1. Unpacking This Week’s ELA Standards
Understanding what we are learning and why

2. Examine Key Words Circle Verbs Underline Nouns
Tell what you should be able to do in each standard (explain, apply, interpret).
Tell what will be taught and tested .
Underline Nouns
Tells what topics, concepts, content will be covered.
Tells what you should know.
Tells what you will make or create.
Verbs are the most important part of performance based standards.
Parentheses around Adjectives & Adverbs
Tell key criteria on which you will be graded
Tell to what level you are expected to complete your work.

3. Let’s Unpack Together
I can apply a writing process to develop text for audience and purpose which follows appropriate organizational structure to convey and support the intended purpose
Practice in unpacking the Standards.
Note that this standard applies not only to ELA, but to science and social studies as well.

4. Let’s Unpack Together Big Ideas (Nouns & Adjectives) Tasks (Verbs)
Writing
Process
Text
Audience
Purpose
Organizational (organization)
Structure
Intended (intent)
Tasks
(Verbs)
Apply
Develop
Follow
Convey
Support

5. Let’s Unpack Together Big Ideas (Nouns & Adjectives) Understandings
Writing
Process
Text
Audience
Purpose
Organizational (organization)
Structure
Intended (intent)
Understandings
Text
Purpose
Intent

6. Let’s Unpack Together Big Ideas (Nouns & Adjectives) Knowledge Writing
Process
Text
Audience
Purpose
Organizational (organization)
Structure
Intended (intent)
Knowledge
Writing
Process
Audience
Organization
Structure

7. Let’s Unpack Together Tasks (Verbs) Skills Apply Develop Follow Convey
Support
Skills
Apply
Develop
Follow
Convey
Support

8. To What Other Subjects Could This Standard Apply
I can apply a writing process to develop text for audience and purpose which follows appropriate organizational structure to convey and support the intended purpose.
Practice in unpacking the Standards.
Scienc e
Social Studies

9. Your Turn
Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the reading standards below:
I can read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by reading text that is developmentally appropriate.
I can read, infer, analyze and draw conclusions to compare and contrast the roles and functions of characters in various plots, their relationships and their conflicts.
I can infer and draw conclusions by using text evidence to support my analysis of what the text says and my inference.
Remember:
Circle verbs.
Underline nouns.
Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.
The average classroom teacher hasn’t dealt with the standards in this way. Teachers need to be shown how to look at standards.
I can use context clues, Greek and Latin roots, suffix and prefixes, to decode unknown words.

10. Your Turn
Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the writing standards below:
I can write opinion texts that organizes supporting details/ reasons into introductory, supporting, and concluding paragraphs.
I can write opinion texts that uses transitions to connect opinion and reason.
I can write opinion texts that introduce a topic or text being studied using an introductory paragraph that clearly supports my purpose.
With assistance from adults/ peers, I can use technology, including the Internet, to write and publish an opinion text to state an opinion or establish a position, providing relevant reasoning supported by facts/ details using specific and accurate words related to topic, audience and purpose.
Remember:
Circle verbs.
Underline nouns.
Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.
The average classroom teacher hasn’t dealt with the standards in this way. Teachers need to be shown how to look at standards.

11. Your Turn
Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the speaking and listening standards below:
I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by ​posing and responding to specific questions to clarify or follow up on information, and making comments that contribute to the discussion and link to the remarks of others.
I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by ​following, restating, and giving multi-step instructions from or to others in collaborative groups.
Remember:
Circle verbs.
Underline nouns.
Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.
The average classroom teacher hasn’t dealt with the standards in this way. Teachers need to be shown how to look at standards.
I can develop and apply effective listening skills and strategies by evaluating and modifying my own active listening skills

12. Your Turn
Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the number operations standards below:
I can understand that parts of a whole can be expressed as fractions and/or decimals.
I can convert decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals.
I can compare and order fractions and/or decimals to the thousandths place using the symbols >, = or <, and justify the solution.
Remember:
Circle verbs.
Underline nouns.
Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.
The average classroom teacher hasn’t dealt with the standards in this way. Teachers need to be shown how to look at standards.

13. Your Turn
Work with a partner and use the graphic organizer at your table unpack the earth’s speres standards below:
I can read independently for multiple purposes over sustained periods of time by reading text that is developmentally appropriate.
I can read, infer, analyze and draw conclusions to compare and contrast the roles and functions of characters in various plots, their relationships and their conflicts.
I can infer and draw conclusions by using text evidence to support my analysis of what the text says and my inference.
Remember:
Circle verbs.
Underline nouns.
Put parentheses around adjectives and adverbs.
The average classroom teacher hasn’t dealt with the standards in this way. Teachers need to be shown how to look at standards.
I can use context clues, Greek and Latin roots, suffix and prefixes, to decode unknown words.