Kindergarten
Unit 2 Module A: Understanding Then and Now
Beginning of October - End of October: 1st Trimester
Embedded Files
Module Overview
Supplementary Resources for Support
Supplementary Resources for Support
Use the drop down menu to view the new resources have been curated to support ReadyGEN reading and writing and the foundational skills block
eBackpacks Unit 2 - digital books, articles, etc. for student reading to encourage a love of reading and build background knowledge around unit topics and themes
PBA Student Writing Samples for Unit 2A - Samples & reflective questions to use with students to support their PBA writing and scoring support for teacher use
Fundations Videos - Exemplar videos in the Edthena Video Bank to watch Fundations lessons
Fundations Learning Activities Overview & Video Examples - An at-a-glance support for the Learning Activities used in Fundations
Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings
Readers understand that stories have characters, settings, and major events.
Writers understand the importance of sequenced events in a story.
Learners understand the concepts of “then” and “now”.
Essential Questions: "Knows"
Essential Questions: "Knows"
How do readers look closely at a story to identify its characters, setting, and major events?
How do writers tell the sequence of events in a story?
Module Goals: "Dos"
Module Goals: "Dos"
Readers will retell stories, including characters, settings, and major events.
Writers will write a simple narrative of two major events.
Learners will understand the differences between "then" and "now."
Evidence of Learning: PBA
Evidence of Learning: PBA
Narrative Task: Write about Changes
Children will create a simple personal narrative about something they did when they were younger that they do differently now.
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.
Standard 1: Oral Expression & Listening
Standard 1: Oral Expression & Listening
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1
Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges. (CCSS: SL.K.1b)
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail. (CCSS: SL.K.5)
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. (CCSS: SL.K.6)
Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes
Standard 2: Reading for All Purposes
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1
Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. (CCSS: RL.K.3) *
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.K.1) *
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.(CCSS: RL.K.2)
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (for example: what moment in a story an illustration depicts). (CCSS: RL.K.7)
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. (CCSS: RL.K.10)
Foundational Skills:
Follow words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page. (CCSS: RF.K.1a)
Recognize and produce rhyming words. (CCSS: RF.K.2a) *
Standard 3: Writing & Composition
Standard 3: Writing & Composition
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 1
Prioritized Evidence Outcome:
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened. (CCSS: W.K.3)
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed. (CCSS: W.K.5)
Grammar & Conventions:
Print many upper- and lowercase letters. (CCSS: L.K.1a)
Recognize and name end punctuation.(CCSS: L.K.2b)
Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short - vowel sounds (phonemes). (CCSS: L.K.2c)
Assessments
Assessments listed below reflect a balance of both formative and summative options, providing teachers and students with information relative to mastery of module and unit goals in reading and writing.
Performance-Based Assessment
Performance-Based Assessment
Student Prompt: Write about Changes
Create a simple personal narrative. Tell about something you did when you were younger that you do differently now.
Remember to :
draw “Then I . . .” and “Now I . . .” pictures. Show how you do something differently.
dictate or write about the two events. Use the sentence starters “Then I . . .” and “Now I . . .”
End of Unit Assessment
End of Unit Assessment
*Administered AFTER Module 2B
Selection Tests
Selection Tests
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text:
The Little House
(Text Collection)
890L
Literary Text
Supporting Text:
Four Seasons Make a Year (Text Collection)
690L
Literary Text
Foundational Skills
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