During the focused read-aloud of Mama Miti, invite students to repeat the phrase from the text 'Thayu nyumba-peace, my people' to encourage them to become more comfortable with it through the use of repetition.Throughout the read-aloud, students work toward understanding why the main character, Wangari, instructed members of her community to plant trees ( RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.4 ). This is the second lesson in a series of three in which students participate in a focused read-aloud of the text Mama Miti.Purpose of lesson and alignment to standards: Pinky Partners Protocol: Sharing Our Opinion Writing Planners (5 minutes) Scaffolded Writing: Analyzing a Model and Planning an Opinion and Reason (25 minutes)Ī. Back-to-Back and Face-to-Face Protocol: Comparing Mama Miti to A Tree Is Nice (10 minutes)Ĭ. Focused Read-aloud: Mama Miti, Pages 3-14 (15 minutes)ī. Song and Movement: 'Trees in Our Community' (5 minutes)Ī.

L.K.2b : Recognize and name end punctuation.Ī.L.K.2a : Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.L.K.2 : Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.SL.K.6 : Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.SL.K.4 : Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.SL.K.1a : Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., listening to others and taking turns speaking about the topics and texts under discussion).SL.K.1 : Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.W.K.8 : With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.W.K.1 : Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic or the name of the book they are writing about and state an opinion or preference about the topic or book (e.g., My favorite book is.).RI.K.9 : With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).RI.K.4 : With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.RI.K.2 : With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.RI.K.1 : With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.These are the CCS Standards addressed in this lesson:

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