3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:05: Compare and Contrast
  • Subject(s):English Language Arts
  • Days:27
  • Grade(s):K
Key Learning:

The use of compare and contrast (alike and different) helps us to understand how to share our ideas with others.

Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How does using compare and contrast help me learn?

   
Concept: Compare and Contrast
Concept:

Phonemic Awareness

(PA - Listening)/

Phonics (P - Written)

Concept:
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do sounds that are alike and different help me understand what I am reading?

(A)

How can I use sounds that are alike and different to help me understand what I am reading?

(ET)

How do I sound out words?

(ET)

How do I put sounds together to make a word?

(ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):
Vocabulary:

Vocabulary:

Additional Information:

Extending Thinking Strategies: Abstracting, Compare/Contrast

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

Polk County Schools

Curriculum Map/Monthly Focus Calendar

Reading Comprehension Skill Sequence

January: Cause/Effect

February: Inference

Embedded throughout the year:

*Reference and Research

*Vocabulary

*Summarizing

Harcourt Trophies

  • Week 19, January 19 - 22, 2010, Theme 7 - Bug Surprises: Look Closer, Wonderful Worms, Decodable Book 2: The Big Ram
  • Week 20, January 26 - 29, 2010, Theme 7 - Bug Surprises: Wonderful Worms, Look Closer, Decodable Book 3: What Can Hop?
  • Week 21, February 1 - 5, 2010, Theme 8 - Animal Adventures: Walking Through the Jungle, Elmer, Decodable Book 4: I Can See It
  • Week 22, February 8 - 12, 2010, Theme 8 - Animal Adventures: Walking Through the Jungle, So Say the Little Monkeys, Decodable Book 5: What Is in the Box?
  • Week 23, February 16 - 19, 2010, Theme 8 - Animal Adventures: So Say the Little Monkeys, Walking Through the Jungle, Decodable Book 6: Hop on Top
  • Week 24, February 22 - 26, 2010, Theme 9 - Around the Town: The Shape of Things, Benny's Pennies, Decodable Book 7: A Big, Big Vanp
  • Resources:

    Vocabulary Report

    • same -

      alike

    • alike -

      the same

    • different -

      not alike

    • describe -

      to tell about

    • compare -

      telling how something is alike

    • contrast -

      tell how something is differnt

    • pattern -

      something that is repeated

    • important -

      of value

    • between -

      in the middle