Creating Common Core
Comprehension Connections
With Literature and Informational Text
grades k & 1
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Common Core Teacher Guide
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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARD 4: Reading Informational Text
COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS – ANCHOR STANDARD
Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and
figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
“Creating Common Core Comprehension Connections With
Literature And Informational Text” Is An Engaging, Age-Appropriate
Solution That Uses High Quality Literature And Informational Text,
And Purposeful, Skills-Based Questions To Create A Classroom Of
Thoughtful Readers.
Teaching the Standards
RI.K.4
• With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
RI.1.4
• Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
CCSS Key Vocabulary
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answer questions with evidence from text
determine
context clues
phrases
clarify
meaning
• Revisit the robust vocabulary on page 22. Invite students to go to the definitional level in their discussion of
gigantic. Have them list other gigantic things that could be shown in this book.
Sometimes there is more than one meaning for a word, and words that are around an
unknown word give clues about what the word means.
• Do you know other words that mean about the same as roamingonpage4?•¿Conoces otras palabras que
significan lo mismo que recorriendo en la página 4?
• For multiple-meaning words: Does the word dancing have another meaning than the one used in this text?
What is a second meaning of dancing?(page16)•¿Tiene otro significado la palabra danzando? ¿Cuál es otro
significado de la palabra danzando?
Applying the Standards – Depth of Knowledge
Use vocabulary words and terms such as ask and answer type questions, determine, context clues, phrases,
clarify, and meaning to understand informational text.
• Text can be organized into small groups of words called “phrases” to make meaning.
• Sometimes there is more than one meaning for a word, and words that are around an unknown
word give clues about what the word means.
• When students ask and answer questions about unknown words or phrases in text, they build and
strengthen their academic vocabulary and deepen comprehension.
Common Core Lesson Connection – Reading Informational Text
Nature’s Giants • Gigantes de la naturaleza
The following is a set of questions for discussing the key vocabulary words. Locate the word in the text. Write
the word on the board or chart paper so all students can see the word clearly.
Text can be organized into small groups of words called “phrases” to make meaning.
• Do you know something about the word winding that will help you understand the information on
thispage?(page14)•¿Sabes algo acerca de la palabra serpenteando que te ayudará a comprender
la información de esta página?
• Istheresomethinginthephotographthatcanhelpusfigureoutthemeaningofthisword?•¿Hay algo
en la fotografía que nos puede ayudar a identificar el significado de la palabra?
• What is the first sound in the word winding?•¿Cuál es la primera sílaba de la palabra serpenteando?
• Saythewordtoyourpartner.•Di la palabra a tu compañero.
• Theoceanispowerful.Let’slistotherexamplesofpowerful.•El océano es poderoso. Nombra otras cosas
que son poderosas.
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DID YOU KNOW?
When children arrive at kindergarten, they bring with them the knowledge and
skills that are the foundations for developing comprehension skills that they
will use for a lifetime. This program is designed based on studies that show the
more engaged time students have with literature and informational text at
an earlier age, the more likely they will be ready to do close reading and make
comprehension connections as they move through the grade levels.
+ CCSS Teacher’s Instructional Guide
focusing on the 10 Literature and 10
Informational Text Standards, and
College and Career Readiness Anchor
Standards for Kindergarten and
1st grade.
+ CCSS Vocabulary and Depth of
Knowledge Questions that can be
applied to additional texts and across
the content areas.
+ 20 Big Books, Listening CD, and Story
Folders to engage students in the
comprehension of complex text.
When students ask and answer questions about unknown words or phrases in text, they
build and strengthen their academic vocabulary and deepen comprehension.
• What do you do when you get to a word that you do not know? What strategy do you use to figure out the
word?•¿Qué haces cuando vez una palabra que no conoces? ¿Qué estrategia usas para identificar la pal
abra?
• To have students practice using context clues: Point to the word plunging. (page 16) How do the other words
on this page help you understand this unknown word? Why didn’t the author just use the word fall? Have
youeverplungedintoaswimmingpool?•¿Cómo te ayudan las otras palabras para identificar la palabra
desconocida? ¿Por qué no usó el autor la palabra cuprir? ¿Alguna vez has impregnado la toalla de agua?
Depth of Knowledge – Extension Activity
Anchor Standard: Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining
technical, connotative, and figurative meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning
or tone.
• Use a three-column chart or Venn diagram to have students compare and contrast things they read about in
this book, such as the elephant and the whale on pages 4 and 5.
Compare and Contrast Chart
Characteristics
Elephant
Whale
1. how they move
walk -lumber
swim
2. unique body parts
large ears
fins
tusks
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The “Creating Common Core
Comprehension Connections With
Literature and Informational Text”
solution supports teachers with
the right tools and the right text for
bringing the Common Core Standards
to life for kindergarten and first grade
classrooms. It includes:
3. habitat
land
ocean
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Key Features and Benefits of Frog Street’s
“Creating Common Core Comprehension
Connections With Literature and
Informational Text”
1
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Common Core Anchor Standards to life
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2
Strengthens Common Core State
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comprehension connections for all
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and thoughtful evidence-based
questions.
3
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4
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Creating Common Core Comprehension Connections
With Literature and Informational Text
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