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Curriculum MapCommon Core Standards

Fulton Independent School District

Subject/Course: Reading/Language ArtsGrade: 1stRevision Date: 8-27-2013

Timeline(Days or weeks/dates)

Kentucky Core AssessmentStandard

Learning Target IntroduceProgress-

ingMasterReview

On Going(all must

get to “M”)

Assessment Lesson/Content

Week 1 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.I can take part in group discussions.I can ask and answer questions about what is read or spoken.

P, R,O Character/Setting

High-Frequency words: green, see, a, I.

Consonants m,s,and t; short a

Phonics: Nn, short and long Oo, Tt, and Pp.Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

SamGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What is around us at home?*Connection to Social Studies

Other stories using word families.

Amazing Words:furniture, unwind, middle, yawn, tidy, cozy, straw.

Week 2 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes)

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.

P, R,O Character/Setting Snap!Genre: Realistic Fiction

for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.I can make good word choices when writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

High-Frequency words: we, like, one, the.

Consonants c,n, and p; short a

Phonics: Ii, Ll, Aa, Zz. Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Big Question: Who is in our family?*Connection to Social Studies


Amazing Words:adult, depend, gallery, scurry, childhood, portrait, entertain.


I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.I can make good word choices when writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

P,R,O Plot

High-Frequency words: was, yellow, do, you, look.

Consonants f,b, and g; short i

Phonics: Ss, suffix –s, blends, Dd, Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Tip and TamGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What is outside our door?*Connection to Social Studies


Amazing Words:active, pavement, puddle, overflowing, lawn, newspaper, banner, patio.

Week 4 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and

P,R,O Realism and fantasy

High-Frequency words: are, have,

The Big TopGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What can we do with our neighborhood friends?

1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.I can make good word choices when writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

they, that, two.

Consonants d,l,and h; short o

Phonics: Ff, Hh, Gg, Rr. Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

*Connection to Social Studies


Amazing Words:amusing, neighbor, trouble, porch, introduce, corner, deliver, squirrel



I,P,R Plot

High-Frequency words: he, is, to, with, three.

Consonants r,w,j, and k; short e

Phonics: Kk, Cc, spelling with k and c, BbPhonics and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

School DayGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What is around us at school?*Connection to Social Studies

Amazing Words:classmate, polite, recess, applaud, success, education, principal, science, complicated.

Week 6 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can tell the difference between fiction and nonfictionI can point to the pictures and the text

P,R,O Character/Setting

High-Frequency words: where, here, for, me, go.

Consonants: v,y,z, and qu; short u

Farmer’s MarketGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What can we see around our neighborhood?*Connection to Social Studies

Amazing Words:bargain, bustling, fact, customer,

major events in a story, using key details)1.RL.5 (Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types).1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

that describe parts of a story.I can make good word choices when writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

Phonics:Mm, Ee, Diagraph ck, Spelling with ck and Final k.Phonics, Spelling, and sentence assessments weekly.

browse, library, cost, scale.



P,R,O Character/Setting

High Frequency words: my, come, way, on, in.Consonants:

Phonics: Digraph th, Digraph ng; suffix –ing,Suffix –ed, Digraph ee.Phonics, Spelling, and sentence assessments weekly.

Sam, Come Back!Genre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question: What do pets need?*Connection to Social Studies


Amazing Words:needs, responsibility, shelter, cuddle, tickle, faithful, fetch, heel.

Week 8 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.

P,R Plot

High Frequency words: she, take, what, up

Phonics: The Rule vc’/cv, Uu, Ww.

Pig in a WigGenre: Animal Fantasy

Big Question: Who helps animals?*Connection to Social Studies

Other stories using word

1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

I can make good word choices when writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

The Rule vc/cv’.Phonics, Spelling, and sentence assessments weekly.

families.

Amazing Words:career, tool, sloppy, comfort, service, scrub, exercise, search.

Week 9 1.RL.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.1.RF.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information


P,R,M Character and Setting

High Frequency words: blue, help, little, from, use, get.

Phonics:a consonant e, spelling with final ke, o consonant e,u consonant e,i consonant e,e consonant e, contractions.Phonics, Spelling, and sentence assessments weekly.

The Big Blue OxGenre: Animal Fantasy

Big Question: How do animals help people?*Connection to Social Studies

Amazing Words:past, produce, danger, struggle, powerful, present, serve,transportation, enormous.

Week 10 1.RF.3 b. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels, g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RL.1(Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)1.RL.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)

I can read one-syllable words.I can read irregularly spelled words.I can ask and answer question about a text I have read.I can describe characters, settings, and events in a story.I can point to the pictures and the text that describe parts of a story.I can make good word choices when

P, R Main Idea and Details

High Frequency words: eat, her, five, this, four, too

Phonics:Xx, Yy, Digraph

A Fox and a KitGenre: Literary Nonfiction

Big Question:How do wild animals take care of their babies?

Amazing Words:observe, wild, screech, reserve,

1.RL.7(Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)1.SL.1 (Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 1 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups).1.SL.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information)

writing or speaking.I can follow rules about words and sentences when I write.

sh, Digraph oo.

Phonics, Spelling, and sentence assessments weekly.

parent, canopy, million, native.



P, R Main Idea and Details

High Frequency words: saw, tree, small, your.

Phonics: Jj, Floss rule, Vv, spelling with final –ve, spelling with final c


Get the Egg!Genre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question:Which wild animals live in our neighborhood?

Amazing Words:habitat, survive, croak, hatch, chirp, moist.



P, R, O Cause and Effect

High Frequency words: home, into, many, them.

Phonics: final stable syllable –ble, -fle, -ple, -dle, -tle, gle, -cle, -kle, -sle, -zle

Phonics, Spelling, and sentence

Animal ParkGenre: Literary Nonfiction

Big Question:What can we learn about wild animals from watching them?

Amazing Words:desert, world, silent, medicine, forest, chatter, snort, poisonous.

assessments weekly.

Week 13 1.RL.3 (Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson)1.RF.3g. recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.1.RF.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.

P,R Sequence

High Frequency words: catch, put, good, said, no, want.

Phonics: vowel y, combination –er, trigraph –igh.


A Big Fish for MaxGenre: Animal Fantasy

Big Question:What does a family do together?

Amazing Words:chore, cooperation, commute, downtown, household, rule, subway, display.

Week 14 RL.1.2 (Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)


P,R Cause and Effect

High frequency words: be, of, could, old, horse, paper.

Phonics: compound words, suffixes –less, -ness, -ly, digraph ai, ay.


The Farmer in the HatGenre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question:How is a school a community?

Amazing Words:group, share, borrow, rehearsal, respect, aquarium, lines, soothe.

Week 15 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.

I,P,R Author’s Purpose Who Works Here?

RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell about the characters and setting in the story either verbally or using puppets.

High frequency words: live, who, out, work, people.

Phonics:Combination –ar, -or, qu, digraph ch.


Genre: Expository Text

Big Question:Who works to make our community a nice place?

Amazing Words:Citizen, law, branch, patrol, community, leader, earn, headquarters.

Week 16 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media)

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell about the characters and setting in the story.

P,R Sequence

High frequency words: down, there, inside, together, now.

Phonics:combination –ir, -ur, soft c, digraph ow.


The Big CircleGenre: Fiction

Big Question:How do animal communities work together to survive?

Amazing Words:Enemy, protect, holler, bluff, extinct, crater, swamp, boisterous

Week 17 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information


P,R Author’s Purpose

High frequency words: around, grow, find, under, food, water.

Phonics: v’lcv with a, i, e, o, and u.

Life in the Forest


Big Question:How are plant and animal communities important to each other?

Amazing Words:


environment, thrive, slimy, capture, require, inhale, sludge, creature.

Week 18 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text) RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can compare and contrast characters in a story.

P,R Compare and Contrast

High frequency words: also, other, family, some, new, their.

Phonics: digraph –ea, spelling with the dropping rule, diphthongs –oi and –oy.Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Honey Bees


Big Question:How is an insect community like a community of people?

Amazing Words:Individual, special, slither, eagerly, creep, romp, wander, industrious.



P,R Verbal, –retell story and reading fluency.Draw pictures in order of events.

High FrequencyWords: always, everything, things, become, nothing, day, stays

Phonics: spelling with –oi and –oy, vclcvclcv, final stable syllable –tion, digraph –ue

A Place to Play

Genre: Realistic Fiction

Big Question:How do places change?

Amazing Words –Growth, public, teeter, makeshift, population, shuffle, crooked, spindly

Phonics, and Spelling assessments weekly.



P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Draw pictures in order of events.

High Frequency words: any, every, were, enough, own, ever, sure

Phonics:Suffix –es, Diphthongs –ou, -ow, , spelling with –ou, and –ow, vclccv, vcclcv

Phonics, and Spelling assessments weekly.

Ruby on Her Own Time

Genre: Animal Fantasy

Big Question:How do we learn as we grow and change?

Amazing Words – attempt, time line, flatter, lovely, event, famous, correct, common

Week 21 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell about the characters and setting in the story either verbally or using puppets.

I,P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Act out (retell story using key details)the story using puppets.

High Frequency words: away, house, very, car,

The Class Pet


Big Question:How can we learn about animals as they grow and change?

Amazing Words – features, natural, tumble, nibble, wriggle, mature, swoop, crumple, nudges

our, friends, school

Phonics:Digraph –au, -aw, wild colt words, digraph –oa,Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.



P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Draw characters, setting, and details of story.

High Frequency words: afraid, how, again, read, few, soon

Phonics:Digraph –ey, The rule vc’lv, digraph ph, soft gPhonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Frog and Toad Together


Big Question:What changes happen in a garden?

Amazing Words – gardener, sprout, shade, destroy, nature, dim, sprinkling, humongous

Week 23 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information


P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.

Story elements: characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end.

High Frequency

I’m a Caterpillar

Genre: Literary Nonfiction

Big Question:What changes can be seen in nature?

Amazing words – cycle, insect, flurries, fragile, develop,

Words: done, visit, know, wait, push

Phonics:Spelling with the doubling rule, ghost letter digraphs (gn, kn, wr), Spelling with the doubling and dropping rules, The Rule vlcv’Phonics and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

rearrange, emerge, vessel

Week 24 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text) RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can compare and contrast characters in a story.

P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.

Compare and contrast characters and situations from the story.

High frequency words: before, oh, does, right, good-bye, won’t

Phonics: Trigraph tch, spelling with final ch and tch, trigraph dge; spelling with dge and ge, Digraph ie

Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Where are my animal friends?

Genre: Drama

Big Question:What do animals do when the seasons change?

Amazing Words – hibernate, temperature, freeze, weary, migrate, autumn, bitterly

Week 25 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell the difference between books that tell and books that give information.

P,R,M Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.

Compare and contrast characters and situations from the story.Characters and setting

High Frequency words: about, surprise, enjoy, worry, give, would

Phonics: Combination wh, a after w or qu; a before l, Digraph ei, digraph ew,


Mama’s Birthday Present


Big Question:How can a surprise be a treasure?

Amazing Words:Celebrate, grateful, rarest, genuine, cherish, delicate, loot

Week 26 RL.1.2 (Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and


P,R Verbal, –retell story and reading fluency.

Draw pictures in order of events.

Cinderella

Genre: Fairy Tale

Big Question:How can a story be a treasure?

experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

High Frequency words: colors, great, sign, draw, over, drew, show

Phonics: suffixes –er and –est, suffix –ful, prefix un-, prefixes pre- and dis-Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

Amazing Words: delightful, original, tangle, royal, imagination, carve, peer, sighed




High-Frequency words: found, took, mouth, wild, once

Phonics: Review of Consonant digraphs, Vowel digraphs, combinations and affixesPhonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly.

A Trip to Washington, D.C.


Big Question:What treasures can we find in our country?

Amazing Words: nation, tourist, splinter, harbor, symbol, abandon, sunken, statue

Week 28 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with

I,P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.

A Southern Ranch


events in a story, using key details)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell about the characters and setting in the story either verbally or using puppets.

Act out (retell story using key details)the story using puppets.

High frequency words: above, moon, eight, touch, laugh

Phonics:Review of Diphthongs


Big Question:Why do we treasure special places?

Amazing Words: impression, favorite, errand, familiar, memory, stampede



P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Draw characters, setting, and details of story.High frequency words: picture, stood, remember, thought, room

Phonics: final, stable, syllables


Peter’s Chair


Big Question:What treasures can we share at home?

Amazing Words: jealous, sibling, porridge, seriousness, relatives, secret, collector, flourish

Week 30 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.

P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Story elements:

Henry and Mudge and Mrs. Hopper’s House


RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information

I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.

characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end.High frequency words: across, only, told, because, opened, dance, shoes

Phonics: review of trigraphs

Phonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly

Big Question:What treasures can we share with neighbors?

Amazing Words: discover, resident, admire, substantial, dwell, welcome, sadness, tremendous

Week 31 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.5 Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading of a range of text types.RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text read aloud or information

I can listen to a story while it is read.I can read the story with fluency.I can ask and answer questions about the story I heard.I can tell the difference between books that tell and books that give information.

P,R,M Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Compare and contrast characters and situations from the story.Characters and setting

High frequency words: along, never, behind, pulling, eyes, toward

Phonics: Spelling rulesPhonics, and Spelling assess-ments weekly

Tippy-Toe Chick, GO!


Big Question:When does a problem need a clever solution?

Amazing Words:Clever, predicament, exhausted, batter, intend, grumpy, furious, griddle



P,R Verbal, –retell story and reading fluency.Draw pictures in order of events.

High frequency words: forward, door, wood, loved, should


Mole and the Baby Bird


Big Question:How can we look at things in a different way?

Amazing Words:Miserable, selfish, ignore, proper, freedom, shrug, fond, scarcely




High frequency words: among, none, another, instead


Dot and Jabber and the great Acorn Mystery

Genre: Informational Fiction

Big Question:How do we solve mysteries?

Amazing Words: explanation, wonder, encouragingly, suspects, riddle, confused, case

Week 34 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.7 (Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events)


I,P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Act out (retell story using key details)the story

Simple Machines


Big Question:How can a great idea make our

RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)

I can tell about the characters and setting in the story either verbally or using puppets.

using puppets.

High frequency words: against, kinds, goes, today, heavy


lives easier?

Amazing Words: gadget, convenient, pilot, cellar, equipment, engine, steer, furnace



P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Draw characters, setting, and details of story.

High frequency words: built, science, early, through, learn


Alexander Graham Bell: A Great Inventor

Genre: Biography

Big Question:How can a great idea change the way we live?

Amazing Words:Determined, technology, stalled, sketch, inventor, stable, biplane, speech

Week 36 RL.1.1 (Ask and answer questions about key details in a text)RL.1.3 (Describe characters, settings and major events in a story, using key details)RL.1.9 (Compare and contrast the adventures and experiences of characters in a story)RF.1.4 (Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension)SL.1.2 (Ask and answer questions about key


P,R Verbal–retell story and reading fluency.Story elements: characters, setting, and beginning, middle, and end.

The Stone Garden


Big Question:What can happen when someone has a new idea?

Amazing Words:

details in a text read aloud or information High frequency words: answered, different, carry, poor


Accomplish, original, (un)manned, exclaim, doubt, glider, soar

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