ELA Unit At-A-Glance Organizer

ELA Calendar - Unit At-A-Glance Organizer

Grade: Kindergarten Unit Title: Coming Full Circle with Cycles

Week 1 – Cycle of Days Essential Question: What is a cycle? How do we see and experience cycles in our everyday lives? Week 1 - Day 1 Week 1 - Day 2 Week 1 - Day 3 Week 1 - Day 4 Week 1 - Day 5

Standards: RLK.2, Standards: RLK.1, Standards: RLK.5, Standards: RLK.1, Standards: RLK.4, RLK.7, RLK.5, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.7, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.9, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.5, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.10, RFK.1, RFK.4, RFK.4, SLK.1, LK.1.e RFK.4, SLK.1, LK.1.e RFK.4, SLK.1, LK.1.e RFK.4, SLK.1, LK.1.e SLK.1, LK.6

Introduce song. Introduce Sing song. Reread Sing song. Reread Sing song. Reread Sing song. Reread interactive and read selection. Revisit interactive chart together. interactive chart together. interactive chart together. chart together. Reinforce text to sequentially identify Reinforce foundation Reinforce foundational Reinforce foundational foundational skills. Introduce what the girl experiences skills. Revisit story to skills. Read poem and skills. Introduce and read vocabulary: dusk and dawn. in the night (beginning with identify what is found discuss how books lead us selection. Identify what the Introduce and read selection. Sun in the moon) in order inside and outside the to “find unexpected keys to sun and moon see. Discuss how dusk and dawn to create an interactive house that the illustrator things, locked up beyond Demonstrate that this are experienced in the story. chart for shared reading. illuminated with imagining.” Relate this book is a circle story. goldenrod color. Discuss verse to the imaginary Compare it to The House ** Click to access Lesson Plan ** Click to access Lesson what makes “a home of journey in the story. in the Night. Explain how a Plan light” and how the circle story is like a cycle. illustrations create a ** Click to access Lesson sense of security and Plan ** Click to access Lesson wonder. Plan

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R/ELA.MSDE 8/5/2012 Week 2 – Cycle of Seasons Essential Question: What are the four seasons? How do we experience the season of autumn? What is the seasonal cycle of trees? Week 2 - Day 1 Week 2 - Day 2 Week 2 - Day 3 Week 2 - Day 4 Week 2 - Day 5

Standards: RLK.1; Standards: RLK.5, Standards: RLK.1, Standards: RLK.10, Standards: RLK.3, RLK.7, RLK.5, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.10 RLK.10, RFK.1, RFK.3.c, RFK.1, RFK.3.c, RFK.4, SLK.1 RFK.4, SLK.1 RFK.1, RFK.3.c, RFK.4, RFK.4, SLK.1 SLK.4 WK.2, WK.7, SLK.4, Sing song. Introduce and Sing months-of-the-year SLK.6, LK.1.f, LK.2, Sing song. Reread Sing song. Read portion of read selection. Revisit text to song. Read Updike’s poem, LK.5.a, LK.6 predictable chart. predictable chart. Reinforce identify how Fletcher October, to identify the Reinforce foundational foundational skills. Provide attempted to “save” his tree. seasonal occurrences. Sing seasons song. Reread skills, including touch- students with word and Discuss how the words and Read Rockwell’s book to poem; discuss the poetic reading. punctuation cards to rebuild the illustrations create a introduce the cycle of the language - what the color Read and discuss Ehlert’s sentences. (Sentence “magical” conclusion. What seasons. Create a seasonal words describe. book. Identify the Builders) makes the change of seasons cycle chart with picture- Display and identify a seasonal changes of a magical? word cards, retelling variety of autumn leaves. maple tree. ** Click to access Lesson events from the story. Sort by type and color. Plan ** Click to access Lesson Plan (limit: three types) Provide ** Click to access Lesson ** Click to access Lesson each student with a leaf. Plan Plan Have students dictate sentences for class predictable chart to describe their leaves: e.g., Here is a red maple leaf. (Sam)

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R/ELA.MSDE 8/5/2012 Week 3 – Cycle of Seasonal Animal Changes Essential Question: How do animals experience the cycle of the seasons? How do they respond to seasonal changes in autumn? Week 3 - Day 1 Week 3 - Day 2 Week 3 - Day 3 Week 3 - Day 4 Week 3 - Day 5

Standards: RLK.2; Standards: RLK.2, Standards: RLK.3, Standards: RLK.3, Standards: RIK.2RLK.9, RLK.5, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.3, RLK.10, RFK.1, RLK.10, RFK.1, RFK.4, RLK.10, RFK.1, RFK.4, RLK.10, RFK.4, SLK.1 RFK.4, SLK.1 RFK.4, SLK.1 SLK.1 SLK.1 Read poem about farm Introduce song and teach Sing songs. Reread Sing songs. Reread Sing songs. Reread animals in autumn and how vocabulary: nocturnal. Read interactive chart together. interactive chart together. interactive chart together. they respond to seasonal Good-Night, Owl! Discuss Reinforce foundational Reinforce foundational Retell story through changes. Read The Farm the owl’s problem and skills: different types of skills: quotation marks - to dramatization, having Concert. Compare the solution. Identify the print (hyphenated sound identify what characters students assume the roles farmer’s problem to the owl’s animals and their sounds in words). say. of different characters problem. order to create an (birds, owl) in a play or interactive chart for shared puppet show. Interactive Read-Aloud: reading. Bird, Eel, Butterfly by James Prosek Introduce and sing owl song. Identify animals that Standards:, RLK.5, RLK.10, SLK.1 live in (around or under) a tree, as identified in the text.

R/ELA.MSDE 8/5/2012 Week 4 – Cycle of Seasons: Harvest Essential Question: What is the seasonal cycle of apple trees? How do people respond to the seasonal cycle? Week 4 - Day 1 Week 4 - Day 2 Week 4 - Day 3 Week 4 - Day 4 Week 4 - Day 5 Shared Reading: Shared Reading: Shared Reading: Shared Reading: Shared Reading Companion Text: Standards: RLK.1, Standards: RLK.3, Standards: RLK.2, Standards: RLK.2, RLK.5, RLK.10, RFK.4, RLK.10, RFK.4, SLK.1 RLK.3, RFK.4, RLK.5, RLK.5, RFK.4 RLK.7, Standards: RLK.3, RLK.7, SLK.1 RLK.10, SLK.1 RLK.10, SLK.1 RLK.9, RLK.10, SLK.1 Sing song. Read interactive Sing song about the chart. Reinforce Sing song. Reread Sing song. Reread Sing song. Introduce and seasons. foundational skills. Revisit interactive chart. Reinforce interactive chart. Reinforce read selection. Compare the Introduce vocabulary: the text to describe how foundational skills. foundational skills. Revisit experiences of the characters bud, blossoms, and Arnold experiences the Introduce vocabulary: the text to discuss how the in the story to Arnold and branches. Introduce and tree throughout the orchard, farmer, market. illustrations contribute to Annie – how do they read selection. Revisit seasons, describing his Introduce and read meaning of the story. experience the seasonal text to retell how the tree activities. selection. Describe how Discuss how the reader cycle of the apple tree? Have changes through the Annie experiences the apple knows that Annie finds students determine their seasons. Create an harvest, retelling the satisfaction in her work. favorite book. interactive chart for events. shared reading.

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