1st Grade
Unit 3 Module B: Making Choices
Early December - Mid January: 2nd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 3 Module B: Making Choices
Early December - Mid January: 2nd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that the details in a text support the author’s main points.
Writers understand that an opinion has to be supported with one or more reasons.
Learners understand that people make decisions about how to spend what they earn.
How can readers use the details in a text to identify the reasons that support an author’s points?
How can writers use information to support an opinion?
Readers will state and explain the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.
Writers will state and support an opinion and provide a conclusion.
Learners will understand that people make decisions by considering choices.
Opinion Task: Write About Making Choices
In this module, children read about goods and services and how people make choices about which goods and services they purchase. As a class, children will compose a list of goods (e.g., paper products) and services (e.g., butcher, baker) they find at their local grocery store. Then each child will choose a good or service from the list that they feel is especially important and write their own opinion about it. Children will support their opinion with a reason.
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:
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.8)*
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.1) *
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (CCSS:RI.1.2)
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. (CCSS:RI.1.3)*
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.4)
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)
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. (CCSS: RI.1.7)
Identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (for example: in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). (CCSS: RI.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 an opinion supported by reasons (CCSS:W.1.1)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Introduce the topic or name the book they are writing about. (adapted from CCSS:W.1.1)
State an opinion. (adapted from CCSS:W.1.1)
Supply a reason for the opinion. (adapted from CCSS:W.1.1)
Provide some sense of closure. (adapted from CCSS:W.1.1
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)
Write or dictate questions for inquiry that arise during instruction.
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 good or service from the class list. Why is this good or service important for your family? Write your opinion. Tell why you have that opinion.
Remember to:
write a sentence that tells your opinion about the good or service
tell why the good or service is important to your family
retell your opinion at the end.
*Administered AFTER Module 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
Goods and Services
(Text Collection)
Lexile 630L
Informational Text
Supporting Text
Supermarket (Text Collection)
Lexile AD630L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“Help Yourself and Others” (400L)
Foundational Skills