Kindergarten
Unit 6 Module B: Exploring Communities
May: 3rd Trimester
Kindergarten
Unit 6 Module B: Exploring Communities
May: 3rd Trimester
Module Overview
Readers understand that asking questions before, during, and after reading helps them grasp the meaning of the text.
Writers understand that they can convey their own preferences through writing.
Learners understand that cities are made up of neighborhoods where people live, work, and have fun together.
How can readers ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading to better understand what they read?
How do writers convey their preferences through writing?
Readers will ask and answer questions before, during, and after reading about details in the text.
Writers will state and support an opinion and include a conclusion.
Learners will understand why people and places in an urban community are important.
Opinion Task: Create a Travel Brochure
Using information from the anchor and supporting texts and their own words and pictures, children will create a travel brochure that convinces people to visit a big city.
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 kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. (CCSS: SL.K.1)*
Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood. (CCSS: SL.K.2) *
Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. (CCSS: SL.K.3) *
Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and respond to texts. (CCSS: L.K.6) *
Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms). (CCSS: L.K.5b)
Identify real-life connections between words and their use (for example: note places at school that are colorful). (CCSS: L.K.5c)
Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (for example: walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings. (CCSS: L.K.5d)
Use new vocabulary that is directly taught through reading, speaking, and listening. *
Relate new vocabulary to prior knowledge. *
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Prioritized Evidence Outcomes:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RL.K.1) *
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (CCSS: RI.K.1) *
Supporting Evidence Outcomes:
With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (CCSS:RI.K.2)
With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. (CCSS:RI.K3)
Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. (CCSS: RI.K.4)
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (for example: what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustrator depicts). (CCSS: RI.K.7)
With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (for example: in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures). (CCSS:RI.K9)
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. (CCSS:RI.K10)
With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. (CCSS: RL.K.3) *
Foundational Skills:
Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words. (adapted from CCSS: RF.K.2d) *
Read common high-frequency words by sight (for example: the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). *(CCSS: RF.K.3c)
Read emergent-reader text with purpose and understanding
Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (for example: -ed,-s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word. (CCSS: L.K.4b) *
Evidence outcomes in bold are those that are expected to be mastered in trimester 3
Prioritized Evidence Outcome:
Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (for example: My favorite book is...). (CCSS: W.K.1)
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)
With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers (CCSS: W.K.6)
Grammar & Conventions:
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.(CCSS: L.K.1)
Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (for example:dog, dogs; wish, wishes).(CCSS: L.K.1c)
Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (for example:who, what, where, when, why, how).(CCSS: L.K.1d)
Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (for example: to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).(CCSS: L.K.1e)
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.(CCSS: L.K.1f)
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.(CCSS: L.K.2)
Gather relevant information and check various information sources for accuracy (for example: In a class discussion focused on butterflies, students ask questions related to a butterfly and the life cycle).
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experience or gather information from provided sources to answer a question. (CCSS:W.K.8)
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.
Student Prompt:
Think about the books you read, Neighborhood Walk: City and While I Am Sleeping. Use information from the books and your own words and pictures to make a travel brochure. Convince people that they should visit a big city.
Remember to:
tell what you are writing about.
state your opinion about visiting a big city.
give reasons that support your opinion.
write a conclusion.
Make sure you write complete sentences with uppercase letters at the beginning and punctuation marks at the end.
*Administered AFTER Module 6B
Texts
Texts listed below reflect the full series of reading materials designed to build background knowledge within the Unit theme.
Anchor Text:
Neighborhood Walk: City (trade book)
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Informational Text
Supporting Text:
While I am Sleeping (trade book)
Lexile NP
Literary Text
Aligned Texts for Small Group & Additional Reading
Messenger, Messenger
(Available for check out through District Media Services)