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Unit 1
Kindergarten
Lesson 9 of 12
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Identify different ways that people can feel by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Generate a list of feeling words and pictures to use in the classroom.
Book: Today I Feel Silly And Other Moods that Make My Day by Jamie Lee Curtis
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What are some different ways the character felt? Why?
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
How is the character feeling? How do you know?
How is the character feeling now? How do you know?
What are some other feelings that the character had? Why did she have them?
What are some other feelings the character had? How do you know that?
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
joyful
adj.
feeling really happy
grumpy
feeling annoyed
confused
not knowing what to think
lonely
sad because you don't have friends or company
discouraged
thinking you can't do something
frustrated
thinking something won't happen
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RL.K.1 — With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.3 — With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
Lesson 8
Lesson 10
Explain what caused Wemberly’s worries about school to go away by asking and answering key questions about key details in the text.
Make text-to-self connections between Wemberly’s experience of overcoming a worry and own experiences of overcoming a worry.
L.K.6 RL.K.1 RL.K.10 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
Explain what the little boy likes about kindergarten.
RL.K.1 RL.K.10 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
Explain why the narrator says, “There’s no one else I’d rather be” by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Make connections to what they like about themselves and how that connects to a joyful and safe classroom community.
Explain what makes the boy special and why they are special.
RL.K.1 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
Identify what the characters in a story learn by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.1 RL.K.10 RL.K.3 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
Explain what Grace learns.
Explain what the author wanted us to learn by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.1 RL.K.2 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
Identify the difference between helpful words and hurtful words by asking and answering questions about key details in a text.
Generate a list of helpful words to use in the classroom.
L.K.4.b RL.K.1 RL.K.3 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6
RL.K.1 RL.K.3
Explain what it means to hold someone up and how you can hold up your classmates.
Discussion & Writing
Explain what it means to be part of a classroom community and how they can make the classroom community a fun place to be.
L.K.6 SL.K.1 SL.K.1.a SL.K.6 W.K.1
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