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North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Information Skills (2000)

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.01: Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.01: Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.01: Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).

Grade 6

• Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes.
  • Objective 1.01: Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.
• Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Collect and compare information about diverse cultures, environments, and peoples.
• Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
  • Objective 5.01: Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats (e.g., print, multimedia).

Theatre Arts Education (2001)

Grade 3

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.03: Infer lessons from multicultural stories, fairytales, tall tales, fables, legends and myths.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.03: Describe lessons related through multicultural literature.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.01: Develop skills to identify characters and cast roles from a variety of texts that reflect upon heritage, culture and history.
  • Objective 2.02: Utilize vocal expression to explore thoughts and feelings of real and non-real characters.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.03: Describe lessons related through multicultural literature.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.02: Use vocal expression to demonstrate the thoughts and feelings of real and non-real characters.

Grade 6

• Goal 1: The learner will write based on personal experience and heritage, imagination, literature, and history.
  • Objective 1.06: Adapt stories, myths and fairy tales into dramatic literature.
• Goal 2: The learner will act by interacting in improvisations and assuming roles.
  • Objective 2.06: Adapt stories, myths and fairy tales into improvised scenes.
• Goal 8: The learner will understand context by analyzing the role of theatre, film, television, and electronic media in the past and present.
  • Objective 8.02: Describe how theatre and related media have reflected and transformed various cultures throughout history.
  • Objective 8.03: Demonstrate a basic knowledge of European theatre history that may include primitive storytelling and Greek/Roman times to the Elizabethan period.

Social Studies (2003)

Grade 3

• Goal 7: The learner will analyze the role of real and fictional heroes in shaping the culture of communities.
  • Objective 7.02: Assess the heroic deeds of characters from folktales and legends.
  • Objective 7.03: Explore the role of selected fictional characters in creating new communities.

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 3

• Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.02: Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, or viewing by:
    • setting a purpose.
    • previewing the text.
    • making predictions.
    • asking questions.
    • locating information for specific purposes.
    • making connections.
    • using story structure and text organization to comprehend.
  • Objective 2.05: Draw conclusions, make generalizations, and gather support by referencing the text.

Grade 4

• Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.02: Infer word meanings from taught roots, prefixes, and suffixes to decode words in text to assist comprehension.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Analyze characters, events, and plots from different selections and cite supporting evidence
  • Objective 3.03: Consider the ways language and visuals bring characters to life, enhance plot development, and produce a response.

Grade 5

• Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.01: Expand and refine vocabulary through knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, roots, derivatives, and etymologies (word origins) to assist comprehension.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.02: Make connections between texts by recognizing similarities and differences based on a common lesson, theme, or message.
  • Objective 3.03: Justify evaluation of characters and events from different selections by citing supporting evidence in the text(s).
  • Objective 3.05: Integrate main idea and supporting details from multiple sources to expand understanding of texts.

Grade 6

• Goal 5: The learner will respond to various literary genres using interpretive and evaluative processes.
  • Objective 5.02: Study the characteristics of literary genres (fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry) through:
    • reading a variety of literature and other text (e.g., novels, autobiographies, myths, essays, magazines, plays, pattern poems, blank verse).
    • interpreting what impact genre-specific characteristics have on the meaning of the work.
    • exploring how the author's choice and use of a genre shapes the meaning of the literary work.
    • exploring what impact literary elements have on the meaning of the text such as the influence of setting or the problem and its resolution.