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Unit 4
Kindergarten
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Explain how the family works together to build a kite by using details and illustrations to retell key details and events in a text.
Book: Kite Flying by Grace Lin
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How does the family work together to build a kite?
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
Based on the illustrations, what was the first thing the family did to get ready to build a kite?
Why is it a good day for kites?
Retell how the family builds the kite.
How does the family feel when the kite is flying? How do you know?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
attach
v.
to put together
kite
n.
something that can fly in the air, held by a string
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RL.K.2 — With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RL.K.6 — With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.
RL.K.7 — With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).
SL.K.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.K.1.d — Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
L.K.1.e — Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).
RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Lesson 2
RL.K.2 RL.K.6 RL.K.7 SL.K.1
Describe dim sum and how the family feels about dim sum using details and illustrations to retell key details and events in the text.
L.K.4 L.K.4 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.6 RL.K.7
Explain how the family’s fortune cookie fortunes came true and why by using details and illustrations to retell key details and events in a text.
L.K.4 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.6 RL.K.7
Explain why the little girl changes her mind about the ugly vegetables.
L.K.4 L.K.6 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.7
Discussion & Writing – 2 days
Write a letter to Grace Lin explaining which story is your favorite and why.
L.K.1.b L.K.1.f L.K.1.f L.K.2.a L.K.2.b SL.K.1 SL.K.2 SL.K.3 SL.K.5 SL.K.6 W.K.1 W.K.5 W.K.7 W.K.8
Explain what challenges Yuyi and her son faced and how they overcame them.
L.K.4 L.K.6 RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.6 RL.K.7
Describe Niño and what lesson he learns.
Explain how Grandma Beetle tricks Señor Calavera.
RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.6 RL.K.7
Explain Señor Calavera’s problem and how he solves it.
Discussion & Writing
Write a letter to Yuyi Morales explaining which story is your favorite and why.
L.K.1.b SL.K.1 SL.K.3 SL.K.5 SL.K.6 W.K.1 W.K.5 W.K.7 W.K.8
Explain who Tito Puente is and why Tito Puente is famous.
RI.K.2 RI.K.3 RI.K.6 RI.K.7 SL.K.1
Explain why Celia Cruz was famous.
L.K.4 L.K.6 RI.K.2 RI.K.3 RI.K.6 RI.K.7 SL.K.1
Describe why Pelé is famous.
RI.K.2 RI.K.6 RI.K.7 RL.K.3 SL.K.1
Explain who Gabriela Mistral is and why she was famous.
Write a letter to Monica Brown explaining which story is your favorite and why.
Retell what happens in The Lion and the Mouse.
RL.K.2 RL.K.3 RL.K.7 SL.K.1
Retell what happens in the beginning, middle, and end of The Tortoise & The Hare.
Retell what happens in The Grasshopper and the Ants.
Write a letter to Jerry Pinkney explaining which story is your favorite and why.
L.K.1.b SL.K.1 SL.K.2 SL.K.3 SL.K.5 SL.K.5 SL.K.6 SL.K.6 W.K.1 W.K.5 W.K.7 W.K.8
Discussion
Explain which author or illustrator was their favorite.
RL.K.6 SL.K.1 SL.K.3 SL.K.3 SL.K.3 SL.K.5 SL.K.5 SL.K.5 SL.K.5 SL.K.5 SL.K.6 W.K.1 W.K.7
Assessment
Writing – 4 days
Write a story about something you love.
L.K.1.b L.K.2.a L.K.2.b W.K.3 W.K.5
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