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Classic Tales Teacher Guide New York Edition Language Arts Knowledge York • New Core PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL PRESCHOOL Core Knowledge Language Arts • New York Edition Classic Tales Teacher Guide Teacher Classic Tales Teacher Guide PRESCHOOL Core Knowledge Language Arts® New York Edition Creative Commons Licensing This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work to Remix — to adapt the work Under the following conditions: Attribution — You must attribute the work in the following manner: This work is based on an original work of the Core Knowledge® Foundation made available through licensing under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This does not in any way imply that the Core Knowledge Foundation endorses this work. Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes. 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Table of Contents Classic Tales Teacher Guide Alignment Chart for Classic Tales. .v Domain Introduction . 1 1A: The Lion and the Mouse. .15 1B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . .22 2A: The City Mouse and the Country Mouse . .29 2B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . .37 3A: Goldilocks and the Three Bears. .45 3B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . .53 4A: The Gingerbread Man . .60 4B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . .68 Domain Assessment 1. .74 Domain Record Form 1 . .77 5A: The Shoemaker and the Elves . .79 5B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . .87 6A: The Little Red Hen . .93 6B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . 101 7A: Thumbelina . 108 7B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . 116 8A: How Turtle Cracked His Shell . 121 8B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . 129 9A: Why Flies Buzz . 134 9B: Review/Word Work/Extensions . 142 10A: The Three Little Pigs . 147 10B: Trade Book: The Three Horrid Little Pigs by Liz Pichon. 155 Domain Assessment 2. 163 Domain Record Form 2 . 166 Acknowledgments . 169 Alignment Chart for Classic Tales The following chart contains language arts objectives addressed in the Classic Tales domain. While Common Core State Standards for Preschool have yet to be proposed nationally, this chart also demonstrates alignment between the New York State Common Core State Standards for Preschool and corresponding Preschool Core Knowledge Language Arts (CKLA) goals. Classic Tales | Alignment Chart v © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation vi Day Alignment Chart for Classic Tales © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation © 2013Core Classic Tales Classic Tales | 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 5A 5B 6A 6B 7A 7B 8A 8B 9A 9B 10A 10B Reading Standards for Literature: Prekindergarten Key Ideas and Details Alignment Chart STD RL.P.1 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about detail(s) in a text. With prompting and support, ask and CKLA answer who, what, where, when, and Goal(s) why questions about a fiction read- aloud STD RL.P.2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories. With prompting and support, retell, dramatize, or illustrate a story that has been read aloud, including characters, a beginning, and an ending With prompting and support, retell, dramatize, or illustrate a story that has been read aloud, including CKLA character(s), setting (time, place), the Goal(s) plot (central idea) of the story, the sequence of events, and an ending With prompting and support, sequence illustrations of three to five story events With prompting and support, “read”/ tell a story using a wordless picture book Day Alignment Chart for Classic Tales 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 5A 5B 6A 6B 7A 7B 8A 8B 9A 9B 10A 10B STD RL.P.3 With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about characters and major events in a story. With prompting and support, retell, dramatize, or illustrate a story that has been read aloud, including characters, a beginning, and an ending With prompting and support, retell, dramatize or illustrate a story that CKLA has been read aloud, including Goal(s) character(s), setting (time, place), the plot (central idea) of the story, the sequence of events, and an ending With prompting and support, ask and answer who, what, where, when, and why questions about a fiction read- aloud Craft and Structure STD RL.P.4 Exhibit curiosity and interest in learning new vocabulary (e.g., ask questions about unfamiliar vocabulary). With prompting and support, ask and CKLA answer questions about unfamiliar Goal(s) core vocabulary in fiction read-alouds STD RL.P.5 Students interact with a variety of common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems, songs). CKLA Attend and listen to illustrated picture Goal(s) books with simple story lines STD RL.P.6 With prompting and support, can describe the role of an author and illustrator. Classic Tales Classic Tales | With prompting and support, given © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation © 2013Core a specific book, describe and show CKLA what the author and illustrator each Goal(s) contributed to the creation of that Alignment Chart book vii viii Day Alignment Chart for Classic Tales © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation © 2013Core Classic Tales Classic Tales | 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 5A 5B 6A 6B 7A 7B 8A 8B 9A 9B 10A 10B Integration and Knowledge aof Ideas STD RL.P.7 With prompting and support, students will engage in a picture walk to make connections between self, illustration, and the story. Alignment Chart With prompting and support, describe CKLA an illustration and make connections Goal(s) between the story and oneself STD RL.P.8 Not applicable to literature. STD RL.P.9 With prompting and support, students will compare and contrast two stories relating to the same topic (Mercer Meyer series). With prompting and support, listen CKLA to and then compare and contrast Goal(s) different versions of the same story by different authors Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity STD RL.P.10 Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding With prompting and support, provide or join in repeating the refrain in books with repetitive phrases CKLA Predict events in a story, i.e., what will Goal(s) happen next Provide a story ending consistent with other given story events With prompting and support, dictate, as a group, a retelling of a story that has been heard Responding to Literature STD RL.P.11 With prompting and support, make connections between self, text, and the world around them (text, media, social interaction). Describe an illustration or text in CKLA a fiction read-aloud and make Goal(s) connections to self and the world around them Day Alignment Chart for Classic Tales 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 5A 5B 6A 6B 7A 7B 8A 8B 9A 9B 10A 10B Reading Standards for Informational Text: Prekindergarten Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity STD RI.P.10 With prompting and support, actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding. With prompting and support, follow a simple illustrated recipe CKLA Goal(s) With prompting and support, follow illustrated directions to do a simple craft or science experiment Reading Standards for Foundational Skills: Prekindergarten NOTE: In Prekindergarten, children are expected to demonstrate increasing awareness and competence in the areas that follow. Print Concepts STD RF.P.1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. STD RF.P.1a Follow words from left to right, top to botton, and page by page. Point to the front cover, title, and back cover of a book; the top, middle, or bottom of a page; the beginning of the CKLA book; where to start reading a book; Goal(s) the order that words are read on a page; the end of the book; a word; and a letter STD RF.P.1c Understand that words are seperated by spaces in print. Classic Tales Classic Tales | CKLA Point to words as distinct units on a Goal(s) page of print © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation © 2013Core Alignment Chart ix x Day Alignment Chart for Classic Tales © 2013 Core Knowledge Foundation © 2013Core Classic Tales Classic Tales | 1A 1B 2A 2B 3A 3B 4A 4B 5A 5B 6A 6B 7A 7B 8A 8B 9A 9B 10A 10B Phonological Awareness STD RF.P.2 Demonstrate an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables and sounds (phonemes). Alignment Chart STD RF.P.2a Engage in language play (e.g. alliterative language, rhyming, sound patterns). Segment a spoken word into separate, CKLA distinct syllables Goal(s) Blend two spoken syllables, saying the whole word Fluency STD RF.P.4 Display emergent reading behaviors with purpose and understanding (e.g., pretend reading). CKLA Hold a book correctly, turning the Goal(s) pages, while pretending reading Writing Standards: Prekindergarten Text Types and Purposes With prompting and support, use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what STD W.P.2 they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
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