ELA Curriculum Map 2020

Focus Area/Essential
Questions
Focus Standards Instructional tools/materials Assessments
Module 1
Wit and Wisdom Module
1: The Five Senses
How do our senses help
us learn?
Reading Literature
RL.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and
answer questions about key details in a text.
RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the
author and illustrator of a story and define the role
of each in telling the story.
Reading Informational Text
RI.K.1 With prompting and support, ask and
answer questions about key details in a text.
RI.K.4 With prompting and support, ask and
answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RI.K.5 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title
page of a book.
Writing
W.K.2 Use a combination of drawing, dictating,
and writing to compose informative/explanatory
texts in which they name what they are writing
about and supply some information about the
topic.
W.K.8 With guidance and support from adults,
recall information from experiences or gather
information from provided sources to answer a
question.
Language
L.K.1.d Understand and use question words
(interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when,
why, how).
L.K.2.c Write a letter or letters for most consonant
and short-vowel sounds (phonemes).
Core Texts:
Picture Books (Informational):
● My Five Senses, Aliki
● My Five Senses, Margaret
Miller
● Rap a Tap Tap, Leo and
Diane Dillon
Picture Books (Literary)
● Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom, Bill Martin Jr. and
John Archambault;
Illustrations, Lois Ehlert
● Last Stop on Market
Street, Matt de la Peña;
Illustrations, Christian
Robinson
SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
Articles
● “Great Depression,”
Children’s Encyclopedia
● “The Harlem
Renaissance," Britannica
Kids
Paintings
● Flower Day, Diego Rivera
● Le Gourmet, Pablo
Picasso
Videos
● “Bojangles Step Dance"
● “Chicka Chicka Boom
Boom"
Focusing Question
Tasks (5) -Lesson 5,
Lesson 9, Lesson 15,
Lesson 21, Lesson 26,
Lesson 28 (part 2)
New Read Assessments
(3) -Lesson 10, 16,
Lesson 23
Socratic Seminars (2)
-Lesson 16, Lesson 29
End of Module Task
-Lesson 30-31
Vocabulary Assessment
(2 parts) -Lesson 16
(practice), Lesson 21,
Lesson 29
Fundations Unit 1
Assessments
Completed by
November 6
*See ​ELA Schedule