Big Idea: Reflecting and Responding to Text (Reading)Reflecting and responding to text requires readers to connect knowledge from the text with their own

background knowledge and experience. The focus is on how the text relates to personal knowledge.

Academic Expectations 1.1 Students use reference tools such as dictionaries, almanacs, encyclopedias, and computer

reference programs and research tools.

Students make sense of the variety of materials they read.

1.3 Students make sense of the various things they observe.

1.4 Students make sense of the various messages to which they listen.

High School Enduring Knowledge – Understandings Students will understand that

• making connections involves thinking beyond the text and applying the text to a variety of

situations. Connections may be expressed as comparisons, analogies, inferences, or the

synthesis of ideas.

• references from texts provide evidence of applying ideas and making text-to-self, text-to-text, and

text-to-world connections.

• reading a wide range of literature by different authors, and from many time periods, cultures, and

genres, builds an understanding of the extent of human experience.

Grades 9 & 10 Skills and Concepts

Students will

• use comprehension strategies while reading, listening to, or viewing literary and informational

texts to analyze content or make connections

• self-select texts based on personal interests

• use evidence from text(s) to formulate and justify opinions about what is read or viewed:

o relate texts to prior knowledge, personal experiences, other texts or ideas

o provide text references/evidence to support connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, or text-to-

world)

• read a wide range of texts, including texts by the same author, about the same subject or theme,

from the same genre, and from different cultures and time periods, in order to respond and make

connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)

• demonstrate participation in a literate community by sharing and responding to ideas and

connections with others through writing and in-depth discussions about texts