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New Braunfels ISD
Year at a Glance 2022-2023		Kindergarten
Spanish Language Arts		July 2022
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Essential ResourcesDistrict Resources to Teach 100% of the TEKS: Literacy Libraries; Estrellitas; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Into Reading; RazKids; Fundations Handwriting; Teacher Created Materials
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Spiraled TEKSProcess Skills Embedded in All Lessons: "K.2Biv; Ciii (High Frequency Words); K.2E (Handwriting); K.4A (Self Selected Reading): K.5A-I (Metacognitive Thinking);
K.6A-F (Response); K.10A-D (Writing Process)" Phonemic & Phonological Awareness - Estrellitas
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Timeline1st Quarter
Aug 23 - Oct 21, 2022
(41 Instructional Days)		2nd Quarter
Oct 24 - Dec 20, 2022
(36 Instructional Days)
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UnitK.1
Curiosos sobre el kinder		K.2
¡Somos especiales!		K.3
Héroes de nuestra comunidad		K.4
Felices y saludable
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GenreReading:Ficción, Persuasive (Opinión), Lecturas iniciales, Texto informativo, Poesía/Canciones (Multimodal and Digital are reinforced through these genres.) Reading: Exposure to a variety of genres; Fiction, Drama; Informational Text
Writing: Exposure to a variety of genres; Literary and Personal Narrative (pictoral or compose)
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Big IdeaCurrent Grade•A community of readers and writers convey thoughts, generate questions, listen and share feelings.
•Reading and writing are connected with authors using structures to organize thoughts.
•Readers notice how authors' choices influence and communicate meaning within the text.
•Students use what they know in L1 to develop L2.
•Students develop their speaking, listening, reading, and writing through a variety of authentic activities and connected texts.
•Reading and writing are connected with authors using structures to organize thoughts.
*Poems tell stories, use words to create images, and use rhyme to engage the listener.
*Songs are poems set to music.		•Thoughtful readers make meaning from print.
•Oral language is developed through listening, speaking, reading, writing and viewing.		•Discussion, reflection and questioning deepen understanding.
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TEKSCurrent GradeK.1A-E
K.2Ai,iii-iv, vii, K.2Bi, K.2Ci K.2Di-v;K.2E
K.3B,C
K.5E,F
K.6A,B,E,F, K.7B-D
K.8A, K.8E,F K.9A, K.9C
K.10A-C, K.10Dii,iii,v
K.10E, K.11A		K.1A-E
K.2Ai,ii,iv-vi, K.2Bi,ii,iv
K.2Ci,ii, K.Dii-iv, E
K.3B,C
K.5A,K.5E, K.5H,I
K.6A,B,C, K.6E,F
K.7A-D, K.8A,B, K.8Di,ii, K.8E, F
K.10A-C
K.10Dii,Div,vii,viii
K.10E, K.11A,B, K.12A-E		K.1A,C, D
K.2Ai-vi, K.2Bi,ii,iv
K.2Ci,ii, K.2Diii,iv
K.2E
K.3B,C
K.5C,E-H
K.6A-F, K.7A-D
K.8A,C,Di,ii,F, K.9A
K.10A-C,Diii,iv,vi,vii,ix,E
K.11B
K.12A-E		K.1A,C,D,E
K.2Ai,ii,iv-vi,Bi-iv,Ci,ii,Dii,E
K.3A-C
K.5B,E,H,I
K.6A-F
K.7B-D
K.8A,B,Di,ii,F
K.9 A-E
K.10A-C,Di,iii,vii-ix,E
K.11B
K.12A-E
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Science & SS Big Ideas STEM Scopes Sci: Teacher Toolbox
SS: Me, my School, my Family		Sci: Properties of Objects
SS:My Community and Hispanic Heritage		Sci: Changes from heat
SS: Celebrations, Customs and Traditions		Sci: Magnets and Patterns of Movement
SS: Similarities and Differences in Cuture, Holiday
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Timeline3rd Quarter
Jan 5 - March 10, 2023
(45 Instructional Days)		4th Quarter
March 21 - May 25, 2023
(46 Instructional Days)
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UnitK.5
¡Podemos harcerlo!		K.6
Tierra de libres y valientes		K.7
¡Miremos de cerca!		K.7
¡Miremos de cerca!		K.8
De la planta al plato		K.9
Hábitats animales
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GenreReading: Fiction; Poetry; Drama; Informational; Fairy tales, Folktales, Fables
Writing: Dictate or compose Personal Narrative		Reading: Persuasive Text; Multimodal
Writing: Dictate or compose Informational Text: Expository
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Big IdeaCurrent Grade•Authors have specific purposes for writing texts, which may include imbedding history in the plot of
•Writing poetry requires a unique use of language and structural elements.
•Argumentative texts influence readers’ thoughts and actions.
•The audience often responds to argumentative text through digital means.
Informational text in expository form enlists text structures to help the reader comprehend concepts.		•Reading biographies and autobiographies requires an understanding of the subjects historical background.
•Responding digitally to sources is differs from writing a letter.
•Writers explode small moments in personal narratives.
•Making connections while reading Realistic Fiction and Memoirs is a natural segue into writing personal narratives.		•Structures in dramas allow the readers to perform the text.
•Wide, thoughtful readers expand their vocabularies and scope of knowledge.
•Expository writing includes a thesis statement, supports and conclusions that efficiently convey and explanation.

•Project Based Research begins with a driving question, collection of information and presentation of conclusions.
"•Digital reading and writing requires unique strategies for depth of understanding and to convey meaning.
•Poetry requires depth for understanding.
•Poets use sensory language, rhyme, sounds and imagery to condense thoughts."		•Digital reading and writing requires unique strategies for depth of understanding and to convey meaning.•Expository writing includes a thesis statement, supports and conclusions that efficiently convey and explanation.
•Wide, thoughtful readers expand their vocabularies and scope of knowledge.
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TEKSCurrent GradeK.1 A-E
K.2Ai,v,vi,ix, K.2Bi-iv, K.2Ci,ii,
K.2Dii, K.2E
K.3A-C
K.5C,E,F,H,I
K.6A-F
K.7A-D
K.8A, K.8C, K.8Di-iii, K.8F
K.9A,C,E
K.10A-C, K.10Diii,vi-viii,ix,
K.10E, K.11A,B, K.12B-E		K.1 A,C-E
K.2A,Av-ix, K.2Bi-iv, K.2Ci,ii
K.2Diii,iv, K.2E
K.3B,C
K.5A-E,G,H
K.6A-F
K.7B-D, K.8A,B,Di-iii, K.8F
K.9A,C,D, E
K.10A-C, K.10Diii-ix, K.10E
K.11B
K.12B-E		K.1A,C,D
K.2Ai-ix, K.2Bi-iv
K.2Ci,ii ,K.2Diii, v K.2E
K.3B, K.3C
K.5B,D-I
K.6A-F, K.7B, C-D
K.8A-B,D,Di,iii, K.8E,F
K.9A, K.9B, K.9C-E
K.10A-C, Dii,iv, Dvi,Dvii,
K.10Dviii, K.10Dix, K.10E
K.11A, K.11B, K.12A-E		K.1A,C,D
K.2Ai-ix K.2Bi-iv
K.2Ci,ii ,K.2Diii, v K.2E
K.3B, K.3C
K.5B,D-I
K.6A-F, K.7B, C-D
K.8A-B,D,Di,iii, K.8E,F
K.9A, K.9B, K.9C-E
K.10A-C, Dii,iv, Dvi,Dvii,
K.10Dviii, K.10Dix, K.10E
K.11A, K.11B, K.12A-E		K.1A,C-E
K.2Avii, K.2Bi-iv, K.2Ci,ii,
K.2Diii-v, K.2E
K.3A-C
K.5A,C-E,G-I
K.6A-C,E,F
K.7B-D
K.8Di-iii,E,F
K.9A,C,D, K.10A-C, Di,ii,vii-ix, K.10E
K.11B, K.12A-E
Cover any other TEKS needing review		K.1A,C-E
K.2A,Avii,viii, K.2Bi,ii,iv,
K.2Ci,ii, K.2Di-iv,ix
K.3B,C
K.5A,E,G-I
K.6A,B,E,F
K.7B-D, K.8 A, Di,ii, K.9A,C,D
K.10A-C,Di,v-ix, K.10E
K.11B, K.12A-E
Cover any other TEKS needing review
and practice to prepare for 1st Grade
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Science & SS Big Ideas Sci: Rocks, Soil and Water
SS: How We Live and Adapt		Sci: Weather
SS: Hooray for our Country and Countries around the World		Sci: Objects in the Sky
SS: Hooray for our State		Sci: Living and non-living/Basic Needs
SS: Technology Changes our World		Sci: Plant and Animal Characteristics
SS: Maps and Globes		Sci: Plant Life Cycles
SS: All about Me and how I've changed!
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