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What opportunities and exposure support literacy development?
 * Logistics **
 * Unit Title || Creating Opportunities for and Exposure to Literacy Development ||
 * Grade Level || 4 ||
 * Subject || English Language Arts ||
 * Duration || 3 weeks ||


 * Goals **
 * Problem ||  A significant amount of our students are not on the appropriate reading level. I believe the students do not have enough exposure to literacy or opportunities to engage in literacy activities outside of school. We do not even have a book store in the community where the school is located. ||
 * Technology Standard || **NETS-Students **

1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">3. Research and Information Fluency: Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, & Decision-Making:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">5. Digital Citizenship:

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">6. Technology Operations and Concepts

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students demonstrate a sound understanding of technology concepts, systems and operations.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">W.CCR.6 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. || <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">W.4.7 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Conduct short research projects that build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Production and Distribution of Writing <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">W.CCR.4 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">W.CCR.6 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">SL.4.1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade 4 topics and texts building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Standard || ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 1.5;">: Research to Build and Present Knowledge
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">College and Career Readiness for Writing **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Speaking and Listening **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Prerequisite Skills || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Students will need to have basic knowledge about using the Internet as a research tool. They will need to have basic knowledge about creating, saving, and editing documents. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Objectives || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">collect and analyze data that will be utilized for creating a solution.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">illustrate their plan for a solution using digital graphic organizers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">design and develop a class blog or wiki to present and report their progress.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">recommend a minimum of two solutions for the problem presented. ||