Common Core™ Curriculum Maps
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Common Core™ Curriculum Maps 1
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Kindergarten ► Unit 1 10
A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme 10
Overview 10
Focus Standards 10
Suggested Student Objectives 10
Suggested Works 11
Sample Activities and Assessments 12
Reading Foundations 13
Additional Resources 14
Terminology 14
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 14
Kindergarten ► Unit 2 15
Tell a Story, 1-2-3 15
Overview 15
Focus Standards 15
Suggested Student Objectives 15
Suggested Works 16
Sample Activities and Assessments 17
Reading Foundations 19
Additional Resources 19
Terminology 19
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 19
Kindergarten ► Unit 3 20
Exploring with Friends in the Neighborhood 20
Overview 20
Focus Standards 20
Suggested Student Objectives 20
Suggested Works 21
Sample Activities and Assessments 22
Reading Foundations 24
Additional Resources 24
Terminology 25
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 25
Kindergarten ► Unit 4 26
America: Symbols and Celebrations 26
Overview 26
Focus Standards 26
Suggested Student Objectives 26
Suggested Works 27
Sample Activities and Assessments 28
Reading Foundations 30
Additional Resources 30
Terminology 30
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 30
Kindergarten ► Unit 5 31
The Great Big World 31
Overview 31
Focus Standards 31
Suggested Student Objectives 31
Suggested Works 32
Sample Activities and Assessments 34
Reading Foundations 35
Additional Resources 36
Terminology 36
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 36
Kindergarten ► Unit 6 37
Wonders of Nature: Plants, Bugs, and Frogs 37
Overview 37
Focus Standards 37
Suggested Student Objectives 37
Suggested Works 38
Sample Activities and Assessments 40
Reading Foundations 41
Additional Resources 41
Terminology 41
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 42
Grade 1 ► Unit 1 43
Alphabet Books and Children Who Read Them 43
Overview 43
Focus Standards 43
Suggested Student Objectives 43
Suggested Works 44
Sample Activities and Assessments 45
Reading Foundations 46
Additional Resources 47
Terminology 47
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 47
Grade 1 ► Unit 2 48
The Amazing Animal World 48
Overview 48
Focus Standards 48
Suggested Student Objectives 48
Suggested Works 49
Sample Activities and Assessments 50
Reading Foundations 52
Additional Resources 52
Terminology 52
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 52
Grade 1 ► Unit 3 53
Life Lessons 53
Overview 53
Focus Standards 53
Suggested Student Objectives 53
Suggested Works 54
Sample Activities and Assessments 55
Reading Foundations 57
Additional Resources 57
Terminology 58
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 58
Grade 1 ► Unit 4 59
Winds of Change 59
Overview 59
Focus Standards 59
Suggested Student Objectives 59
Suggested Works 60
Sample Activities and Assessments 61
Reading Foundations 63
Additional Resources 63
Terminology 63
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 63
Grade 1 ► Unit 5 64
American Contributions 64
Overview 64
Focus Standards 64
Suggested Student Objectives 64
Suggested Works 65
Sample Activities and Assessments 66
Reading Foundations 68
Additional Resources 68
Terminology 68
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 68
Grade 1 ► Unit 6 69
Around the World with a Glass Slipper 69
Overview 69
Focus Standards 69
Suggested Student Objectives 69
Suggested Works 70
Sample Activities and Assessments 71
Reading Foundations 72
Additional Resources 72
Terminology 73
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 73
Grade 2 ► Unit 1 74
A Season for Chapters 74
Overview 74
Focus Standards 74
Suggested Student Objectives 74
Suggested Works 75
Sample Activities and Assessments 76
Additional Resources 79
Terminology 79
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 79
Grade 2 ► Unit 2 80
The Wild West 80
Overview 80
Focus Standards 80
Suggested Student Objectives 80
Suggested Works 81
Sample Activities and Assessments 83
Additional Resources 85
Terminology 85
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 85
Grade 2 ► Unit 3 86
Building Bridges with Unlikely Friends 86
Overview 86
Focus Standards 86
Suggested Student Objectives 86
Suggested Works 87
Sample Activities and Assessments 88
Additional Resources 90
Terminology 90
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 90
Grade 2 ► Unit 4 91
A Long Journey to Freedom 91
Overview 91
Focus Standards 91
Suggested Student Objectives 91
Suggested Works 92
Sample Activities and Assessments 93
Additional Resources 95
Terminology 95
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 95
Grade 2 ► Unit 5 96
Hand-Me-Down Tales From Around the World 96
Overview 96
Focus Standards 96
Suggested Student Objectives 96
Suggested Works 97
Sample Activities and Assessments 98
Additional Resources 101
Terminology 101
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 101
Grade 2 ► Unit 6 102
Taking Care of Ourselves 102
Overview 102
Focus Standards 102
Suggested Student Objectives 102
Suggested Works 103
Sample Activities and Assessments 105
Additional Resources 106
Terminology 107
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 107
Grade 3 ► Unit 1 108
Stories Worth Telling Again and Again 108
Overview 108
Focus Standards 108
Suggested Student Objectives 108
Suggested Works 109
Sample Activities and Assessments 110
Additional Resources 113
Terminology 113
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 113
Grade 3 ► Unit 2 114
Inspired by the Sea 114
Overview 114
Focus Standards 114
Suggested Student Objectives 114
Suggested Works 115
Sample Activities and Assessments 116
Additional Resources 118
Terminology 119
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 119
Grade 3 ► Unit 3 120
Creative, Inventive, and Notable People 120
Overview 120
Focus Standards 120
Suggested Student Objectives 120
Suggested Works 121
Sample Activities and Assessments 122
Additional Resources 124
Terminology 125
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 125
Grade 3 ► Unit 4 126
The People, the Preamble, and the Presidents 126
Overview 126
Focus Standards 126
Suggested Student Objectives 126
Suggested Works 127
Sample Activities and Assessments 128
Additional Resources 131
Terminology 131
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 131
Grade 3 ► Unit 5 132
A Feast of Words on a Planet Called Earth and Beyond 132
Overview 132
Focus Standards 132
Suggested Student Objectives 132
Suggested Works 133
Sample Activities and Assessments 135
Additional Resources 137
Terminology 137
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 137
Grade 3 ► Unit 6 138
Fantastic Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants 138
Overview 138
Focus Standards 138
Suggested Student Objectives 138
Suggested Works 139
Sample Activities and Assessments 140
Additional Resources 142
Terminology 142
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 142
Grade 4 ► Unit 1 143
Tales of the Heart 143
Overview 143
Focus Standards 143
Suggested Student Objectives 144
Suggested Works 144
Sample Activities and Assessments 146
Additional Resources 148
Terminology 148
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 149
Grade 4 ► Unit 2 150
Literature Settings – Weather or Not 150
Overview 150
Focus Standards 150
Suggested Student Objectives 151
Suggested Works 151
Sample Activities and Assessments 153
Additional Resources 156
Terminology 157
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 157
Grade 4 ► Unit 3 158
Animals are Characters, Too: Characters who Gallop, Bark, and Squeak 158
Overview 158
Focus Standards 158
Suggested Student Objectives 159
Suggested Works 159
Sample Activities and Assessments 161
Additional Resources 164
Terminology 165
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 165
Grade 4 ► Unit 4 166
Revolutionaries from the Past 166
Overview 166
Focus Standards 166
Suggested Student Objectives 166
Suggested Works 167
Sample Activities and Assessments 168
Additional Resources 171
Terminology 173
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 173
Grade 4 ► Unit 5 174
Stories of the Earth & Sky 174
Overview 174
Focus Standards 174
Suggested Student Objectives 174
Suggested Works 175
Sample Activities and Assessments 177
Additional Resources 179
Terminology 180
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 180
Grade 4 ► Unit 6 181
Literary Heroes 181
Overview 181
Focus Standards 181
Suggested Student Objectives 181
Suggested Works 182
Sample Activities and Assessments 183
Additional Resources 186
Terminology 186
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 186
Grade 5 ► Unit 1 187
Playing with Words 187
Overview 187
Focus Standards 187
Suggested Student Objectives 187
Suggested Works 188
Sample Activities and Assessments 189
Additional Resources 190
Terminology 191
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 191
Grade 5 ► Unit 2 192
Inventive Thinking 192
Overview 192
Focus Standards 192
Suggested Student Objectives 193
Suggested Works 193
Sample Activities and Assessments 194
Additional Resources 196
Terminology 197
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 197
Grade 5 ► Unit 3 198
Clues to a Culture 198
Overview 198
Focus Standards 198
Suggested Student Objectives 199
Suggested Works 199
Sample Activities and Assessments 201
Additional Resources 202
Terminology 203
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 203
Grade 5 ► Unit 4 204
America in Conflict 204
Overview 204
Focus Standards 204
Suggested Student Objectives 204
Suggested Works 205
Sample Activities and Assessments 206
Additional Resources 208
Terminology 208
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 208
Grade 5 ► Unit 5 209
Exploration – Real and Imagined 209
Overview 209
Focus Standards 209
Suggested Student Objectives 209
Suggested Works 210
Sample Activities and Assessments 211
Additional Resources 214
Terminology 214
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 215
Grade 5 ► Unit 6 216
Coming of Age 216
Overview 216
Focus Standards 216
Suggested Student Objectives 216
Suggested Works 217
Sample Activities and Assessments 219
Additional Resources 221
Terminology 222
Making Interdisciplinary Connections 222
Kindergarten ► Unit 1
A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme
In this first six-week unit of Kindergarten, students are introduced to colorful picture books, traditional poetry, and nursery rhymes filled with rhythm and rhyme.
Overview
Focusing on phonological awareness, students are challenged to listen for rhythm and rhyming words within the literature. Concepts of print are taught as students read poems on wall charts and in informational books. Descriptions of gathered objects and art pieces highlight the secondary focus on color, encouraging rich description, discussion in spoken language, and vocabulary development. In this early stage of writing, students use a combination of drawing, dictation, and writing to give opinions about favorite colors.
Focus Standards
These Focus Standards have been selected for the unit from the Common Core State Standards:
· RI.K.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
· RL.K.5: Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
· RF.K.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes.
· RF.K.2(a): Recognize and produce rhyming words.
· W.K.1: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).
· SL.K.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about Kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
· SL.K.1(a): Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns talking about the topics and texts under discussion).
· L.K.5: With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
· L.K.5(a): Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
Suggested Student Objectives
· Recognize the difference between a storybook and a poem.
· Understand that poems (poetry) are written by poets and often rhyme.
· Distinguish between a verse (stanza) and a line in a poem.
· Identify the author and illustrator of a storybook and of an informational book.
· Ask questions about unknown words in a text.
· Understand the organization and basic features of print.
· Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book; follow the words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by page.
· Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
· Develop phonological awareness by reciting and producing rhyming words.
· Use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to share an opinion of a favorite color.
· Listen to others and take turns speaking while discussing favorite rhymes.
· Begin to learn to print letters.
· Expand vocabulary by sorting objects by color, noticing colorful places in school, and describing objects by two adjectives.
Suggested Works
(E) indicates a CCSS exemplar text; (EA) indicates a text from a writer with other works identified as exemplars.
Literary Texts
Picture Books (Read Aloud)
· Red, Green, Blue: A First Book of Colors (Alison Jay)
· Colors! Colores! (Jorge Lujan and Piet Grobler)
· Brown Bear, Brown Bear (Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle)
· If Kisses Were Colors (Janet Lawler, Alison Jay)
· My Many Colored Days (Dr. Seuss) (EA)
· Mary Wore Her Red Dress (Merle Peek)
· The Red Book (Barbara Lehman)
· Chicka Chicka Boom Boom (Bill Martin, Jr., John Archambault, and Lois Ehlert)
· Rap a Tap Tap, Here’s Bojangles – Think of That! (Leo and Diane Dillon)
· And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon (Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel)
· The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright)
· Red is for Dragon: A Book of Colors (Roseanne Thong and Grace Lin)
· Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!: Listen to the City (Robert Burleigh and Beppe Giacobbe)
Poems (Read Aloud)
· “Halfway Down” (A.A. Milne) (E)
· “Singing Time” (Rose Fyleman) (E)
· “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (Sarah Josepha Hale)
· “Time to Rise” (Robert Louis Stevenson)
· “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” (Ann and Jane Taylor)
Nursery Rhymes / Songs (Read Along)
· “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling”
· “Early to Bed”
· “Georgie Porgie”
· “Hey Diddle Diddle”
· “Humpty Dumpty”
· “Jack and Jill”
· “Jack Be Nimble”
· “Little Bo Peep”
· “Little Boy Blue”
· “Little Jack Horner”
· “Little Miss Muffet”
· “Old Mother Hubbard”
· “Pat-a-Cake”
· “Ring Around the Rosey”
· “Rock-a-bye, Baby”
· “Roses Are Red”
· “Simple Simon”
· “Star Light, Star Bright”
Informational Texts
Informational Books
· My Five Senses (Aliki) (E)
Informational Books (Read Aloud)
· All the Colors of the Rainbow (Rookie Read-About Science Series) (Allan Fowler)
· The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow: A Book About Color (Joanna Cole, Carolyn Braken, and Bruce Degan)
· Colors and Shapes / Los colores y las figuras (Gladys Rosa-Mendoza, Carolina Cifuentes, and Michele Noiset)
· I Spy Colors in Art (Lucy Micklethwait)
· Colors (Learning with Animals) (Melanie Watt)