Kindergarten Curriculum Framework

Module 1

Module 1 Kindergarten What This May Look Like
District/School Formative Assessment Plan / District/School Summative Assessment Plan
See Read Aloud Lessons – Questions, Activities and Tasks
Also See Center Activities within Read Aloud Lessons / See Culminating Tasks within Family and Community Text Scope and Sequence
District/School Texts / District/School Supplementary Resources
See District Modules Below / See District Modules Below
District/School Writing Tasks
Primary Focus
RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.7;
RL. K.1, RL.K.2, RL.K.3, RL.K.4, RL.K.7; RL.K.10
W.K.2, W.K.8 / Secondary Focus
W.K.2, W.K.8 / Routine Writing
W.10
Kindergarten Module 1 Family and Communities Scope and Sequence
Message Time Plus
Read Aloud / Foundational Skills / Sight Words / Vocabulary
Sept 8-9th / Recommended books:
The Kissing Hand
How do Dinosaurs Go to School? / Beginning Sounds / I, like, the / Welcome, procedures, rules, specials, behavior
Sept 12th - 16th / Recommended Books:
Miss Nelson is Missing
Chrysanthemum / Beginning Sounds / to, you, and / Pledge, friend/friendship, school, excited, schedule, accountable
Sept 19th - Oct 3rd / How My Family Lives in America
/ Beginning Sounds and Nouns for People / It, she, he, a / patient, traditions, country, relatives, introduced
Oct 4th - Oct 17th / Dear Juno
/ Rhyming Words (-an words) and Nouns for pets and things / In, they, at, for / strange, wondered, faraway, letter, photograph
Oct 18th - Oct 26th / Elephants Can Paint Too
/ Rhyming Words (-ot words) / Of, is, in, his / Communicate, jungle, recently, command, exhibit
October 31st - Nov 9th / Stellaluna
/ Review- / For, on, they, but / Babble, gracefully, anxious, rescue, survived, muse, mystery

Kindergarten Module 1 Family and Community Text Scope & Sequence

Kindergarten Module 1 Family and Community
Books / Author / Genre / Timeline / Culminating Task
Sept 19th - Oct 3rd / How My Family Lives in America


/ Susan Kuklin / Informational Text / 8 Days about 15 minutes a day, adjust time for student stamina / Choose one family and act out/describe with pictures and words the traditions that are specific to that family’s culture, as well as new traditions
Oct 4th - Oct 17th / Dear Juno
/ Soyung Pak / Fiction / 6 days, 15 minutes a day, adjust time for student stamina / First sheet- students draw/write about the distance and differences between Juno and his grandmother
2nd Sheet- write/draw how and what Juno and his grandmother communicate
Oct 18th - Oct 26th / Elephants Can Paint Too
/ Katya Arnold / Informational Text / 5 days 20 minutes a day, depending on student stamina / Finalize book created throughout the reading/week
October 31st - Nov 9th / Stellaluna
/ Janell Cannon / Fiction / 5 days 20 minutes per day / Story Frame

Lucy Calkins – Unit 1 Launching the Workshop (writing about what we know and narrative)