Lesson Overview
Using a news photo, students use close reading skills and assume the role of journalists who must write about events represented by the image.
Essential Question
What do you see?
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Other Instructional Materials or Notes:
5, 7, 8, 10, 12
Not necessary, but computers/tablets with internet access.
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- USG-4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of civil rights and civil liberties, the role of American citizens in the American political system, and distinctive expressions of American political culture.
- Grade 1: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds including consonant blends in spoken words.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- Grade 3: Use conventional spelling for high-frequency words, previously studied words, and for adding suffixes to base words.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- Grade 3: Speak clearly at an understandable pace, adapting speech to a variety of contexts and tasks; use standard English when indicated or appropriate.
- C.MC Meaning and Context
- Grade 5: Acquire and use general academic and domain specific words or phrases that signal contrast, addition, and logical relationships; demonstrate and understanding of nuances and jargon.
- Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- Grade 3: Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- RI.LCS.11.1 Analyze the impact of text features and structures on authors’ similar ideas or claims about the same topic.
- RI.LCS.11.2 Analyze and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- Grade 4: Demonstrate effective keyboarding skills.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- Grade 1: Write left to right leaving spaces between words.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- Grade 6: Analyze the impact of selected media and formats on meaning.
- Grade 6: Analyze the impact of selected media and formats on meaning.
- Grade 2: Read irregularly spelled two-syllable words and words with common prefixes and suffixes.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- RI.LCS.8 Interpret and analyze the author’s use of words, phrases, text features, conventions, and structures, and how their relationships shape meaning and tone in print and multimedia texts.
- RI.LCS.11 Analyze and critique how the author uses structures in print and multimedia texts to craft informational and argument writing.
- Grade 2: Use a base word to determine the meaning of an unknown word with the same base.
- Grade 4: Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, base words, and affixes to read accurately unfamiliar multisyllabic words in context and out of context.
- Grade 4: Consult print and multimedia resources to find the pronunciation and determine or clarify the precise meaning of key words or phrases.
- Grade 5: Connect upper- and lower-case letters efficiently and proportionately in cursive handwriting.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- Grade 2: Print upper- and lower-case letters proportionally using appropriate handwriting techniques.
- W.MCC Meaning, Context, and Craft
- C Communication
- C.MC Meaning and Context
- C Communication
- C.MC Meaning and Context
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