The North Carolina Department of Instruction Competencies used in this unit on rainforest.
English/Language Arts
Competency Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
1.04 Apply knowledge of all sources of information (meaning, language, graphophonics) to read a new text silently and independently.
Competency Goal 2: The learner will develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
2.03 Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
2.04 Pose possible how, why, and what if questions to understand and/or interpret text.
2.06 Recall facts and details from a text.
Competency Goal 3: The learner will make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
3.04 Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard. (e.g., Read aloud by teacher, literature circles, interest groups, book clubs).
3.05 Locate and discuss examples of an author’s use of:
- kinds of sentences (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory).
- capitalization (titles, dates and days, names of countries).
- punctuation (exclamation marks, commas in dates, and to introduce dialogue and quotations).
- use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader
Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
4.04 Use oral communication to identify, organize, and analyze information.
4.05 Respond appropriately when participating in group discourse by adapting language and communication behaviors to the situation to accomplish a specific purpose.
Information Skills
Competency Goal 1: The learner will EXPLORE sources and formats for reading, listening, and viewing purposes
1.01 Participate in read-aloud, storytelling, booktalking, silent and voluntary reading experiences.
1.04 Acknowledge ownership of ideas.
1.05 Demonstrate sense of story (e. g., beginning, middle, end, characters, details).
1.06 Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of types of books and resources (print, non-print, electronic).
Competency Goal 3: The learner will RELATE ideas and information to life experiences.
3.01 Describe personal cultural heritage and environment.
3.02 Collect information about diverse cultures, environments and peoples.
3.04 Relate cultural similarities and differences to personal life experiences.
Competency Goal 4: The learner will EXPLORE and USE research processes to meet information needs.
4.05 Gather information
4.07 Organize and use information
Competency Goal 5: The learner will COMMUNICATE reading, listening, and viewing experiences.
5.01 Respond to reading, listening, viewing experiences orally, artistically, dramatically, through various formats.
Social Studies
COMPETENCY GOAL 3: The learner will analyze how individuals, families, and communities are alike and different.
3.01 Compare similarities and differences between oneself and others.
3.02 Describe similarities and differences among families in different communities.
3.03 Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
3.04 Identify multiple roles performed by individuals in their families and communities.
COMPETENCY GOAL 4: The learner will exhibit an understanding of change in communities over time.
4.02 Analyze environmental issues, past and present, and determine their impact on different cultures
COMPETENCY GOAL 5: The learner will understand the relationship between people and geography in various communities.
5.01 Define geography and use geographic terms to describe landforms, bodies of water, weather, and climate. 5.02 Describe the role of a geographer and apply geographic tools, such as maps, globes, compasses and photographs, in the understanding of locations and characteristics of places and regions. 5.03 Compare and contrast the physical features of communities and regions. 5.06 Identify and describe the people, vegetation, and animal life specific to certain regions and describe their interdependence.
COMPETENCY GOAL 6: The learner will analyze how people depend on the physical environment and use natural resources to meet basic needs.
6.01 Identify natural resources and cite ways people conserve and replenish natural resources. 6.02 Cite ways people modify the physical environment to meet their needs and explain the consequences.
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