K/1st Grade Combo
3rd Instructional Period
January - March 2012
FUSD Alignment of Essential Standards and Houghton Mifflin
Kinder - RECURSIVE
RC 2.4: Retell familiar stories.
RL 3.3: Identify characters, settings, and important events.
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6
1
8
6
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Week
Week
10
3
Theme
1st Grade - RECURSIVE
RC 2.2: Respond to who, what, when, where, and how questions.
RC 2.6: Relate prior knowledge to textual information.
RC 2.7: Retell central ideas of simple expository or narrative passages.
RL 3.1: Identify and describe the elements of plot, setting, and character(s) in a story, as well as the story’s beginning, middle, and ending.
Text To Use
Run Away!
Slash!
Baby Animals… (K)
or
The Sleeping Pig
(1st)
The Enormous…
Mouse’s Birth…
Who Lives on… (K)
or
EEK! There’s a
Mouse in the
House (1st)
January 2012
Standard
Focus
Comprehension
RL 3.3 (K)
Recursive
Story Structure
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RL 3.3 and RL 3.1 both focus on identifying the setting, characters, and the
story’s beginning, middle, end. To meet the 1st grade standard, students will also
need to describe the elements as well.
Noting Details
w/ emphasis on when,
what, and how questions

K - RC 2.5 (asking and answering questions about elements of text) is not an
essential standard; however, it is a foundational comprehension skill.
Ask questions focusing on when, what and how. (1st) Students will have an
opportunity to answer who and where question later in this instructional period.
RL3.1 (1st)
Recursive
RC 2.5 (K)
Non Essential
Notes
Skill Focus
RC 2.2 (1st)
Recursive
21st Century
School Support Services
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3
6
3
9
1
Comprehension
Wheels Around
The Wheels on…
Look for Wheels…
(K)
The Three Billy
Goats (K)
RC 2.4 (K)
Recursive
21st Century
Topic/Main
Idea/Details/Summarize
(with an emphasis on
summarizing the text)

Red-Eyed Tree Frog
(1st)
Kevin and His…
Spring is Here…
What Season… (K)
RC 2.7 (1st)
Sequence

Week
Week
1
3
Theme
7
Standard
Focus
Text To Use
RC 2.4 (K)
Recursive
Notes – page 2
Skill Focus
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Or
7
1
That Toad is Mine!
(1st)
7
2
Lost! (1st)
RL 3.1 (1st)
Recursive
Problem/ Solution
RC 2.5 (K)
Non Essential
Noting Details
(with an emphasis on
who, what and where)

Predict and Make
Inferences


RC 2.2 (1st)
Recursive
21st Century
7
3
Mr. Grumpy… (K)
RC 2.2 (K)
Or
If You Give A Pig A
Pancake (1st)
January 2012
RC 2.6 (1st)
Recursive
School Support Services
(1st)RC2.7 focuses on retelling central ideas using simple expository or narrative
text.
Students will use the main idea and details from the text to summarize.
(K)RC 2.4 requires students to retell stories. To meet this standard, students
must be able to explain what happened in the beginning, middle, and end.
(Sequence)
(1st)RL 3.1 will require students sequence beginning, middle, and end, as well as
describe the elements of the plot (problem/solution).
K - RC 2.5 (asking and answering questions about elements of text) is not an
essential standard; however, it is a foundational comprehension skill.
Ask questions focusing on who, what and where. (1st) Students will have an
opportunity to answer who and where question later in this instructional period.
In order to make predictions, students must use what they know and
information within the text (making an inference), therefore these standards
align.
Week
Week
3
3
Theme
8
Text To Use
A Lion on the…(K)
Standard
Focus
Comprehension
RC 2.3 (K)
Draw Conclusions
Notes –page 3
Skill Focus
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RC 2.6 (1st)
Recursive
January 2012
School Support Services
K – RC 2.3 (connect to life experiences the information and events in text) is not
an essential standard, but is a foundational skill to understanding text.
1st – RC 2.6 (relate prior knowledge to textual information) is an essential
standard and directly aligns to the K standard RC 2.3 (however, it is not tested on
GLAS), so it can be addressed simultaneously. When drawing a conclusion
students will relate prior knowledge to information within the text.