Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets

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 2.01: Read aloud independently with fluency and comprehension any text that is appropriately designed for emergent readers.
  • 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 2.03: Read and comprehend both fiction and nonfiction text appropriate for grade one using:
    • prior knowledge.
    • summary.
    • questions.
    • graphic organizers.
  • Objective 2.04: Use preparation strategies to anticipate vocabulary of a text and to connect prior knowledge and experiences to a new text.
  • Objective 2.05: Predict and explain what will happen next in stories.
  • Objective 2.06: Self-monitor comprehension by using one or two strategies (questions, retelling, summarizing).
  • Objective 2.07: Respond and elaborate in answering what, when, where, and how questions.
  • 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 3.01: Elaborate on how information and events connect to life experiences.
  • Objective 3.02: Recognize and relate similar vocabulary use and concepts across experiences with texts.
  • Objective 3.04: Share personal experiences and responses to experiences with text:
    • publishing non-print texts.
    • discussing interpretations.
    • recording personal responses.
  • Objective 3.05: Recognize how particular authors use vocabulary and language to develop an individual, recognizable voice.
  • Objective 3.06: Discuss authors'/speakers' use of different kinds of sentences to interest a reader/listener and communicate a message.
  • Objective 3.07: Compare authors' uses of conventions of language that aid readers including:
    • kinds of sentences.
    • capitalization of first word in a sentence and proper names.
    • punctuation to end a declarative and interrogative sentence.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.04: Extend skills in using oral and written language:
    • clarifying purposes for engaging in communication.
    • using clear and precise language to paraphrase messages.
    • engaging in more extended oral discussions.
    • producing written products.
    • completing graphic organizers.

Grade 2

• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Read and comprehend both narrative and expository text appropriate for grade two by:
    • determining purpose (reader's and author's).
    • making predictions.
    • asking questions.
    • locating information for specific reasons/purposes.
    • recognizing and applying text structure.
    • comprehending and evaluating author's decisions and word choice.
    • determining fact and opinion.
    • recognizing and comprehending figurative language.
    • making inferences and drawing conclusions.
  • Objective 2.02: Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
  • Objective 2.03: Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
  • Objective 2.04: Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
  • Objective 2.05: Self-monitor own difficulties in comprehending independently using several strategies.
  • 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.
  • Objective 2.08: Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
  • 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).
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.03: Read aloud with fluency and expression any text appropriate for early independent readers.
  • Objective 4.04: Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
  • Objective 4.05: Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
  • Objective 4.06: Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
  • Objective 4.07: Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process:
    • planning and drafting.
    • rereading for meaning.
    • revising to clarify and refine writing with guided discussion.
  • Objective 4.08: Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
  • Objective 4.09: Use media and technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
    • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
    • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
• Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
  • Objective 2.01: Demonstrate sense of story (e.g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
  • Objective 2.05: Predict possible events in texts before and during reading.
  • Objective 2.06: Understand and follow oral-graphic directions.
  • Objective 2.07: Demonstrate understanding of literary language; e.g., "once upon a time" and other vocabulary specific to a genre.
  • Objective 2.08: Distinguish fantasy from reality when reading text.
  • Objective 2.09: Identify the sequence of events in a story.
• Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
  • Objective 3.01: Connect information and events in text to experience.
  • Objective 3.02: Discuss concepts and information in a text to clarify and extend knowledge.
  • Objective 3.03: Associate target words with prior knowledge and explore an author's choice of words.
  • 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.