Connection to NCSCOS
English Language Arts
Competency Goal 1: The learner will apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
1.03 Identify key words and discover their meanings and relationships through a variety of strategies.
1.04 Increase reading and writing vocabulary through:
1.05 Use word reference materials (e.g., glossary, dictionary, thesaurus) to identify and comprehend unknown words.
Competency Goal 2: The learner will apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
2.02 Interact with the text before, during, and after reading, listening, and viewing by:
2.04 Identify and interpret elements of fiction and nonfiction and support by referencing the text to determine the:
2.06 Summarize major points from fiction and nonfiction text(s) to clarify and retain information and ideas.
Competency Goal 3: The learner will make connections with text through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
3.01 Respond to fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama using interpretive, critical, and evaluative processes by:3.02 Analyze characters, events, and plots from different selections and cite supporting evidence.
3.05 Integrate information from two or more sources to expand understanding of text.
3.06 Conduct research for assigned projects or self-selected projects (with assistance) from a variety of sources through the use of technological and informal tools (e.g., print and non-print texts, artifacts, people, libraries, databases, computer networks).
Competency Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
4.02 Use oral and written language to:
4.03 Make oral and written presentations using visual aids with an awareness of purpose and audience.
4.06 Compose a draft that conveys major ideas and maintains focus on the topic with specific, relevant, supporting details by using preliminary plans.
Social Studies
Competency Goal 3: The learner will trace the history of colonization in North Carolina and evalutae its significance for diverse people's ideas.
3.02 Identify people, symbols, events, and documents associated with North Carolina's history.
3.05 Describe the political and social history of colonial North Carolina and analyze its influence on the state today.
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.1.02 Demonstrate competence and self motivation as a reader.
1.03 Demonstrate appropriate care of resources.
1.04 Acknowledge ownership of ideas.
1.05 Identify elements of composition.
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 (e.g. print, multimedia).5.02 Produce media in various formats (print, graphical, audio, video, multimedia) appropriate to audience and purpose.
5.03 Collaborate with others, both in person and through technologies, to identify information problems and to design, develop and evaluate information products and solutions.
Computer Technology Skills
COMPETENCY GOAL 3: The learner will use a variety of technologies to access, analyze, interpret, synthesize, apply, and communicate information.
3.07 Locate, select, organize, and present content area information from the Internet for a specific purpose and audience, citing sources.