Exploring Life Cycles

Explain how the boy knows it's spring using key details from the text.

It's Spring!
Description/Concept Map Graphic Organizer (GK–5)

Standards

L.K.1.dRI.K.1RI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.5RI.K.7RI.K.8SL.K.1SL.K.6

Explain the difference between living and nonliving things.

What's Alive?

Standards

L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.2RI.K.3

Explain how seeds change as they grow and what they need in order to change and grow.

How a Seed Grows
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.7

Language

Use prepositions to tell where something happens or when something occurs.

It's Spring!
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Preposition Worksheet 1 (GK, U7, L4)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fL.K.6RI.K.3

Explain how seeds change into sunflowers and what happens at each stage.

From Seed to Sunflower
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fL.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7

Explain how the tiny seed survives.

The Tiny Seed
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Phase 4: Conventional Writing (GK, U7, L6)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.4RI.K.7RI.K.8RI.K.9RL.K.3

Explain how animals are an important part of a plant's life cycle.

Who Will Plant a Tree?
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Sequence Graphic Organizer
Phase 3: Transitional Writing (GK, U7, L7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fL.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7RI.K.9

Explain how Mr. Tony and the community transform the neighborhood.

Harlem Grown
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.8RI.K.9

3 days

Overview

Write a narrative about a seed that travels from one place to another.

Single Point Narrative Writing Rubric 1 (GK, U7, L9)
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Narrative Writing Rubric (GK)
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (GK–2)
Mentor Text 1 (GK, U7, L9)
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Sample Response (GK, U7, L9)
Revision Text (GK, U7, L9)
Unit 7 Vocabulary Word Cards

Day 1 - Brainstorming

Brainstorm a story with a beginning, middle, and end using facts about plants.

Single Point Narrative Writing Rubric 1 (GK, U7, L9)
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (GK–2)
Mentor Text 1 (GK, U7, L9)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.3W.K.5W.K.6

Day 2 - Drafting

Draft a story about a seed moving from one place to another with a beginning, middle, and end.

Day 3 - Revision & Editing

Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (GK–2) — From Day 1
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer Sample Response (GK, U7, L9)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.3W.K.5W.K.6

Revise narrative writing by adding topic-specific vocabulary.

Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Single Point Narrative Writing Rubric 1 (GK, U7, L9)
Narrative Writing Rubric (GK)
Revision Text (GK, U7, L9)
Unit 7 Vocabulary Word Cards

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.3W.K.5W.K.6

Retell key details about the stages in a frog's life cycle.

Frogs pp. 1–21
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.7

Identify additional details about each stage of a frog's life cycle.

From Tadpole to Frog
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)
Phase 4: Conventional Writing (GK, U7, L10)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.9

Write an informational text to teach the stages of a frog's life cycle.

Frogs pp. 1–21
From Tadpole to Frog
Single Point Informational Writing Rubric (GK, U7)
Informational Writing Rubric (GK)
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)
Phase 4: Conventional Writing (GK, U7, L3)

Standards

L.K.1L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2L.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.2W.K.5W.K.7W.K.8

Predict the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

Waiting for Wings
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.3RI.K.7RL.K.2

Describe the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.

From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.3RI.K.7RI.K.9

Write an informational text to teach the stages of a butterfly's life cycle.

From Caterpillar to Butterfly
Waiting for Wings
Single Point Informational Writing Rubric (GK, U7)
Informational Writing Rubric (GK)
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)
Mentor Text 2 (GK, U7, L15)
Front Cover Template (GK, U7)

Standards

L.K.1L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2L.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.2W.K.5W.K.7W.K.8

Explain why the nesting bird does not make any noise.

Have You Heard the Nesting Bird?
Phase 3: Transitional Writing (GK, U7, L16)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.eL.K.1.fRI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.7

Explain what happens at each stage of a bird's life cycle.

A Nest Full of Eggs pp. 1–23
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)
Preposition Worksheet 2 (GK, U7, L17)

Standards

L.K.1.eRI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.9

Describe the life cycle of a chicken.

Egg to Chicken
Life Cycle Graphic Organizer (GK, U7)
Preposition Worksheet 3 (GK, U7, L18)

Standards

L.K.1.eL.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.9

3 days

Overview

Write a narrative about a bird that hatches from its egg.

Single Point Narrative Writing Rubric 2 (GK, U7, L19)
Editing Checklist (GK, U7)
Narrative Writing Rubric (GK)
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (GK–2)
Mentor Text 2 (GK, U7, L15)
Phase 4: Conventional Writing (GK, U7, L19)

Day 1 - Brainstorming

Brainstorm a story with a realistic beginning, middle, and end, using facts about the life cycle of a bird.

Single Point Narrative Writing Rubric 2 (GK, U7, L19)
Mentor Text 2 (GK, U7, L15)
Narrative Writing Brainstorm Graphic Organizer (GK–2)

Standards

L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.cL.K.2.dW.K.3W.K.5W.K.6

Standards

Standards

Explain how the other animals treated the little duckling and how it made him feel.

The Ugly Duckling pp. 1–12

Standards

RL.K.2RL.K.3

Explain what the duckling learns about himself and what lessons we can learn from him.

The Ugly Duckling

Standards

RL.K.2RL.K.3

Discussion

Discuss unit essential questions.

Standards

SL.K.1SL.K.2