1st Grade
Unit 6 Module A: Celebrating Diversity
Early April to Early May: 3rd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 6 Module A: Celebrating Diversity
Early April to Early May: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that both literary and informational texts can convey lessons about life.
Writers understand that opinions are supported by one or more reasons.
Learners understand that the United States is a special country because of the diversity of its people.
How can readers learn about life lessons in literary and informational texts?
How do writers support an opinion?
Readers will examine literary and informational texts to determine life lessons.
Writers will formulate an opinion and support it with both reasons and text evidence.
Learners will understand the rich diversity in the United States.
Opinion Task: Write a Book Review
Children will write a review that states their opinion of one of the texts they have read. They will include information from the text that helped them form their opinion.
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:
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. (CCSS: RL.1.2)
Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (CCSS:RI.1.2)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
Ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.1.1) *
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. *
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses. (CCSS: RL.1.4)
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)*
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.4)
Use the illustrations and details in a text to describe its key ideas. (CCSS: RI.1.7)
Identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text. (CCSS: RI.1.8)*
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:
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 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 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.
Write a book review. Write about One Classroom, Many Cultures or A Picnic in October. What is your opinion of the book? What information from the book helped you form your opinion?
Remember to:
tell the topic by naming the book you are writing about.
tell your opinion of the book.
give reasons to support your opinion.
support your reasons with information from the book.
provide an ending.
Administered AFTER Module B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text
One Classroom Many Cultures (trade book)
530L
Informational Text
Supporting Text
A Picnic in October (Text Collection)
310L
Literary Text
Sleuth
“A Horse Named Chester” 310L
“Welcome to Pilsen” 400L
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Emma’s Poem
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills