Kindergarten Unit 8 Theme: Plants Essential Question: What Do Plants Need to Grow
Library Six Weeks At-A-Glance: 5TH Six Weeks
Kindergarten Unit 8 Theme: Plants Essential Question: What do plants need to grow?
OC: Diversity OI: What’s Alike / What’s Different?
Technology / Media / Concept Words / Comprehension Strategies and Skills / Grammar / Writing /
IC: OI Guiding Questions /
5th Six Weeks OI:
What’s Alike / What’s Different?
Oak Trees
Written by Melanie Mitchell / Big Book
Informational Text/ Expository
Big Book of Explorations
Literary Text/ Poetry / McGraw Hill
TX Treasures TE
pp. 2068-69
Using a paintbrush tool on the computer
TERMS
graphics
paintbrush tool
icon
color palette
digital camera
display screen
MEDIA LITERACY
image movement on web sites and television
What are the differences between television and radio?
/ Position Words / Strategy
Recognize Text Structure
Skill
Identify Sequence of Events
Spiral Review
Identify Main Idea / Describing Words (Adjectives) / Procedural Text: Steps in a Process / How are they alike?
How are they different? / HEALTH
SCIENCE
Scientific investigations
Diversity in plants and animals
Living / nonliving
Animals (food / growth / babies
Observation of plants (movement,
parts, baby plants)
Diversity of animal homes and
habitats
SOCIAL STUDIES
Citizenship
Diversity among people
Voting
Map Skills
Seed Secrets
Written and illustrated by Tom Leonard / Big Book Informational Text/Expository
Big Book of Explorations Literary Text/ Poetry / Position Words / Strategy
Recognize Text Structure
Skill
Retell
Spiral Review
Identify Main Idea and Details /
Describing Words (Adjectives)
/Similes
/Sunflower House
Written by Eva Bunting
Illustrated by Kathryn Hewitt / Trade Book Literary Text/ Fiction
Big Book of Explorations Informational Text/Expository / Position Words / Strategy
Recognize Story Structure
Skill
Draw Conclusions: Plot
Spiral Review
Identify Sequence of Events /
Describing Words (Adjectives)
/Poems
/McGraw–Hill Texas Treasures, TE Kindergarten ; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner
Library Six Weeks At-A-Glance: 5TH Six Weeks
Kindergarten Unit 9 Theme: Amazing Creatures Essential Question: What are some unusual creatures you have seen?
OC: Diversity OI: What’s Alike / What’s Different?
Technology / Media / Concept Words / Comprehension Strategies and Skills / Grammar / Writing /
IC: OI Guiding Questions /
5th Six Weeks OI: What’s Alike / What’s Different?
Beetles
Written by Edana Eckart / Big Book
Informational Text/Expository
Big Book of Explorations Literary Text/ Fable / McGraw Hill
TX Treasures TE
pp. 2068-69
Using a paintbrush tool on the computer
TERMS
graphics
paintbrush tool
icon
color palette
digital camera
display screen
MEDIA LITERACY
image movement on web sites and television
What are the differences between television and radio?
/ Opposites / Strategy
Ask Questions
Skill
Classify and Categorize
Spiral Review
Make Inferences / Pronouns / Questions and Answers /
How are they alike?
How are they different? /
HEALTH
SCIENCE
Scientific investigations
Diversity in plants and animals
Living / nonliving
Animals (food / growth / babies
Observation of plants (movement,
parts, baby plants)
Diversity of animal homes and
habitats
SOCIAL STUDIES
Citizenship
Diversity among people
Voting
Map Skills
Fish Faces
Written by Norbert Wu / Big Book
Informational Text/Expository
Big Book of Explorations
Literary Text/ Poetry / Opposites / Strategy
Ask Questions
Skill
Compare and Contrast: Details
Spiral Review
Classify and Categorize /
Pronouns
/Descriptive Sentences
/If the Dinosaurs Came Back
Written and illustrated by Bernard Most / Trade Book
Literary Text/ Fantasy
Big Book of Explorations
Informational Text/Expository / Opposites / Strategy
Ask Questions
Skill
Distinguish Between Fantasy and Reality
Spiral Review
Compare and Contrast /
Pronouns
/Stories
/McGraw–Hill Texas Treasures, TE Kindergarten ; Plano ISD Elementary ELA Planner, IC Planner