Grade K Unit 2 Theme: Tell A Story, 1-2-3
Common CORE Standards:RL.K.2: With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Rl.K.9: With prompting and support, compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in familiar stories.
RI.K.1: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RF.K.3 (a, b, c): With the class, recite an alphabet song that includes the letter name, and a key word (picture or gesture) and sound associated with each letter.
SL.K.1: participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers ad adults in small and larger groups.
SL.K.1 (b): Continue a conversation through multiple exchanges.
W.K.3: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred and provide a reaction to what happened.
L.K.2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.K.2 (a): Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun “I”.
Science Core Standards:
Standard 2 – Earth and Space Science – Students will gain an understanding of Earth and Space Science through the study of earth materials, celestial movement, and weather.
Obj. 2. Observe and describe changes in day and night.
Obj. 3. Compare changes in weather over time.
Social Studies Core Standards:
Standard 1 (Culture): Students will recognize and describe how individuals and families are both similar and different.
Obj. 1 (a,b,c,d): Identify how individuals are similar and different.
Standard 4 (Financial Literacy): Students can explain how humans meet their needs in many ways.
Obj. 1 (a,b,c): Recognize that people have basic needs (food, shelter, and clothing) and wants (toys, games, treats).
Student Objectives
Name the author and illustrator of both the fictional and informational texts in this unit.
Orally retell familiar stories, including details and events at the beginning, middle, and end.
Recognize and name additional upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
Recite and produce rhyming words from nursery rhymes and rhyming texts.
Produce the primary (most frequent) sound for each letter they have learned so far.
Use a combination of writing, drawing, and dictating to retell stories with a beginning, middle, and end.
Distinguish shades of meaning as they note the adjectives used in Goldilocks and the Tree Bears and the verbs in The Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Recognize the importance of sequence in storytelling, informational and fictional counting books, and nursery rhymes.
Appreciate the difference between an original story and other versions of the same story.
Terminology
Author
Beginning
Characters
End
Illustration
Illustrator
Middle
Number Words
Ordinal number words (First, second, third)
Poem
Retelling
Sequence
Storybook
Versions / Technology
Jean-Francois Millet, First Steps (1858-59)
Vincent van Gogh, First Steps (1890)
Palo Picasso, Mother & Child (First Steps) (1943)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs DVD
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly DVD
www.nationalgeographic.com
Magic School Bus DVDs: Inside Ralphie, Flexes its Muscles, For Lunch
National Geographic Kids Website
Interactive Writing
Rigby Writing Chart p.3 (Beginning, Middle, End of Story)
Rigby Sequence Organizer p. 5 & 6
Fall Tree – write sentences about fall using descriptive words
Make a class counting book
Label Food Pyramid – Flannel board activity and food sort
Rigby Whole Class Chart p. 27 & 28
Write the bathroom rules
Rigby Class Chart p. 36 & 37 Ask Questions
Make a Class Persuasive Essay about pets
Label different pictures of animals that hibernate/migrate / Independent Writing
Individual Copy of Beginning, Middle, End of Story
Individual Copy of Sequence Organizer
Fall – write about what they like to do in the Fall
Individual Writing Journals – write basic food groups and draw a picture of favorite food belonging to that group
Write and draw pictures describing the steps to being healthy.
Persuasive Essay about pets “I want a _____. I will ______it.”
My ____ can hibernate.
My ____ can migrate.
Phonics
Alphabet Recognition and Sounds
Secret Stories
Words Their Way Sorts / Guided Reading
Rigby Mini Books
Various Sets of Books that relate to subject
Flannel Board Activity and Food Sort
Shared Reading
Counting Rhyme Posters –
One, Two Buckle My Shoe and 1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught A Fish Alive
When the Leaf Blew In (Big Book) by Steve Metzger
We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt (Big Book) by Steve Metzger
Fall Poem Poster
Rigby Whole Class Charts p. 21-29, 38
The Monster Pet (Big Book) by Jan Pienkowski
How to Stay Healthy Poster
The Difference Poster by Leland B. Jacobs
“Animals, Animals” Class Poster
Picture Dictionary of Mammals (Rigby Big Book)
Animal Hibernation/Migration Sorts / Literacy Centers
Alphabet Activities
Word Wall Words
Food Sorts
Puppet Retells
Flannel Board Activities
Animal Sorts
Season Activities
Assessments/Rubrics
Weekly Alphabet Assessment
Students will write about what they like to do in the Fall.
Writing Assessment: Students will write, dictate, or illustrate basic food groups using graphic organizers.
Can students retell a story?
Students can correctly identify a pet and their needs through dictation, pictures, or writing words.
Students will be able to correctly identify and draw a picture or dictate what animals hibernate or migrate. / Extension Activities
Writing Center for Students Who Show Mastery of Concepts – markers, stapler, colored paper, construction paper, etc.
Words Their Way Sorts
Read Alouds
Literary Texts
Counting Books-
Ten, Nine, Eight (Molly Bang)
Chicka, Chicka, 1,2,3 (Bill martin, Jr. Michael Sampson, and Lois Ehlert)
Ten Apples Up on Top (Dr. Seuss & Roy McKie)
Traditional Stories & Variations
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Paul Galdone)
The Three Pigs (David Wiesner)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs(Jon Sciezka and Lane Smith)
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig (Eugene Trivizas and Helen Oxenbury)
Stories (Read Along)
Pancakes for Breakfast (Tomie Depaola)
Ten Black Dots (Donald Crews)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar (Eric Carle)
Poems (Read Alond)
Three Little Kittens
Informational Texts
Farm Animals (Young Nature Series)
Pigs (Gail Gibbons)
Beatrice’s Goat (page McBrier and Lori Lohstoeter)
Pigs (Animals That Live on the Farm) (JoAnn Early Macken)
Songs
Five Little Monkey’s Swinging in the Tree
Five Little Monkey’s Jumping on the Bed
One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive