GRADE 1
Units-at-a-Glance
September / October / November / December / January / February / March / April / May / JuneLiteracy / Good classroom citizen
Anchor text: The Recess Queen
Essential Questions:
How do details help the reader understand the central message in a text?
How can writers support their opinions with details?
· Explore content to understand that citizenship begins with becoming a contributing member of the classroom community
· Identify the characteristics of good citizenship in the classroom
· Identify the characteristics of good citizenship in the classroom such as truthfulness, justice, equality, respect for oneself, and others
· Identify details about characters
· Identify key details and events in the story
· Respond to critical thinking questions
· Respond to and add on to peer comments in whole group discussions
· Creating an opinion piece
· Support their opinion with details / Bats
Anchor text: Zipping, zapping, zooming Bats
Essential Questions:
How do asking and answering questions help readers comprehend informational texts?
How can writers use facts and details to write an informational text?
§ Identifying the difference between a fiction & non-fiction text
§ Features of non-fiction texts
§ Demonstrate how structure and text features help comprehension
§ Understanding that living things have certain behaviors that shape them and allow them to survive
§ Identifying main idea and details
§ Respond to critical thinking questions
§ Respond to and add on to peer comments in whole group discussions
§ Creating a question and answer informational text
§ Including facts in informational writing
§ Including details in informational writing / Families are Important
Anchor Text: Social Studies Big Book Unit 1: Families are Important
Essential Questions:
How are families special?
Why are families important?
How can families be different? How can families be alike?
§ Reading fiction and non-fiction texts to deepen the understanding of families
§ Define customs and cultures and identify customs and cultures around the world
§ Respond to critical thinking questions
§ Respond to and add on to peer comments in whole group discussions
§ Define roles and identify child, parent, and grandparent roles in a family
§ Compare and contrast how families can be the alike and different through fiction texts
§ Discuss how families are special
§ Discuss how families are important
§ Identify wants and needs of a family
§ State and support an opinion about a custom
§ Create an informative piece about families / Friendship
Anchor Texts: A Weekend with Wendell, Frog and Toad
Essential Questions:
How does identifying and understanding the story elements of a text improve reader’s comprehension?
How can details help writers explain characters, the central message, and setting of a story?
§ Deepening understanding of fiction texts
§ Elements of a story
§ Identifying beginning, middle, end of a story
§ Identifying the setting of a story and citing evidence
§ Identifying the problem and solution of a story
§ Difference between internal and external characteristics
§ Analyzing character traits and citing evidence
§ Understanding the central message of a story
§ Creating a small moment personal narrative
§ Understanding the steps of the writing process
§ Writing two or more appropriately sequenced events
§ Using details in writing, including setting, feelings, emotions, and dialogue
Include a problem and solution in writing / Planting for the Future
Anchor Texts: The Life Cycle of an Apple Tree, How a Seed Grows
Essential Questions:
How do readers make connections between ideas and information?
How do writers write to explain information to share?
§ Sequencing
§ Understand key steps in a cycle
§ Answer questions with text-based evidence during close reading
§ Use text evidence to answer questions
§ Use supporting details and photographs to describe key ideas
§ Understanding text-based vocabulary
§ Understand elements of informative writing
§ Creating a How-to/ procedural book
§ Writing steps in a sequence
§ Identifying transition/ sequence words
§ Identify sequence of events in an informative text
§ Add details to writing
Math / Unit 1: Addition Concepts & Unit 3 Addition Strategies
§ Model adding to
§ Model putting together
§ Problem solving
§ Adding zero
§ Adding in any order
§ Adding numbers to 10
§ Count on
§ Add doubles
§ Use doubles to add
§ Doubles plus 1 and doubles minus 1
§ Add 10 and more
§ Make a 10 to add
§ Add 3 numbers
§ Problem solving using addition strategies / Unit 2: Subtraction Concepts & Unit 4 Subtraction Strategies
§ Using pictures to show taking from
§ Model taking from
§ Model taking apart
§ Use pictures and subtraction to compare
§ Subtract to compare
§ Subtract from 10 or less
§ Count back
§ Think addition to subtract
§ Use 10 frame to subtract
§ Break apart to subtract
§ Problem solving using subtraction strategies / Unit 5:
Addition and Subtraction Relationships
§ Choosing an operation to problem solve
§ Identify related facts
§ Fact families
§ Use addition to check subtraction
§ Find missing numbers
§ Equal and not equal
§ Basic facts to 20 / Unit 6: Count and Model Numbers
§ Count by ones to 120
§ Count by tens to 120
§ Make ten and ones
§ Count tens and ones to 50
§ Count tens and ones to 100
§ Problem solving: Show numbers in different ways
§ Model, read and write numbers from 100-110 and 110-120 / Unit 7: Compare Numbers
§ Greater than
§ Less than
§ Use symbols to compare
§ Compare numbers
§ Identify numbers that are 10 less and 10 more / Unit 8: Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction
§ Add and subtract within 20
§ Add tens
§ Subtract tens
§ Use hundred chart to add
§ Use model to add
§ Make ten to add
§ Use place value to add
§ Addition word problems
§ Practice addition and subtraction / Unit 9: Measurement & Unit 10: Represent Data
§ Order objects by length
§ Use nonstandard units to measure length
§ Measure using inch and centimeter
§ Problem solving: measure and compare
§ Tell and practice time to the hour and half hour
§ Read picture graphs
§ Make picture graphs
§ Read bar graphs
§ Make bar graphs
§ Read tally charts
§ Make tall charts
§ Problem solving: represent data / Unit 11:Three-Dimensional Geometry & Unit 12 Two-Dimensional Geometry
§ 3-D shapes
§ Combine 3-D shapes
§ Make new 3-D shapes
§ Problem solving: take apart 3-D shapes
§ 2-D shapes on 3-D shapes
§ Sort 2-D shapes
§ Describe 2-D shapes
§ Combine 2-D shapes
§ Problem Solving: make new 2-D shapes
§ Find shapes in shapes
§ Take apart 2-D shapes
§ Equal or unequal parts
§ Halves and Fourths
Social Studies / Unit One: Families are Important
§ The Family Unit
§ Families Around the World / Unit Two: Families: Now and Long Ago
§ Families Then and Now
§ Looking at Change
§ Family History / Unit Three: Families in Communities
§ The Community
§ A community Has a History / Unit Four: The Community
§ Community Workers
§ Community Economics
§ Citizenship and Community
9/30/2015