1st Grade
Unit 3 Module A: Making Choices
Mid November - Early December: 2nd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 3 Module A: Making Choices
Mid November - Early December: 2nd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that they can learn lessons through the characters and events in stories.
Writers understand that stories need appropriately sequenced events.
Learners understand that people choose to use their resources to get what they want and need.
How do readers recognize the sequence of events in a story?
How can writers use certain words to signal the sequence of events?
Readers will retell stories in appropriate sequence and demonstrate understanding of the story’s lessons.
Writers will write a narrative of events using words to signal their sequence.
Learners will understand that people make choices about spending money.
Narrative Task: Write About Choices
The selections in this unit are about choices and making decisions. Children will write a short story about a choice they made to save or spend money.
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.
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:
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (CCSS: RL.1.3) *
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
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)
Make predictions about what will happen in the text and explain whether they were confirmed or not and why, providing evidence from the text. *
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:
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:
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)
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.
The stories we read are about choices and making decisions. Write a short story about a choice you made to save or spend money.
Remember to:
write a beginning, middle, and end to your story,
tell two or more events that happened in order
use words such as first, next, then, and in the end.
End of Unit Assessment (administer after 3B)
1st Grade Unit 3 End of Unit Assessment (Student Copy)
1st Grade Unit 3 End of Unit Assessment (Teacher Copy)
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text
The Winner’s Choice (trade book)
Lexile 370L
Literary Text
Supporting Text
Hunter’s Money Jar
(trade book)
Lexile 350L
Literary Text
Sleuth
“Are You My Kitten?” (260L)
“Cook Up A Surprise” (360L)
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
My Rows and Piles of Coins
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills