LBD Unit – ALL ABOUT ME
Grade Level -K
Month – December
Unit Topic - Meet My Family
Continuing Standards
RF.K.1. Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
 Recognize that spoken words are represented in written language by specific sequences of letters.
Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.
S.L.2. Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other
media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not
understood.
L.K.1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or
speaking. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
b. Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.
d. Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how
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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.
RI.K.6. Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or information in a text.
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W.K.7. Participate in shared research and writing projects (e.g., explore a number of books by a favorite author and
express opinions about them)
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W.K.8. With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided
sources to answer a question.
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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.
Essential Understanding
Competent readers can explain how texts are created and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
Grade Level Standards
W.K.3. Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely
linked events, tell about the events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what
happened.
L.K.5. With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
 Sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories
represent.
 Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites
(antonyms).
 Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).
Distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action (e.g., walk, march, strut,
prance) by acting out the meanings.
RI.K.5. Identify the front cover, back cover, and title page of a book.
RI.K.4. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
S.L.6. Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
RI.K.6. Name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role of each in presenting the ideas or
information in a text.
RL.K.4. Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RL.K.5. Recognize common types of texts (e.g., storybooks, poems).
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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.
S.L.5. Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
S.L.3. Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not
understood.
Heritage is reflected through the arts, customs, traditions, family celebrations and language.
Personal history can be shared through stories and pictures.
Goods are objects that can satisfy people’s wants. Services are actions that can satisfy people’s wants.
Concepts: Key Ideas to Know
Key Skills: Be able to do - verbs
Letters and Sounds
1. To show /apply letter-sound correspondence
Word Families
2. Identify words, syllables and sounds
Features of Print
3. Identify basic features of print
Authors/Book Sense
4. Demonstrate proper word use / grammar nouns and
Common Words
verbs
Shades of Meaning
5. Identify personal attributes common to all people
Customs and Traditions
6. Similarities and differences between people
Personal history with memories
7. Recall information
8. Display knowledge of customs and traditions.
9. Add drawings to provide detail
10. Ask/answer questions
Essential Questions
1. How do letters work together to make words and
convey meaning?
2. What importance do books play in learning?
3. How do authors/illustrators collaborate to create
books and convey meaning?
4. How does speaking clearly help the communication
process with others?
5. What is a tradition and how do they influence their
lives?
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Quadrant
Lesson Ideas
Utilize chant chart
Matching word to word
mini books, pocket charts,
big books, poems on
Smartboard.
Spell common words
Describe traditions
B
Quadrant Lesson Ideas
Illustrate your family
Measure the passage of
time.
LBD
Food
Grandparent
Together
Describe
Each
Celebration
LBD sight words
Car
Am
For
Me
Have
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Vocabulary
Tradition
Author
Illustrator
Title Page
Front
Back
Cover
Customs
Holiday
Kwanzaa
Hanukkah
Goods
Services
Heritage
Celebrate
Audibly
Express
Antonyms
Nuances
Dictate
Quadrant Lesson Ideas
Research holiday traditions
Explain family traditions
Contrast the jobs of
author/illustrator
Discriminate between goods
and services.
D
Quadrant
Lesson Ideas
Explore and discover a
variety of different holiday
traditions.
Develop and plan holiday
services/goods that will be
sold during our holiday
travels.
Predict which class
ornament will sell the most.
Recite poems
List/label family members
Recall memories
(caroling, ornament
making, catalog production,
store front table, currency,
song list for catalog)
Formative Assessments
Benchmarks
Summative Assessments
LBD Theme Progress Tests
Common Grade Card Assessments
Fact Rubric related to the holiday
theme and lap board production.
Sight word checks
Performance Assessments
Students will role play to act out a
story sequentially.
SS 12 – Create a magazine collage
comparing needs and wants.
SS 2, 3 – Compare and contrast
holiday traditions of their own to
different cultures, using a Venn
diagram.
Produce a book with cover, Title
page…etc