POWER STANDARDS

Santa Cruz North/South/East Clusters

Power Standard
Meaningful expanded sentence (following balance, parallelism and modification)

Quarter and Topic Q1: Topic: Grammar Awareness and Structure

Plan on how to address each Present RECOUNT Texts (e.g. diary entries) with varied adjectives, appropriate coordinators and subordinators and other appropriate devices

Power Standard

Quarter and Topic

Plan on how to address each

1.Teacher prepares a variety of sentences with contrasting ideas using connectors(but, however, nevertheless..etc) 2.Teacher prepares sentences/dialogues/ interviews to be read by the selected students. The rest of the class will identify the meaning expressed in the activity

Listen to points the Q1: Listening speaker emphasizes as signaled by the contrastive sentence stress, intonation, phrasing, pacing, tone and non-verbal cues serve as carriers of meaning that may aid or interfere in the message of the text listened to

Power Standard

Quarter and Topic

Plan on how to address each

1.Expose students on the examples of blogs in the Internet 2.Provide materials regarding social and economic issues like newspapers for current events 3.Let students read editorials for them to learn how to give comments and opinion 4.Let students write or make comments regarding the social economic issues

Learner creates blog Q1: Writing on the Internet commenting on social/economic issues and concerns

Quarter and Topic Evaluate content, Q2: Reading elements, and features and Comprehensi properties of a on reading or viewing selection using a set of criteria developed in consultation (with peers and the teacher) Power Standard

Plan on how to address each 1.Groupings: using variety of visual instructional materials (e.g. tables, graphs, information maps commonly used in content are texts) 2.Reporting of students 3.Giving of feedback

Power Standard
Demonstrates understanding of how abstract information presented in different text types and to note explicit and implicit signals used by the writer

Quarter and Topic

Plan on how to address each

Q3:Reading and 1. Exposure of the Comprehension students to the different text types (instructional, recount, persuasive, explanatory, informational and literary) 2. Use the different text types as scaffold to deeper learning of the students

Power Standard
Define words from contexts through word analysis (prefix, suffixes, roots)

Quarter and Topic Q4: Vocabulary Development

Plan on how to address each A.Word Games 1.Whats the Word? Thats the word! 2.Crossword Puzzles 3.Memory games 4.Structural Analysis 5.Clustering 6.Word Cline