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Curriculum Map: 0 Kindergarten English Course: ENGLISH Subtopic: English

Course Description: The kindergarten English course is designed to introduce language and literacy development, by implementing the beginning concepts of print readiness, grammar and usage skills. The course content will cover all Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood for Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening.

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Unit: Concepts of Print and Readiness Timeline: August to September

Unit Description: Student will learn essential concepts of print and readiness, such as categorization, uppercase and lowercase letters and tracking print.

Essential Questions: 1. What objects are the same? 2. What objects are different? 3. What is a capital letter? 4. What is a lowercase letter? 5. What is left to right progression?

Enduring 1. The students will identify objects that are the same. Understandings: 2. The students will identify objects that are different. 3. The students will distinguish between capital and lowercase letters. 4. The students will recognize left to right progression.

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STANDARDS 1.1.A (Introductory) Develop book/print knowledge and conventions (turn pages from left to right when reading, read words and sentences from left to right, read from top to bottom, return sweep, parts of a book [cover, title, author, illustrator, title page, print represents language) 1.1.B (Introductory) Develop sentence awareness/word awareness 1.1.G (Introductory) Develop knowledge of letters and their sounds (Alphabetic Principle)

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Lesson Topic: Same and Different Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Explore all the ways that things are alike. (same thing, same color, same size)

Objectives: The student will be able identify objects that are the same.

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Lesson Topic: Capital and Lowercase Letters Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Distinguish between capital and lowercase letters.

Objectives: The student will be able identify capital and lowercase letters.

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Lesson Topic: Left to Right Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Practice left to right progression. Identify left and right.

Objectives: The student will be able identify left and right.

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Unit: Nouns Timeline: October to November

Unit Description: Students will learn essential concepts of nouns and noun usuage, such as nouns that name people(proper and common), nouns that name animals and things, nouns that name places(common), and proper nouns of day and place names.

Essential Questions: 1. What is a proper noun? 2. Name an example of a special noun that names a person? 3. Name an example of a common noun that names a person? 4. Name a noun that names an animal? 5. Name a noun that names a place? 6. Name the days of the week?

Enduring 1. The students will identify a proper noun. Understandings: 2. The students will recognize proper nouns that name people. 3. The students will recognize common nouns that name people. 4. The students will identify nouns that name animals and places. 5. The students will identify proper nouns that name the days of the week.

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STANDARDS 1.1.K (Introductory) Name and describe new concepts 1.1.L (Introductory) Acquire a reading vocabulary consisting of common words (environmental print, sight words, word families) 1.1.M (Introductory) Listen to new vocabulary in multiple contexts in order to understand new words and concepts 1.1.N (Introductory) Discuss unknown words and word meanings 1.4.A (Introductory) Describe the role of people, places, and things in a story

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Lesson Topic: Special Nouns that Name People Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Nouns for special names begin with a capital letter.

Objectives: The student will be able identify and use proper nouns that name people.

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Lesson Topic: Common Nouns that Name People Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Use common nouns to tell about people.

Objectives: The student will be able identify nouns that name people.

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Lesson Topic: Nouns that Name Animals and Things Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Some nouns name animals and things.

Objectives: The student will be able identify nouns and classify them as people, places or things.

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Lesson Topic: Nouns that Name Places Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Some nouns name places.

Objectives: The student will be able identify nouns and classify them as people, places or things.

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Lesson Topic: Nouns that Name Days Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: There are seven days of the week. The name of each day begins with a capital letter.

Objectives: The student will be able identify and use proper nouns that name days of the week.

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Unit: Verbs Timeline: December

Unit Description: Concepts of verbs and verb usage, such as action verbs(past and present), and is, are, was and were.

Essential Questions: 1. What is a verb? 2. What is an action verb? 3. What are past tense verbs? 4. How would you use is,are,was and were in a sentence?

Enduring 1. The students will identify a verb. Understandings: 2. The students will correctly use an action verb in a sentence. 3. The students will identify past tense verbs with ed. 4. The students will use is, are, was, were correctly in a sentence.

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STANDARDS 1.1.B (Introductory) Develop sentence awareness/word awareness 1.1.K (Introductory) Name and describe new concepts 1.1.L (Introductory) Acquire a reading vocabulary consisting of common words (environmental print, sight words, word families) 1.1.M (Introductory) Listen to new vocabulary in multiple contexts in order to understand new words and concepts 1.1.N (Introductory) Discuss unknown words and word meanings

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Lesson Topic: Action Verbs Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A verb is a word that shows action.

Objectives: The student will be able identify action verbs and tell about actions.

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Lesson Topic: Past Tense Verbs Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Verbs can tell about the past. Add ed to most verbs to tell about the past.

Objectives: The student will be able identify past tense verbs formed by adding ed.

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Lesson Topic: Is, Are, Was, Were Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: The present tense verb is tells about one person, place or thing. The present tense verb are tells about more thatn one person, place or things. The verbs was and were tell about the past.

Objectives: The student will be able identify the verbs is, are, was and were.

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Unit: Sentences Timeline: January to February

Unit Description: Student will learn essential concepts of sentences and sentence usage, such as the difference between telling, asking and exclaiming sentences, and subject/verb agreement in sentences.

Essential Questions: 1. What is a sentence? 2. What makes a sentence? 3. What is a statement? 4. What is a question? 5. What is an exclamatory sentence? 6. What is subject/verb agreement?

Enduring 1. The students will identify a sentence. Understandings: 2. The students will recognize what makes a sentence. 3. The students will distinguish between a statement, question, and exclamatory sentence. 4. The students write a sentence using proper subject/verb agreement.

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Lesson Topic: What is a Sentence? Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A sentence is a group of words. A sentence tells a complete thought.

Objectives: The student will be able identify complete sentences.

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Lesson Topic: Statements Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A statement is a sentence. A statement tells about something or someone.

Objectives: The student will be able identify telling sentences.

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Lesson Topic: Questions Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A question is a sentence. A question asks something.

Objectives: The student will be able identify asking sentences and recognize that asking sentences end with a question mark.

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Lesson Topic: Exclaiming Sentences Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: An exclamation is a sentence. An exclamation shows strong feeling.

Objectives: The student will be able identify exclaiming sentences and recognize that exclaiming sentences end with an exclamation mark.

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Lesson Topic: Subject/Verb Agreement Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A verb must agree with its naming part. Add s or es to most verbs to tell about one. Do not add s or es to verbs that tell about I or more than one.

Objectives: The student will be able learn when to add s or es to a presenttense verb to make it agree with its subject.

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Unit: Adjectives Timeline: March to April

Unit Description: Students wil learn essential concepts of words that describe, such as color, size, shape, number, sense, feeling, and comparing words.

Essential Questions: 1. What is a color word? 2. What are some words that describe sizes, shapes and numbers? 3. What are some words that describe the senses? 4. What are some words that describes our feelings? 5. What are some words that compare?

Enduring 1. The students will name the colors. Understandings: 2. The students will identify words that describe various sizes, shapes, and numbers. 3. The students will name the five senses and use them correctly in a sentence. 4. The students will recognize words that describe how they feel use the words to describe expressions. 5. The students will use words to compare objects.

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STANDARDS 1.1.B (Introductory) Develop sentence awareness/word awareness 1.1.C (Introductory) Discriminate words and sounds 1.1.K (Introductory) Name and describe new concepts 1.1.L (Introductory) Acquire a reading vocabulary consisting of common words (environmental print, sight words, word families) 1.1.M (Introductory) Listen to new vocabulary in multiple contexts in order to understand new words and concepts

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Lesson Topic: Color Words Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Some adjectives are the names of colors.

Objectives: The student will be able use color words to describe objects.

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Lesson Topic: Size, Shape and Number Words Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Some adjectives describe size, shape and numbers.

Objectives: The student will be able identify shapes, sizes and numbers. Use words to describe shapes and sizes and use number words.

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Lesson Topic: Words about Senses Topic Description: Some adjectives tell how things look and sound. Other adjectives tell how things smell, taste and feel.

Objectives: The student will be able identify the senses used to experience things. Use adjectives to tell how things look, sound, taste, smell and feel.

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Lesson Topic: Words about Feelings Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Some adjectives tell about a person's feelings. Some adjectives tell how something feels.

Objectives: The student will be able recognized feelings revealed by facial expressions and use adjectives to describe feelings.

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Lesson Topic: Words that Compare

Page 6 of 9 pages Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Add er to adjectives to compare two people, places or things. Add est to adjectives to compare three or more people, places or things.

Objectives: The student will be able identify and use adjectives that compare.

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Unit: Pronouns Timeline: May to June

Unit Description: Students will learn essential concepts of pronouns, such as I, you, he, she, it, we and they, and agreement of pronouns and verbs.

Essential Questions: 1. What is a pronoun? 2. Where do you use the pronoun I in a sentence? 3. What pronouns take the place of singular nouns naming people? 4. What pronouns take the place of a singular noun naming a thing? 5. What pronouns take the place of a plural noun naming people? 6. What pronouns take the place of a group of people? 7. How do you use verbs correctly with pronouns?

Enduring 1. The students will identify a pronoun. Understandings: 2. The students will use I in a sentence to talk about themselves. 3. The students will use you, he, she correctly in a sentence. 4. The students will use the word it correctly in a sentence to take the place of a singular noun. 5. The students will recognize the word they is used when talking about more than one person. 6. The students will use we correctly in a sentence when talking about a group of people. 7. The students will change the verbs to match the pronouns that they describe.

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Lesson Topic: Pronouns I, you Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Objectives: The student will be able identify the pronouns I and you and use the pronouns in a sentence.

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Lesson Topic: Pronouns he, she, it Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Objectives: The student will be able identify the pronouns he, she and it and use the pronouns in a sentence.

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Lesson Topic: Pronouns we, they Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun.

Objectives: The student will be able identify the pronouns we and they and use them in sentences.

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Lesson Topic: Pronoun / Verb Agreement Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Use verbs correctly with singular and plural pronouns.

Objectives: The student will be able identify singular and plural pronouns.

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Lesson Topic: Working with Pronouns Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: Recognize the pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we and they.

Objectives: The student will be able identify and use the correct usage of pronouns.

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Unit: Mechanics Timeline: August to June

Unit Description: Students will learn essential components on how to begin a sentence and end a sentence with proper punctuation. A sentence begins with a capital letter and ends with a period, question mark or exclamation mark.

Essential Questions: 1. How do you begin a sentence correctly? 2. How would you end a sentence that tells a complete thought? 3. How would you end a sentence that asks something? 4. How would you end a sentence that show strong feelings?

Enduring 1. The students will write a sentence using a capital letter at the beginning. Understandings: 2. The students will distinguish between a period, question mark, and exclamation mark while writing a sentence.

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Lesson Topic: Capitalize First Word of a Sentence and Proper Nouns Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20

Page 8 of 9 pages Topic Description: A statement and proper nouns begin with a capital letter.

Objectives: The student will be able use capital letters at the beginning of a sentence and to name proper nouns.

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Lesson Topic: End of Sentence Punctuation Minutes for Lesson Topic: 20 Topic Description: A statement ends with a period. A question ends with a question mark. An exclamation ends with an exclamation mark.

Objectives: The student will be able identify and use correct end punctuation in sentences.

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