Grade: 1

Unit 1: Making Friends, Keeping Friends

By the end of the unit, students will answer the following writing prompt:
Think about the characters you have been reading about and the types of friendships they have formed.

Write and illustrate a narrative that expresses your feelings about a time you had to be a good friend. Be sure to include what happened
first, next, last, etc.

Week Mentor text Supporting texts Standards Informal Assessment
(check points)
Reading Writing Speaking/Listening Language
1 The Recess
Queen

King of the
Playground
Guided Reading:
Leveled
readers on
friendship
Shared Reading:
Hug OWar
by Shel
Silverstein
If Youre
Friendly
and You
Know It
(song)
Close Reading:
p. 10
Recess
Queen: Dig
deeper,
analyze for
language
Comprehension
Strategy:
Metacognition
Schema
connections

Standard:
Primary focus:
RL1, RL3

W3, W5 SL1, SL2, SL5

L1, L6 Exhibit A:
Schema think
sheet
(strategy
work) SL5
Checking in on
student share
(whole group)
RL1, SL1, SL2,
Story map
chart work
(whole group)
RL3
2 Odd Velvet

Veronica
Guided Reading:
Leveled
readers on
Comprehension
Strategy:
Metacognition/
W3, W5 Primary focus: SL4,
Secondary focus:
SL1, SL2, SL5
Primary
focus: L2
Secondary
Exhibit B:
Schema think
sheet 2
friendship



Shared Reading:
No
difference
by Shel
Silverstein
Everyone is
Different
by Lanny
Sherwin
(song)
www.freesongsfork
ids.com/audio/ever
yone-different

Close Reading:
Use
excerpt
from Odd
Velvet p. 7-
8
Schema
Connections


Standard:
Primary focus:
RL4
Secondary
focus:
RL1, RL3

focus:
L1, L6
(strategy
work) SL5
Checking in on
student share
(whole group)
RL1
Story map
chart work
(whole group)
RL3
Story map
chart work
(small group)
RL3,
3 Enemy Pie

A Friend
Like Ed
Guided Reading:
Leveled
readers on
friendship
Shared Reading:
A Friend in
Need
(poem)
Jumping to
Conclusions
by Nigro
(song)
www.songsforteach
ing.com/vitaminl/ju
Comprehension
Strategy:
Metacognition/
Schema
Connections

Standard:
Primary focus:
RL7
Secondary
focus: RL1, RL3,
RL4
W3, W5 Primary focus: SL6
Secondary focus:
SL1, SL2, SL4, SL5,
Primary
focus: L4
Secondary
focus:
L1, L2, L6
Exhibit C:
Schema think
sheet 2
(strategy
work) SL5
Making
connections
chart work
(whole group)
Story map
(individual)
RL3 RL7
Checking in on
student share
mpingtoconclusions.
htm

Close Reading:
Use
excerpt
from A
Friend Like
Ed (p. 18-
19) fig lang

(whole group)
RL1
Checking in on
eye to
eye/knee to
knee share
(partners) RL1
Writing piece
(edits) W3
W5
4 Ira Says
Goodbye

We are Best
Friends

Guided Reading:
Leveled
readers
highlighting
friendship
Shared Reading:
POEM by
Langston
Hughes
The
goodbye
song
Close Reading:
Use
excerpt
from We
Are Best
Friends p. 4
(meaning)`
Comprehension
Strategy:
Metacognition
Schema
Connections

Standard:
primary focus:
RL10
Secondary
focus: RL1, RL3,
RL4, RL7

W3, W5 Primary focus: SL3
Secondary focus:
SL1, SL2, SL4, SL5,
SL6
Primary
focus: L5
Secondary:
L1, L2, L4,
L6
Exhibit D:
Checking in on
eye to
eye/knee to
knee share
(partners) RL1
Checking in on
student share
(whole group)
RL1
Story map
(individual)
RL3, RL7
Making
connections
(group work)

5 Otis

One
Guided Reading:
Leveled
readers
highlighting
frienship
Shared Reading:
There For
Me
Comprehension
Strategy:
Metacognition
Schema
Connections

Standard:
Primary focus:
W3, W5

SL1, SL2, SL3, SL4,
SL5, SL6
L1, L2, L4,
L5, L6
End of Unit
Final writing
published
piece W3 W5
Independent
prac proof:
1 making
connections
www.thepoetry
pad.com/friend
ship-
poems/there-
for-me
Lean On
Me-
withers
(song)

Close Reading:
Use an
excerpt
from

RL10
Secondary
focus: RL1, RL3,
RL4, RL7,
2 story map
RL
3, RL7
metacognition
Schema
Exit slip eye
to eye/knee
to knee SL1-
6, RL1
Guided
Reading notes
running
record? RL10