LBD Unit – Thinking Like a Scientist
Grade Level -K
Month –Unit 1 January
Unit Topic – Does It Go Fast or Slow
Continuing Standards
W2,W5,W8 RF2d, RI10, SL4,RI1, RI3, RL5,RF3bc,RF4,L1ab, RL2,RL3,RF1d,SL5 RL10,SL1a,RL1
Essential Understanding
Understand that reading builds a foundation for college and career readiness.
Grade Level Standards
RFK1Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print. Recognize and name all upper and
lower case letters of the alphabet.
SL2 Confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking
and answering question about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.
RLK2 With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
RLK3. With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story.
LK2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when
writing. Capitalize the first word in a sentence and pronoun I. Recognize and name end punctuation. Write a letter
or letters for most consonant and short-vowel sounds. Spell simple words phonetically, drawing on knowledge of
sound-letter relationships.
LK2 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when
writing. Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
LK4 Determine or clarity the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten
reading and content. B. Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (eg. –ed, -s, re-,un-,-ful. –less) as a
clue to the meaning of an unknown word.
LK5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings. Demo.
Understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by relating them to their opposites (antonyms).
RF.K.2. Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). Recognize and produce
rhyming words. Count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words. Blend and segment onsets and
rimes of single-syllable spoken words. Isolate and pronounce the initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in
three-phoneme (consonant-vowel-consonant, or CVC) words.1 (This does not include CVCs ending with /l/, /r/, or
/x/.)1 Words, syllables, or phonemes written in /slashes/refer to their pronunciation or phonology. Thus, /CVC/ is a
word with three phonemes regardless of the number of letters in the spelling of the word. Add or substitute
individual sounds (phonemes) in simple, one-syllable words to make new words.
Phys.Science: Objects and materials can be sorted and described by their properties.
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Concepts: Key Ideas to Know
Continue with word families and phonemic awareness
Opposites
Problem and Solution
Prefixes and Suffixes
Punctuation
Characters and Setting
Bullet points
How and why things move
Physical properties
Essential Questions
1. How does knowing opposites help us classify things?
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Key Skills: Be able to do - verbs
Be able to decode CVC words
Identify and produce opposites
Identify problems and brainstorm solutions
Name characters and setting in fictional stories
Use correct punctuation in beginning writing skills
Predict how objects will move and the causes
Report findings
Describe physical properties
LBD
Vocabulary
Punctuation
2. What are prefixes and suffixes?
3. How do word families help us read and write words?
4. How do knowing characters and setting help us
comprehend the story?
5. Why do we use different types of punctuation?
6. Why do things sink or float?
7. Why do we blend sounds together?
Move
Distance
Speed
Ways
Transportation
Limit
Sink
Heavy
Collect
Predict
Float
Character
Setting
Opposite
Antonym
Force
Direction
Problem
Solution
Report
Phrases
Buoyancy
LBD Sight words
Do
How
Big
It
His
Had
To
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Quadrant
Lesson Ideas
Identify problems and
name solutions.
Record findings of
experiment.
B
Quadrant Lesson Ideas
Apply letter sounds to
decode CVC words during
guided reading lessons
Apply knowledge of topic to
create objects that will sink
or float.
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D
Quadrant Lesson Ideas
Generate opposites in
groups
Quadrant
Lesson Ideas
Develop alternate solutions
to problems
Classify which object will
sink and float.
Create a setting and
character storyboard.
Predict speed and direction
of an object.
Modify elements to change
speed and direction of an
object.
Compose sentence
independently with
punctuation.
Formative Assessments
Benchmarks
Summative Assessments
LBD Theme Progress Tests
Common Grade Card Assessments
MAPS Test
Sight word checks
Guided reading levels
Predict what objects will
sink or float
Performance Assessments
Name Upper and Lower case letters.
Retell at story with key details.
Identify characters, setting and
major events with support.
Sort objects according to their
properties.