Structured Learning ELA Curriculum

6th-8th Grade

Course Purpose:

Students will build literacy skills through examining and analyzing texts and share information through collaborative writing and discussion.

Outcomes and Components:

*LA.68.1 Students will examine a variety of texts to demonstrate understanding of structure, story elements, and point of view.

Pacing  

Instruct/

Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)

  *LA.68.1.1

Determine what a text says explicitly, as well as what inferences

must be drawn.

EE.RL.6.1
  *LA.68.1.2 Cite text to support inferences made from stories or poems. EE.RL.8.1
  *LA.68.1.3 Identify story elements and details in the text that are related to
the theme or central idea (to include: events, characters, and
setting).
EE.RL.6.2
EE.RL.7.2
EE.RL.8.2
  *LA.68.1.4

Investigate how two or more story elements are related (cause

and effect).

EE.RL.7.3
  *LA.68.1.5 Determine the structure of a text (i.e., story, poem, or drama) EE.RL.6.5
  *LA.68.1.6

Compare the structure of two or more texts (to include: stories,

poems, or dramas).

EE.RL.7.5
  *LA.68.1.7 Determine how the word choice changes the meaning of a text. EE.RL.6.4
  *LA.68.1.8

Identify words or phrases in the text that describe or show what

the narrator or speaker is thinking or feeling.

EE.RL.6.6
  *LA.68.1.9

Compare and contrast the points of view of two or more

characters or narrators in a text.

EE.RL.7.6