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Unit 7
Kindergarten
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Explain how you can tell if something is alive and what all living things need to survive.
Book: What’s Alive? by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
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How can you tell if something is alive? What do all living things need to survive?
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
How are you like a bird, a flower, a cat, and a tree? How are you different?
How can you tell the difference between something that is living and something that is nonliving?
Are cats and birds living things? How do you know?
How do plants get what they need to survive?
What questions can you ask yourself to know if something is living or nonliving?
What is the difference between something that is nonliving and something that is dead?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
nutrient
n.
a substance that helps an organism grow and survive
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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.
RI.K.2 — With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
RI.K.3 — With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
RI.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.K.10 — Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
SL.K.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.K.2 — Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
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Explain how seeds change as they grow and what they need in order to change and grow.
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Standards
RI.K.2
L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.2RI.K.3
RI.K.2RI.K.3
Explain how seeds change into sunflowers and what happens at each stage.
L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7
Explain how the tiny seed survives.
RL.K.3
Explain how animals are an important part of a plant's life cycle.
RI.K.3
3 days
Write a story about a seed that travels from one place to another.
L.K.1L.K.1.eL.K.2W.K.3W.K.5
Retell key details about the stages in a frog’s life cycle.
Identify additional details about each stage of a frog’s life cycle.
RI.K.3RI.K.9
Write an informational text to teach about a frog’s life cycle.
L.K.1L.K.2W.K.2W.K.7W.K.8
Predict the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.
RI.K.3RI.K.7
Explain what Merian learned about butterflies and why this was important.
Describe the stages in a butterfly’s life cycle and what happens at each stage.
Write a book that teaches about each stage in a butterfly’s life cycle.
Explain why the nesting bird was not making any noise.
Explain what happens at each stage of a bird’s life cycle.
Describe the life cycle of a chicken.
L.K.4L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.9
Write a story about a baby bird hatching from an egg.
L.K.1L.K.1.eL.K.2W.K.2W.K.3W.K.5
Explain how the other animals treated the little duckling and how it made him feel.
RL.K.2RL.K.3
Explain what the duckling learns about himself and what lessons we can learn from him.
Discuss unit essential questions.
SL.K.1SL.K.2
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