At-a-Glance Chart | EL Education Curriculum

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ELA G1:M1

Tools and Work

Each module is approximately 6-8 weeks of instruction broken into 3 units. The "week at a glance" chart in the curriculum map gives the big picture, breaking down the module into a detailed week-by-week view. It shows how the module unfolds, the focus of each week of instruction, and where the six assessments and the performance task occur.

Weeks 1–2 Unit 1: Learning to Ask and Answer Questions: Getting to Know the Tools Around Us

Instructional FocusCCS StandardsAssessments
  • Building background knowledge: What do tools help us to do?
  • Developing language by playing with and exploring tools
  • Recording our thinking by drawing and labeling
  • Asking and answering questions about tools
  • Informational Writing: What job does this tool help to do?
  • Speaking and Listening: Sorting photographs of tools
  • RI.1.1
  • RI.1.7
  • W.1.2
  • W.1.8
  • SL.1.1
  • L.1.5
  • L.1.5a
  • L.1.5b
  • Unit 1 Assessment: Focused Read-aloud and Writing about Tools (RI.1.1, RI.1.7, SL.1.1, L.1.5a)

Weeks 3-4 Unit 2: Reading Closely: Learning about Habits of Character

Instructional FocusCCS StandardsAssessments
  • Closely reading The Most Magnificent Thing
  • Developing language through habits of character challenges
  • Independent Writing: Reflecting on challenges
  • Speaking and Listening: Ask and answer questions and to solve challenges
  • Focused read-aloud: The Little Red Pen
  • The Little Red Pen: Ask and answer questions about how the characters use habits of character to do work
  • Writing to Show Understanding: Characters and how they use each habit of character
  • RL.1.1
  • RL.1.3
  • RL.1.4
  • RL.1.7
  • W.1.2
  • W.1.8
  • SL.1.1
  • SL.1.1b
  • SL.1.1c
  • Unit 2 Assessment: Focused Read-aloud Session 4 and Writing about Habits of Character (RL.1.1, RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RL.1.7, W.1.2)

Weeks 5-6 Unit 3: Writing to Show Understanding: Creating a Magnificent Thing

Instructional FocusCCS StandardsAssessments
  • Classroom Magnificent Thing: Planning and Building
  • Informational Writing: Planning and drafting
  • Reflecting on learning and using habits of character
  • Classroom Magnificent Thing: Revising, finishing, and presenting
  • Informational Writing: Drafting, revising, and publishing
  • Reflecting on learning and using habits of character
  • RL.1.3
  • W.1.2
  • W.1.8
  • SL1.1
  • SL.1.1a
  • SL.1.1b
  • SL.1.1c
  • SL.1.6
  • L.1.2
  • Unit 3 Assessment: Writing to Show Understanding: Describing a Habit of Character (W.1.2)
  • Performance Task: Experience-Based Informational Writing: A Magnificent Thing for the Classroom (W.1.2, SL.1.1)

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