ELA

Grade / Unit / Title and Unit Overview / Time Frame: / TAKS and TEKS / Enduring Understandings / Essential Questions
K / 1 / Relationships
Students will have an understanding of what it takes to make or have a good relationship with others by being with friends at school, by reading literature and by experiencing our own feelings.
Understanding that capital and lowercase letters go together, ex. straight lines, slanted lines, circles, etc. / 6 Weeks / TAKS:
3
TEKS:
K.1F, K.5A, K.5D, K.5E, K.5G, K.5H, K.6C, K.7A, K.7B, K.10D, K.11E, K.12D, K.14A, K.14E, K.15A /
  • How to make good choices
  • Realizing how others are different
  • Using literature to understand ourselves and others
  • Understanding that letters make up our names and words
/
  • What makes good relationships?
  • How do we learn relationships through school, literature, and ourselves?
  • Why do we need to learn capital and lowercase letters?

1 / 1 / Relationships
In this unit, students will become acclimated to the school environment by learning about rules and procedures and their purposes. Students will also develop an understanding of relationships and the roles that they play in those relationships. The students will begin using strategies to aid them in their understanding of literature. / 26 days
6 weeks / TAKS:
1, 3, 4
TEKS:
1.12A, 1.12B, 1.12C, 1.12E, 1.12F, 1.14B, 1.14F, 1.14G, 1.14I /
  • Rules establish a safe and orderly environment.
  • There are many different kinds of relationships.
  • Good readers use strategies to understand stories.
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  • How do rules help establish a safe and orderly environment?
  • How does your family impact the stages of your life?
  • What is a relationship?
  • What strategies help us understand the content of the story?
What do good readers do?
Language of Instruction / Relationships and/or Connections that should emerge / Vocabulary / Text Resources
alphabet
announcements
author
book
capital letters
capitalization
categories
charts
colors
directions
everyday language
feelings
final sounds
first & last name
front & back cover
giving directions
illustrations
illustrator
individual letter
initial / library
making introductions
media center
number word
objects
pictures
plays
printed wordpunctuation
questions
read aloud
relevant
repeated sounds
rhymes
rhyming words
table of contents
title page
tradition
volume
/ There are various types of relationships that we encounter – families, friends, school, literature, and letters, even ourselves. / Vocabulary is generated by the teacher from selected reading materials (these words should be used throughout the year).
As to include:
daddy
family
father
friends
home
mother
together / casa
escuela familia
juntos
mama
papa
/ See Attached
See Instructional Resources /
  • family, siblings, grandparents, friends
  • look at pictures, reread if needed, ask if it makes sense, think about the letter, look for word chunks
/ Vocabulary is generated from teacher selected reading material. / See Attached

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