Essential Literacy Strategies

The standard and learning objectives within my learning segment address an essential literacy strategy, requisite skill that supports use of the strategy, and a reading/writing connection. The essential literacy skill of my learning segment is to recognize/identify and use frequently occurring adjectives. Students will be able to build these strategies through practice examples and real text. Prior to my learning segment, students are able to identify nouns. The requisite skills are the students’ ability to identify and correctly use a word describing a noun. The reading/ writing connections addressed within the learning segment are for students to construct complete sentences using appropriate adjectives, as well as recognizing/identifying