Week 3 Assignment 1: Stage 1 Design- Reading

Stage 1- Desired Results
Established Goals: RI.6.4 Students will be able to determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings. RI.6.6 Students will be able to determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
Understandings: Students will understand that… ·     Words and phrases can have different meanings depending on the context ·    Words, events and phrases can provide us with the author’s point of view ·    The way a story is comprehended by the reader, depends on the angle / point of view of which it is presented	Essential Questions: ·    What strategies can we use to understand the meaning of this word/phrase? ·     What are some context clues used here? ·     What is a point of view? ·    How can we determine the author’s point of view? ·    How does hearing the information from this point of view affect our understanding of the text?
Students will know… ·    Definition of key terms, such as context clues, base word, prefix, suffix and point of view ·    How to use strategies to figure out the definition of words or phrases in text ·    Definition of point of view and how to determine the point of view of a story	Students will be able to… ·    Use a variety of strategies to determine word meaning in informational text ·    Determine the author’s point of view and how it is conveyed in informational text