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Fiction Reading Narrative Writing

In this unit, students will identify and analyze story elements and event sequence in a fictional text. Students will utilize story elements to draft a sequenced narrative.

Essential Outcomes

Reading

• 1R1 Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text.
• 1R3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text.
• 1R7 Use illustrations and details in literary and informational texts to discuss story elements and/or topics.

Reading Foundations – Fluency

• 1RF4 Read beginning reader texts, appropriate to individual student ability, with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
  Addressed in RF unit:
  • 1RF2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • 1RF3 Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Language

• 1L1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of academic English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• 1L2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of academic English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• 1L4 Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases, choosing flexibly from an array of strategies.

Writing

• 1W3 Write narratives which recount real or imagined experiences or events or a short sequence of events.

Speaking and Listening

• 1SL1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults in small and large groups and during play.
• 1SL4 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events with relevant details expressing ideas clearly
• 1SL6 Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, using complete sentences when appropriate to task, situation, and audience

All Standards Addressed in this Unit

• See Reading Foundations Units: 1RF2 a-c, 1RF3a-g
• 1R1, 1R3, 1R4, 1R6, 1R7, 1R9
• 1RF4, 1RF4a, 1RF4b
• 1L1, 1L2, 1L4, 1L5
• 1W3
• 1SL1, 1SL2, 1SL3, 1SL4, 1SL6

Essential Questions and Big Ideas

• Why are story elements important?
  • Story elements help students understand the text.
  • Story elements allow students to recall key information.
• Why are Illustrations important to a story?
  • Illustrations to add meaning to their understanding of the characters, setting, and events in the text.
• Why are characters important in a story?
  • A character in a story deepens our understanding of the text.
  • A character allows students to make connections to the text.
• How do writers create and write narrative stories?
  • Writers use words, symbols, and pictures that capture their ideas to create written stories.

Prerequisite Skills

Reading Routines and Questioning

• Story elements & key events
• Staying on topic during discussions

Story Elements

• Point of view & genres
• Listening to and talking about a text

Characters

• Identify specific feeling words
• Identify characters within a text

Point of View, Planning to Write a Narrative

• Personal narratives & writing process

Narrative Writing

• Identify letter names and sounds
• Kindergarten sight words

Download the complete Grade 1 ELA Unit 2 framework to customize for your own planning.

Rules and Routines Small Moments in Writing (Narrative)

In this introductory unit, students will review key concepts from Kindergarten, while working to develop a strong virtual classroom community. Students will use their review of reading and phonics skills to develop a “small moment” narrative that describes a real or imagined experience.

This unit should be paired with the Reading Foundations unit which focuses on print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition and building fluency. It is essential that these skills are not taught in isolation, but applied within students reading and writing.

Download the complete Grade 1 ELA Unit 1 framework to customize for your own planning.

Essential Outcomes

Reading

• 1R1 Develop and answer questions about key ideas and details in a text.
• 1R3 Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, or pieces of information in a text.

Reading Foundations – Print Concepts

• 1RF1 Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
• Addressed in RF unit:
  • 1RF2 Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).
  • 1RF3 Know and apply phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

Language

• 1L1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of academic English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
• 1L2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of academic English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.

Writing

• 1W3 Write narratives which recount real or imagined experiences or events or a short sequence of events.

Speaking and Listening

• 1SL1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults (e.g., in small and large groups and during play).
• 1SL6 Express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly, using complete sentences when appropriate to task, situation, and audience.

All Standards Addressed in this Unit

• See Reading Foundations Units: 1RF2 a-c, 1RF3a-g
• 1R1, 1R3, 1R4, 1R6, 1R9
• 1RF1
• 1L1, 1L2
• 1W3
• 1SL1, 1SL5, 1SL6

Essential Questions and Big Ideas

• What makes a classroom a place to learn?
  • Rules and routines help to make classrooms places to learn.
• What makes a word?
  • Combinations of letter sounds work together to create words that represent meaning.
• How do writers create and write stories?
  • Writers use words that capture their ideas to create written stories.

Download the complete Grade 1 ELA Unit 1 framework to customize for your own planning.