Dr. Michael Kester-Haynes

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Pre-Kindergarten ELA Units

Unit Plan 25 (Grade PreK ELA): Reading Biographies & Picture Timelines

PreK informational text and biography unit: students learn how events and people connect over time using picture timelines, photos, and captions. Through hands-on sequencing and visual literacy, they build comprehension, vocabulary, and early nonfiction analysis skills.

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Unit Plan 24 (Grade PreK ELA): Narrative Details & Endings

PreK early writing revision unit: students strengthen their stories by adding details, revising for clarity, and creating simple endings that fit. Through modeling, peer feedback, and hands-on editing, they build foundational writing, sequencing, and print-awareness skills.

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Unit Plan 23 (Grade PreK ELA): Writing Narrative Pages with Temporal Words

PreK early writing and sequencing unit: students plan, draw, and write short stories using first, then, next, and finally while adding who and where details. Through picture sequencing and oral rehearsal, they build storytelling structure, vocabulary, and early sentence skills.

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Unit Plan 22 (Grade PreK ELA): Words & Pictures Together (Stories/Poems)

PreK visual literacy and sound words unit: students explore how illustrations show meaning and feelings while using sound words like buzz and splash to bring stories to life. Through picture clues, mood talks, and creative drawings, they build expressive language and early comprehension skills.

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Unit Plan 21 (Grade PreK ELA): Word Meaning Foundations – Categories & Opposites

PreK vocabulary and word relationships unit: students sort objects into categories, act out and match opposites, and connect new words to real-life experiences. Through sorting games, movement, and picture clues, they build strong oral language and early comprehension skills.

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Unit Plan 20 (Grade PreK ELA): Compare Characters’ Adventures

PreK literature comparison unit: students explore two familiar stories to identify what’s the same and what’s different in characters’ adventures. Through retelling, sorting, and partner talk, they build comprehension, vocabulary, and early analytical thinking skills.

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Unit Plan 19 (Grade PreK ELA): Central Message or Lesson

PreK literature comprehension unit: students retell stories with beginning, middle, and end, identify the lesson or moral, and point to picture or word evidence that proves it—building early reasoning, sequencing, and text-evidence skills through joyful story talk.

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Unit Plan 18 (Grade PreK ELA): Sharing Findings Clearly

PreK presentation and publishing unit: students practice speaking clearly with visuals—creating simple posters or slides to share one fact from class research. They learn polite audience behaviors, use sentence frames, and build early confidence as public speakers.

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Unit Plan 17 (Grade PreK ELA): Mini-Research – Ask & Answer

PreK research and questioning unit: students ask wonder questions, gather facts from one informational source, and record what they learn through drawing and dictation—building early inquiry, evidence-based thinking, and vocabulary skills.

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Unit Plan 16 (Grade PreK ELA): Poetry & Sound Play

PreK poetry unit: students explore rhythm, rhyme, and alliteration while learning how poems differ from stories. Through clapping beats, finding rhymes, and performing short verses with visuals and props, they build early phonological awareness and expressive confidence.

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Unit Plan 15 (Grade PreK ELA): Phonological Awareness III – First Sounds & Word Play

PreK phonological awareness unit: students learn to hear, say, and match beginning sounds to letters through playful games, picture sorts, and sound hunts—building early decoding, vocabulary, and letter–sound connection skills.

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Unit Plan 14 (Grade PreK ELA): Main Topic & Key Details (Informational)

PreK informational comprehension unit: students identify what a nonfiction page is mostly about and select 2–3 key details from pictures, labels, and captions. Through daily group reading and picture-pointing routines, they build early evidence-based comprehension skills.

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Unit Plan 13 (Grade PreK ELA): Text Features & Book Parts (Informational)

PreK informational text unit: students explore book parts—front, back, and title page—while learning the roles of author and illustrator. They identify icons and labels in nonfiction pages to find information, building visual literacy and early comprehension skills.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade PreK ELA): Organizing & Closing Opinions

PreK opinion writing unit: students organize short opinions with an opening, one reason, and a simple closing like “That’s why I like it.” They revise drawings and dictation for clarity while learning early conventions such as capital I, end marks, and writing their name.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade PreK ELA): Reasons that Support Points

PreK opinion and evidence unit: students learn to use pictures and simple text to give reasons for their ideas, saying “I think/like ___ because ___.” They practice pointing to visual evidence and asking or answering clarifying questions to build comprehension and communication skills.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade PreK ELA): Launching Opinion Speaking

PreK opinion writing unit: students practice saying “I like ___ because ___” to express preferences with clear reasons, learning complete-sentence sharing, polite listening, and partner turn-taking to build confidence in early communication skills.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade PreK ELA): Phonological Awareness II – Onset–Rime

PreK phonological awareness unit: students play with word parts by blending and segmenting onset–rime patterns, sorting words into rime families like -at and -og, and using fun, hands-on games to build early decoding and sound awareness skills.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade PreK ELA): Oral Storytelling with Pictures

PreK narrative writing unit: students turn small life moments into oral stories, using drawings and dictation to show who, where, and what happened. They learn sequencing words—first, then, next, last—to tell clear, detailed stories with feelings.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade PreK ELA): Informative Beginnings – Labels that Teach

PreK informational writing unit: students become “kid scientists,” creating topic pictures with labels and parts-of diagrams to teach others. They name topics, identify parts, add first-sound labels, and explain their diagrams using clear, complete sentences.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade PreK ELA): Letters & Sounds I – Names and Consonant Sounds

PreK phonics unit: students learn to recognize and name the letters in their names, match uppercase and lowercase forms, and produce common consonant sounds through playful tracing, building, and sound–picture routines that build early alphabet mastery.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade PreK ELA): Phonological Awareness I – Rhyme & Syllables

PreK phonological awareness unit: students explore rhyme and syllables through songs, poems, and movement—learning to hear, make, and clap word sounds while using new vocabulary like rhyme, beat, and syllable in joyful, hands-on literacy play.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade PreK ELA): Concepts of Print & Book Handling

PreK print-awareness unit: students learn book parts, print direction, and how to spot letters, words, and spaces—building essential pre-reading habits through interactive book-handling, partner talk, and playful literacy centers.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade PreK ELA): Characters, Settings, and Major Events

PreK story comprehension unit: students describe who is in the story, where it happens, and what takes place using words and pictures, building early vocabulary, sentence skills, and visual storytelling confidence.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade PreK ELA): Asking & Answering Questions About Stories

PreK comprehension unit: students learn to ask and answer who, what, where, and when questions, use picture clues to understand stories, and retell familiar tales in order—building early narrative and speaking skills through visual storytelling.

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Unit Plan 1 (Grade PreK ELA): Launching Our Reading–Writing Community

PreK literacy launch unit: students learn classroom reading routines, explore books with care, practice partner talk and sharing, and begin expressing ideas through drawing and dictation—building joyful habits that spark a lifelong love of reading.