Internet Safety: Netsmartz (Information Fluency 3.3.10): Talk about the wizzywigs!
MS Paint: Publish stories and characters with text interface for words (Info Fluency 1.5.4, 2.2.4)
Online stories: OneMoreStory , Tumblebooks , Bookflix , Book Pals Tux Paint : Using mouse, playing with stories Tux Type : Keyboarding
Social Studies Integration/Visual Literacy
Families
Now and then: Looking and discussing photographs or NYPL's digital collection (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1)
Families Read-alouds: Define family and culture by using Families by Ann Morris. What is the culture of this family?
Compare families across picture books using a Venn diagram or a T-Chart. Tar Beach, The First Strawberries, etc. (Info Fluency 2.1.5)
Change: Then and Now
In the lesson below, we compared two stories, "The Little House" and the "House on Maple Street." We stopped to make predictions in "The Little House," and they had four varieties of predictions, all being accurate in some way!! See "display time doc for more info and rubric.
Curriculum overview for the year
Unit 1: How do you retell a story? Telling and Retelling stories
Unit 2: How do you write a story? We are authors and illustrators/Gerald McDermott study
Unit 3: Pop up books
Unit 4: How has the world changed? What is different today? Nonfiction: Then and now
Unit 5: Ebooks: Nonfiction
Unit 6: You are the author: Pick your illustrator on Storybird
Unit 7: Summer reading: public library, finding books on interests
Other lessons/ideas:
Information Skills for Grade 1
Library Orientation (Info Fluency 1.3.1)
Information FluencyELA Integration
- Listens to read alouds, ask questions, and participates in discussions (Info Fluency 2.3.5)
- Finding facts: Reading for information (Info Fluency 1.1.2, 1.3.10, 1.3.13)
- Activating prior knowledge
- Asking simple questions and finding answers in nonfiction books
- Kids use bins of nonfiction
Deaf/Hard of hearing Characters (Info Fluency 2.1.1, 2.1.2)- Same/Different discussions using Venn diagrams
Genre study: Greek Myths (Info Fluency 2.1.3, 2.1.5, 2.1.7, 2.3.2)Listening to storytelling/Visualizing/Illustrating favorite scenes
Technology skills integration
Internet Safety: Netsmartz (Information Fluency 3.3.10): Talk about the wizzywigs!MS Paint: Publish stories and characters with text interface for words (Info Fluency 1.5.4, 2.2.4)
Online stories: OneMoreStory , Tumblebooks , Bookflix , Book Pals
Tux Paint : Using mouse, playing with stories
Tux Type : Keyboarding
Social Studies Integration/Visual Literacy
Families- Now and then: Looking and discussing photographs or NYPL's digital collection (Info Fluency 1.3.9, 1.4.1)
- Families Read-alouds: Define family and culture by using Families by Ann Morris. What is the culture of this family?
- Compare families across picture books using a Venn diagram or a T-Chart. Tar Beach, The First Strawberries, etc. (Info Fluency 2.1.5)
Change: Then and NowIn the lesson below, we compared two stories, "The Little House" and the "House on Maple Street." We stopped to make predictions in "The Little House," and they had four varieties of predictions, all being accurate in some way!! See "display time doc for more info and rubric.