Curriculum Connections
K-5 ELA- September 2021
Kindergarten ELA
Kindergarten Print Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics
Phonemic Awareness: During Heggerty lessons, students are working on hearing rhymes, onset fluency with consonants and vowels, blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting compound words, and isolating final sounds.
Phonics: During sound wall lessons, in addition to the phonemic awareness work of hearing sound, students learn the graphemes (letters) that represent those sounds. During September, students are introduced to these sounds: Consonants- s,t,p,n,c,l,h,r,m,d,g,l,f,b Short Vowels: a,e,i,o,u
Print Awareness: Students are practicing handwriting using the Park Hill Handwriting Curriculum.
High-Frequency Words: Students are working to correctly and quickly recognize the first 25 high-frequency words.
Reading Unit 1: We Are Readers
Writing Unit 1: Launching the Writing Workshop
Kindergarten Writing in Unit 1
1st Grade ELA
1st Grade Print Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics
Phonemic Awareness: During Heggerty lessons, students are working on recognizing rhymes, onset fluency with consonants and vowels, blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting first with compound words then syllables, and isolating final sounds.
Phonics: During sound wall lessons, in addition to the phonemic awareness work of hearing sounds, students learn the graphemes (letters) that represent those sounds. During September, students are introduced to these sounds: Consonants- m, t, b, f, p, n, l, s, th, k, d, sh, g, z, ch, v, ng, Short Vowels: a,e, i,o,u, Long Vowels; a,e, i, o Other Vowels: oo, ow
Print Awareness: Students are practicing handwriting using the Park Hill Handwriting Curriculum.
High-Frequency Words: Students are reviewing the first 25 and 50 high-frequency words list from F&P.
Reading Unit 1:Readers Build Good Habits
Writing Unit 1: Small Moments- How to Write a Story
Students are asked to jump into the writing of narrative
stories in booklets. Children produce lots and lots of Small Moments stories and move with independence through the writing process.
Writing Unit 1: Small Moments-Ways to Bring Stories to Life
Writers learn the strategies they need to bring
many stories that they write to life. Children will learn to slow down their story narratives to develop each part bit by bit. Since this unit involves a lot of retelling and storytelling, drama
plays an important part in this portion of the unit.
2nd Grade ELA
Reading And Writing Unit 1
Unit 1: Taking Charge of Writing: Second-grade writers will be exposed to the many routines and procedures necessary to be efficient and effective writers in the writer’s workshop model. Writers will sketch ideas of different genres of writing as well as learn revising and editing strategies to strengthen their writing.
Writing Unit 2: Narrative Lessons From the Masters
Reading Unit 2: Shoring Up Foundational Skills
3rd Grade ELA
Reading Unit 1: Building a Reading Life (September-mid October)
In this unit, students will learn how to author their reading lives by becoming a classroom community of readers. Students will also obtain the identity of being a reader by determining when reading has been great in their lives and thinking about how to continually make that a reality for them. To do this they will learn common strategies of strong readers and work in partnerships to discuss and share ideas as readers. Note: Indian Shoes is now being used instead of Stone Fox as an anchor text.
Reading Pre and Post Assessments
On-Demands and student checklists are available for writing assessment.
MO LEAP Blocks is a new resource from the state that also has assessments created for ELA
Writing Unit 1: Crafting True Stories (September-October)
4th Grade ELA
Reading Unit 1: Growing Yourself as a Reader (September- mid October)
Reading/ Writing Pre and Post Assessments
On-Demands and student checklists are available for writing assessment.
MO LEAP Blocks is a new resource from the state that also has assessments created for ELA
Writing Unit 1: Getting to Know Yourself as a Writer (September-mid October)
5th Grade ELA
Reading Unit 1: Strengthening Your Reading Life (September)
Reading Pre and Post Assessments
On-Demands and student checklists are available for writing assessment.
MO LEAP Blocks is a new resource from the state that also has assessments created for ELA
Writing Unit 1: Agency and Independence (September)
Jennifer Wiley
Email: wileyj@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: www.parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-359-6253
Twitter: @icjenwiley
Kim Fette
Email: fettek@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-359-5750
Twitter: @kimElemCoach