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Home > INSTRUCTION > State Standards and Frameworks > English Language Arts > gr_pk_how_things_change_unit_overview

 Gr. PK Unit: How Things Change

Essential Questions:

How do things change?

Focus Questions:
How do things around us change? (Wk 1)
How do we change? (Wk 2)
How do we change things around us? (Wk 3)


Lesson Calendar

DAY 1 - PLAN 1

DAY 2 - PLAN 2

DAY 3 - SEED 1

DAY 4 - SEED 2

DAY 5 - SEED 3

DAY 6 - 7 - PLAN 3

DAY 8 - 10 - SEED 4

DAY 11 - 14 - SEED 5

DAY 15 - PLAN 4

CCSS Standards for this Unit

Monitoring Templates

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UNIT OVERVIEW

3 Weeks - "Unit at a Glance" Organizer

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This unit occurs in spring or third quarter of the school year and serves as a means for students to recognize change in themselves, their surroundings and how they affect change.

Pre-K students need concrete learning experiences related to themselves and their environment. They will learn to sequence events and changes over time using pictures. Pre-K students will recognize and describe seasonal changes and the effects on plants by listening and responding to text dependent questions based on informational texts (refer to MSDE glossary for CCSS definition of informational text. PK students will also recognize physical changes in characters and themselves through interactive read-alouds of developmentally appropriate complex text aligned with the topic of change. Assessment occurs mostly through teacher observation and anecdotal record keeping. Teachers observe and attend to student interactions and discussions related to the topic at hand to assess proficiency with objectives. Teachers build in discovery, problem solving and cooperative activities to inhance the content.No mastery of learning will occur at this stage as this is students' first exposure to standards and strands.


STUDENT OUTCOMES

Specific outcomes are included for each lesson and lesson seeds. Global outcomes for the unit include:

  1. Retell and/or sequence a variety of events from stories and real life experiences.
  2. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, or developmentally appropriate writing.
  3. Confirm understanding of text read aloud by asking and answering questions
  4. Listen and respond to a wide variety of literature in various ways.

TEXT MODELS FOR LESSONS AND LESSON SEEDS

  1. A Tree for All Seasons by Robin Bernard; National Geographic Society
  2. The Growing Story by Ruth Krauss
  3. Mathew and Tilley by Rebecca C. Jones
  4. Memoirs of a Goldfish by Devin Scillian
  5. Little Mouse's Big Secret by Eric Battut
  6. Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert
  7. Little Blue and Little Yellow Leo Lionni
  8. Watch What Happens Marsha Grant
  9. Chameleon's Colors Chisato Tashiro
  10. The Mixed-Up Chameleon Eric Carle
  11. Kite Day Will Hillenbrand
  12. Leo the Late Bloomer Robert
  13. Changing the Land Helen Gregory
  14. The Season's of Arnold's Apple Tree Gail Gibbons
  15. The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle

*IMPORTANT NOTE: Consider the need for Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM) and/or for captioned/described video when selecting texts, novels, video and/or other media for this unit. See "Sources for Accessible Media" for suggestions. See Maryland Learning Links: http://marylandlearninglinks.org.


ASSESSMENTS

  1. Pre: Teacher will be able to pre-assess students through observation via whole-group; small group and or one-to-one discussions regarding the student's background knowledge, reading readiness skills and oral language skills.
  2. Formative: Observations to include text based responses:
    1. to interactive read-alouds
    2. dictations
    3. writing pieces
    4. sequencing of pictures
    5. retelling events

UNIT LESSON PLANS

The following websites provide alternate strategies and information for differentiation of lessons.

Apply appropriate elements of UDL
http://www.udlcenter.org

English Language Learners
http://www.wida.us/standards/CAN_DOs/

Gifted Children
National Association for Gifted Children
http://www.nagc.org/

Special Education and 504 LD Online
http://www.ldonline.org/educators
http://marylandlearninglinks.org

Complete lesson plans and lesson seeds are listed and hyperlinked from the unit calendar.


UNIT LESSON SEEDS

The lesson seeds are included for the days without full lesson plans for the three week unit.

Interdisciplinary Connections

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    Last Updated 7/22/2019 12:13 AM