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Unit 5
Kindergarten
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Write a story about what happens when you follow some animal tracks.
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Write a story about what happens when you follow some animal tracks. Make sure your story has a beginning, middle, and end.
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L.K.1.b — Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
L.K.1.f — Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
L.K.2.c — Write a letter or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
L.K.2.d — Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of sound-letter relationships.
L.K.5.d — Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut, prance) by acting out the meanings.
W.K.3 — Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
W.K.5 — With guidance and support from adults, respond to questions and suggestions from peers and add details to strengthen writing as needed.
W.K.6 — With guidance and support from adults, explore a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.K.1.a — Print many upper- and lowercase letters.
L.K.2 — Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
L.K.2.a — Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
L.K.2.b — Recognize and name end punctuation.
Brainstorm two or three questions about winter.
Standards
L.K.1.dL.K.2.bRI.K.1SL.K.1SL.K.6
Explain how snowflakes are formed.
L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7SL.K.1SL.K.6
Describe what snow crystals look like.
L.K.6RI.K.2RI.K.2RI.K.3RI.K.7SL.K.1SL.K.6
Describe one way that snow falls.
L.K.5L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.4RI.K.7SL.K.1SL.K.6
Explain what adventures Peter had in the snow and how they made him feel.
RL.K.2RL.K.3SL.K.1SL.K.6
Describe what makes winter beautiful.
L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.bSL.K.1SL.K.6W.K.2W.K.5W.K.7W.K.7W.K.8
Explain how different animals survive the winter using the words “migrate,” “hibernate,” “gather,” and “store,” and “search.”
Describe how different animals prepare for winter using the words “migrate,” “hibernate,” “gather” and “store,” and “search.”
Explain how the animals survived the big snow.
L.K.6RI.K.3RI.K.7SL.K.1SL.K.6
Describe how being over or under the snow helps animals survive the winter.
Explain why animal tracks are easier to see in the winter and what stories animal tracks tell.
Describe different types of animal tracks and what you can learn from them.
Retell what happens when the little girl follows the tracks in the snow.
Explain what animals do during the winter.
L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.bSL.K.1SL.K.6W.K.2W.K.5W.K.7W.K.8
Explain if the story could happen in real life.
Explain how Hedgehog’s feelings about the hat changed from the beginning of the story to the end.
Retell what happens in Annie and the Wild Animals.
Compare and contrast The Mitten and The Hat.
RL.K.2RL.K.3RL.K.9SL.K.1
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L.K.1.bL.K.1.fL.K.2.cL.K.2.dL.K.5.dW.K.3W.K.5W.K.6
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