Unit 1: A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme
Unit 1- A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme
Content
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School Rules and Community
Color, Shape and Size
Nursery Rhymes
All About Me
Focus Standards
RI.K.4: With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about
unknown words in a text.
RL.K.5: Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
RF.K.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and
phonemes.
RF.K.2 (a): Recognize and produce rhyming words.
W.K.1: Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to
compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the
name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or
preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is…).
S.K.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners
about Kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and
larger groups.
SL.K.1 (a): Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to
others and taking turns talking about the topics and texts under
discussion).
L.K.5: With guidance and support from adults, explore word
relationships and nuances in word meanings.
L.K.5 (a): Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to
gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent.
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Student Objectives
 Recognize the difference between a storybook and a poem.
 Understand that poems (poetry) are written by poets and often
rhyme.
 Distinguish between a verse (stanza) and a line in a poem.
 Identify the author and illustrator of a storybook and of an
informational book.
 Ask questions about unknown words in a text.
 Understand the organization and basic features of print.
 Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book;
follow the words from left to right, top to bottom, and page by
page.
 Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
 Develop phonological awareness by reciting and producing rhyming
words.
 Use a combination of drawing, dictating, or writing to share an
opinion of a favorite color.
 Listen to others and take turns speaking while discussing favorite
rhymes.
 Begin to learn to print letters.
 Expand vocabulary by sorting objects by color, noticing colorful
places in school, and describing objects by two adjectives
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Terminology
artist
line
opinion
poetry
author
poem
rhyme
stanza
story book
rhythm
description
verse
illustration
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illustrator
informational book
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Read Aloud
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready For Kindergarten by Joseph Slate
If You Take a Mouse To School By Laura Numeroff
The Big Yellow Bus
Who Took the Cookies From the Cookie Jar? By Bonnie Lass
Manners by Aliki
Chester Raccoon and the Big Bad Bully by Audrey Penn
My Kindergarten by Rosemary Wells
ABC books-26 letters and 99 cents by Tana Hoban
Chicka, Chicka, Boom, Boom by Bill Martin, Jr
Brown Bear by Eric Carle
Who Said Red? By Mary Serfozo
Llama, Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss
Color Farm
Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni
White Rabbit’s Color Book by Alan Baker
Red Bear by Bodel Riky’s
Cookie’s Week by Cindy Ward
Wheel on the Bus by Maryann Kovalski
Shape Space by Cathryn Falwell
Are You My Friend?
Clap Your Hands by Bill Martin
Five Senses by Aliki
The Real Mother Goose by Blanche Fisher Wright
Nursery Rhymes for Young Australians
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Hey Diddle Diddle by Tomie DePaola
Snow White
Three Little Pig
Miss Nelson is Missing
The Boy who Saved the Day
Don’t Squeal unless it is a big deal
Can I find My Classroom?
School Rules
Monster Pet
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Shared Read
Nursery Rhymes – 1 per week
“Hey Diddle, Diddle”
“Humpty Dumpty"
"Jack and Jill"
"Jack Be Nimble"
"Little Boy Blue"
"Little Miss Muffet"
Color Poems
Focus on Phonemes ABC Song
Guided Reading
Nursery Rhymes
Color Books
Shape Books
Rigby Small Readers AA wordless books
Focus on Phonemes ABC Song
Independent Reading
Nursery Rhymes
Color Books
Shape Books
Rigby Small Readers AA wordless books
Focus on Phonemes ABC Song
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Interactive Writing
Class Rules
Sounds Like/Looks Like posters
ABC Book - Create a class alphabet book; one letter a day to identify,
write and give the sound.
List of First names
Color Words
Shape Word
Size Words
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Independent Writing
I Like Me-self portrait of self
Color – A _______ is blue.
Shapes – A ______ is a triangle.
Size – A ______ is big.
Alphabet
First Name
Family and friends portrait with labels
School Rules
My favorite color is because ___________. Opinion
My favorite character is ____________.
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Literacy Centers/Independent Work
Sort letters by attributes
Sequencing magnetic letters on a cookie sheet
Stamping out the alphabet and first name
Create an alphabet book
Interactive Nursery Rhyme book: focus on one rhyme a day. Practice
tracking while reading: left to right, top to bottom, circling letter of
the day, etc.
Construction paper shapes to sort and create a new item by putting the
shapes together
Sort objects by shape and color
Feely bag with different objects and textures
Visual collage of different shaped objects, colors, sizes
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Phonemic Awareness
Focus on /F/onemes activities
 Who has a word that rhymes with?
 Rhyming Connection Game
 Sound Worksheet
Phonics
Letter sort by objects and pictures
Match letters to templates
Match manipulative upper and lowercase letters
Point to letters that teach names
Tracing of letters in sand or salt while naming them
Handwriting
Forming letters
 Focus on /F/onemes handwriting lessons
 Writing names
 Writing on dry earse boards
 Tracing of letters in sand or salt while naming them.
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Extensions
Nursery Rhyme Book
Writing capital and lowercase letters
Writing first and last name
Sort objects by more than 1 attribute
Visual rhyming activities: sorting and matching rhyming card
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Interventions
Small group or 1 to 1 on name writing
Leap Frog ABC learning letter DVD and graphing progress
Focus on Phonemes ABC chant daily
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Assessment
Say the alphabet
Orally identifying rhyming word
Write First Name
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