Standards for Explore: The Great Bear Hunt

Select or choose music to listen to and explain the connections to specific interests or experiences for a specific purpose.

Key Ideas and Details: Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.

Craft and Structure: Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events.

Key Ideas and Details: Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast two or more versions of the same story (e.g., Cinderella stories) by different authors or from different cultures.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting).

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas: 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.

Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity: By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas: Analyze various accounts of a subject told in different mediums (e.g., a person's life story in both print and multimedia), determining which details are emphasized in each account.