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• Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
• Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral. 
• Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.
• Describe how words and phrases (e.g., regular beats, alliteration, rhymes, repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or song.
• Describe the overall structure of a story, including describing how the beginning introduces the story and the ending concludes the action.
• Acknowledge differences in the points of view of characters, including by speaking in a different voice for each character when reading dialogue aloud. 
• Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate understanding of its characters, setting, or plot.
• Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.
• By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories and poetry, in the grades 2–3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
• Write opinion pieces in which they introduce the topic or book they are writing about, state an opinion, supply reasons that support the opinion, use linking words (e.g., because, and, also) to connect opinion and reasons, and provide a concluding statement or section.
• Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or section.
• Write narratives in which they recount a well elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
• With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing.
• With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
• Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., read a number of books on a single topic to produce a report; record science observations).
• Recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.

1R: Launching the Readers Workshop

1W: Launching with Small Moments

2R: Character Study

2W: Lifting Level Narr Writing Studying Craft

3R: Series Reading Cross Genre Clubs

4W: Informational Writing (Personal Expertise)

Students will need the following:

• A device with camera and microphone enabled
• Headphones/Earbuds
• Access to Google Chrome
• Access to web based learning management platform