anCurriculum Outline
Reading: Fiction
Writing: Personal Narratives
Grade 1 Unit 1 Genre: Personal Narrative Date: September - November
Writing
W 1.3-Write narrative with two or more appropriately sequenced events/Retell a family tradition with a clear beginning, middle, and end using transitional words
Beginning: Introduction and description of characters (family) and setting
Middle: I can write about my actions and how I felt.
End: Describe my feelings at the end of the event
Reading
RL. 1.2- Central Idea: Theme
Retell a family tradition or event
RL 1.3- Describe characters, setting, major events
Describe family and traits and the places you’ve gone with them/things done together
Language
L 1.1-Command of Conventions of Standard English Grammar and Usage When Speaking and Writing
*Use of editing/revising checklists
*Incorporate grammar lessons into morning message
Include:
-Upper/lower case letters
- use of common, proper, and possessive nouns
-use singular/plural nouns with matching verbs
-use of personal/
possessive pronouns
-use verbs to convey a sense of past/present
L 1.2- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
(capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing)
*Schoolwide Editing Marks
*Editing checklist
*Editing morning message
Social Studies
SS 1.1B- Family Traditions
*Compare/Contrast different types of families
*Discuss things family do and places they go together
*Describe family traditions, things families learn from each other and occasions families celebrate
Mentor Texts: Knuffle Bunny, Knuffle Bunny Too, Knuffle Bunny Free,
A Chair For My Mother, Fireflies, Owl Moon, Social Studies Big Books, etc.
Math:
Grade 1 Math Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Word Study: Fundations
Reading: Fiction
- Students will be able to identify story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution, and theme).
- Students will be able to retell a familiar story in sequential order (beginning, middle, and end)
- Students will be able to identify character traits.
Writing: Personal Narratives
- Students are learning to write a personal narrative including story elements (characters, setting, problem, and solution), feelings, and "WOW" vocabulary.
- Students will be using writing and editing checklists.
Grade 1 Unit 1 Genre: Personal Narrative Date: September - November
Writing
W 1.3-Write narrative with two or more appropriately sequenced events/Retell a family tradition with a clear beginning, middle, and end using transitional words
Beginning: Introduction and description of characters (family) and setting
Middle: I can write about my actions and how I felt.
End: Describe my feelings at the end of the event
Reading
RL. 1.2- Central Idea: Theme
Retell a family tradition or event
RL 1.3- Describe characters, setting, major events
Describe family and traits and the places you’ve gone with them/things done together
Language
L 1.1-Command of Conventions of Standard English Grammar and Usage When Speaking and Writing
*Use of editing/revising checklists
*Incorporate grammar lessons into morning message
Include:
-Upper/lower case letters
- use of common, proper, and possessive nouns
-use singular/plural nouns with matching verbs
-use of personal/
possessive pronouns
-use verbs to convey a sense of past/present
L 1.2- Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English
(capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing)
*Schoolwide Editing Marks
*Editing checklist
*Editing morning message
Social Studies
SS 1.1B- Family Traditions
*Compare/Contrast different types of families
*Discuss things family do and places they go together
*Describe family traditions, things families learn from each other and occasions families celebrate
Mentor Texts: Knuffle Bunny, Knuffle Bunny Too, Knuffle Bunny Free,
A Chair For My Mother, Fireflies, Owl Moon, Social Studies Big Books, etc.
Math:
- Students are learning strategies to solve math word problems including "act it out" and "draw a picture".
- Students are engaged in exploration and discovery activities (3-Act Tasks).
- Students are learning to use base ten blocks to find the value of digits in the ones and tens place.
Grade 1 Math Overview
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- Add and subtract within 20.
- Work with addition and subtraction equations.
- Extend the counting sequence.
- Understand place value.
- Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
- Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
- Tell and write time.
- Represent and interpret data.
- Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
Word Study: Fundations
- Students are reviewing letter sounds and letter formations.
- Students are practicing the "tapping out strategy" to help them spell CVC words (consonant vowel consonant) as well as words with digraphs (wh, ch, sh, ck, th)