Lesson 33 from Open Up Resources Unit 2: Animal Characters for the 1st Grade Level

Module 1 Description: Students will progress through three units in this module: Playing Games, Animal Characters, and New Experiences. The Playing Games unit will include books that build students’ background knowledge about sports teams and friendly competition rules. The Animal Characters unit will help students learn that authors sometimes use animal characters to create humor in their stories. The New Experiences unit will introduce students to the main character, Little Critter, who will learn to cope with new situations. All three units will build literacy knowledge by introducing the structure of fiction, demonstrating that multiple texts can express the same theme, and using illustrations and key details to identify and describe story elements.