Curriculum Connection
K-5 ELA- December 2022
K-2 Phonological Awareness
Kindergarten ELA
Reading Unit 3: Readers Use Super Powers
Readers will focus on becoming better at reading by using everything they have learned through phonological awareness, phonics, and word study instruction. Students will be taught to focus on print first by using sound power to decode words. Other "superpowers" will be taught to encourage students to read for meaning and confirm understanding.
Note-This unit has been revised to align with the Science of Reading. Revisions are noted in green in the curriculum on the PH website.
Writing Unit 3: Writing for Readers
Writing Unit 3: Student Writing Sample
Sample writing: Playing With My Blocks by Tiana
1st Grade ELA
Reading Unit 3: Learning About the World
Writing Unit 3: Authors as Mentors
This unit begins by having students study the class’s shared mentor author’s writing moves, generate many initial story ideas, and write multiple drafts of stories. The classroom’s selected author of study will help guide student to live, plan, and draft like real published authors- from getting students to notice the rich moments in life that are ripe story ideas, to noticing the way an author sequences story events, to noticing how she provides a sense of closure.
Writing Unit 3: Narrative Writing Checklist
Students will continue to use the Narrative Writing Checklist to work to improve their writing.
2nd Grade ELA
Reading Unit 3: Reading Informational Books
The main focus of this unit is for students to become the kind of reader who learns information about the world from books, and has big ideas about that reading. Students will use text features, ask questions of text, and reflect on new learning. They will also learn to identify main idea and give details in a text.
Writing Unit 3: Lab Reports and Science Books (Bend 3- Writing About a Science Topic in Information Books)
The goal of this part of the unit is for students to show their knowledge about the science topic and to write information books. Students will write an information book that teaches readers all about a topic that the writer knows well and that-here’s the trick- relates in some ways to the research children have just done on the science topic from bends 1 and 2. You’ll help children apply their knowledge to these subjects, and you’ll help them learn from each other’s work.
Writing Unit 3: Lab Reports and Science Books- Student Writing Sample Sample
Students will also use the Informational Writing Checklist to revise and edit their final piece.
Student writing sample of final piece.
3rd Grade ELA
What about Phonics in the Upper Grades?
Heggerty: Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap is a series of systematic phonemic awareness intervention lessons. The lessons can be used in call groups or with individual students who struggle to decode words automatically.
Words Their Way
In looking at the first page of the sort in working with students, the Introduce, Model and Reflect focuses on the spelling pattern to form words as well as work with vocabulary! This component is often overlooked with word study instruction.
Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory
Just a reminder that 3rd-5th grade will need to administer the Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory between December 12th and December 22nd. This is a shift from last year after the curriculum team decided students were:
1. Too familiar with the words from the Elementary Inventory
2. Mastering the Elementary Inventory but when given the Upper Inventory, it placed them in a more appropriate stage of development.
The Feature Guide in Coaches Corner is a more efficient 1 page view.
The Feature Guide with Sorts gives you a better indication of where to start them.
Reading Unit 2: Reading to Learn: Grasping Main Ideas and Text Structures (continued)
The Rubric and Sample Answers will also help when working students to refine answers.
Writing Unit 2: The Art of Informational Writing (continued)
Remember you have 2 resources available on Heinemann to show students the end writing piece of what you we might expect.
1. Writing Developed Through the Progression (annotated sample of writing)
2. Student Writing Samples (student example of writing)
4th Grade ELA
What about Phonics in the Upper Grades?
Heggerty: Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap is a series of systematic phonemic awareness intervention lessons. The lessons can be used in call groups or with individual students who struggle to decode words automatically.
Words Their Way
In looking at the first page of the sort in working with students, the Introduce, Model and Reflect focuses on the spelling pattern to form words as well as work with vocabulary! This component is often overlooked with word study instruction.
Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory
Just a reminder that 3rd-5th grade will need to administer the Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory between December 12th and December 22nd. This is a shift from last year after the curriculum team decided students were:
1. Too familiar with the words from the Elementary Inventory
2. Mastering the Elementary Inventory but when given the Upper Inventory, it placed them in a more appropriate stage of development.
The Feature Guide in Coaches Corner is a more efficient 1 page view.
The Feature Guide with Sorts gives you a better indication of where to start them.
Reading Unit 2: Reading the Weather, Reading the World (continued)
The Rubric and Sample Answers will also help when working students to refine answers.
Writing Unit 2: Boxes and Bullets: Personal and Persuasive Essays (continued)
Remember you have 2 resources available on Heinemann to show students the end writing piece of what you we might expect.
1. Writing Developed Through the Progression (annotated sample of writing)
2. Student Writing Samples (student example of writing)
5th Grade ELA
What about Phonics in the Upper Grades?
Heggerty: Bridge the Gap
Bridge the Gap is a series of systematic phonemic awareness intervention lessons. The lessons can be used in call groups or with individual students who struggle to decode words automatically.
Words Their Way
In looking at the first page of the sort in working with students, the Introduce, Model and Reflect focuses on the spelling pattern to form words as well as work with vocabulary! This component is often overlooked with word study instruction.
Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory
Just a reminder that 3rd-5th grade will need to administer the Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory between December 12th and December 22nd. This is a shift from last year after the curriculum team decided students were:
1. Too familiar with the words from the Elementary Inventory
2. Mastering the Elementary Inventory but when given the Upper Inventory, it placed them in a more appropriate stage of development.
The Feature Guide in Coaches Corner is a more efficient 1 page view.
The Feature Guide with Sorts gives you a better indication of where to start them.
Reading Unit 2: Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction (continued)
The Rubric and Sample Answers will also help when working students to refine answers.
Writing Unit 2: Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels for Nonfiction (continued)
Remember you have 2 resources available on Heinemann to show students the end writing piece of what you we might expect.
1. Writing Developed Through the Progression (annotated sample of writing)
2. Student Writing Samples (student example of writing)
Jennifer Wiley- Curriculum Specialist K-2
Email: wileyj@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: www.parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
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Kim Fette- Curriculum Specialist- 3-5
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