This cluster includes the following access points.
| Access Point Number |
Access Point Title |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4a: | Retell a text, including key details. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4b: | Describe factual information about people, places, things and events with relevant details orally or in writing. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4c: | Present, orally or in writing, factual information of familiar people, places, things and events describing subtopics of larger topics. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4d: | Describe ideas about familiar people, places, things and events with details orally or in writing. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4e: | Describe people, places, things and events with relevant details. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4f: | Describe a single event or a series of events that includes details about what happened orally or in writing. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.4g: | Describe familiar people, places, things and events with details orally or in writing. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.5a: | Use drawings or visual displays to add detail to written products or oral discussions. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.6a: | Engage in small or large group discussions by sharing one’s own writing. |
| LAFS.1.SL.2.AP.6b: | Produce (through dictation, writing, word array, picture) complete sentences when appropriate to the task and situation. |
Vetted resources educators can use to teach the concepts and skills in this topic.
| Name |
Description |
| Gr. 1 Lesson 3-Water For Us All: | Students will look at the different places water comes from and the different ways humans use water. They will label different water bodies and match pictures of human and animal uses of water. |
| Gr. 1 Lesson 1-Everglades Animal Exploration: | Everglades Animal Hunt is lesson 1 of a 3 lesson unit. Students will learn that animals communicate through their senses. The students will use their knowledge and imagination to vocally and/or physically imitate wildlife of the Everglades. |
| A Chilly Feeling: | In this reading lesson, the students will analyze the poem "It Fell in the City" by Eve Merriam. They will read the poem, identify words or phrases that show feelings or appeal to the senses, describe the place in the poem and add drawings to express their feelings. They will also write an opinion paragraph about how the poem made them feel after reading it. |
| What Do You Think About Cats and Dogs?: | In this lesson, the teacher uses the story Cat Stories that Dogs Tell by Robert G. Moons to help students focus on essential ideas of a story. Through pictorial reading and making predictions about the end of the story, students are given the opportunity to form their opinions about characters based on details given. The teacher uses sentence frames as scaffolded activities (activities to assist students initially so they can be gradually released to independence) to help students write their opinions. |
| Looking for Lincoln Throughout His Life: | In this interdisciplinary lesson by PBS Learning Media, students will participate in a variety of hands-on activities to gather facts about Abraham Lincoln. Students will match vocabulary words with pictures to piece together a timeline of Lincoln's life, gather various facts about his work as a lawyer on the prairie, and also gain insight into Lincoln through objects and artifacts of his life. Students will then select classroom objects that best tell a story about them and/or their class, later reflecting upon the timeline of Lincoln's life while creating their own personal timelines. |
| Animals Are Amazing!: | In this lesson, students will use What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and relavant details. Students will complete a 3-2-1 card, a group poster and presentation, and an independent expository writing piece to demonstrate their new learning about some amazing animals. |
| Design a Tub Toy - An Engineering Design Challenge: | This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concepts floating and sinking in an engineering design challenge. |
| Dive, Drop, and Down: | This lesson allows students to explore and learn about the Law of Gravity. In this lesson, students will discover how gravity affects different household objects. Students will also discuss with the class and teacher to explain what gravity is and how it correlates to the world around us. This lesson should take two science blocks of 45 minutes each to complete. |
| Feeling the Fall: | Feeling the Fall is a lesson that incorporates fluency, the five senses, and writing all in one. Students will work cooperatively to perform a play on fall, practicing fluency, accuracy, and expression. Then students will explore the fall season using their senses, integrating science standards into academic standards reading. Finally, students will have the opportunity to write about the fall season and publish their writing using technology. |
| Matter is EVERYWHERE Part 3: | Students will classify matter by temperature. Students will explore and come to conclusions about the temperature (hot or cold) of matter. This lesson is Part 3 of a 4-lesson unit on the Properties of Matter. |
| A Piece of Cake: | In this lesson, students will present their opinion through drawing, writing and speaking. Students will enjoy discussing their favorite animals, pizza and cake. Students will learn about self-expression and the different ways to present their opinion. |
| Beautiful Butterfly, How do you Grow?: | In this lesson the teacher will read aloud Marc Learns to Fly by Alma Sanchez, and use an animated informational video to help students understand the life cycle of a butterfly. Students will use both a response to reading and a cloze activity to learn new vocabulary and demonstrate understanding. |
| Describing the Looks, Actions, and Feelings of Characters: | In this lesson, students will describe the physical appearance, actions, and feelings of the character David from the story David Goes to School by David Shannon. This is the third lesson in a unit about characters. The other lessons in the unit have been attached as related CPALMS resources. |
| Identifying and Describing the Actions of a Character: | In this resource, students will practice identifying and describing the actions of a character. Teachers will model these skills through use of text and pictures from the story No, David! by David Shannon. Students will conduct guided practice through use of David Gets in Trouble, also by David Shannon. Students will then draw a picture and write a sentence to describe one of David's actions from the story. This is the first lesson in a unit of three lessons about characters. The other lessons are attached as related CPALMS resources. |
| Make Your Mark with the Mice: | In this lesson, students will be engaged with the story The City Mouse and the Country Mouse and see what happens when the mice visit each other’s homes. Students will take part in a discussion about the characters, setting, and the major events of the story. They will be asked to take the perspective of the City Mouse and write a letter of complaint about how visiting the countryside was just not a good thing to do. There are also several opportunities in these lessons for students to practice grade appropriate conventions of writing including ending punctuation and capitalization. |
