First Grade Curriculum Framework

Module 2 First Grade
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
RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.6, RL.1.7,RL.1.10
W.1.1, W.1.8; RL.1.9 / Secondary Focus
W.1.1, W.1.8; RL.1.9 / Routine Writing
W.1.10
21st Century life and career skills across the K-2 curriculum will foster a population that:
●  Uses effective communication and collaboration skills and resources to interact with
a global society.
/ Standards:
9.2.4.A.1 Identify reasons why people work, different types of work, and how work can help a person achieve personal and professional goals.
9.2.4.A.2 Identify various life roles and civic and work‐related activities in the
school, home, and community.
9.2.4.A.3 Investigate both traditional and nontraditional
careers and relate information to personal likes and dislikes.

First Grade Curriculum Scope and Sequence

Module 2 Weather and Science
Message Time Plus
Week / Read Aloud / Foundational Skills / Spelling Words / Sight Words / Vocabulary
Nov 14th - Nov 23rd / Wild Weather / Short u
Phonogram: -ump
Grammar: Prepositions and prepositional phrases / Us, sun, but, fun, bus, run, jump, must, lump, bump / eat, give, one, put, small,
take, us, must
her, now, our, she, today, would, / Hurricane, electrical storm, flood/flash floods, blizzard, powerful
Nov 28th - Dec 12th / Freddy the Frogcaster / Diagraph th
Base Words and –s, -es, -ed, -ing
Grammar: Proper Nouns / That, then, this, them, with, bath, their, thread, throat, thin / blue, cold, far, little, live,
their, water, where, that, then, with / Meteorologist, forecasts, hovering, accurate, declared
Dec 13th - Dec 14th / Thunderstorms / Diagraphs ch, tch
Possessive ‘s
Phonogram –atch
Grammar: Proper Nouns / Chin, chop, much, chip, rich, chick, such, watch, match, chomp / been, brown, know, never, off, out, own, very, much, such / Humid, evaporate, condense, cumulonimbus clouds, electrical current
Dec 19th- Dec 21st / Spiders / Diagraphs Sh, wh, ph
Grammar: Subjects & Verbs / Ship, shop, which, when, whip, fish, she, phase, phone, Phrase / down, fall, goes, green, grow, new, open, yellow, which, when, she / Unusual, roamed, legend, tangled, burrows
Jan 3rd - Jan 11th / Eat Like a Bear / Long a
Cvc e
Contractions with ‘s, n’t
Grammar: Verbs & Time / Came make, brave, late, gave, shape, bake, stake, grape, flake / four, five, into, over, starts, three, two, watch, make, late, came / Hollow, forage, strayed, bare, barely
Jan 17th - Jan 25th / Two Bobbies / Short a
Double final consonants and ck Phonogram: -ack
Grammar: Complete Sentences / away, call, come, every,
hear, said On, got, fox, pop, not, hop, mop, plop, stop, Bob Yes, let, red, ten, bed, get, hen, when, fled, sled / on, got after, draw, pictures, read,
was, write, yes, let / Wall of water, silent heat, buckled, community

1st Grade Module 2 Weather & Science

Dates / Book Title / Author / Genre / Suggested Lesson Time (RAP) / Culminating Task (RAP)
Nov 14th - Nov 23rd / Wild Weather / Seymour Simon / Informational Text / Six days, 20 minute sessions / Divide class into groups and have each group write a book about storms (assign a chapter to each group).
Nov 28th - Dec 12th / Freddy the Frogcaster / Janice Dean / Literacy/Informational Text / Seven days, 20 minute sessions / Response to Writing Prompt~Create a text evidenced chart on weather predictions
Dec 13th - Dec 14th / Thunderstorms / Chana Stiefel / Informational Text / Two days, 20 minute sessions / Provide an explanation for three weather words of your choice (provided with a list)
Dec 19th- Dec 21st / Spiders / Gail Gibbons / Informational Text / Two days, 20-40 minute sessions / Write an informational spiders book
Jan 3rd - Jan 11th / Eat Like a Bear / April Pulley Sayre / Informational Text / Five days, 20 minute sessions / Students will create a class book providing facts/info about the kinds of food bears eat
Jan 17th - Jan 25th / The Raft / Jim LaMarche / Literary Text / Five days, 20-40 minute sessions / Response to Writing Prompt

Lucy Calkins Writing Unit of Study: Non-Fiction/Informational