LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Goal 1

The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.

Objective 1.03

Integrate prior experiences and all sources of information in the text (graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic) when reading orally and silently.

Resources aligned to this objective

The Birchbark House
This study guide was created by a group of third grade enrichment students. They were planning to read this book but could find no published guide to go with it. They decided to create their own as they read.
Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Social Studies)
By Carolyn Ridgway.

Lesson plans on the web

Guided comprehension: Knowing how words work using semantic feature analysis
Students learn semantic feature analysis, a strategy that teaches them to identify characteristics associated with related words or concepts. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Guided comprehension: Monitoring using the INSERT technique
Introduces students to the comprehension strategy of monitoring. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
Rooting out meaning: Morpheme match-ups in the primary grades
This lesson encourages students to use morphemes to deconstruct and construct words. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE
To, too, or two: Developing an understanding of homophones
This ReadWriteThink lesson focuses on the “word demons” that can complicate spelling and vocabulary. (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 3–4 English Language Arts)
Provider: IRA/NCTE