Grade 1

	Module 1 - Building Literacy in a Collaborative Classroom	Module 2 - Learning through Science and Stories	Module 3 - Growing as Researchers	Module 4 - Contributing to the School Community
Topic	1M1: Tools and Work	1M2: The Sun, Moon, and the Stars	1M3: Birds' Amazing Bodies	1M4: Caring for Birds
Writing Tasks	Informational Writing: Writing About Habits of Character Informational Writing: Creating a Magnificent Thing	Narrative Writing: The Sun Sees Narrative Poem Informational Writing: Sky Journal	Informational Writing: Birds Research Notebook Informative Writing: Birds’ Body Parts Help Them Survive	Opinion Writing: Leave the Nest Up Informational Writing: Stories of Bird Helpers response journal Informational Writing: Feathered Friend Savers
Required Trade Books	The Most Magnificent Thing, Ashley Spires The Little Red Pen, Janet Stevens and Susan Stevens Crummel My Math Toolbox, Nancy Kelly Allen I Use Science Tools, Kelli L. Hicks Tools, Ann Morris A Chef’s Tools, Holden Strauss	Summer Sun Risin’, W. Nikola-Lisa Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky, Elphinstone Dayrell Sun and Moon, Lindsey Yankey Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, Erice Carle Kitten’s First Full Moon, Kevin Henkes What the Sun Sees, What the Moon Sees, Nancy Tafuri What Makes Day and Night, Franklyn M. Branley Does the Sun Sleep?: Noticing Sun, Moon, and Star Patterns, Martha E.H. Rusted	Birds, Kevin Henkes Birds (Scholastic Discover More), Penelope Arlon Feathers,: Not Just for Flying, Melissa Stewart Beaks! Sneed Collard Little Kids First Big Book of Birds (National Geographic), Catherine Hughes Just Ducks, Nicola Davis Flight School, Lita Judge	A Place for Birds, Melissa Stewart Olivia’s Birds: Saving the Gulf, Olivia Boulder City Hawk: The Story of Pale Male, Meghan McCarthy Lost and Found, Oliver Jeffers Pierre the Penguin: A True Story, Jean Marzollo Maggie the One-Eyed Peregrine Falcon: A True Story of Rescue and Rehabilitation, Christie Gove-Berg The Lion and the Bird, Marianne Dubuc

K-8 Curriculum Plan