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=REVISED HOME PAGE= NETS-S || **1. Creativity and Innovation ** Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology.
 * **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 Standards
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">2. Communication and Collaboration **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 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 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> 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;">Content Standards || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Content Standards: Reading **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">RF.4.4a **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read on-level text with purpose and understanding.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">RL4.10 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">RI4.10 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">College and Career Readiness for Reading **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">R.CCR.2 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Writing <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">W.4.7 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">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;">College and Career Readiness for Writing **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">W.CCR.4 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">W.CCR.6 **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; 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="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Speaking and Listening **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">SL.4.1 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">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;">SL.4.4 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to support main ideas or themes; speak clearly at an understandable pace.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">SL.4.5 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Add audio recordings and visual displays to presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">L4.3 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or 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 collect and analyze data that will be utilized for creating a solution.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will illustrate their plan for a solution using digital graphic organizers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will contribute to the class wiki and Google Document.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will work collaboratively in group and with a distant school community.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will engage in critical thinking and problem solving skills with peers.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will exhibit initiative and employ creativity with their solutions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will explore the use of digital resources.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">The students will produce solutions to the problem presented. ||  ||