Language Arts Curriculum

Grade 1 Unit 1: Great Readers See Themselves as Readers
Essential Questions	Content	Standards CCSS	Common Core Resources	Mentor Texts	Assessment
How do great readers see themselves as readers? What is narrative writing?	Shared Reading: Taking Care of Books, Choosing Books, Knowing Yourself as a Reader, Building Reading Stamina Phonics and Vocabulary: short a, i, e, o, consonant patterns (ck, x, ks), consonant s /z/plural s, inflected ending -s, -ing, high frequency words, introduction, usage and development of new vocabulary words Shared Writing: Writing Teacher's Guide We Are All Writers, Writers Find Ideas Everywhere Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Narrative Writing Autobiography, Photo Essay Conventions/Language Progressive Skills(LPS): Adverbs, Contractions with Not	RL.1.1 RL.1.3 RL.1.5 RL.1.10 RI.1.2 RI.1.4 RI.1.7 RI.1.9 RI.1.10 RF.1.1 RF.1.2 RF.1.3 RF.1.4 W.1.2 W.1.3 W.1.5 W.1.6 W.1.7 W.1.8 SL.1.1 SL.1.3 SL.1.4 SL.1.5 L.1.1 L.1.2 L.1.4 L.1.6	GHGR Shared Reading Teacher's Guide GHGR Planning and Implementation Guide GHGR Reader's Theater Anthology GHGR Assessment Handbook Teacher Resource CDs GHGR Decodeable readers Leveled Library (Guided Reading) GHGR Write Habits (Common Core Edition) Rubrics and Supplemental Support GHGR Writing Teacher's Guide Conference Card Writing Teacher Resource CD (rubrics) Phonics and Vocabulary Teacher's Guide Words Their Way Continuum of Literacy Learning	Dee and Me; Crabby Cat's Shopping; Life Cycles; "The Purple People Eater" "A House is a House For Me" "Signs" "Gobble, Gobble, Munch" "Jack and Jill"	F&P Benchmark (beginning, middle and end of year) Reading Writing Portfolio (Fall and Spring Writing Sample) Assessment Handbook: Running Record (3 times per year between benchmarks) Retelling Rubric(Oral) Reading Log Story Frame Text Frame Early Reading Behavior Checklist (AIS/RTI) Performance-Based Assessment Checklist of Good Habits (AIS/RTI)