Curriculum Outline
Week One
Content Area: English Language Arts/ Literacy: Realistic Fiction- Why Do We Read It?
Standards: RL.1.2 In this lesson, the students will be introduced to skills related to reading and should be able to retell material from a passage to convey their comprehension of the key themes in the text sufficiently.
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to sufficiently go through a text and story and understand the content enough to be able to retell the account to a different audience.
Technology Tools: Teachers are encouraged to use technology to ensure that students fully interact with the material, such as the use of tablets.
Resources: Picture books and chapters of fiction books that can be used to show students’ understanding and comprehension of context and character development.
Summary of Instruction: The teacher allows students to interact with texts and, from this point, engages them in a discussion to gauge their understanding.
Accommodations: The content is designed for students in a general classroom setting but also contains accommodations for students with disabilities who will be able to make use of audio devices.
Summary of assessment: Assessment for this week’s lesson will primarily be oral.
Week Two
Content Area: English Language Arts/ Literacy (Listening and Comprehension Skills)
Standards: SL.K.1 Students are required to demonstrate the ability to participate and engage with other students and teachers in discussions centered around the texts that they have read during the week. Further to this, students must demonstrate the willingness to follow the guidelines for discussions and express themselves sufficiently.
Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to categorize words into groups as well as use the words learned in the texts in their interactions with teachers.
Technology Tools: The fables and texts can be presented in video and audio form to students.
Resources: The Fables by Aesop
Summary of Instruction: Students will be required to listen to the text and engage in structured discussions around the themes of the stories.
Accommodations: The lesson accounts for students in the general classroom environment but may be adapted for special needs students and those with learning impairments.
Assessment: Students will be assessed orally during classroom discussions.
Week Three
Content Area: English Language Arts/Literacy: Research Skills
Standards: RL. 1.3 The purpose of this lesson is to instill in students the ability to infer connections between two events drawn from an informational text or project.
Objectives: Students will be guided to make inferences and observations on the project.
Technology Tools: The project is based on an e-learning unit virtually.
Resources: Short Focused Research Project- The Moon Retrieved from https://achievethecore.org/page/692/the-moon-research-project
Summary of Instruction: Students will be required to perform observations based on non-fictional texts giving information on the moon and interpretation of data to guide them to make appropriate inferences.
Assessment: Assessment for this unit will be done through writing-based tests given to students at the end of the lesson.
Week 4
Content Area: English Language Arts/ Literacy: Informational Texts, Research, and Inquiry
Standards: RI. 1.1 Students should be able to ask insightful questions related to critical areas of a text.
Objectives: The purpose of this lesson is intended as a follow up to the previous week’s lesson on research skills.
Technology Tools: The teacher will incorporate visual aids such as screens to ensure students understand the content and setting.
Resources: Non-Fictional Information Texts
Summary of Instruction: The students will be required to interact with complex texts and ask follow-up questions to assist them in understanding the material.
Assessment: Students will be assessed through the use of written tests.