1st Grade
Unit 4 Module A: Planting for the Future
Mid January - Early February: 2nd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 4 Module A: Planting for the Future
Mid January - Early February: 2nd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand who is telling a story and how that shapes the story.
Writers understand that narratives contain characters and sequenced events.
Learners understand that life is a process of growth, change, and learning in which important lessons are taught from generation to generation.
How do readers identify who is telling a story?
How do writers create a narrative with sequenced events and a conclusion?
Readers will identify who is telling a story.
Writers will compose a narrative with details, a sequence of events, and a conclusion.
Learners will understand how traditions and lessons are passed on from generation to generation.
Narrative Task: Write a Family Story
Children will recall the importance of families in the stories that they read. Children will write a narrative that tells a story about a family.
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:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.1.1) *
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
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)
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. (adapted from CCSS: RL.1.5)
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.
Student Prompt
Think about how the family is important in the stories that you have read. Write a story about a family.
Remember to:
tell two or more events that happened in order.
use words like first, next, and then to tell events in order.
use descriptive details to tell about the events.
include an ending.
use verbs correctly.
*Administered AFTER Module 4B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text
Arbor Day Square
(trade book)
AD470L
Literary Text
Supporting Text
The Family Tree
(Text Collection)
AD480L
Literary Text
Sleuth
“A Mentor for James” 320L
“Let’s Build a Park!” 330L
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Miss Rumphius
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills