Grade 1 ELA

Scope

• How am I unique?

• What makes me who I am?

Guiding Questions

• How are people alike and different?

• How are families alike and different?

• How/why is my family and community important to me?

• How do writers work?

• How do authors emphasize important ideas/rules/values through writing/text?

• How do I work as a writer?

• Where do you see writing?

• What kind of writing do you see?

• Why do people write?

• How do authors emphasize important ideas/rules/values through writing/text?

• Where do ideas come from?

Reading

Anchor Texts:

Titles may include:

• Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems 

• Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann

Fiction Skills:

Students will:

• develop a purpose for reading.

• identify the author’s purpose.

• identify the beginning, middle, and end of a text.

• practice sequencing.

• make predictions.

• identify the problem in the story.

• identify the solution to the problem

• identify character traits and how the character develops over the course of a story.

• identify a main topic or idea in a story.

• describe a character, setting, or event of a story.

• identify and retell key details in a story.

• summarize a story.

• make text to self connections, text to text connections, and text to world connections.

Writing

Anchor Text:

• Night of the Veggie Monster by George McClements

Anchor Writing:

• TC Narrative Writing Unit

• Writing about Reading

Skills:

Students will:

• write narratives with details.

• write an opinion about a topic.

• support their opinion with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

• organize their evidence logically.

• use linking words and phrases to connect their ideas.

•  provide a concluding statement or section.

• use proper capitalization and punctuation.

• learn how to revise and edit.

Standards

Reading: 1R1, 1R2, 1R3, 1R4, 1R5, 1R6, 1R7,  1R9

Writing: 1W1, 1W3, 1W4

• How do my unique qualities fit into a larger community?

• How do the texts I read reveal how people interact with others?

• How do I work with others and myself (as part of a friendship/family/school/community/ country/world)?

• What makes these environments work in harmony?

Guiding Questions

• What qualities do the characters I read about have? 

• How do these qualities cause them to behave, interact, and accomplish things in the world?

• How do the texts I read connect me to my family, classmates, and community?

• How am I similar to and different from the characters in the fables and folktales?

• How do fables and folktales reveal what is important to people and their communities today?

• How do fables and folktales reveal the flaws in people that might be difficult in a community?

• How are the rules in a family similar to the ideas presented in the fables and folktales?

• How are the rules of a responsible citizen similar to the ideas presented in fables and folktales? What makes someone a good citizen?

• How do fables and folktales reveal the flaws in human beings?

• How do fables and folktales connect me to my family, classmates, and community?

• How are the problems and issues presented in fables and folktales similar to and different from what we experience?

• How are the rules in a family similar to the ideas presented in the fables and folktales?

Reading

Anchor Texts:

• How Animal Babies Stay Safe by Mary Ann Fraser

• Owen and Mzee by Isabella Hatkoff 

Non-Fiction Skills:

Students will:

• develop a purpose for reading.

• focus on new vocabulary.

• summarize parts of a text and the whole text.

• identify illustrations and details and how they support the purpose of the text.

• explain the difference between fiction and non-fiction texts.

• identify text features.

Writing

Anchor Writing:

• TC Information Writing Unit

• Writing about Reading

Skills:

Students will:

• ask and answer questions about texts they read.

• write explanatory/informative texts that introduce a topic and use facts to develop a topic.

• support their opinion with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

• organize their evidence logically.

• use linking words and phrases to connect their ideas.

• provide a concluding statement or section.

• use proper capitalization and punctuation.

Standards

Reading: 1R1, 1R2, 1R3, 1R4, 1R5, 1R6, 1R7, 1R8, 1R9
Writing: 1W2, 1W4

• How is the world around me similar to and different from my experience? What’s important to me about the world I live in? What do I want to convey about the world I live in?

Guiding Questions

• How is the world around me similar to and different from my experience?

• What makes a community successful?

• What makes my community successful?

• How are different types of communities (animals, cultures) successful?

• How do texts reveal information about the communities?

• How do different types of communities work together?

• Who am I as a reader and a writer?

• What do I want to read about?

• What do I want to write about?

Reading

Anchor Texts:

• Fables by Aesop: 

  • "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

  • "The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing"

  • "The Goose and the Golden Eggs" 

  • "The Dog in the Manger"

• Folk Tales:

  • "The Crowded, Noisy House"

  • "All Stories Are Anansi’s"

  • "The Fox and the Grapes"

  • "The Maid and the Milk Pail"

  • "The Little Half Chick"

  • "Peter Rabbit"

Fiction Skills:

Students will:

• develop a purpose for reading.

• identify the author’s purpose.

• identify the beginning, middle, and end of a text.

• identify the problem in the story.

• identify the solution to the problem.

• identify character traits and how the character develops over the course of a story.

• identify a main topic or idea in a story.

• describe a character, setting, or event of a story.

• identify and retell key details in a story.

• summarize a story.

• make text to self connections, text to text connections, and text to world connections.

• identify different genres within fiction.

Writing

Anchor Writing:

• TC Opinion Unit: Reviews

• Writing about Reading

• TC from Scenes to Series

Skills:

Students will:

• ask and answer questions about texts they read.

• write an opinion about a topic.

• support their opinion with clear reasons and relevant evidence.

• organize their evidence logically.

• use linking words and phrases to connect their ideas.

• provide a concluding statement or section. 

• use proper capitalization and punctuation.

Standards

Reading: 1R1, 1R3, 1R4, 1R5, 1R6, 1R7, 1R8, 1R9
Writing: 1W1, 1W4, 1W6