Elementary Language Arts

1st Grade

Unit 1 Module A: Connecting to Our World

Mid August - Early September: 1st Trimester

Module Overview

Supplementary Resources for Support

Use the drop down menu to view the new resources have been curated to support ReadyGEN reading and writing and the foundational skills block

eBackpacks Unit 1 - digital books, articles, etc. for student reading to encourage a love of reading and build background knowledge around unit topics and themes
PBA Student Writing Samples for Unit 1A - Samples & reflective questions to use with students to support their PBA writing and scoring support for teacher use
Fundations Videos - Exemplar videos in the Edthena Video Bank to watch Fundations lessons
Fundations Learning Activities Overview & Video Examples - An at-a-glance support for the Learning Activities used in Fundations

Enduring Understandings

Readers understand that they improve their comprehension by identifying story elements.

Writers understand that details play a role in explaining the events in a story.

Learners understand that living things depend on one another.

Essential Questions: "Knows"

How do readers know what makes a good retelling?

How do writers create interesting events?

Module Goals: "Dos"

Readers will retell stories, including key details.

Writers will write a narrative story in which they recount one or more sequenced events.

Learners will recognize that there are relationships among living things.

Evidence of Learning: PBA

Narrative Task: Write about Friendship

Children will think about the friendship between the birds and Stellaluna. Then they will illustrate and write sentences about how the characters showed their friendship when they first met and then later in the story.

Standards Addressed

The highlighted evidence outcomes are the priority for all students, serving as the essential concepts and skills. It is recommended that the remaining evidence outcomes listed be addressed as time allows, representing the full breadth of the curriculum.

Standard 1: Oral Expression & Listening

Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1

Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (for example: listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). (CCSS: SL.1.1a)
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings. (CCSS: SL.1.5)

Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes

Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1

Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:

Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. (CCSS: RL.1.2)

Supporting Evidence Outcomes:

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.1.1) *
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (CCSS: RL.1.3) *
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (CCSS: RL.1.4)
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. (adapted from CCSS: RL.1.5) *
Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. (CCSS: RL.1.7)
Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in stories. (CCSS: RL.1.9) *

Foundational Skills:

Recognize the distinguishing features of a sentence (for example: first word, capitalization, ending punctuation). (CCSS: RF.1.1a)*
Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. (CCSS: RF.1.2c)
Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes). (CCSS: RF.1.2d) *
Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound). (CCSS: RF.1.3a) *
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (for example: note places at home that are cozy). (CCSS: L.1.5c)

Standard 3: Writing & Composition

Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1

Prioritized Evidence Outcome:

Recount real or imagined, sequenced events that include details and a sense of closure. (CCSS:W.1.3)

Supporting Evidence Outcomes:

Recount two or more appropriately sequenced events. (CCSS: W.1.3)
Include some details regarding what happened (CCSS:W.1.3)
Provide some sense of closure. (CCSS: W.1.3)

Grammar & Conventions:

Print all upper- and lowercase letters. (CCSS:L.1.1a)
Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. (CCSS:L.1.1b)
Use singular and plural nouns with matching verbs in basic sentences (for example: He hops; We hop). (CCSS:L.1.1c)
Use frequently occurring adjectives. (CCSS:L.1.1f)
Spell untaught words phonetically, drawing on phonemic awareness and spelling conventions. (CCSS:L.1.2e)

Standard 4: Research Inquiry & Design

Participate in shared research and writing projects. For example: explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions. (CCSS: W.1.7)
Write or dictate questions for inquiry that arise during instruction.
With peers, use a variety of resources (for example: direct observation, trade books, texts read aloud or viewed) to answer questions of interest through guided inquiry.

Assessments

Assessments listed below reflect a balance of both formative and summative options, providing teachers and students with information relative to mastery of module and unit goals in reading and writing.

Performance-Based Assessment

Student Prompt:

Think about the friendship between the birds and Stellaluna. Draw a picture of two events from the story. once picture should show when Stellaluna and the birds first met. The other picture should show them later in the story. Write a sentence for each picture that tells how the characters showed their friendship.

Unit 1A Narrative Rubric