Deeper reading response: A template for teachers

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of texts (storybooks, short chapter books, newspapers, telephone books, and everyday print such as signs and labels, poems, word plays using alliteration and rhyme, skits and short plays).
  • Objective 2.05: Predict and explain what will happen next in stories.
  • Objective 2.08: Discuss and explain response to how, why, and what if questions in sharing narrative and expository texts.
  • Objective 2.09: Read and understand simple written instructions.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.03: Discuss unfamiliar oral and/or written vocabulary after listening to or reading texts.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
  • Objective 3.06: Discuss authors'/speakers' use of different kinds of sentences to interest a reader/listener and communicate a message.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.02: Use words that name characters and settings (who, where) and words that tell action and events (what happened, what did ___ do) in simple texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Use specific words to name and tell action in oral and written language (e.g., using words such as frog and toad when discussing an expository text).

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.06: Recall main ideas, facts and details from a text.
  • Objective 2.07: Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters and concepts within and across texts.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama) to experience and knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Explain and describe new concepts and information in own words (e.g., plot, setting, major events, characters, author's message, connections, topic, key vocabulary, key concepts, text features).
  • Objective 3.04: Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
  • Objective 3.05: Locate and discuss examples of an author's use of:
    • kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory).
    • capitalization (titles, dates and days, names of countries).
    • punctuation (exclamation marks, commas in dates, and to introduce dialogue and quotations).
    • use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader.
    • genre(s) and specific word choice(s).
  • Objective 3.06: Discuss the effect of an author's choices for nouns, verbs, and modifiers which help the reader comprehend a narrative or expository text.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Begin to use formal language and/or literary language in place of oral language patterns, as appropriate.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.

Kindergarten

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.04: Formulate questions that a text might answer before beginning to read (e.g., what will happen in this story, who might this be, where do you think this happens).
  • Objective 2.06: Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
  • Objective 3.04: Use speaking and listening skills and media to connect experiences and text
    • listening to and re-visiting stories
    • discussing, illustrating, and dramatizing stories
    • discovering relationships.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.04: Maintain conversation and discussions:
    • attending to oral presentations
    • taking turns expressing ideas and asking questions.