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1st Grade Unit 2: / Change / Suggested Time Frame: / 6 Weeks
TAKS Objectives: / 1, 4 / TEKS: / 1.12C, 1.12F, 1.14A, 1.14C, 1.14G, 1.14H
Unit Overview
In this unit students will understand that the world around us is constantly changing, from the changing of seasons to the changes bodies make as they grow. They will explore the reasons for change including such things as conflict, and improvements in technology (past and present). Students will also begin to understand how the events of a story lead to the outcome. Students will be introduced to the concept of main idea in different types of literature.
Enduring Understandings
  • The world is in a constant state of change.
  • Conflicts in the past effect change in the present and future.
  • The sequence of events in a story leads to the story's outcome and main idea.
/ Essential Questions
  • How does conflict lead to change?
  • How have people and the environment changed over time?
  • How does the sequence of story affect the outcome?
  • How do the events of a story help the reader to find the main idea?
/ Writing Purpose
Adding details to a sentence
Adding additional sentences to the story
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Focus and Coherence
Staying on topic
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Organization
Story flows in sequence
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Depth of Development
Elaborating on a single idea or thought
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Voice
Model during read-alouds and think alouds
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Conventions
Elaborate sentences / stories
-add detail, descriptive language
-capitalization (people’s names, first word of sent., pronoun “I”)
-punctuation (appropriate end of sent. punctuation)
-spacing: words and sentences
-identify / use nouns and verbs in sentences
*Shared Writing, Interactive Writing, Independent (Writer’s Workshop)
Language of Instruction
See Instructional Resources
Vocabulary
Vocabulary is generated from teacher selected reading material.
Word Wall Words
all
ask
came
come
did
down
give
had
his
her
him
kick
let
of
over
play
saw
they
there
this
under
was
walk
will
Glue words (written in black and white) are in BOLD.
Words with rimes are written on bright colored paper. / Relationships and/or Connections that should emerge
  • People around them change, grow older, etc.
  • Changing season affect our clothes, the weather, the food we eat, the hobbies we have.
Products students will develop
  • response journal
  • student made booklets depicting change
  • student made booklet showing the sequence of a story
  • student-made flap book depicting change

Word Works Lessons
Week 1: PA 4,5,6
Beg./End sounds, onset and rimes
Week 2: PA 7,8
Onset/rimes
Week 3: SP 2, 3, 4, 6
Word families
Week 4: LS 3, WS 2
Making sentences,plurals
Week 5: WSA 3
Making words
Week 6: LS 5, 6, SP1
Consonants/short vowels
1st Grade Unit 2: / Change / Suggested Time Frame: / 6 Weeks
TAKS Objectives: / 1, 4 / TEKS: / 1.12C, 1.12F, 1.14A, 1.14C, 1.14G, 1.14H
Unit Overview
In this unit students will understand that the world around us is constantly changing. They will explore the reasons for change including such things, as conflict, and improvements in technology (past and present). Students will also begin to understand how the events of a story lead to the outcome. Students will be introduced to the concept of main idea in different types of literature.
Text Resources
  • Kilgo Leveled Readers
  • Tell me a Story Mama
  • When I am Old With You
  • Past and Present (Benchmark)
  • Then and Now (Benchmark)
  • Long Ago(Benchmark)
  • Old and New (Benchmark)
  • The Giving Tree
  • A Pocket Full of Kisses
  • Before You Were Born
  • We Use Technology (Benchmark)
  • Growing Older (Benchmark)
  • “Mama Where Are You” FromComing On Home Soon
  • Changing and Growing (Rigby)
  • Sam Goes to School (Rigby)
  • When Will I Read?
  • Where Does it Go
  • How I Became a Writer
  • Fern Goes Away (Rigby/Sails)
  • Max Rides His Bike (Rigby)
  • New Boots (Rigby)
  • Changing Seasons (Benchmark)
  • Seasons
  • The Seasons of Arnolds AppleTree
  • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
  • Weather Books
  • Big Red Comes to Stay (Rigby/Sails)
  • Max and the Little Plant (Rigby)
/ Enrichment Workstations
  • Read the Room (use pointers to read the room)
  • Reading Boxes (use text from Guided Reading)
  • Class Library (fiction and non-fiction books)
  • Buddy Reading
  • Pocket Chart Activities
  • Making Words (magnetic letters, etc.)
  • LetterCenter (a variety of alphabet activities)
  • Writing (write the room, make books, journals, etc.)
  • Listening
  • Overhead
  • Computers (Waterford, etc.)
  • Dramatic Play (baskets of books and props (Mrs. Wishy Washy, etc.)
  • Flannel boards
Technology & Electronic Resources

  • This website is FABULOUS!! Great resource for struggling readers, activities for instruction, skill activities, word lists with pictures, center activities, etc….

  • This website has grade specific activities in all subject areas that are aligned with the TEKS.

  • Interactive reading children’s literature.

  • Themes, lesson plans, arts and crafts.
/ Reading Skills/Processes
□1.5A
□1.5G
□1.5H
□1.5J
□1.7B
□1.7G
□1.8A
□1.8B
□1.8E
□1.8G
□1.10A
□1.10B / □
□1.11A
□1.11B
□1.11C
□1.12A
□1.12B
□1.12D
□1.13A
□1.13B
□1.15B
□1.16A
Writing Skills/Processes
□1.18A
□1.18B
□1.18C
□1.18D
□1.18E
□1.18F / □1.19A
□1.19B
□1.19C
□1.19D
□1.19E
Method(s) of Assessment
Observation
AObservation evaluated by peers
BStudents engaged in learning activities
CDirect questioning
DObservation of performance or process
Constructed Response
  1. TEKS Check
  2. Open-ended
    R2R’s
    Then and Now by Benchmark Education
    Growing Older by Benchmark Education
  3. Essay
  4. Research Paper
  5. Log / Journal
  6. Story / Play / Poem
  7. Model / Map / Video
  8. Oral / Visual / Multimedia Presentation
Selected Response
1Fill-in-the-blank test
2Matching test
3Multiple choice test
4True/False test
Writing Mini-lessons
TEKS: 1.18 C,D, 1.20 A, 1.21 A,B, 1.22 A-C, 1.23 B
Week 1 / Reading Like Writers
First Grade Writers, Chapter 2, pg.40-42
Week 2 / Writing With Intention
First Grade Writers, Chapter 2, pg.42-46
Week 3 / Meeting a Bigger Challenge
First Grade Writers, Chapter 2, pg. 46-47
Week 4 / Revising and Editing
First Grade Writers, Chapter 2, pg. 47-50
Week 5 / Writing Longer, More Thoughtful Pieces
  • Calkins Book 1, Session XI - pg. 79-84
Stretching One Small Moment
  • Calkins Book 2 , Session IV –pg. 29-37

/ Writing Mini-lessons continued
Week 6 / Focusing On The Most Important Part
  • Calkins Book 2, Session XI–pg. 83-91

Resources
  • Units of Study for Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins
  • First Grade Writer’s by Stephanie Parsons
  • Interactive Writing by Fountas and Pinnell

First Grade ELA 2nd Six Weeks Summary

2007-2008

In this brief summary, dates will fluctuate according to your students, calendar, and special events.

Change

October 4th – November 9th

  • The world is in a constant state of change.
  • Conflicts in the past effect change in the present and future.
  • The sequence of events in a story leads to the story’s outcome and main idea.
  • Retell or act out the order of important events in stories.
  • Make and explain inferences from text.
  • Distinguish different forms of text.
  • Distinguish fiction from nonfiction.
  • Analyze characters.
  • Identify the importance of setting to the story.

8/27/2007DRAFT 3