Curriculum Connection
K-5 ELA- April 2024
Kindergarten ELA
Foundational Skills
Print Awareness: Recognize and review, name & print upper and lowercase letters
Phonological Awareness: phoneme isolation, phoneme addition, blend onset/rime
Phonics: x (final), z, long a (a_e), long o (o_e)
Fluency: Read text with appropriate rate and expression
Language: Identify and analyze descriptive words and phrases
Reading Unit 5 (Continued): Readers are Resourceful: Tackling Hard Words and Tricky Parts in Books
Writing Unit 5 (Continued): All About Books
Students will spend the week learning to revise and also write new books, incorporating into their own writing the features of nonfiction that they notice in mentor texts. Students will pick one book to revise, edit, and publish for the celebration. The unit will culminate with a writing celebration where students teach others all about their areas of expertise.
Writing Unit 5 All About Books- Writing Checklist
Students use the Informational Writing Checklist as they revise and edit their All About books.
1st Grade ELA
Foundational Skills:
Phonological Awareness: phoneme isolation, phoneme blending, phoneme categorization
Phonics: /ou/, /oi/, /oo/
Fluency: Read orally to build fluency; Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
Language: Comparative inflectional endings, suffix -ly, -oil, -oin, vowel team syllables
Reading Unit 6: Reading Across Genres to Learn About a Topic: Information Books, Stories and Poems
Reading Unit 6 (Continued)
As the unit continues, readers will take what they learned from one text and add it to what they already learned from other texts. They will work on forming an opinion about the topic and teaching others about it.
Writing Unit 5: From Scenes to Series (Continued)
As unit 5 continues, the focus shifts to turning students into more powerful writers of realistic fiction. Students will engage in a study of genre and of themselves as writers. They will learn writers call on their own experiences to imagine tiny details they can include in a story to let their readers know a story is realistic. Students will learn how to show, not tell, and think about the structure of their stories as they write chapters with a clear beginning, middle, and end. children will prepare to publish their second series. They’ll work hard to showcase their work, making it both beautiful and colorful by adding important details to the illustrations, by creating a “meet the author” page to introduce themselves to their readers, and by editing and revising in meaningful ways to make their work publication-ready.
2nd Grade ELA
Foundational Skills
Phonological Awareness: Blend and Segment; Add, Delete and Substitute Sounds
Phonics: suffixes -y, -ly, schwa, silent letters /n/ gn, kn; /r/ wr; /m/ mb
Fluency: Build Automaticity; Read Texts with Fluency and Purpose
Language:
● Benchmark: inflectional endings with spelling changes, comparative and superlatives suffixes -er, -est
● Mentor Sentences: Possessives
Reading Unit 6: Fairy Tales and Fables (Continued)
Reading Unit 6: Fairy Tales and Fables (Continued)
Students will focus on lessons the stories can offer through what befalls characters. Children will use critical-thinking skills to determine not only some messages that readers can take away from each story but also whether these lessons are ones with which they themselves agree. They’ll read across stories with similar themes or messages, considering similarities and differences across the books they read.
Writing Unit 6: Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages (continued)
3rd Grade ELA
Reading Unit 4: Research Clubs: Elephants, Penguins and Frogs, Oh My!
Informational Learning Progression
Begin with the End in Mind
Anchor Charts
Writing Unit 4: Once Upon a Time (continued)
Don't forget about the resources on Heinemann that show examples of the final writing piece.
FIG. 20-1 Simone's final piece
FIG. 20-2 Rocio's final piece
FIG. 20-3 Zander's final piece
FIG. 20-4 Andrew's final piece
FIG. 20-5 Cora's final piece
4th Grade ELA
Reading Unit 4: Historical Fiction Book Clubs (Continued)
Begin With the End in Mind:
Sometimes it is beneficial to revisit the resources available in Heinemann to be reminded of the ultimate goal of the unit.
"Readers of Historical Fiction" anchor chart
Fig 16-1: "Number the Stars vs. The Butterfly"
Fig 16-2: "Brianna's Theme-Based Text Set."
Fig 16-3: "Sam's Thematic Text Set"
Fig 16-4: "Common Themes Between Three Books"
Fig 16-5: "What I Learned from Bud, Not Buddy"
Writing Unit 4: Literary Essays (Continued)
Beginning With the End in Mind:
Sometimes students need to see the big picture of what they are working toward in a unit. These resources are listed in Heinemann at the end of the unit for reference.
FIG. 20-1 Max's final draft
FIG. 20-2 Adam's final draft
FIG. 20-3 Judah's final draft
FIG. 20-4 Ali's final draft
FIG. 20-5 Jessica's final draft
FIG. 20-6 Parker's final draft
FIG. 20-7 Kenneth's final draft
5th Grade ELA
Reading Unit 4: Fantasy Book Clubs (continued)
Begin With the End in Mind
Heinemann has resources available for students to gauge where they are in their reflection of a topic.
Fig 20-1: "Why Maya Reads Fantasy"
Fig 20-2: "How Reading Fantasy Changed Julia"
Fig 20-3: "Aly's Experience Reading Fantasy"
Fig 20-4: "Malachi's Experience Reading Fantasy"
Fig 20-5: "Addi's Experience Reading Fantasy"
Writing Unit 4: Shaping Texts From Essay and Narrative to Memoir (continued)
Editing Checklist
To avoid having students just check each box, have them color code where they find evidence of these components within their writing.
Begin With the End in Mind
Students sometimes need to see what they are working toward in a unit. These drafts give them an idea of the goal of the unit.
FIG. 19-1 Adam's final draft
FIG. 19-2 Emily's final draft
FIG. 19-3 Henry's final draft
FIG. 19-4 Tyler's final draft
FIG. 19-5 Ali's final draft
Anchor Charts
Jennifer Wiley
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Kim Fette
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Website: parkhill.k12.mo.us
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Phone: 816-359-5750
Twitter: @kimElemCoach