This unit entitled “Bats in Fiction and Nonfiction” is designed for first grade. The unit will integrate many academic disciplines, including science, writing, and math. While teaching students about bats, I will also teach how characters in a story elicit feelings, how mammals can have different adaptions and adaptations, and how animals can be portrayed differently in opposing genres. Through these above lessons, the students will be able to understand the point of view of different characters and use their learning to write about how they think the character feels or how they felt while they were read the book, Stellaluna by: Janell Conner.
Students will do a variety of activities to enhance their learning. First, the students will be read the story and will investigate how words can be segmented and that words can have different meanings.. Then, student will learn about the difference between fact and opinion as well as the difference between fiction and nonfiction text. Next, students will learn to identify ways mammals can live in habitats using different adaptations. Finally, student will look into what they have learned and use the above-mentioned skills to connect to what the main characters in the two different texts have to overcome.
According to Common Core Standards, the students will be speaking and listening during discussions, applying process knowledge that enables them to become independent leaders, and they will gain a new understanding of the dynamics of different writing, reading, science and math domains.
1.1.C pronounce and blend individual phonemes into one-syllable and two-syllable words (e.g rabbit, taken).
1.1.D decode:
One and two-syllable words.
Words with common ou and ow endings.
Words with common vowel patterns ey, ay, and igh.
Words with inflectional endings- ing, es, ed.
1.2.1.B: Identify the difference between facts and opinions within a text.
1.2.I Compare and contrast.
1.3.F Words/ Phrases that elicit feelings in text.
CC.1.3.1.E: Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading or range of text types.
1.4.O Use thoughts and feelings to describe experiences.
Science/ Social Studies
Animals can have different adaptations and adaptions to live in different habitats.
Math
collect, describe, and record basic information on a graph (types of mammals that students like).
When the unit is complete, the students will be able to describe different mammal adaptions/ adaptations, to identify different domain words in text, to interact with text and understand character's point of view, and be able to compare and contrast fact and opinion as well as fiction and nonfiction . This content is key in a student’s ability to understand, explore, and explain the world around them.
Students will do a variety of activities to enhance their learning. First, the students will be read the story and will investigate how words can be segmented and that words can have different meanings.. Then, student will learn about the difference between fact and opinion as well as the difference between fiction and nonfiction text. Next, students will learn to identify ways mammals can live in habitats using different adaptations. Finally, student will look into what they have learned and use the above-mentioned skills to connect to what the main characters in the two different texts have to overcome.
According to Common Core Standards, the students will be speaking and listening during discussions, applying process knowledge that enables them to become independent leaders, and they will gain a new understanding of the dynamics of different writing, reading, science and math domains.
1.1.C pronounce and blend individual phonemes into one-syllable and two-syllable words (e.g rabbit, taken).
1.1.D decode:
One and two-syllable words.
Words with common ou and ow endings.
Words with common vowel patterns ey, ay, and igh.
Words with inflectional endings- ing, es, ed.
1.2.1.B: Identify the difference between facts and opinions within a text.
1.2.I Compare and contrast.
1.3.F Words/ Phrases that elicit feelings in text.
CC.1.3.1.E: Explain major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, drawing on a wide reading or range of text types.
1.4.O Use thoughts and feelings to describe experiences.
Science/ Social Studies
Animals can have different adaptations and adaptions to live in different habitats.
Math
collect, describe, and record basic information on a graph (types of mammals that students like).
When the unit is complete, the students will be able to describe different mammal adaptions/ adaptations, to identify different domain words in text, to interact with text and understand character's point of view, and be able to compare and contrast fact and opinion as well as fiction and nonfiction . This content is key in a student’s ability to understand, explore, and explain the world around them.