by Leticia Valencia
 
Introduction:
This unit on celebrations will allow students to apply basic skills in different subject areas.

Standards:
Students will be able to demonstrate the following:
1. Use phonetic skills to decode words
2. Use word recognition and decoding strategies such as phonetic skills, context clues, picture clues, word order, prefixes and suffixes to comprehend written selections.
3. Use reading comprehension strategies such as drawing conclusions, summarizing, making predictions, identifying cause and effect, and differentiating from nonfiction
4. Recognize the historical and cultural perspectives of literacy selection
5. Use the writing process, including generating topics, drafting, revising ideas and editing, to complete effectively a variety of writing tasks
6. Write a personal experience narrative or a creative story that has a beginning, middle and end and uses descriptive words or phrases to develop ideas and advance the characters, plot and setting
7. Listening and speaking