1st Grade
Unit 2 Module B: Becoming a Classroom Citizen
Late October to Mid-November: 1st & 2nd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 2 Module B: Becoming a Classroom Citizen
Late October to Mid-November: 1st & 2nd Trimester
Module Overview
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 2 - 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 2B - 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
Readers understand that illustrations and details in a text help them identify the main idea or central message.
Writers understand that experiences can be compared and contrasted.
Learners understand that we are all connected to people beyond our communities.
How do readers use illustrations and details in literary and informational texts?
How do writers use what they read to share information about a topic?
Readers will use key details and illustrations in texts to demonstrate knowledge of main ideas and central messages.
Writers will create an explanatory text that compares and contrasts experiences.
Learners will understand that children contribute to a global classroom community.
Informative/Explanatory: Write About Global Students
Children will think about what they have learned about students from around the world. They will use Bryan from Far from Home or choose one student from Going to School and write sentences to compare or contrast this student’s school experiences with their own.
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.
Module 2B spans Trimesters 1 and 2. Evidence outcomes are assessed and reported on in Trimester 2.
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 2
Build on others’ talk in conversations by responding to the comments of others through multiple exchanges. (CCSS: SL.1.1b)
Ask questions to clear up any confusion about the topics and texts under discussion. (CCSS: SL.1.1c)
Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to gather additional information or clarify something that is not understood. (CCSS: SL.1.3)
Give and follow simple two-step directions.
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 2
Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (CCSS:RI.1.2)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.1) *
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. (CCSS:RI.1.3)*
Know and use various text features (for example: headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.(CCSS: RI.1.5) *
Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. (CCSS RI.1.6)
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.8)*
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (for example: in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). (CCSS: RI.1.9)*
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.1.1) *
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. (CCSS: RL.1.2)
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)
Identify who is telling the story at various points in a text.(CCSS:RL.1.6) *
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:
Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. (adapted from CCSS: RF.1.2b) *
Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words. (CCSS: RF.1.3b)
Read words with inflectional endings. (CCSS:RF.1.3f)*
Use onsets and rimes to create new words (for example: ip to make dip, lip, slip, ship) *
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary. (CCSS: RF.1.4c)
Sort words into categories (for example: colors, clothing) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent. (CCSS: L.1.5a)
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (for example: note places at home that are cozy). (CCSS: L.1.5c)
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using frequently occurring conjunctions to signal simple relationships (for example: because). (CCSS: L.1.6)
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 2
Prioritized Evidence Outcome:
Write informative/explanatory texts by naming a topic, providing related details, and giving the audience a sense of closure. (CCSS:W.1.2)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Name a topic. (CCSS: W.1.2)
Supply some facts about the topic. (CCSS: W.1.2)
Provide some sense of closure. (CCSS: W.1.2)
Grammar & Conventions:
Use personal, possessive, and indefinite pronouns (for example: I,me, my; they, them, their, anyone, everything). (CCSS:L.1.1d)
Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future (for example: Yesterday I walked home; Today I walk home; Tomorrow I will walk home). (CCSS:L.1.1e)
Use frequently occurring conjunctions (for example: and, but, or, so, because). (CCSS:L.1.1g)
Use frequently occurring prepositions (for example: during,beyond,*toward*). (CCSS:L.1.1i)
Write complete simple sentences.
Capitalize dates and names of people. (CCSS:L.1.2a)
Use end punctuation for sentences. (CCSS:L.1.2b)
Use commas in dates and to separate single words in a series. (CCSS:L.1.2c)
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 2
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.
Use text features (for example: titles, illustrations, headings, bold type) to locate, interpret, and use information.
Identify a clear and significant purpose for research. (for example: Is my purpose for researching frogs clear and is it important to understanding more about mammals?)
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (CCSS: W.1.8)
Assessments
Assessments listed below reflect a balanced approach, providing teachers and students with information relative to mastery of module and unit goals in reading and writing.
Choose one student from Far from Home or Going to School. Explain how school is the same and different for you and this student.
Remember to:
choose a student to write about.
draw a picture that shows how school is the same or different for you and the student.
tell how you both are the same.
tell how you are different from each other.
Administered AFTER Module 2B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text
Far From Home (trade book)
Lexile 260L
Literary Text
Supporting Text
Going to School (trade book)
Lexile 590L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“Pizza, Pizza Everywhere” (370L)
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Back to School We Go
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills