First Grade Curriculum Framework

Module 2 First Grade
District/School Formative Assessment Plan / District/School Summative Assessment Plan
See Read Aloud Lessons – Questions, Activities and Tasks
Also See Center Activities within Read Aloud Lessons / See Culminating Tasks within Family and Community Text Scope and Sequence
District/School Texts / District/School Supplementary Resources
See District Modules Below / See District Modules Below
District/School Writing Tasks
Primary Focus
RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.6, RL.1.7,RL.1.10
W.1.1, W.1.8; RL.1.9 / Secondary Focus
W.1.1, W.1.8; RL.1.9 / Routine Writing
W.1.10

First Grade Curriculum Scope and Sequence

Module 2 Weather and Science
Message Time Plus
Week / Read Aloud / Foundational Skills / Spelling Words / Sight Words / Vocabulary
Nov 14th - Nov 23rd / Wild Weather / Short u
Phonogram: -ump
Grammar: Prepositions and prepositional phrases / Us, sun, but, fun, bus, run, jump, must, lump, bump / eat, give, one, put, small,
take, us, must
her, now, our, she, today, would, / Hurricane, electrical storm, flood/flash floods, blizzard, powerful
Nov 28th - Dec 12th / Freddy the Frogcaster / Diagraph th
Base Words and –s, -es, -ed, -ing
Grammar: Proper Nouns / That, then, this, them, with, bath, their, thread, throat, thin / blue, cold, far, little, live,
their, water, where, that, then, with / Meteorologist, forecasts, hovering, accurate, declared
Dec 13th - Dec 14th / Thunderstorms / Diagraphs ch, tch
Possessive ‘s
Phonogram –atch
Grammar: Proper Nouns / Chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick, such, watch, match, chomp / been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, much, such / Humid, evaporate, condense, cumulonimbus clouds, electrical current
Dec 19th- Dec 21st / Spiders / Diagraphs Sh, wh, ph
Grammar: Subjects & Verbs / Ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, she, phase, phone, Phrase / down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, which, when, she / Unusual, roamed, legend, tangled, burrows
Jan 3rd - Jan 11th / Eat Like a Bear / Long a
Cvc e
Contractions with ‘s, n’t
Grammar: Verbs & Time / Came make, brave, late, gave, shape, bake, stake, grape, flake / four, five, into, over, starts, three, two, watch, make, late, came / Hollow, forage, strayed, bare, barely
Jan 17th - Jan 25th / The Raft / Short a
Double final consonants and ck Phonogram: -ack
Grammar: Complete Sentences / away, call, come, every,
hear, said On, got, fox, pop, not, hop, mop, plop, stop, Bob Yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, hen, when, fled, sled / on, got after, draw, pictures, read,
was, write, yes, let / Clutter, hover, buck, doe, fawn

1st Grade Module 2 Weather & Science

Dates / Book Title / Author / Genre / Suggested Lesson Time (RAP) / Culminating Task (RAP)
Nov 14th - Nov 23rd / Wild Weather / Seymour Simon / Informational Text / Six days, 20 minute sessions / Divide class into groups and have each group write a book about storms (assign a chapter to each group).
Nov 28th - Dec 12th / Freddy the Frogcaster / Janice Dean / Literacy/Informational Text / Seven days, 20 minute sessions / Response to Writing Prompt~Create a text evidenced chart on weather predictions
Dec 13th - Dec 14th / Thunderstorms / Chana Stiefel / Informational Text / Two days, 20 minute sessions / Provide an explanation for three weather words of your choice (provided with a list)
Dec 19th- Dec 21st / Spiders / Gail Gibbons / Informational Text / Two days, 20-40 minute sessions / Write an informational spiders book
Jan 3rd - Jan 11th / Eat Like a Bear / April Pulley Sayre / Informational Text / Five days, 20 minute sessions / Students will create a class book providing facts/info about the kinds of food bears eat
Jan 17th - Jan 25th / The Raft / Jim LaMarche / Literary Text / Five days, 20-40 minute sessions / Response to Writing Prompt

Lucy Calkins Writing Unit of Study: Non-Fiction/Informational