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📖 Kindergarten · ELAW.K.2Unit 9: Informative writing: All About books

Choosing a topic I know

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🎯 Objective: Students choose a topic they know well.

Lesson outline

  1. Brainstorm on fingers.
  2. Model an All About book plan.
  3. Choose and sketch.
  4. Exit: say your topic.

Lesson 1 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

W.K.2

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Kindergarten — typical US scope & sequence (literacy block)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Name a topic and tell some facts about it
  • Write words and simple sentences with capital letters and periods

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

📚 All Kindergarten skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informative writing: All About books”

  1. Choosing a topic I know
  2. Writing facts
  3. Capitals and periods
  4. Labels and diagrams
  5. Publishing celebration

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