ChandlerUnified School District

Reading Standards Addressed

CUSD Strand 3: Comprehending Informational Text

4th Quarter

Concept 1: Expository Text
Identify , analyze, and apply knowledge of the purpose, structures, and elements of expository text.

      PO1 Identify the topic of expository test, heard or read.

      PO2. Answer questions (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how) about expository text, heard or read.

      PO3. Identify organizational features (e.g., title, table of contents, heading, bold print) of expository text

Strand 1: Reading Process

3^rd Quarter

Concept 6:  Comprehension Strategies

      PO1. Predict might what happen next in a reading selection.

      PO2. Relate information and events ina reading selection to life experiences and life experiences to the text.

Writing Standards Addressed

Strand 1: Writing Process

1^st-4^th

Quarter

Concept 1: Prewriting

      PO2 Draw a picture or storyboard about ideas generated.

      PO 3. Organize ideas using simple webs, maps or lists.

      PO4. Discuss the purpose for a writing piece.

      PO5. Discuss who the intended audience of a writing piece will be.

Rewrite of Three Little Pigs

Concept 2: Drafting

1^st-4^th

Quarter

PO1. Write a draft (e.g. story, caption, letter, observations, message.)

Story-rewrite of Three Little Pigs

Caption-used in Photo Journals
Letter-for friendly letter

Concept 3: Revising

PO1. Reread original draft for clarity.

PO2. Add additional details with prompting.

Concept 4: Editing

PO1: Review the draft for errors in conventions, with prompting.

Friendly letters

Concept 5: Publishing

PO1. Rewrite and illustrate selected pieces for writing for sharing with intended audience.

Strand 3: Writing Applications

1^st

Quarter

Concept 3: Functional

PO1. Write a variety of functional text

PO2: Participate in writing communications

PO1. Labels for captions and vocabulary for photo journals, glossary for vocabulary in student-written books

PO2. friendly letters to animals, research animals on computer, and look for information, enemy, and what the animal likes

Concept 3: Expository

2^nd Quarter

PO 1. Create expository texts

Photo journals from field trip experience

2^nd Quarter

PO2. Participate in creating simple summaries from information texts, graphs, tables or maps.

Summaries written for saguaro cactus, animals and vocabulary terms (nocturnal, diurnal, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, food chain)

Strand 3: Writing Applications

3^rd Quarter

PO1. Write a narrative that includes: a main idea based on real or imagined events, characters, sequence of events

Rewrite of Three Little Pigs

Strand 3: Writing Applications

4^th Quarter

Concept 6: Research

PO1. Write a simple report with a title and three facts, using information sources.

Reports written for the cactus and at the conclusion a report written for the student’s make believe animal design

Language Arts Viewing and Presenting Grade 1

First Grade Language Arts

Viewing and Presenting Grade 1: LA VP01

LAVPO1-18 Recognize different types of visual media

LA VP01-20 Access, view, and respond to visual forms such as computer programs, videos, artifacts, drawings, pictures and collages

Group discussion on different types of visual forms.

Science Standards Addressed

Strand 4: Life Science

2^nd/3^rd

Quarters

Concept 1: Characteristics of organisms

PO1. Identify the characteristics of living things

PO2. Compare the following observable features of living things: movement, protection, respiration, support

Strand 4: Life Science

2^nd/3^rd

Quarters

Concept 3: Organisms and environments

PO1. Identify some plants and animals that exist in the local environment.

PO2. Compare the habitats in which plants and animals live.

PO3. Describe how plants and animals within a habitat are dependent on each other.

Strand 6: Earth and Space Science

Semester 2

Concept 1: Properties of Earth Materials

PO1. Describe the following basic earth materials: rocks, soil, water

PO2. Compare the following basic earth materials: color, texture, capacity to retain water