First GradeResponse to Literary Text
First Grade
Description
In responses to text, students show understanding of reading; connect whathas been read to the broader world of ideas, concepts and issues; and make judgments about the text.
Essential Question
How does a student articulate an understanding of literary text through theanalysis of plot/ideas/concepts, making inferences about content, characters,philosophy, theme, author’s craft, or other elements?
Basic Concepts
The student supports the teacher-generated focus statement withreference to the text.
The student supports the teacher-generated focus statement with priorknowledge.
Assessment
To write a response to text students will:1.Read individual texts, at appropriate reading levels, alone, with apartner, in small groups, or in a read aloud;2.Be provided with a
teacher-generated
focus statement;3.Support the focus through writing and/or illustrations that reflects theplot, characters, setting, and/or events of the story to showunderstanding of the text.
Vital Results
1.7In written responses to literature, students show understanding of reading; connect what has been read to the broader world of ideas,concepts, and issues; and make judgments about the text.AConnect plot/ideas/concepts to experience, including other literature;BGo beyond retelling of plot by reflecting on what is read and makingconnections to broader ideas, concepts, and issues;CSupport judgments about what has been read by drawing fromexperience, other literature, and evidence from the text, includingdirect quotations.
Grade Level Expectations
1.7In response to literary or informational text, students make andsupport analytical judgments about text by using prior knowledge orWindsor Central Supervisory UnionOctober 2009Page Number 3
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