Grade 1 Unit 1 ELA Theme: All About Us: What makes you special? ICP OC: Balance and Stability OI: My Place NOW! Keeping Balance
Literature Selection / Genre / Technology
/Media / Comprehension Strategies and Skills / Text Features/ Literary Elements/ / Writing
Writer’s Workshop / ICP: OI
Overview
Guiding Questions / 1st Six Weeks OI:
My Place NOW! Keeping Balance
Start Smart
Big Book
Animal Alphabet
Start Smart Readers
We Can!
We Like to Go!
We Have!
We Can!
Here We Are!
Look and See!
WK THEME: Welcome to 1st Grade / Big Book
Informational Text/ ABC Book / McGraw Hill
Treasures
TE p. 137 I, J
MEDIA LITERACY
Examples of Media-- How is it a source of news; photos
TERMS
mouse, cursor
monitor, click
drag, keyboard
disk drive, disk
Digital Camera
First Grade Theme project is the creation of an “All About Me” book
Text Features topics includes photographs, labels. NF selections include student interests—soccer, etc.. Writing genre is personal narrative. / Listening Comprehension
Strategy
Analyze Story Structure,
Summarize, Analyze Text Structure
Skill
Sequence of Events, Character, Plot, Details, Retell / Reading-
Main parts of a
Book
Identify rhyming words /
Writing:
- Shared Writing: Sentences
- Interactive Writing: Sentences
- Independent Writing: Sentences
Writer's Workshop:
-Routines and Procedures /
LT
I Can…
*express ideas orally based on knowledge and experiences
Guiding Questions:
*How do family and school add balance and stability to your life?
*How does good citizenship help build balance and stability in your life?
*How can staying healthy help you build balance and stability for learning? /
HEALTH
Rules--Safety at home and in the Neighborhood
Healthy habits--Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise, Cleanliness and hygiene, Dental Care
Common illnesses, Germs Disease, Heart/ lung health
SCIENCEInvestigation & reasoning skills Weather Watchers-- record weather conditions, relative temp, etc.
Five SensesSOCIAL STUDIES
Celebrations:Constitution Day 9-17,
Patriot Day 9-11
Patriotic songs—America,
Star Spangled Banner
MIND MISSIONS
Brainstorming, Teambuilding
Good Citizens (good character traits)
21st C. Teambuilders
(Life Long Learners)
Pam and Sam
Written and illustrated by Nancy Tafuri
WK THEME:
We are Special / Main Selection
Literary Text/ Fiction
Paired Sel.
Informational Text/ Exposit. / Strategy
Analyze Story Structure
Skill
Character and Setting / Photographs / Grammar/Mechanics:
- Sentences
- Sentence capitalization
Writer's Workshop:
-Trait Ideas and Voice
-Genre: Personal Narrative
I Can, Too!
Written by Cathy Roper
Illustrated by
Sofia Balzola
WK THEME:
Ready, Set, Move! / Main Selection
Literary Text/ Fiction
Paired Sel.
Informational Text/ Expository / Strategy
Analyze Story Structure
Skill
Sequence of Events
Spiral Review
Character and Setting / Labels /
Grammar/Mechanics:
- Word Order
- Sentence Punctuation
Writer's Workshop:
- Trait: Organization
- Skill: Spelling Strategies
Literature Selection / Genre / Technology/
Media / Comprehension Strategies and Skills / Text Features
Literary Elements / Writing
Writer’s Workshop / ICP: OI
Overview /
1st Six Weeks OI:
My Place NOW! Keeping Balance
How You Grew
Time For Kids Informational
WK THEME:
Growing Up / Main Selection
Informational Text/ Expository /
Strategy
Analyze Text Structure
Skill
Sequence of Events
Spiral Review
Informational Text? /
Book Parts / Grammar/Mechanics:
- Statements
- Sentence Punctuation
Writer's Workshop:
- Trait: Conventions
- Genre: Personal Narrative
- Skill: Writing Process /
Guiding Questions
*How do family and school add balance and stability to your life?
*How does good citizenship help build balance and stability in your life?
*How can staying healthy help you build balance and stability for learning? /
I Wonder topics:
Social Studies:
Create a new product that helps keep people safe.
Read about a leader and create a product to communicate examples of how they showed some leadership traits.
Health
Plan and conduct a science investigation to see what colored drinks stain the teeth the most. Use a boiled egg or other substance to represent the teeth.
Create an advertisement about staying healthy.
Pretend you are a germ and draw a cartoon about your life.
Choose a current event that relates to good health and create a poster making people aware.
**Student Choice - Be sure to ask your teacher first.
Flip
Written by Ezra R. Tanaka
Illustrated by
Michael Garland
WK THEME:
Pets / Main Selection
Literary Text/ Fiction
Paired Sel.
Informational Text/ Expository /
Strategy
Analyze Story Structure
Skill
Plot
Spiral Review
Compare Fiction and Expository / List / Grammar/Mechanics:
- Questions and Exclamations
- Sentence Punctuation
Writer's Workshop:
-Trait: Word Choice
Soccer
Written by Patrick Lee
Photographs by Ken Cavanagh
WK THEME:
Playing Together / Main Sel.
Informational Text/ Expository
Paired Sel.
Literary Text/ Poetry / Strategy
Analyze Text Structure
Skill
Author’s Purpose
Spiral Review
Expository Text? /
Rhyme / Grammar/Mechanics:
- Writing Sentences
- Sentence Punctuation
Writer's Workshop:
-Trait: Conventions
-Skill: Meeting with the Teacher
McGraw–Hill Texas Treasures, TE Grade 1; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner, Writer’s Workshop