First Grade- Reading Focus Calendar
August 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2
5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9
12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16
19
First Day
of School / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23 / Unit 0 Week 1: Start Smart- How does listening to a story help me understand what the story is about?
Writing: Sentences
Grammar: none
26
/ 27 / 28 / 29 / 30 / Unit 1 Week 1 - How can we ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Sentences
September 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2 Labor
Day / 3
/ 4 / 5 / 6 / Unit 1 Week 2- HowdoI ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Word Order
9
/ 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / Unit 1 Week 3 - How do I ask and answer questions about key details in a text
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Statements
16
/ 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / Unit 1 Week 4 - How do I ask and answer questions about key details in a text
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Questions and Exclamations
23
/ 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
Teacher
Workday / Unit 1 Week 5 - How do I ask and answer questions about key details in a text
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Writing Sentences
30 / Unit 2 Week 1 – How do I describe characters, setting, and major events in a story?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Nouns
October 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2 / 3 / 4
7
/ 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / Unit 2 Week 2- How do I describe characters, setting, and major events in a story?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
14
/ 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / Unit 2 Week 3- How do I identify the main topic and retell key details of a text?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Possessive Nouns
21
Teacher
Workday / 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / Unit 2 Week 4- How do I describe characters, setting, and major events in a story?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
28
/ 29 / 30 / 31 / Unit 2 Week 5- How do I identify the main topic and retell key details of a text?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns
November 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1
4
/ 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / Unit 3 Week 1- How do I describe characters, setting, and major events in a story?
Writing: Word Choice
Grammar: Verbs
11
Student/
Teacher
Holiday / 12
/ 13 / 14 / 15 / Unit 3 Week 2- How do ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: Word Choice
Grammar: Present Tense Verbs
18
/ 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / Unit 3 Week 3- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: Word Choice
Grammar: Past and Future Tense Verbs
25
Thanksgiving Holiday / 26 / 27 / 28 / 29
December 2013
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2
/ 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / Unit 3 Week 4 – How do I compare and contrast two texts (illustrations, description or procedures) on the same topic?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Is and Are
9
/ 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / Unit 3 Week 5- How do ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: Ideas
Grammar: Contractions with not
16
/ 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
23
Winter Break / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
30
/ 31
January 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1
Winter Break Continues / 2 / 3
6
/ 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / Unit 4 Week 1 – How do ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: Word Choice
Grammar: Was and Were
Vocabulary: special, splendid
Vocab. Strategy: using a dictionary
13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17
Teacher
Workday
20
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 21
/ 22 / 23 / 24 / Unit 4 Week 2- How do I identify the main topic and retell key details of a text?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Has and Have
Vocabulary: danger, partner
Vocab. Strategy: context clues
27
/ 28 / 29 / 30 / 31 / Unit 4 Week 3- How do I identify the main topic and retell key details of a text?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: Go and Do
Vocabulary: search, seek
Vocab. Strategy: word categories
February 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions3
/ 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Unit 4 Week 4 – How do I identify who is telling the story at various points in a text?
Writing: Organization
Grammar: see and saw
Vocabulary: beautiful, fancy
Vocab. Strategy: context clues
10
/ 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / Unit 4 Week 5- How do ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: word choice
Grammar: adverbs that tell when
Vocabulary: clever, signal
Vocab. Strategy: root words
17 MOVE
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21
24
/ 25 / 26 / 27 / 28 / Unit 5 Week 1- How do I identify who is telling the story at various points in a text?
Writing: sentence fluency
Grammar: conjunctions and, but, or
Vocabulary: trouble, whole
Vocab. Strategy: context clues, multiple meanings
March 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions3
/ 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / Unit 5 Week 2 – How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: word choice
Grammar: adjectives
Vocabulary: leaped, stretched
Vocab. Strategy: shades of meaning
10
/ 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / Unit 5 Week 3- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: word choice
Grammar: adjectives that compare
Vocabulary: idea, unusual
Vocab. Strategy: prefixes re- and un-
17
/ 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / Unit 5 Week 4- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: sentence fluency
Grammar: auxiliary word a, an, this, that
Vocabulary: scrambled, suddenly
Vocab. Strategy: suffixes, -or, -ful, -less, -ly
24
Spring Break / 25 / 26 / 27 / 28
31
Teacher Workday
April 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions/ 1 / 2 / 3 / 4
7
/ 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / Unit 5 Week 5- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: organization
Grammar: prepositions
Vocabulary: balance, section
Vocab. Strategy: inflectional endings
14
/ 15 / 16 / 17 / 18
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / Unit 6 Week 1- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: sentence fluency
Grammar: pronouns
Vocabulary: demand, emergency
Vocab. Strategy: synonyms
21
/ 22 / 23 / 24 / 25 / Unit 6 Week 2- How do I ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: voice
Grammar: possessive pronouns
Vocabulary: accept, often
Vocab. Strategy: antonyms
28
/ 29 / 30 / 1 / 2 / Unit 6 Week 3- How do I use story elements to retell a story?
Writing: voice
Grammar: indefinite pronouns
Vocabulary: country, gathers
Vocab. Strategy: similes
May 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions1 / 2
5
/ 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / Unit 6 Week 4 – How do I identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feeling or appeal to the senses?
Writing: sentence fluency
Grammar: I and Me
Vocabulary: difficult, nobody
Vocab. Strategy: compound words
12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / Unit 6 Week 5- How do I ask and answer questions about key details in a text?
Writing: ideas
Grammar: adverbs that tell how
Vocabulary: nation, unite
Vocab. Strategy: metaphors
19 / 20 / 21 / 22 / 23
26
Teacher/
Student
Holiday / 27 / 28 / 29 / 30
June 2014
Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday / Friday / Essential Questions2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6
Last Day of School
9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13
16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20
23 / 24 / 25 / 26 / 27
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