Journey's literacy curriculum has five units, and each unit is based on a theme. Each unit has five lessons, and they focus on two different books for each lesson.
Unit 1: Friendly Faces
Lesson 1:
Building with Dad
What Makes a Family?
Lesson 2:
Friends at School
How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?
Lesson 3:
I Have a Pet!
Please, Puppy, Please
Lesson 4:
Pizza at Sally's
Everybody Works
Lesson 5:
The Little Red Hen
The Handiest Things in the World
Unit 2: Show and Tell
Lesson 6:
Listen, Listen
My Five Senses
Lesson 7:
Amelia's Show-and-Tell
Mice Squeak, We Speak
Lesson 8:
Jonathan and His Mommy
Move!
Lesson 9:
Good Morning Digger
What Do Wheels Do All Day?
Lesson 10:
David's Drawings
Mouse Shapes
Unit 3: Outside My Door
Lesson 11:
Every Season
Jump into January
Lesson 12:
Storm is Coming!
Fantasy
Lesson 13:
A Zebra's World
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?
Lesson 14:
Home for a Tiger, Home for a Bear
Turtle Splash!
Lesson 15:
How Many Stars in the Sk?
What a Beautiful Sky!
Unit 4: Let's Find Out
Lesson 16:
Dear Mr. Blueberry
What is Science?
Lesson 17:
It is the Wind
From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Lesson 18:
One-Dog Canoe
Atlantic
Lesson 19:
Nicky and the Rainy Day
Sheep Take a Hike
Lesson 20:
Duck & Goose
Curious George's Dinosaur Discovery
Unit 5: Growing and Changing
Lesson 21:
Simon and Molly plus Hester
Zin! Zin! Zin! Violin
Lesson 22:
A Tiger Grows Up
Leo the Late Bloomer
Lesson 23:
Oscar and the Frog
Zinnia's Flower Garden
Lesson 24:
Red Eyes or Blue Feathers
Chameleon, Chameleon
Lesson 25:
Bread Comes to Life
Pie in the Sky
Rooted in Reading is an amazing curriculum that has a ton of information to help Kindergarteners grow in all aspects of Literacy.
August Read-Alouds:
Week 1: The King of Kindergarten
Week 2: The Smallest Girl in the Smallest Grade
Week 3: Walk with Vanessa
Week 4: This is My Book
September Read-Alouds:
Week 1: A Night in the Country
Week 2: When Grandma Gives You A Lemon Tree
Week 3: Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn
Week 4: Giraffe Problems
October Read-Alouds:
Week 1: The Circus Ship
Week 2: Hippos Are Huge
Week 3: Quit Calling Me A Monster
Week 4: Pick A Pumpkin
November Read-Alouds:
Week 1: The Cool Bean
Week 2: Thank You, Omu
Week 3: Fry Bread
Week 4: A Turkey For Thanksgiving
December Read-Alouds:
Week 1: Blackout
Week 2: The Wish Tree
Week 3: Little Red Ruthie
Week 4: Santa Bruce
January Read-Alouds:
Week 1: A Way Home for Wolf
Week 2: Loud Winter's Nap
Week 3: The Rabbit Listened
Week 4: A Stone Sat Still
February Read-Alouds:
Week 1: You Will Be My Friend
Week 2: Plenty of Love to go Around
Week 3: Mae Among the Stars
Week 4: President Taft is Stuck in a Bath
March Read-Alouds:
Week 1: I Am A Cat
Week 2: One Tiny Turtle
Week 3: Sumo Joe
Week 4: The Princess and the Pea
April Read-Alouds:
Week 1: The Very Impatient Caterpillar
Week 2: Dandy
Week 3: My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood
Week 4: The Boy Who Grew a Forest
May Read-Alouds:
Week 1: How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
Week 2: Joan Procter, Dragon Doctor
Week 3: My Papi Has A MotorCycle
Week 4: Land Shark
Writer's Workship is broken up into 8 Units, but it adds an additional opinion writing unit.
Unit 1: Pictures Tell a Story
Unit 2: Personal Narrative Writing
Unit 3: How-To Writing
Unit 4: Writing for a Reason
Unit 5: Writing Nonfiction Informational Texts
Unit 6: Small Moment Writing- adding to Personal Narrative Writing
Unit 7: Fictional Writing
Unit 8: End of Year Writing
Then an additional Opinion Writing