Curriculum / ELA / 1st Grade / Unit 1: Being a Good Friend / Lesson 15

Being a Good Friend

Lesson 15

ELA

Unit 1

1st Grade

Lesson 15 of 16

These assessments accompany this unit to help gauge student understanding of key unit content and skills.

Content Assessment

The Content Assessment pushes students to synthesize unit content knowledge or unit essential questions in writing. The Content Assessment should be used as the primary assessment because it shows mastery of unit content knowledge and standards. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

Cold Read Assessment

The Cold Read Assessment tests students' ability to comprehend a "cold" or unfamiliar passage and answer standards-based questions. The Cold Read Assessment can be given in addition to the Content Assessment as a pulse point for what students can read and analyze independently, a skill often required for standardized testing. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

Lesson 14

Lesson 16

Lesson Map

Explain what the author wanted the reader to learn.

The Day You Begin

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.10RL.1.10RL.1.3SL.1.1SL.1.2SL.1.6

Describe why Molly Lou Melon acts the way she does.

Describe how you are unique and how that helps strong friendships and teams.

Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.10RL.1.3

Describe how Ruby’s feelings changed by asking and answering questions about character feelings.

Make connections to what it means to be a good friend and part of a strong team.

Ruby the Copycat

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.10RL.1.3RL.1.6

Explain why the author ends the text by saying “Maybe, just maybe, Brian’s not so invisible after all” by asking and answering questions about character feelings and motivation.

The Invisible Boy

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.3RL.1.6

Describe how the main characters change by asking and answering questions about character motivation.

The Sandwich Swap

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.2RL.1.3

Explain what Unhei is worried about and why she is worried.

The Name Jar pp. 1 – 13

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.3RL.1.6

Describe what lesson Unhei learns.

The Name Jar — pp. 14-end

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.3

Explain what Jamaica and Brianna learn by asking and answering questions about character motivations and feelings.

Jamaica and Brianna

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.3RL.1.6

Describe how the narrator’s relationship with Jeremy Ross changes by asking and answering questions about character feelings.

Enemy Pie

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.2RL.1.3

Describe how Big Al’s relationship with the other fish changes by asking and answering questions about character motivation.

Big Al

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.2RL.1.3RL.1.6

Explain what Matthew and Tilly realize and why by asking and answering questions about character motivations, feelings, and actions.

Matthew and Tilly

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.2RL.1.3

Retell Each Kindness using key details from the story.

Each Kindness

Standards

RL.1.1RL.1.6

Explain what Chloe learns and how she learns it by Close Reading a text.

Each Kindness

Standards

RL.1.2RL.1.3

Discussion & Writing

Write an opinion piece about what makes a good friend.

All unit texts

Standards

L.1.1.aSL.1.1SL.1.6W.1.1

Assessment

Gauge student understanding of unit content and skills with one of Fishtank's unit assessments.

Narrative Writing

3 days

Write a narrative about a time you were a good friend.

Standards

L.1.1L.1.1.aL.1.1.jL.1.2L.1.6SL.1.1SL.1.6W.1.3W.1.5

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