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ELA
Unit 4
Kindergarten
Lesson 7 of 22
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Describe Niño and what lesson he learns.
Book: Niño Wrestles the World by Yuyi Morales
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Describe Niño. What lesson does he learn?
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
Describe Niño. Use details from the words and the illustrations.
Who is Niño’s first contender? How does he defeat him?
Who is Niño’s second contender? How does he defeat him?
Who else does Niño fight? How does he defeat them?
What happens when Niño fights las hermanitas?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
defeat
v.
to win a battle or contest, to beat someone
contender
n.
a person or group competing with others
Enhanced Lesson Plan
L.K.4 — Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.
L.K.6 — Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts.
RL.K.2 — With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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).
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.4 — Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RL.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Lesson 6
Lesson 8
Explain how the family works together to build a kite by using details and illustrations to retell key details and events in a text.
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
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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