Read Aloud: Tom Is a Pirate

Determine Meaning to Form an Opinion Unit 5

​Literary Text:

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RL.MC.5.1: Ask and answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions to demonstrate understanding of a text; use key details to make inferences and draw conclusions in texts heard or read.

​RL.MC.5.2: Make predictions using prior knowledge, pictures, illustrations, title, and information about author and illustrator.

​RL.MC.6.1 Describe the relationship between the illustrations and the characters, setting, or events.

RL.MC.8.1 Read or listen closely to: a. describe characters’ actions and feelings; b. compare and contrast characters’ experiences to those of the reader; c. describe setting; d. identify the plot including problem and solution; and e. describe cause and effect relationships.

Determine Meaning to Form an Opinion Unit 5

​Unit Focus:

• I can analyze the text and illustrations to make predictions.

• I can reflect to modify my predictions.

• I can use evidence from the text and background knowdledge to make inferences.

• I can reflect to form an opinion.

• I can provide evidence for my opinion.

• I can analyze the characters, setting, events, and ideas as they develop within a text.

to examine closley.

​​Analyze:

someone who appears in a story, book, play, movie, or other story.

​​Character