GRADE 1 ELA INSTRUCTIONAL FOCUS
The following grade-level resource page is designed to follow the GCR2 ELA Resource Graphic.
- Priority & Supporting Standards - Tells us what essential knowledge, skills and strategies must be acquired at each grade- PS helps teachers prioritize.
- Literacy Blueprint - Describes a Balanced Literacy Model for designing your block of ELA instruction and explains the district philosophy.
- ELA Modules - Clusters the standards in a way that makes sense across the year.
- Mentor Texts and Close Reading Passages - Supports all teachers in designing ELA lessons using identified high quality texts aligned to MLS and our students needs.
- Module Lesson Maps - Provides teachers with a sequenced description of lessons aligned to our modules, using our Mentor Texts, and suggesting standards and ideas for instruction.
- Assessments - Provides us with information as to whether our students are acquiring the knowledge skills and strategies we are teaching and informs our instructional decisions.
- Standards-Based Education - Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.
PRIORITY & SUPPORT STANDARDS
The following resources have been developed and/or gathered to support First Grade teachers as they implement the Missouri Learning Standards in 2015-2016. Just click on the links below to access these documents.
First Grade "I Can" Statements were designed for teachers to post daily classroom objectives one at a time and standards that are spread out over a number of pages. Standards flow one to the next. Some teachers have chosen to make them into posters and highlight the day’s learning target with a clothespin or large arrow cut-out. Another idea to help with the organization of all of these posters is to put them on a binder ring so that they can easily be flipped through and displayed each day.
- Individual “I Can” Statement Posters
- Power Standard “I Can” Statements Page
Reading
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Writing
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Language
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Speaking/Listening
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LITERACY BLUEPRINT
The following document was designed for classroom teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators to provide a vision and structure for literacy instruction.
- Guiding Principles
- Creating a Supportive Literacy Environment
- Common Core and The Blueprint
- Elements of a Balanced Literacy Program
- Elements Described in Detail
- Assessments- District and Formative Assessment Practices
- Supporting Specific Groups of Learners: EL/ELL/SPED/Title 1 & SEEK
- Implementation Guide
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Grade Level Word Study Chart
ELA MODULES
Each grade level has a proposed curriculum map of the ELA standards divided into 4 Modules (or chunks) of instruction spanning the school year. These modules are detailed below.
MENTOR TEXTS AND CLOSE READING PASSAGES
Mentor Texts and Toolkit for 2015-2016
The “Toolkit” that follows is a collection of resources filtered from various web sites. Word documents were maintained whenever possible. While these do not directly relate to our Mentor Texts and Close Reading passages they are strong examples for you to use or modify with your grade level text selections in order to support CCSS and the inherent rigor.
- Graphic Organizers
- Tools
- Rubrics
MODULE LESSON MAPS
The following modules were created as sample curriculum maps at each grade level. The modules include all the English Language Arts Common Core standards. Our goal was to show how the priority and supporting standards from all ELA areas (reading, writing, listening/speaking, language and the foundational skills at Elementary) can be spread throughout the year but grouped in a logical fashion. Although there are “focus” standards for each module they are designed to build upon the previous one(s) so that by the end of the year all standards have been addressed and the priority standards assessed in appropriate levels of text. Focus standards may be introduced in a module however the teacher will make the decision as to when students will be assessed. Students continue to have multiple opportunities to show they have met the standards throughout the year in various venues including whole group, small group, or individually.
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and might include 1-3 smaller units. You’ll notice that the module designers chose some standards that they felt should be addressed in all modules. These standards are contained within the section titled “Yearlong Skill Development.” While Section 1 of the map could be used with any rich content, Section 2 was created as an example as to how a teacher or team might take the curriculum map and integrate the ELA standards with specific content such as a social studies or science unit, or even a literature study. We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation.
Each module is designed to last approximately 8 weeks and might include 1-3 smaller units. You’ll notice that the module designers chose some standards that they felt should be addressed in all modules. These standards are contained within the section titled “Yearlong Skill Development.” While Section 1 of the map could be used with any rich content, Section 2 was created as an example as to how a teacher or team might take the curriculum map and integrate the ELA standards with specific content such as a social studies or science unit, or even a literature study. We invite you to use this template “as is” or as a springboard for your own curriculum map or module creation.
MODULES
Module 1: Close Reading and Writing to learn/ Launching Readers and Writers Workshop
In Module 1, first graders will delve into the world of reading and writing with a focus on early literacy skills, understanding literature and informational text forms, questioning and retelling (in both forms), and basic text format. This module sets the foundations and tone for the entire year to build critical readers and writers who use close reading and writing strategies through launching the reading and writing workshop.
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UNITY OF STUDY
Launching Reading Unit: Best
Place to Read; Born to
Read; Ice
Cream: The Full Scoop; Library
Mouse: A World to Explore; Miss
Smith`s Incredible Storybook; Red
Sings from Treetops: A Year in Colors
Launching Writing Unit:
I Am
An Artist; I
Like To Be Little; Ish; Puddles; Written
Anything Good Lately?
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Module 2: Developing critical readers, writers, and thinkers of narrative text
Module 2 builds upon the first module, immersing students in narrative writing and critical reading of narrative texts. They develop a sense of story elements and how they work together to create a narrative text. They use critical thinking skills to work to identify similarities and differences, sequence properly, add details, listen to gain information and clearly express themselves. Students will transfer their skills of analyzing narrative text to writing their own narrative text. |
Fiction (Literature) Reading Unit:
3
Little Dassies, The; Blackout; Lion
and the Mouse, The; Mightiest,
The; Poppleton; Three
Little Pigs, The
Narrative Writing Unit:
Diary
of a Spider; Do
Like Kyla; I
Love My Hair; Keeping
Quilt, The; Little
Ninos Pizzeria; My
Big Brother; My
Little Island; My
Steps; My
Visit to the Aquarium; When
I Was Five
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Module 3: Learning Through Research
Module 3 is centered on informational and explanatory text. Students will build their knowledge of informational text structure while focusing on main idea and key details as well as determining unknown words. Students will participate in a research project where they will write informational text using complete sentences; including the main topic, details, and a visual display. Module 4: Forming Positions
In this module, students will use literature and informational text to form an opinion and identify points of view and form a position. They will work to select evidence from the text to support their opinions. They will write an opinion piece with supporting evidence and use digital tools to produce and publish writing. Students will work collaboratively with peers to share & discuss their positions and opinion pieces with one another. |
Non-Fiction All-About (Informational) Writing Unit:
An
Earthworm`s Life; Animals
in the Desert; Exploring
the Animal Kingdom: Mammals; Fire
Trucks; Life
Cycle of a Frog, The; Life
in an Ocean; Move!; TIME
for Kids: Storms!; Vegetables
We Eat, The; Why
Do Horses Neigh?
Non-Fiction (Informational) Reading Unit:
Atlantic; Backyard
Books: Are You a Butterfly?; Dr.
Seuss Biography; Grow
Your Own Sandwich; Is it
Living or Nonliving?; Life
in the Rain Forest; You
and Me Together
Poetry Reading Unit:
Bill
Martin Jr. Big Book of Poetry, The; Did You
See What I Saw? Poems About School; Good
Books, Good Times!; In the
Wild; One Big
Rain: Poems for Rainy Days; Our Big
Home: An Earth Poem
Fiction with Book Review (Opinion) Writing Unit:
Big
Al; Big
Sister and Little Sister; Don't
Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!; Good
Boy, Fergus; Letter
to Amy, A; Perfect
Pet; Stand
Tall, Molly Lou Melon; Weekend
With Wendell; When
Sophie Gets Angry -- Really, Really Angry...; You
Can Do It, Sam
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STANDARDS-BASED EDUCATION
Individual standards (highlights denote power standards) with rubrics and KUDs (Documents that describe what students need to know, understand, and be able to do to meet each standard.
- How to read a KUD Informational_Standard
Reading Literature (RL)
1.RL.8
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(Not Applicable to Literature)
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Power Standard (PS) Rubric
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Reading Informational Text (RI)
Reading Informational Standard
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Student Friendly
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Writing (W)
Writing Standard
1.W.4
1.W.9
1.W.10
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Student Friendly Language
(begins in 3rd grade)
(begins in 4th grade)
(begins in 3rd grade)
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Speaking & Listening (SL)
Speaking & Listening Standards
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Student Friendly Language
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Power Standard (PS) Rubric
(Coming Summer 2015)
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Language (L)
Language Standards
1.L.3
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Student Friendly Language
(begins in 2nd grade)
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Power Standard (PS) Rubric
(Coming Summer 2015)
(Coming Summer 2015)
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(Coming Summer 2015)
(Coming Summer 2015)
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Reading Foundations (RF)
Reading Foundations Standard
1.RF.1
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Student Friendly Language
1.RF.1 "I Can Statement"
1.RF.4 "I Can Statement"
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Power Standard (PS) Rubric
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1.RF.2 Syllabols Sounds
1.RF.3 Phonics
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