Unit2

===Unit of inquiry: Deepening Literacy Habits: Reading and Writing Non-Fiction Texts and Developing Comprehension Strategies for Content Literacy ===


 * 1) What strategies do good readers use to understand informational text?
 * 2) How does nonfiction enrich our lives?
 * 3) How does an author present and select relevant information within a nonfiction text?
 * 4) Why do we read and write non-fiction texts?

**Learning Standards**
Learning standards are guidelines of what a student can or should be able to do by the end of the learning cycle.



**Learning Assessment**
Reading Assessments
 * Read like a reader, read like a writer text work
 * Quiz on vocabulary terms including reading strategies, 6 traits
 * Unit Test
 * Reader’s Notebook
 * Conferring

 Writing Assessments
 * Quiz
 * Unit Test
 * [[image:Writing_and_Publishing.png width="599" height="59" link="Rubric for Info Text"]]
 *  Read like a reader, read like a writer
 * Writer’s Notebook/[[image:cooltext442401077.png link="Blogs"]]

