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Grade 1

• Composition

  • C.1.1
  • C.1.1.a
  • C.1.1.b
  • C.1.1.c
  • C.1.1.d
  • C.1.1.e
  • C.1.1.f
  • C.1.2
  • C.1.2.a
  • C.1.2.b
  • C.1.2.c
  • C.1.2.d
  • C.1.2.e
  • C.1.2.f
  • C.1.2.g
  • C.1.3
  • C.1.3.a
  • C.1.3.b
  • C.1.3.c
  • C.1.3.d
  • C.1.3.f
  • C.1.4
  • C.1.5
  • C.1.6

• Language

  • L.1.1
  • L.1.1.a
  • L.1.1.b
  • L.1.1.c
  • L.1.1.d
  • L.1.1.e
  • L.1.1.f
  • L.1.1.g
  • L.1.1.h
  • L.1.2
  • L.1.2.b
  • L.1.2.c
  • L.1.2.d
  • L.1.2.e
  • L.1.4
  • L.1.4.a
  • L.1.4.b
  • L.1.4.c
  • L.1.4.d
  • L.1.5
  • L.1.5.a
  • L.1.5.b
  • L.1.5.c
  • L.1.5.d

• Reading: Foundational Skills

  • RF.1.1.a
  • RF.1.2
  • RF.1.2.b
  • RF.1.2.c
  • RF.1.3
  • RF.1.3.a
  • RF.1.3.b
  • RF.1.3.c
  • RF.1.3.d
  • RF.1.3.e
  • RF.1.3.f
  • RF.1.3.g
  • RF.1.4.a
  • RF.1.4.c

• Reading: Informational

  • RI.1.1
  • RI.1.2
  • RI.1.3
  • RI.1.4
  • RI.1.5
  • RI.1.6
  • RI.1.7
  • RI.1.8
  • RI.1.9
  • RI.1.10

• Reading: Literature

  • RL.1.1
  • RL.1.2
  • RL.1.3
  • RL.1.4
  • RL.1.5
  • RL.1.6
  • RL.1.7
  • RL.1.9
  • RL.1.10

KAS ELA Standard: RL.1.2

With prompting and support, recognize key details from a summary to demonstrate understanding of the author’s message, lesson learned and/or moral.

Identifying A Story’s Theme

Teach your young students to identify the moral or the theme of a story.

Gr 1-8

A Character’s Challenges and Changes

Your 1st and 2nd graders will analyze how a character responded to a challenge.

Gr 1, 2, 3, 6

Writing Sample: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Falling)

A passage from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Velveteen Rabbit (The Toys)

A passage from The Velveteen Rabbit to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Jungle Book (Bagheera)

A passage from The Jungle Book to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: The Wind in the Willows

A passage from The Wind in the Willows to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Writing Sample: Anne of Green Gables

An intriguing passage from Anne of Green Gables to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

Gr 1-8

Depth and Complexity: ⚖️ Ethics

Want to add drama to any topic? Use the Ethics prompt!

Gr 2-8

Depth and Complexity: 🌻 Details

Get kids focusing on the small, but essential, details of a topic.

Gr 1-8

Motivation and Moral Development

Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Gr 2-8

“Much Ado About Nothing” Summary

Shakespeare’s Much Ado summarized in just five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Twelfth Night Summary

An animated summary of Shakespeare’s utterly ridiculous “Twelfth Night.”

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Hamlet Summary

It’s Hamlet in just about five minutes!

Gr 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Writing Summaries in Haiku

Let’s write a summary. A very short summary. With VERY strict rules.

Gr 1-8

Think Like An Economist

How would an economist read Goldilocks? How would they see a rainforest? How would they study the American Revolution?

Gr 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Better Stories Part 3: Literary Themes

A typical student narrative includes plot and characters but lacks a larger idea to hold it all together. This is where a lesson on themes comes in…

Gr 1-8