For the Teacher

Teacher Overview

This unit is geared toward 1st and 2nd grade students and is a wonderful way to include movement, music and writing. Often, it’s difficult to get this age group excited and engaged about writing and language. Typically, we are so concerned with grammar that many children begin to dread the writing process. This unit allows students to open up, be creative, and still incorporate descriptive writing practice.

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CORE Standards Addressed

These are the standards that will be assessed at the end of the unit.

Language Arts Standards

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.E: Use adjectives and adverbs, and choose between them depending on what is to be modified.

Music Standards

MU:Re8.1.2: Demonstrate knowledge of music concepts and how they support creators’/performers’ expressive intent.

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Additional Standards Addressed

These are the standards which are also addressed in the unit, but which are not the focus for assessment of skills and process.

Language Arts

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.2.1.F: Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.2.3: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.

Music

MU:Cr3.2.2: Convey expressive intent for a specific purpose by presenting a final version of personal musical ideas to peers or informal audience.

Theater

TH:Re7.1.2a. Recognize when artistic choices are made in a guided drama experience

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Assessment

The assessment for this unit is a checklist found in the "Let's Perform It!" section. It can be used either as a peer review or as a teacher-directed formative assessment.