3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:02: Readiness
  • Subject(s):English Language Arts
  • Days:33
  • Grade(s):K
Key Learning:

What we say and hear can be written.

Reading is combining letter sounds to form words.

Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How do letters and sounds become words we read and write?

   
Concept:

Phonemic Awareness / Sounds (Listening)

Concept:

Phonics (Written)

Concept:

Reading Patterns

Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do I change sounds to make new words?

(A)

How do I take sounds apart to find out how many words there are in a sentence?

(A)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do I know if a selection has rhythm and rhyme?

(A)

How do the characters and events in a story remind me of my life? (compare/contrast)

(ET)
Concept:

Concepts of Print

Concept: Oral Language
Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do I speak at school and at home?

(ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Additional Information:

The concepts in this unit are repeated as necessary (in Flexible Groups) until all students meet grade level expectations for letters, sounds, words, and numbers.

During one the lessons on the Phonics concept, have students draw a map of the classroom identifying where the word wall is located.

Extending Thinking Strategy: Compare/Contrast

Reading Comprehension Strategies: Compare/Contrast, Literary Elements, Inferences

Polk County Schools

Curriculum Map/Monthly Focus Calendar

Reading Comprehension Skill Sequence

August: Compare/Contrast

September: Author's Purpose

October: Main Idea

Embedded throughout the year:

*Reference and Research

*Vocabulary

*Summarizing

Harcourt Trophies

  • Week 1, August 24 - 28, 2009, Theme 1 - Getting to Know You: Moo Moo, Brown Cow, From Anne to Zach, Pre-decodable Book 1: First Day of School
  • Week 2, August 31 - September 4, 2009, Theme 1 - Getting to Know You: I Read Signs, Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come! Moo Moo, Brown Cow, Jazzbo and Googy, Pre-decodable Book 2: Where's My Teddy?
  • Week 3, September 8 - 11, 2009, Theme 2 - I Am Special: Mice Squeak, We Speak, , Hello Toes! Hello Feet! Pre-decodable Book 3: Pet Day
  • Week 4, September 14 - 18, 2009, Theme 2 - I Am Special: Mice Squeak, We Squeak, The Body Book, Pre-decodable Book 4: My Bus
  • Week 5, September 21 - 25, 2009, Theme 2 - I Am Special: The Body Book, Mice Squeak, We Speak, Pre-decodable Book 5: The Party
  • Week 6, September 28 - October 2, 2009, Theme 3 - Around the Table: Peanut Butter and Jelly, Bunny Cakes, Pre-decodable Book 6: The Salad
  • Week 7, October 5 - 9, 2009, Theme 3 - Around the Table: Peanut Butter and Jelly, Hold the Anchovies! Pre-decodable Book 7: I Am
  • Resources:

    Vocabulary Report

    • poem -

      a story that usually rhymes

    • sentence -

      a group of words or a single word that expresses a complete thought, feeling, or idea and begin with a capital letter and end with punctuation

    • spell -

      put letters together to make a word.

    • sound -

      what you hear

    • title -

      name of a piece of writing

    • combine -

      put together

    • word -

      letters put together that have meaning

    • rhyme -

      words that have the same end sounds

    • word wall -

      a classroom resource

    • rhythm -

      has a repeated beat (music and poems)

    • letter -

      a written symbol that represents a sound

    • author -

      the person who writes a book

    • syllable -

      word part

    • Table of Contents -

      an organized list used to find things in a story

    • different -

      not alike

    • fairy tale -

      usually begins with "once upon a time..." and has a magical character

    • same -

      alike

    • song -

      short lyric or narrative text set to music

    • segment -

      any of the parts into which an object is divided

    • front cover -

      a page used to protect a story or book that usually has the name of the story and the author on it and is found at the beginning of the story or book

    • back cover -

      a page used to protects a story or book and is found at the end of the story or book

    • story -

      tells about a real or make believe event

    • map -

      a picture of an area

    • name -

      a word that other people call you made up of letters

    • before -

      prior

    • title page -

      page at the beginning of the book that has the title and arthur listed

    • during -

      currently

    • upper case/capital -

      letters that usually stretch from the head line through the mid line to the base line

    • up -

      toward the top

    • lower case -

      letters that usually start at the mid line and stretch to the base line - parts of some lower case letters drop below the base line while others stretch to the head line such as "g" or "d"

    • next -

      after

    • down -

      toward the bottom

    • characters -

      people or animals that are in a story

    • right -

      the opposite of left

    • events -

      something that happens

    • left -

      the opposite of right

    • alike -

      the same

    • illustrator -

      person who creates pictures for a story