1st Grade
Unit 6 Module B: Celebrating Diversity
May: 3rd Trimester
1st Grade
Unit 6 Module B: Celebrating Diversity
May: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that illustrations and details in texts help them better comprehend what they read.
Writers understand that valid opinions are supported by reasons.
Learners appreciate how its diverse culture helps contribute to the unique character of the United States.
How can readers use illustrations and key details to understand texts?
How do writers use what they read to develop and support an opinion?
Readers will identify and retell key details using the text and illustrations.
Writers will formulate an opinion and support it with one or more reasons and text evidence.
Learners will understand the rich diversity of the United States and celebrate how it fosters understanding between cultures.
Opinion Task: Write an Opinion Piece
Children will think about the lost items they read about in Whose Is This? and decide which one they think was the most interesting and why. They will write their opinion and 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:
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: 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)
With prompting and support, read informational texts appropriately complex for grade 1. (CCSS: RI.1.10)
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)
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.
Think about the lost items in Whose Is This? Pick the one that you think is most interesting. Write your opinion. Use information from the text that helped you form your opinion.
Remember to:
tell the name of the item you are writing about
write a sentence that tells your opinion
give reasons for your opinion
support your reasons with information from the text
write 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
Whose Is This?
(trade book)
300L
Informational Text
Supporting Text
L is for Liberty (Text Collection)
540L
Informational Text
Sleuth
“The Festival” 300L
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Many Moons
(Available for check out through District Media Services)
Foundational Skills