Appendix – Implementing District Standards
Connecticut Social Studies Framework: Kindergarten – Me and My Community
In Kindergarten, students engage in the study of themselves, their families, and their communities and learn how to participate and use effective citizenship skills. They explore their classrooms, schools, neighborhoods, and home communities through an interdisciplinary approach including history, civics, economics, and geography. The study of themselves, their families, and their communities requires that students generate and research questions such as:
What is my role in my community?
What is “history” and how is the past different from the present?
How are we connected to the past?
Common Core State Standards: Kindergarten – Reading Informational Text
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.1: With prompting and support, students will ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
There are several sessions of asking and answering questions throughout the unit. The opening lesson begins with these specific skills as they track the learning that occurs during the reading, recording any thoughts and ideas the they might generate about the text.
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.2: With prompting and support, students can identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CCSS ELA-Literacy RI K.3: With prompting and support, students will be able to describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Students will be using the collection of mentor texts to discover components of democracy and the writing of the Constitution. They will be able to identify the connecting facts and information from each of the introductory informational texts.
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