1st Grade
Unit 5 Module A: Observing the Messages of the Natural World
Late February - Mid March: 3rd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 5 Module A: Observing the Messages of the Natural World
Late February - Mid March: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that sensory details in literary texts can provide descriptions, and facts and details in informational texts can convey information.
Writers understand that narrative texts include sequenced events and a conclusion.
Learners understand that observations of the natural world can help us learn about humans.
How do readers use describing words and key details to understand text?
How do writers use temporal words to sequence narrative texts?
Readers will identify the describing words and phrases and key details in various texts.
Writers will use time order to sequence events in a narrative.
Learners will understand how to compare messages about the natural world from both literary and informative texts.
Informative/Explanatory Task: Write Steps in a Sequence
Children will write a story that includes the moon as a central feature. It can be make-believe or realistic fiction. Encourage children to use King Kafu and the Moon and Let’s Visit the Moon for ideas and inspiration.
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:
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (CCSS: RL.1.4)
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.4)
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)
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details. (CCSS: RL.1.3) *
Make predictions about what will happen in the text and explain whether they were confirmed or not and why, providing evidence from the text. *
Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information. (adapted from CCSS: RL.1.5)
Follow and replicate patterns in predictable poems.
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) *
With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1. (CCSS: RL.1.10)
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)*
Activate schema and background knowledge to construct meaning.
Distinguish between information provided by pictures or other illustrations and information provided by the words in a text. (CCSS RI.1.6)
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:
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 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)
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
Make up a story about the moon. It can be make believe or a story that could really happen. Use King Kafu and the Moon and Let’s Visit the Moon for ideas.
Remember to:
write a beginning.
write at least three events in order.
use time-order words such as first, next, then, and last.
use sensory words that tell how things look, sound, feel, taste, and smell.
write an ending for your story.
*Administered AFTER Module 5B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text
King Kafu and the Moon (trade book)
480L
Literary Text
Supporting Text
Let’s Visit the Moon (Text Collection)
500L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“Look Out for Wildlife” 320L
“Is Your Polar Bear Happy?” 350L
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Many Moons
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills