1st Grade
Unit 4 Module B: Planting for the Future
February: 3rd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 4 Module B: Planting for the Future
February: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand the connection between multiple pieces of information in a text.
Writers understand that facts and details help explain information to others.
Learners understand that living things grow over time and that each part of an organism contributes to this process.
How do readers make connections between ideas and information?
How do writers explain information to others?
Readers will describe the connection between two facts in an informational text.
Writers will use facts and details to compose an explanatory text.
Learners will identify what is necessary for the growth of living things.
Informative/Explanatory Task: Write Steps in a Sequence
Children will use the information and features in How a Seed Grows and The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree to write their own book explaining how a seed grows.
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 3
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (CCSS: SL.1.1)
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. (CCSS: SL.1.2)
Describe people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly. (CCSS: SL.1.4)
Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation. (CCSS: SL.1.6) *
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:
Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. (CCSS:RI.1.3)*
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)
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)*
With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. (CCSS: RI.1.10)
Foundational Skills:
Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words. (CCSS: RF.1.2a)*
Know final-e and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds. (CCSS: RF.1.3c*
Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word. (CCSS: RF.1.3d)*
Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables. (CCSS: RF.1.3e)*
Read words with inflectional endings. (CCSS:RF.1.3f)*
Read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. (adapted from CCSS:RF.1.3g)*
Accurately decode unknown words that follow a predictable letter/sound relationship.*
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding. (CCSS: RF.1.4a)
Read grade-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression. (CCSS: RF.1.4b)
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase. (CCSS: L.1.4a) *
Use frequently occurring affixes as a clue to the meaning of a word. (CCSS: L.1.4b)
Identify frequently occurring root words (for example: look) and their inflectional forms (for example: looks, looked, looking).* (CCSS: L.1.4c)
Identify and understand compound words.*
Define words by category and by one or more key attributes (for example: a duck is a bird that swims; a tiger is a large cat with stripes). (CCSS: L.1.5b)
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (for example: note places at home that are cozy). (CCSS: L.1.5c)
Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs differing in manner (for example: look, peek, glance, stare, glare, scowl) and adjectives differing in intensity (for example: large, gigantic) by defining or choosing them or by acting out the meanings. (CCSS: L.1.5d)
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
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 determiners (for example: articles, demonstratives). (CCSS:L.1.1h)
Produce and expand complete simple and compound declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences in response to prompts. (CCSS:L.1.1j)
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Use conventional spelling for words with common spelling patterns and for frequently occurring irregular words. (CCSS:L.1.2d)
With guidance and support from adults, focus on a topic, respond to questions and suggestions from peers, and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. (CCSS:W.1.6)
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.
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.
Student Prompt
How does a seed grow? Write a book that shows how a seed becomes a plant. Use the texts How a Seed Grows and The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree.
Remember to:
introduce your topic: how a seed grows.
write three or more steps.
include some facts about seeds in the steps.
use words like at first, then, and at last.
include a sentence as an ending.
Draw pictures to go with the steps you write. Share your book.
*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
The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree (Text Collection)
340L
Informational Text
Supporting Text
How a Seed Grows
(trade book)
AD400L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“The Best Neighbor Ever”
440L
Foundational Skills