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Kindergarten
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Identify the difference between helpful words and hurtful words by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Generate a list of helpful words to use in the classroom.
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What are helpful words? How do they make you feel?
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What are hurtful words? How do they make you feel?
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What are helpful words? How do helpful words make you feel?
What are hurtful words? How do hurtful words make you feel?
Everyone makes mistakes. How can you fix the mistake of using a hurtful word?
What can you do if someone says hurtful words to you?
The author says: “Your words are important. If you think before you speak, you can use your words well.” What does the author mean?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
helpful
adj.
making it easier to do a job or feel good
hurtful
causing harm, problems, or sadness
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L.K.4.b — Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
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.1.a — Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).
SL.K.6 — Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
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Identify different ways that people can feel by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Generate a list of feeling words and pictures to use in the classroom.
Explain what caused Wemberly’s worries about school to go away by asking and answering key questions about key details in the text.
Make text-to-self connections between Wemberly’s experience of overcoming a worry and own experiences of overcoming a worry.
Standards
L.K.6RL.K.1RL.K.10SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
Explain what the little boy likes about kindergarten.
RL.K.1RL.K.10SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
Explain why the narrator says, “There’s no one else I’d rather be” by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Make connections to what they like about themselves and how that connects to a joyful and safe classroom community.
Explain what makes the boy special and why they are special.
RL.K.1SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
Identify what the characters in a story learn by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.1RL.K.10RL.K.3SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
Explain what Grace learns.
Explain what the author wanted us to learn by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.1RL.K.2SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
L.K.4.bRL.K.1RL.K.3SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6
RL.K.1RL.K.3
Explain what it means to hold someone up and how you can hold up your classmates.
Discussion & Writing
Explain what it means to be part of a classroom community and how they can make the classroom community a fun place to be.
L.K.6SL.K.1SL.K.1.aSL.K.6W.K.1
Assessment
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