1st Grade
Unit 5 Module B: Observing the Messages of the Natural World
Late March to Early April: 3rd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 5 Module B: Observing the Messages of the Natural World
Late March to Early April: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that facts, details, and features in informational texts enable them to find answers to questions.
Writers understand that they can convey questions and answers to readers.
Learners understand that observation and prediction help us to discover information about the world.
How do readers read to find answers to questions?
How do writers use facts and key details to answer questions about a topic?
Readers will use facts and details found in informational texts to find answers to questions.
Writers will use research to write question-and-answer informational texts.
Learners will understand how to use observations and new learning to make predictions about our solar system.
Informative/Explanatory Task: Write a Question-and-Answer Book
Children will write a question-and-answer book about a planet or another element of the solar system. Children will use Our World in Space: Planets and The Sun, as well as other texts, to write their questions and answers.
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:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.1)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
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)
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Participate in shared research and writing projects. For example: explore a number of “how-to” books on a given topic and use them to write a sequence of instructions. (CCSS: W.1.7)
Identify a clear and significant purpose for research. (for example: Is my purpose for researching frogs clear and is it important to understanding more about mammals?)
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.
Write a question-and-answer book about a planet or something else in the solar system. Use facts from The Sun, Our World in Space: Planets, and other texts.
Remember to:
write at least three questions about your topic.
write answers to your questions based on facts from the books you have read.
write a conclusion.
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
Our World in Space: Planets (Text Collection)
520L
Informational Text
Supporting Text
The Sun (trade book)
370L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“Finding a Voice”
310L
Foundational Skills