2009 - 2010 Curriculum Planning Grade Time Line School: Program Areas Language Arts Reading

Comprehension Strategy Focus

Teacher: Colleen ODair Submission date: September 2009 Following this plan will ensure that all overall expectations in the Grade 1/2 curriculum have been met.

September Making Connections Strategy Drawing from personal experience, background knowledge and other texts

October Self-monitoring Strategy Self-monitoring using fix-up strategies

November Analyzing Strategy Previewing /Reviewing

December Inferring Strategy Combining information from the text with personal information to fill in the gaps visualizing Fiction: narrative fantasy Fiction: narrative letters Poetry: descriptive concrete

January Predicting Strategy Pausing and predicting Confirming and Adjusting predictions Fiction: Legends tales

ReadAloud Shared

Poetry: pattern poems

Fiction: narrative-picture book

Non-fiction: descriptive - report Fiction: retell journal Non-fiction: informational text - How to

Poetry: pattern poems, rhyming poems

Fiction and non-fiction magazine

Fiction: narrative- pourquoi tale Fiction: narrative- script

Small Group

Individual PM Benchmark Testing

Individual PM Benchmark Testing Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts

Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts

Guided reading groups with a variety Guided reading groups with a of leveled texts variety of leveled texts

Media Literacy

Signs

Magazine

Songs

Letters, Songs

Script

Writing

Text-Style Type SelfSelected and Response Writing

Poems Personal Retell, Journal Writing Recording Information on charts

Narrative, realistic fiction Sentences, questions, instructions, clues

Retell: journal Descriptive report, interactive journal

Personal Communication: letters Letters, lists, poems, jot notes, vivid descriptions

Narrative Pourquoi Tale Pack Up Your Story, script

Working With Words

Cheering words, phonics Word Wall words (all year)

Verbs, building words, fluency

Exploring meaning through context, homonyms Partner discussions, inside/outside circle, turn and talk Science presentations

Action verbs, building words

Expanding words, suffixes

Oral Language

Choral reading

Think-pair-share, choral reading, asking and answering questions

Partner Discussion, generating connections Shared writing

Pack Up Your Story, elbow partner discussions

Mathematics
Math Makes Sense

Patterning

Number Sense

Measurement

Addition and Subtraction

Data Analysis and Probability

Geometry

(ID Strands)

*identify, describe, extend, create patterns

*identify, describe, extend, and create repeating, growing and shrinking patterns

*numbers to 20 *more or less

*numbers to 100 *number facts to 18

time (seasons, days, ordinals, hours), temperatu re and money (coins to 10 cents)

time (months, ordinals, calendar, half, quarter, & hour), temperature and money (amounts to $1.00)

horizontal and vertical addition and subtraction stories *guess and check

sums of three addends *adding and subtracting two digit numbers

*concrete graphs and picture graphs *conduct a survey *explain the likelihood of an event

*concrete graphs, bar graphs and picture graphs *conduct a survey and display the results in a graph *explain the likelihood of an event

Gr. 1 *build and sort 3-D objects according to attributes *create a picture using 2-D figures

Science/ Technology

Motion Assessment Task: Making a Toy (Ontario Exemplar)

Plants Assessment Task: Plant Experiments, Labeling

Character Education Visual Arts Kindergarten Math

Resilience Terry Fox

Respect Remembrance Day

Fairness - Christmas

Responsibility - Homework

Colour Patterning (expectations 23-24)

Value

Line Data Management (expectations 25-28)

Number Sense more, fewer, same, bigger, smaller; estimate amounts (expectations 1-4); ordinal numbers, one-to-one correspondence (expectations 6,11)

2009 - 2010 Curriculum Planning Grade Time Line School: Program Areas Language Arts Reading
Comprehension Strategy Focus

Teacher: Colleen ODair Submission date: September 2009 Following this plan will ensure that all overall expectations in the Grade 1/2 curriculum have been met. April Synthesizing Strategy Summarizing and Synthesizing the most important information in a text Fiction: narrative fantasy/ humour Non-fiction: persuasive- newspaper articles Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts Poster, newspaper articles May Reciprocal Teaching Focus on four main comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing Fiction: retell picture books Fiction: retell picture books June Reciprocal Teaching Focus on four main comprehension strategies: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing Fiction: comic strips Fiction: comic strips

Westminster Public School

February March Evaluating Strategy Giving and supporting opinions Confirming or changing opinions Fiction: narrative historical Non-fiction: persuasive- brochure Non-fiction: persuasive- packaging Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts Brochures, packages

Sequencing Strategy Identifying signals in the text that indicate time order Fiction and non-fiction: with time and procedure Non-fiction: procedural instructions Non-fiction: retell - timeline

ReadAloud Shared

Small Group Media Literacy

Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts Magazine article

Guided reading groups with a variety of leveled texts Story Cube

Individual PM Benchmark testing Storyboard

Writing

Text-Style Type SelfSelected and Response Writing

Procedure: instructions Imperative sentences How-to-book, timeline, recipe

Persuasive: brochure

Poster

Create a story cube

Create a storyboard

Brochure, radio advertisement, persuasive note, cereal box

Retell, predict, review; extending the story, descriptions

GIST lists, recording information on sticky notes

Jot notes, GIST lists

Working With Words

Compound words

Descriptive language

Building words, plurals

Possessives

Fluency, glossary

Oral Language

Listening for instructions

Partner discussions, generating discussions, radio ad

Questioning the author, Jigsaw groups

Story telling

Think-pair-share, oral presentations, asking questions

Mathematics
Math Makes Sense

Geometry

Number Patterns

Measurement

Geometry

Place Value

Measurement

(ID Strands)

Gr. 2 *compare and identify 3D solids *build a skeleton of a solid *build a structure using solids *build a structure from a picture

*count to 50 *skip count *addition and subtraction stories to 20

*place value and equivalent groupings

linear and area .

linear, area and perimeter *centimetres and metres

*identify and compare 2-D figures according to attributes *symmetry *halves *time to the half hour

*polygons including pentagon, hexagon, octagon *symmetry and reflections *maps and grids

*the hundred chart *groups of 10s

*repeated addition and skip counting *division in sharing *fractions of a whole, set

*comparing and estimating mass using nonstandard units

*measuring, comparing, estimating capacity using non-standard units

Science/ Technology

Air and Water Assessment Task: Water Graphs, Persuasive Note, Air and Water Posters

Soils Assessment Task: Soil experiments

Character Education Visual Arts Kindergarten Math

Caring Valentines Day

Honesty Chicken Soup Stories

Empathy Journal Writing

Perseverance Track and Field

Texture Geometry (expectations 17-22)

Repetition Measurement (expectations 13-16)

Shape and Form

Space

Number Sense numbers to 10, order, coins, addition and subtraction (expectations 5,7-10,12)