Kindergarten Curriculum Framework
Module 1
Module 1 Kindergarten What This May Look LikeDistrict/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
RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.7;
RL. K.1, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.4, RL.K.7; RL.K.10
W.K.2, W.K.8 / Secondary Focus
W.K.2, W.K.8 / Routine Writing
W.10
Kindergarten Module 1 Family and Communities Scope and Sequence
Message Time Plus
Week / Read Aloud / Foundational Skills / Sight Words / Vocabulary
Week 1 / Recommended books:
The Kissing Hand
How do Dinosaurs Go to School? / Beginning Sounds / I, like, the / Welcome, procedures, rules, specials, behavior
Week 2 / Recommended Books:
Miss Nelson is Missing
Chrysanthemum / Beginning Sounds / to, you, and / Pledge, friend/friendship, school, excited, schedule, accountable
Week 3 / How My Family Lives in America
/ Beginning Sounds and Nouns for People / It, she, he, a / patient, traditions, country, relatives, introduced
Week 4 / How My Family Lives in America
/ Rhyming Words (-at words) and Nouns for Places / That, was, it, up / heritage, custom, wiser, chance, weave
Week 5 / Dear Juno
/ Rhyming Words (-an words) and Nouns for pets and things / In, they, at, for / strange, wondered, faraway, letter, photograph
Week 6 / Elephants Can Paint Too
/ Rhyming Words (-ot words) / Of, is, in, his / Communicate, jungle, recently, command, exhibit
Week 7 / Gilberto and The Wind
/ Syllables and (-et words) / For, on, they, but / Gentle, floats, blur, scatters, stirs
Week 8 / Too Many Tamales
/ Distinguish Letters from Words
Syllables / Review words / Truthful, confess, batch, spread, shock
Week 9 / Stellaluna
/ Review- / Review Words / Babble, gracefully, anxious, rescue, survived, muse, mystery
Kindergarten Module 1 Family and Community Text Scope & Sequence
Kindergarten Module 1 Family and CommunityWeek / Books / Author / Genre / Timeline / Culminating Task
Week 3 and 4 / How My Family Lives in America
/ Susan Kuklin / Informational Text / 8 Days about 15 minutes a day, adjust time for student stamina / Choose one family and act out/describe with pictures and words the traditions that are specific to that family’s culture, as well as new traditions
Week 5 / Dear Juno
/ Soyung Pak / Fiction / 6 days, 15 minutes a day, adjust time for student stamina / First sheet- students draw/write about the distance and differences between Juno and his grandmother
2nd Sheet- write/draw how and what Juno and his grandmother communicate
Week 6 / Elephants Can Paint Too
/ Katya Arnold / Informational Text / 5 days 20 minutes a day, depending on student stamina / Finalize book created throughout the reading/week
Week 7 / Gilberto and The Wind
/ Marie Hall Ets / Fiction / 5 days, 20 minutes a day / Finish and illustrate sentence frames
Week 8 / Too Many Tamales
/ Gary Soto / Fiction / 5 days 20 minutes a day / Use pictures and words to explain the lesson from the story
Week 9 / Stellaluna
/ Janell Cannon / Fiction / 5 days 20 minutes per day / Story Frame
Lucy Calkins – Unit 1 Launching the Workshop (writing about what we know and narrative)