Kindergarten
1st Trimester
Students will begin concept formation as a class through brainstorming
and modeling.
Students will draw illustrations, individually, to begin to express
knowledge of a concept.
Students will be assessed through pre-formatted worksheets and informal
assessment during instruction time.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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First grade
1st Trimester
Students will be able to write a simple sentence with some use of
capitalization and punctuation.
Write a Sentence About format found in Primary Steps Reproducible, page
21. We will give the students a picture and have them write a sentence
about it.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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Second grade
1st Trimester
Students will write a narrative based on experience moving through a
logical sequence of events using appropriate transition words and
phrases.
Accordion Paragraphs
Graphic Organizers
Transition words
Framed Paragraphs
Colored Strips – Green, Yellow, Yellow, Yellow, Green
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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2nd Trimester
Students will continue to participate in teacher directed organization
of concepts.
Students will use the terms “First, Second, Third” with teacher modeling
to organize ideas.
Students will be assessed through pre-formatted worksheets and informal
assessment during instruction time.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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2nd Trimester
Students will be able to identify and put into order sentences that are
given to them on green and yellow strips.
Framed Paragraph found in Primary Steps Reproducible on pages 71-74. We
will use various themes from our Open Court units.
We will give the students preprinted yellow and green strips for them to
put into order. They will then glue them onto another paper to
demonstrate the understanding of main idea sentences and detail
sentences.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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2nd Trimester
Students will write a friendly letter complete with date, salutation,
body, closing, and signature.
Expository writing using a topic sentence, transition words, details,
and conclusions.
Graphic Organizers
Framed letters
Color coded strips
Green Yellow Red
Accordion Paragraphs
File Folder Organizer for Reports
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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3rd Trimester
*Students will begin to explore topics individually using the format of
“First, Second, Third.”
*Students will identify green and yellow portions of a paragraph done as
a class.
*Students will begin to color code sentences or ideas using green and
yellow after teacher modeling.
*Students will begin writing simple sentences and illustrating their
ideas.
*Students will be assessed through pre-formatted worksheets, informal
assessment during instruction time and through individual work.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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3rd Trimester
Students will be able to write a simple paragraph containing a main idea
(topic) sentence and at least three detail sentences with transition
words.
Students will practice writing paragraphs using Step Up to Writing
frames. We will use themes from Open Court units as topics for writing.
We will use a blank frame to assess. A specific topic sentence will be
given to the students and they will generate detail sentences on their
own. For example: Let me tell you the colors that I like.
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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3rd Trimester
Students will be able to write a descriptive paragraph using good
details.
Students will write a realistic short story.
Graphic Organizers
Story Map
Accordion Paragraph
Assessments: OARS Rubric
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