TUSD CURRICULUM MAP—ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS
Grade K, Quarter 3A
Unifying Concept: Building Communities
Unit Title: Who is in Your Community?
ENDURING UNDERSTANDING:
We shape our communities through our experiences.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS:
What is a community?
Why is cooperation important in our community?
How do character’s actions and experiences help their communities?
SELECTED READINGS OF COMPLEX TEXTS
EXTENDED TEXT(S):
Harcourt Reading Selections
Career Day by Anne Rockwell,
TE Volume 3 p. 210
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina,
Harcourt Read Aloud Anthology pp.
73-74
SHORT CONNECTED TEXTS & MEDIA:
Harcourt Reading Selections
The Shoemaker and the Elves by Author
Unknown, Harcourt Read Aloud
Anthology pp. 87-89
The Ants and the Grasshopper by
Author Unknown, Harcourt Read
Aloud Anthology p. 110
Guess Who? by Margaret Miller,
TE Volume 3 p. 262
Five Little Monkeys by Author
Unknown, Harcourt Read Aloud
Anthology p. 16
Sing a Song of People by Author
Unknown, Harcourt Read Aloud
Anthology p. 22
Chicken Forgets by Miska Miles,
Harcourt Read Aloud Anthology p. 51
Stone Soup retold by Ann McGovern,
Harcourt Read Aloud Anthology p. 44
All Work Together by Woody Guthrie,
Harcourt Read Aloud Anthology p. 134
Additional Literature Options
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by
Doreen Cronin
Rescue Bunnies by Doreen Cronin
Additional Literature Options
Doreen Cronin site
Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin
Giggle, Giggle, Quack by Doreen Cronin
My Teacher for President by Kay
Winters
People in My Community Series by
Jacqueline Laks Gorman
The Crocodile’s Toothache or Peanut
Butter Sandwhich poems by Shel
Silverstein in Where the Sidewalk Ends
Astronauts at Work by Deboraha
Shearer
Mousetronaut by Astronaut Mark Kelly
Astronaut Handbook by Meghan
McCarthy
Astronaut Gloves and Tools on Board
the Station NASA video
Whose Tools Are These? by Sharon Katz
Cooper
Who Am I? by Wiley Blevins
Say Hello! by Rachel Isadora
Bear At Work by Stella Blackstone
Pontoffel Pock, Where are You? video
People Work Nursery Rhymes video
People in Our Community or
Community Helpers: Hurray for Baba
STANDARDS
Constant
K.RL. 10
K.RI. 2; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10a
K.W. 1; 3; 5; 6; 7; 8
K.SL. 1a, b; 4; 6
K.L. 1a, c, f; 2b; 4b; 5a, c, d
Target
 Reading –Literature Focus
K.RL. 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9
K.RI. 3
 Writing-Informative/Explanatory
Focus
K.W. 2; 4, 4a
 Speaking and Listening
K.SL. 5
 Language
K.L. 1b, d, e; 2a, c, d; 4a; 5b
Formally Assessed
 Reading –Literature Focus
K.RL. 1; 2; 3; 5
 Writing-Informative/Explanatory
Focus
K.W. 2; 3
 Language
K.L. 1e; 2c; 5a, b
Complementary
K.RI. 1; 4; 10
K.SL. 2; 3
K.L. 6
Ali videos
One Hole in the Road by W. Nikola-Lisa
Community Helpers from A to Z by
Bobbie Kalman
The Desert is Theirs by Byrd Baylor
Blackout by John Rocco
Quinto’s Neighborhood by Ina
Cumpiano
RESEARCH COMPONENT: (Select a research project from either A or B unit map.)
 The scope and sequence research skills are: author study AND make a shared list of facts from informational text.
o Author study: Doreen Cronin
 Research the style of books that Doreen Cronin writes (personification of animals-animal act like people in her stories).
o Author Study Toolkit
 The class (whole group) will research several unit texts to create a list of work people do in a community.
NARRATIVE COMPONENT:
 The whole class will listen to and/or read selections about community members. Students will illustrate and write about
community members working together.
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTION:
Social Studies:
 Text(s)/Activity(ies)
o Astronauts at Work by Deboraha Shearer
o Astronaut Handbook by Meghan McCarthy
o Astronaut Gloves and Tools on Board the Station NASA video.
o People in My Community Series by Jacqueline Laks Gorman
o Career Day by Anne Rockwell, TE Volume 3 p. 210
o Guess Who? by Margaret Miller, TE Volume 3 p. 262
o Who Am I? by Wiley Blevins
 Strand 1. Concept 9.
o PO1. Recognize that astronauts (e.g., John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Sally Ride) are explorers of space.
 Strand 3. Concept 4.
o PO4. Identify people who help keep communities and citizens safe (e.g., police, firefighters, nurses, doctors).
 Strand 4. Concept 4.
o PO3. Describe how people earn a living in the community and the places they work.
 Strand 5. Concept 1.
o PO1. Discuss different types of jobs that people do.
o PO2. Match simple descriptions of work with the names of those jobs.
o PO3. Give examples of work activities that people do at home.
PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS:
 Summative: After reading Career Day by Ann Rockwell or other unit selections, the students will draw and write an
informational/explanatory paper about what career they would like to have when they grow up.
 Formative: Formative assessments will be administered once or twice a week by having students respond to text
selections through various text types (e.g., narrative, opinion, informative/explanatory) and modalities of writing (e.g.,
digital story telling, journaling, letters, poetry).