknown word?

2. What is the difference between a simile and metaphor?

3. How can I determine the meaning of idioms, adages and proverbs?

4. What tools can I use to help determine the meaning of unknown words?

5. How do I determine the relationship between words including synonyms and antonyms?