Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Alphabet Review

Week 2:  Focus Skill: m/m/, Preview: s /s/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: a/a/, Preview i /i/

High Frequency Words- I, like (Challenge: eat)

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Ask and Answer Questions to Learn about Animals and Their Needs, Identify Parts of a Book, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details, First Reading: Create Mental Images About How Plants Live and Grow, Use Pictures to Support the Meaning in a Text, Build Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs.

Week 2: First Reading: Ask and Answer Questions about What Plants Need to Live and Grow, Identify Parts of a Book, Find Text Evidence: Describe the Relationship Between Illustrations and the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Photographs, Labels, and Captions, Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations, Captions, and Labels, Build Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs.

Week 3: First Reading: Create Mental Images about Animals and Their Needs, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details, Find Text Evidence: Informational Text Features: Labels and Captions, Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations, Captions, and Labels, Demonstrate Knowledge: Plants and Animals Have Needs- Complete Knowledge Blueprint, Build Vocabulary: Relate Unknown Words to Background Knowledge

Communications

Week 1: Draw and Share a Message

Week 2: Draw, Write, and Share a Message

Week 3: Shared Writing: Draw, Write, and Share a Message

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 1 Assessment

• Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: s/s/, Preview: t /t/, r /r/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: t/t/, Preview: f /f/, h /h/, b /b/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: n/n/, Preview: w /w/, p /p/

High-Frequency Words

Week 1: the, we

Week 2: go see

Week 3: go, see, like, I, the, we (Challenge- was, her, down)

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Draw Inferences to learn about Characters’ Experiences in a Story, Describe the Main Characters in a Story, First Reading: Distinguish between Important and Unimportant Information About Characters, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Use Main Characters and Important Events to Retell a Story, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Build Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

Week 2: First Reading: Draw Inferences to learn about Characters’ Experiences in a Story, Describe the Main Characters in a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Important Events in a Story, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Explain the Roles of Author and Illustrator, Compare and Contrast Characters' Experiences in Stories, Build Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

Week 3: First Reading: Distinguish Between Important and Unimportant Information About Characters, Describe Important Events in a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Main Characters in a Story, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions About Unfamiliar Words in a Text, Explain the Roles of Author and Illustrator in a Story, Demonstrate Knowledge: Every Story Has Characters

Communications

Week 1-3: Shared Writing: Draw and Write a Narrative Text

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 2 Assessment

• Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: i/i/, preview o/o/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: f/f/, preview c/k/, j/j/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: p/p/, preview g/g/, d/d/,k/k/

Reading

Week 1: Make Connections to Understand Why Rules are Important, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Summarize and Synthesize Why Following Rules and Making Good Choices is Important, Describe Main Characters in a Story, Recognize that Text Conveys Meaning and Illustrations Support the Meaning.

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Learn Why We Follow Rules at School, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Find Text Evidence-How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Table of Contexts, Identify the Topic of Details in a Text.

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Learn How Rules Help Us, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Story Characters, Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Rules at Home and School

Communications

Week 1-3: Draw and Write an Expository Text

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 3 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week.

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: i/i/, preview o/o/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: f/f/, preview c/k/, j/j/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: p/p/, preview g/g/, d/d/,k/k/

Reading

Week 1: Make Connections to Understand Why Rules are Important, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Summarize and Synthesize Why Following Rules and Making Good Choices is Important, Describe Main Characters in a Story, Recognize that Text Conveys Meaning and Illustrations Support the Meaning.

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Learn Why We Follow Rules at School, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Find Text Evidence-How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Recognize Informational Text Features: Table of Contexts, Identify the Topic of Details in a Text.

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Learn How Rules Help Us, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Story Characters, Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Rules at Home and School

Communications

Week 1-3: Draw and Write an Expository Text

Assessments

Week 1-2: Weekly Assessments and/or Progress Monitoring

Week 3: Unit 3 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week.

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: b/b/, review h/h/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: u/u/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: r/r/

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Draw Inferences to Learn about Technology, Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Recognize How Photographs and Captions Support the Text, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Multiple-Meaning Words, First Reading: Distinguishing Between Important and Unimportant Information to Learn about Technology, Describe Characters, Setting, and Important Events.

Week 2: Recognize Informational Text Features: Illustrations and Captions, Find Text Evidence: Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text, Describe How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Use Topic and Details to Retell Informational Texts, Build Knowledge: Technology at Home and School (Add to Blueprint)

Week 3: Identify and Describe Characters, Setting, and Important Events, Describe How the Illustrations Support the Text, Build Vocabulary: Sort Words into Categories, Find Text Evidence: Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Technology at Home and School (Complete the Blueprint)

Communications

Week 1: Draw and Write an Expository Text

Week 2: Shared Writing: Brainstorm Ideas, Chose Topic and Draft, Revise and Expand Expository Text.

Week 3: Shared Writing: Focus on Writer’s Craft: Expository Text (Edit and Publishing)

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: e/e/, review r/r/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: g/g/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: d/d/

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Make Connections to Stories that Teach about Working Together, Retell a Story Using Characters, Setting, and Important Events, First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Understand the Importance of Working Together, Build Vocabulary: Identify and Explain Descriptive Words in a Text, Retell a Story Using Characters, Setting, and Important Events, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, and Begin Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 2: First Reading: Make Connections to Traditional Stories that Teach Lessons, Find Text Evidence: Describe Setting, Use Illustrations to Support Meaning in a Text, Describe Important Story Events, and add to the Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 3: First Reading: Summarize and Synthesize to Understand How to Accomplish Big Things, Retell Familiar Stories Including Details, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words, and Demonstrate Knowledge: Stories Have a Message (Complete the Blueprint)

Communications

Week 1-3: Opinion Process Writing

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 6 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 6 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: w/w/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: l/l/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: j/j/

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn about Holidays and Celebrations, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text, Describe Similarities Between Two Events, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words, First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Celebrating People, Text Features: Describe How Images Support the Meaning of the Text, Begin the Blueprint.

Week 2: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About People We Celebrate, Find Text Evidence: Describe Similarities Between Two Individuals, Build Vocabulary: Ask and Answer Questions about Unfamiliar Words In A Text, Explain the Difference Between Opinions and Facts, Find Text Evidence: Recognize How Images Support the Text, and Add to the Blueprint.

Week 3: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn about Holidays and Celebrations, Explain the Difference Between Opinions and Facts, Find Text Evidence: Recognize How Images Support the Text,

Communications

Week 1-3: Narrative Process Writing

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 7 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 7 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: k/k/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: y/y/

Week 3:  Focus Skill: v/v/, q/kw/

Reading

Week 1: First Reading: Ask questions to Learn About Weather and Seasons, Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text, First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Weather and Seasons, Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Story, Describe Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events in a Story.

Week 2: Recognize and Use Informational Text Features: Captions, Describe How Pictures Support Meaning In a Text, Find Text Evidence: Use Titles, Headings, and Illustrations to Confirm the Topic of a Text, Use Topic and Details to Retell Informational Texts.

Week 3: Use Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events to Retell a Story, Find Text Evidence: Describe Main Characters, Setting, and Important Events in a Story, Compare and Contrast Characters’ Experiences in Stories, Demonstrate Knowledge: Weather and Seasons.

Communications

Week 1-3: Explanatory Writing

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 8 Progress Monitoring Assessments

• Week 3: Unit 8 Assessment

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: x/ks/, z/z/

Week 2:  Focus Skill: Long a (final -e)

Week 3:  Focus Skill: Long o (final -e)

Reading

Week 1:  First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn Why People Choose the Work They Do; Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text; Use Topic and Details to Retell a Text; First Reading: Apply Strategies to Describe Why People Work; Describe Story Characters, Setting, and Important Events. Begin Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 2: Apply Strategies to Distinguish Between Wants and Needs; Use Text Features: Captions, Labels, and Illustrations; Use Illustrations to Support the Meaning of a Text. Add to Knowledge Blueprint.

Week 3: First Read: Apply Strategies to Learn About Earning Money; Find Text Evidence: Compare and Contrast the Experiences of Characters in Stories; Describe How Illustrations Support Meaning; Demonstrate Knowledge: Meeting Our Wants and Needs-Complete Knowledge Blueprint.

Communications

Week 1-3: Opinion Process Writing

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 9 Progress Monitoring Assessments

• Week 3: Unit 9 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Kindergarten Reading and Communication

Foundations

Week 1:  Focus Skill: Long i (final -e)

Week 2:  Focus Skill: Long u (final -e)

Week 3:  Focus Skill: Long e (final -e, _e)

Reading

Week 1:  First Reading: Apply Strategies to Understand What Makes Things Move; Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Text; First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Forces and Motion; Describe How Pictures Support Meaning in a Text; Identify Topic and Details in Two Informational Texts.

Week 2: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Forces; Find Text Evidence: Identify the Topic and Multiple Details in a Text; Use Text Features to Identify the Topic and Details in a Text; Retell Informational Text Using Topic and Details.

Week 3: First Reading: Apply Strategies to Learn About Objects in Motion; Find Text Evidence: Retell Informational Text Using Topic and Details; Demonstrate Knowledge: Forces and Motion-Complete the Blueprint.

Communications

Week 1-2: Poetry Process Writing

Week 3: Writing Reflection: Narrative, Expository, Opinion, Poetry, and Shared Writing.

Assessments

• Week 1-2: Unit 10 Progress Monitoring Assessments
• Week 3: Unit 10 Assessment

Bolded areas are a review and spirals to the next week

Unit 1 Overview

Foundations​

Reading​ 

Week 1: Ask Questions, Identify the Topic and Relevant Details, Retell the Text Using Topic and Relevant Details, Create Mental Images, Retell a Text by Using Story Elements

Week 2: Ask Questions, Identify the Topic and Relevant Details, Find Text Evidence: Use Text Features and Use Text Features to Retell a Text, Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic

Week 3: Creating Mental Images, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements and Moral, Find Text Evidence, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements

Communication​

Week 1: Write a Narrative, Write an Opinion;

                Grammar- Common and Proper Nouns

Week 2: Write an Expository Text, Write an Opinion, Write a Narrative;

                Grammar- Present-Tense Verbs and Past-Tense Verbs

Week 3: Write an Opinion, Write a Narrative;

                 Grammar- Singular and Plural Nouns, Future-Tense Verbs, Verb Tenses

Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly and Unit Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Cumulative Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3

Unit 2 Overview

Foundations​

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Reading​

Week 1: Use text evidence to identify and describe characters and sequence of events; relevant details in the text for charters and events.​

Week 2: Identify and describe characters and sequence of events using text evidence; retell using main story elements.​

Week 3: Identify and describe characters and sequence of events using text evidence; retell using main story elements.​

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Communication

Weeks 1-3: Write narratives that retell two or more appropriately sequenced events, including relevant details and a sense of closure.​

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Formal Assessments​

Weekly Assessments at the end of  Weeks 1 & 2​

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (This assessment is cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 3 Overview

Foundations​

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Reading​

Week 1: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; make connections to relevant details.​

Week 2: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; use text features to understand the text.​

Week 3: Identify topic and relevant details in an informational text; retell using topic and important details.​

Communication

Weeks 1-3: Write expository texts about a topic, using a source, providing facts and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

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Formal Assessments​

Weekly Assessments (end of  Weeks 1 & 2​)

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 4 Overview

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

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Reading​

Week 1: Identify and describe main elements of a story; asking questions; creating mental images.​

Week 2: Identify and describe main elements of a story; using text evidence; explain who is telling the story.​

Week 3: Identify and describe main elements of a story; create mental images; use descriptive words.​

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write opinions about a topic or text with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

Grammar- Form plurals -y t -ies; Commas in a series

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 5 Overview                                                                                                                   

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

Reading​

Week 1:  Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words in an informational text; identify and describe main story elements.

Week 2:  Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

Week 3: Identify and describe the main story elements in a story; find text evidence.

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write an explanation/expository piece about a topic with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.​

Grammar- Using Interjections; Form and Use Past-Tense Irregular Verbs

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Unit 6 Overview                                                                                                                   

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling)

Reading​

Week 1:  Identify and explain the moral of a story; Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.

Week 2:  Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Identify and explain the moral of a story.

Week 3: Identify and describe the main characters, setting, and sequence of events; Identify and explain the moral of a story.

Communication

Weeks 1-3:

Writing- Write opinions about a topic or text with at least one supporting reason from a source and a sense of closure; Improve writing by planning, editing, and revising.; share writing orally.

Grammar- Proper Nouns; Form Simple Sentences

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Formal Assessment Opportunities

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; use text features to understand a text; retell an informational text using topic and important details.

Week 2: Use text features to understand a text; identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

Week 3: Use text features to understand a text; identify the topic of and relevant details in a text; explain similarities and differences between information provided in visuals and words.

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3:  

Writing-Write expository texts about a topic, using a source, providing facts and a sense of closure.; improve writing by planning, editing, and revising; share writing orally. 

Grammar- Possessive Nouns; Noun-Verb Agreement 

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply strategies to learn about observing the sky; identify and describe main story elements- sequence of events; apply strategies to learn about moon observation and exploration; explain similarities and differences between information in visuals and text; compare and contrast two texts on the same topic.

Week 2: Apply strategies to learn about the sky; explain similarities and differences between information in visuals and text; find text evidence-use text features to demonstrate understanding; find text evidence-identify topic and relevant details.

Week 3: Draw inferences to learn about the night sky; identify and describe main story elements-sequence of events; find text evidence-identify and explain the moral of a story; find text evidence-compare and contrast two texts on the same topic; demonstrate knowledge-observing the night sky.

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3  

Writing- Opinion Process Writing

Grammar- Pronouns (Personal, Possessive, and Indefinite)

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify the topic and relevant details in a text; Retell a text using the topic and important details; Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify an author's opinion about a topic.

Week 2: Apply strategies to learn how people use goods and services; Identify the topic and retell relevant details; Compare and contrast two texts on the same topic; Identify an author's opinion about a topic; Compare and contrast two text on the same topic.

Week 3: Apply strategies, Identify and explain the moral of a story; Identify and describe main story elements;  Complete the Blueprint.

Communication​ 

Weeks 1-3  

Writing- Expository Research Report Process Writing  

Grammar- Use comas in a series; Use plural possessives

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Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations​ (Phonics and Spelling) 

Reading​ 

Week 1: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text,

Identify and Explain Descriptive Words and Phrases, Use Context Clues to Explain Who Is Telling the Story, Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts.

Week 2: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text, Identify and Explain Descriptive Words and Phrases, Identify and Describe Main Story Elements (Characters), Make Inferences and Describe Main Story Elements (Setting), Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic.

Week 3: Apply Strategies to Understand Sound, Light, and Heat-Identify the topic of and relevant details in a text, Use text features including titles, headings, captions, graphs, maps, glossaries, and/or illustrations to demonstrate understanding of texts, Compare and Contrast Two Texts on the Same Topic, Demonstrate Knowledge.

Communication​

Weeks 1 and 2: Writing a Narrative Poem and Acrostic Poem

Week 3: Writing Reflection

Grammar:

Week 1- Irregular Plural Nouns

Week 2- Past-Tense Irregular Verbs

Week 3- Subject Verb Agreement

Formal Assessment Opportunities 

Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 

Cumulative Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 that includes weeks 1-3

Foundations

• Week 1: Short Vowels, Blends, Consonant Digraphs
• Week 2: Words with Closed and Open Syllables
• Week 3: Words with Long a

Reading

• Week 1: Two passages – quick look at central idea and relevant details, touch on text features & main story elements.
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at central idea and relevant details – day 5 compares important details in multiple passages.
• Week 3: One passage – focus on plot structure and main story elements

Communications

• Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing and editing an expository essay. Essay is not published at the end of the unit.  

Formal Assessments

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)

Foundations 

• Week 1: Long o: oa, o, oe, ow, o_e 
• Week 2: Long e:  ee, ea, e, y, ey, ie, e_e 
• Week 3: Long i: ie, I, y, igh, i_e 

Reading 

• Week 1: Two passages – quick look at characters (describing and perspective), touch on theme. 
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at character perspective 
• Week 3: One passage – focus on character – day 4 compares character perspective in multiple passages. 

Communications 

• Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing and editing an opinion essay.  Essay is not published at the end of the unit. 

Formal Assessments 

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2 
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3) 

Foundations                                          

• Week 1: Long /u/: u, ew, ue, u_e
• Week 2: r-controlled vowel ar
• Week 3: r-controlled vowels er, ir, ur

Reading

• Week 1: Two passages –informational and literary– central idea and relevant details/perspective
• Week 2: One passage – closer look at central idea and relevant details ~day 5 compares texts
• Week 3: One passage – focus on character – describing and perspective ~day 5 is a poem.

Communications

▪Weeks 1-3: Researching, drafting, writing, editing, and publishing an expository essay.

Formal Assessments

• Weekly Assessments at the end of Weeks 1 & 2   
• Unit Assessment at the end of Week 3 (cumulative- includes weeks 1-3)