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 Unit 3 Going Places
The Big Idea
What can you learn by going to
different places? ................................................... 6
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Talk About It................................................................................8

Literature Big Book How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?

Writing Respond to the Big Book ................................. 10
Key Details .................................................................................... 12
Analyze the Text .......................................................................14
Shared Read
“Can I Pat It?”.......................................................................... 16
“Be Safe!”
Paired Selection
Analyze the Text ...................................................................... 22
Shared Read
“Tim Can Tip It” .....................................................................24
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Research and Inquiry ............................................................3030
Make Connections .................................................................. 32

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Talk About It.............................................................................34

Literature Big Book Clang! Clang! Beep! Beep!

Listen to the City
Writing Respond to the Big Book ................................36
Key Details ...................................................................................38
Analyze the Text ..................................................................... 40
Shared Read
“Nap and Tip” ..........................................................................42
“Find the Shapes”
Paired Selection
Analyze the Text ......................................................................48
Shared Read
“Tim and Nan” .........................................................................50
Research and Inquiry ............................................................56
Make Connections ..................................................................58

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Talk About It.............................................................................60

Literature Big BookPlease Take Me for a Walk

Writing Respond to the Big Book ................................62
Character, Setting, Events .................................................64
Analyze the Text ......................................................................66
Shared Read
“We Go to See Nan” ............................................................68
“A Neighborhood”
Paired Selection
Analyze the Text ......................................................................74
Shared Read
“Can We Go?”..........................................................................76
Research and Inquiry ............................................................ 82
Make Connections ..................................................................84

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Going
Places
The Big dea
What can you learn by going to different places?

Talk about the places in the picture.

Take turns talking with your partner.
Circle the places you go to
in your town.

6 Unit 3 TEKS: K.1(D), K.5(E)

Oak School

Going Places 7
 Essential Question What rules
do we follow in different
places?

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 Talk about the game these children
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are playing.
Draw yourself playing a game.
Write about a rule in the game.

A rule is

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TEKS: K.1(C), K.6(A), K.6(B) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B), K.15(A) Rules to Go By 9
 Resptohned
Read to Big Book
Retell the story.
Write about the story.

A funny part of the story is Text

Evidence
Page

A part that was not funny is

Text
Evidence
Page

10 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.6(B), K.6(C), K.6(D)

 Fiction

Talk about rules you follow at school.

Draw and write about a rule
you follow at school.

The rule is

TEKS: K.5(E), K.6(A), K.6(E) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B) Rules to Go By 11
 Reread Big Book
Key details tell important information that
helps you understand the story.

Listen to part of the story.

Talk about key details.
Write two key details.

Two key details are

1.

2.
12 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.5(G), K.6(C), K.6(E)
 Fiction

Draw one detail you wrote about.

Talk about why the detail is important.

TEKS: K.5(G), K.6(E) Rules to Go By 13

 Reread Big Book
Look at pages 14 –21.
Talk about how the dinosaurs act
in school.
Draw one way the dinosaurs act.

14 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.1(C), K.6(B), K.6(C)

 Fiction

Listen to pages 24 –29.

Talk about how the dinosaurs act
in school. How have they changed?
Draw one way the dinosaurs act.

The author tells

the story in two
parts. She organizes
the text this way
to show how the
dinosaurs change.
How is the first part
different from the
second part? What
does the author
want you to know
about how the
dinosaurs should act?
TEKS: K.5(F), K.9(A), K.9(B) Rules to Go By 15
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence Can I
Read to find out
what the girl
can pat.
Pat It?
Circle the word
to.

16 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.2(B)(iv), K.5(A)

I like to pat it.
Rules to Go By 17
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline the
uppercase
letters.
Circle what the
girl can pat on
page 19.

Can I pat it?

18 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.2(D)(v), K.6(C)
I like to pat it.
Rules to Go By 19
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle an animal
whose name has
the same middle
sound as pin.
Retell the story.
Tell what
happens in
order.

I like it.
20 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.2(B)(i), K.6(C), K.6(D)
Can I pat it?
Rules to Go By 21
 Reread Paired Selection
Look at the photo. How can we stay
safe when riding a bike?

We can talk about

staying safe using
these words:
We can stay safe
Talk about ways the boy stays safe by ___.
Comstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images

on the bike. It is dangerous

to ___.
Circle ways the boy stays safe.
22 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.6(C), K.8(D)(ii), K.9(C) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B), K.15(A)
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Listen to the “Biking Rules” list.
Draw another way you can How does the author
stay safe on a bike. share information
about safety?
Write the new rule.

TEKS: K.1(A), K.6(B), K.8(D)(ii) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B) Rules to Go By 23
 Shared Read

Tim Can
Find Text Evidence

Read to find out

what Tim can
tip.
Circle words
that have the
same middle
Tip It
sound as sit.

24 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.2(B)(i), K.2(B)(ii), K.5(A)

Tim can tip the .
pail

Rules to Go By 25
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle the word

that tells what
Tim does with
the bag. Use the
picture to help
you.
Read and point
to each word in
the sentence on
page 27.

Tim can tip the bag

.
26 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.2(D)(iii), K.3(B), K.6(C)
Tim can see the bird
tap.
Rules to Go By 27
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle the word

on page 29 that
tells what Tim
does to the cat.
Retell the story.
Use the words
and pictures
to help you.

Tim can see the cat

tap.
28 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.6(C), K.6(D), K.6(F)
Tim can sit to pat the cat
.
Rules to Go By 29
 Integrate Research and Inquiry
Rules for Safety
Step 1 Talk about rules we follow for safety.
Step 2 Write a question about how to stay
safe at home or school.

Step 3 Look at books or use the Internet.

30 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.12(A), K.12(B), K.12(C) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B), K.14(B)
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Step 4 Draw and write about what you learned.

I can stay safe by

Step 5 Choose a good way to present your work.

TEKS: K.12(D), K.12(E) Rules to Go By 31
 Integrate Make Connections

Children at a neighborhood lemonade stand.

Talk about the children in the photo.

What rule are they following? To talk about rules,
we can say:
Compare these children A rule we follow is
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to the dinosaurs at the end of ___.

How Do Dinosaurs Go to School? This rule is important
because ___.

32 Unit 3 • Week 1 TEKS: K.1(C), K.5(E), K.5(H) Social Studies TEKS: K.8(A), K.8(B), K.15(A)
What I Know Now
Think about the texts you read this week.

The texts tell about

Think about what you learned this week.

What else would you like to learn?
Talk about your ideas.

Share one thing you learned

about fiction stories.
TEKS: K.1(C), K.5(E), K.5(H) Rules to Go By 33
 Essential Question What are
the different sounds we hear?

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musical instruments make.
Draw and write about yourself
playing a musical instrument.

I am playing a

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TEKS: K.1(C), K.6(A), K.6(B) Science TEKS: K.6(A) Sounds Around Us 35
 Resptohned
Read to Big Book
Retell the story.
Write about the story.

A sound the boy hears is Text

Evidence
Page

My favorite sound in the story is

Text
Evidence
Page

36 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.6(A), K.6(C), K.6(D)

 Fiction

Talk about things that make sounds

in your neighborhood.
Draw something that makes a sound.
Write a sound word for your drawing.

TEKS: K.5(E), K.6(A), K.6(F) Sounds Around Us 37

 Reread Big Book
Key details tell important information
that helps you understand the story.

Listen to part of the story.

Talk about the key details.
Write two key details.

Two key details are

1.

2.
38 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.1(C), K.5(G), K.6(E)
 Fiction

Draw the two details you wrote about.

1.

2.

TEKS: K.5(G), K.6(B), K.6(E) Sounds Around Us 39

 Reread Big Book
Look at pages 20–21 and 26–27.
Compare how the sound words look.
How do they match the sound?
Write about why the author shows
the sound words in this way.

The sound words are big because

The sound words are little because

40 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.5(F), K.9(C), K.9(D)

 Fiction

Listen to pages 30–31.

Draw who is making the sounds
on these pages.
Talk about how you know.

TEKS: K.5(F), K.6(B), K.9(C) Sounds Around Us 41

 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Read to find out

about Nat
and Tip.
Circle words
Nat and Tip
that begin with
the same sound
as nap.

42 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.2(B)(i), K.2(B)(ii), K.5(A)

Nat and Tip like the .
ball
Sounds Around Us 43
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline words
that rhyme
on page 44.
Circle who Nat
and Tip see
on page 45.

Nat and Tip like to sip.

44 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.2(A)(i), K.2(B)(i), K.6(C)
Nat and Tip see the .
children
Sounds Around Us 45
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle the word

and.
Retell the story.
Use the words
and pictures
to help you.

Nat and Tip the .

hear hammer

46 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.2(B)(iv), K.6(D), K.6(F)

Nat and Tip the !
hear dog

Sounds Around Us 47
 Reread Paired Selection
Look at the photos. How do
musical instruments make sounds?

Air makes the trumpet vibrate.

Martin Poole/The Image Bank/Getty Images

Circle this musical instrument.

To vibrate means to
Draw lines to show sounds coming move back and forth
out of the instrument. quickly.

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Talk about this photo and caption.
Write what the caption tells about How do the photos
the photo. show ways sounds
are being made?
What information
do the captions
add?

Hands beat on the drum and make the drum vibrate.

2A Images/Gallo Images ROOTS RF/Getty Images

The caption tells about

TEKS: K.1(C), K.6(B), K.9(C) Sounds Around Us 49

 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence Tim and
Nan
Read to find out
what Tim and
Nan do.
Circle a word
that begins with
the same sound
as nap.
Arterra Picture Library/Alamy

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 cluck, cluck

Tim and Nan the .

Aga Kowalska
hear hen
Sounds Around Us 51
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle an object
whose name
ends with the
same sound
as sun.
Underline the
word and.
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Tim and Nan the .

hear tractor
52 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.2(B)(i), K.2(B)(ii), K.2(B)(iv)
 Tim and Nan see the
corn
.
Sounds Around Us
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 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle what Tim

and Nan see
on page 54.
Retell the text.
Use the words
and photos
to help you.
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Tim and Nan see the .

barn
54 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.6(C), K.6(D)
 Tim and Nan
hear
the
pig
.
oink, oink

Sounds Around Us
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 Integrate Research and Inquiry
Research Sounds
Step 1 Talk about objects that you might use
to make sounds. Choose some to try.
Step 2 Write a question about sounds
you might make with your objects.

Step 3 Experiment with your objects.

Try different ways to make sounds.

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Step 4 Draw how you made sounds
with your objects. Label your picture
with a sound word.

Step 5 Choose a good way to present your work.

TEKS: K.6(F), K.12(D), K.12(E) Sounds Around Us 57
 Integrate Make Connections

What Does the Rain Say?

What does the rain say? The whole world
Drip, Drop, Drip! has something to say.
What does the chick say? You just have to listen
Peep, Chirp, Peep! in a listening way.

Listen to the poem.

Repeat the sound words.

Compare these sound words to those To talk about sounds

we can say:
you have read about this week.
The sound a ___
Talk about what it means to listen makes is ___.
in a “listening way.” The ___ makes a
(quiet, loud) sound.

58 Unit 3 • Week 2 TEKS: K.5(E), K.5(H), K.6(C) Science TEKS: K.4(B)

What I Know Now
Think about the texts you read this week.

The texts tell about

Think about what you learned this week.

What else would you like to learn?
Talk about your ideas.

Share one thing you learned

about fiction stories.
TEKS: K.1(C), K.5(E), K.5(H) Sounds Around Us 59
 Essential Question What
places do you go to during
the week?

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Draw a place where you go
in your neighborhood.
Label your drawing.

Tetra Images/Brand X Pictures/Getty Images

This place is

TEKS: K.1(C), K.6(A), K.6(E) The Places We Go 61

 Resptohned
Read to Big Book
Retell the story.
Write about the story.

The setting of this story is Text

Evidence
Page

An interesting place the dog goes is

Text
Evidence
Page

62 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.6(A), K.6(D), K.7(D)

 Fiction

Talk about where you would take

a pet in your neighborhood.
Draw and write about it.

I would take my pet to

TEKS: K.5(E), K.6(E) The Places We Go 63

 Reread Big Book
Fiction is a made-up story
that has characters.

Listen to part of the story.

Talk about the most important
character.
Write a detail about the character.

This character

64 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.6(C), K.6(E), K.7(B)

 Fiction

Draw the character and

the detail you wrote about.

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 Reread Big Book
Listen to pages 5–9.
Which character is telling the story?
Draw and write about this character
and what it wants.

I want

66 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.6(B), K.7(B), K.9(E)

 Fiction

Look at pages 14 –15.

Talk about why the dog likes to say
hello. How does the illustrator show this?
Draw what the illustrator shows.

TEKS: K.6(B), K.7(B), K.9(C) The Places We Go 67

 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence We Go to
Read to find out
about the visit
to see Nan.
See Nan
Circle the word
go.

68 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.2(B)(iv), K.5(A)

Cam and I go to see Nan.
The Places We Go 69
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline words
that begin with
the same sound
as cap.
Circle words
that rhyme.

Cam can pat the cat.

70 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.2(A)(i), K.2(B)(i), K.2(B)(ii)
We can see the .
book
The Places We Go 71
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle who
can sit on
pages 72–73.
Retell the story.
Use the words
and pictures
to help you.

Cam can go and sit.

72 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.2(B)(ii) K.6(C) K.6(D)
The cat and I go and sit.
The Places We Go 73
 Reread Paired Selection
Look at the map and the map key.
How can these tools help us to learn
about neighborhood places? Each picture in the
map key shows the
Talk about the pictures in the map key. matching place
on the map.
Draw a line from each picture on
the map key to the place on the map.

Map Key
Park
Park
School

School
Birch Street

Main Street
Fire Station

Library
Fire Station
Library

74 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.8(D)(ii), K.9(B), K.9(C) Social Studies TEKS: K.4(C), K.14(B), K.15(A)
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Talk about the places on the map.

Draw and write about what people

do in one of the places.

What does the map

tell you about the
neighborhood?
How does the map
key help you to use
the map?

TEKS: K.6(B), K.6(C), K.6(F) Social Studies TEKS: K.4(C), K.5(B), K.15(A) The Places We Go 75
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence Can We Go?
Read to find out
where the girl
and her mom
can go.
Think about what
they can do at
the library. Make
a picture in your
mind.
UpperCut Images/Getty Images

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Can we go to the ?
library
The Places We Go 77
 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Underline words
that begin with
the same sound
as cap.
Circle how the
girl and her
mom can go to
the library.
(t)Glow Images, Inc/Getty Images; (b)Aga Kowalska

We can go in a .
taxi
78 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.2(B)(i), K.2(B)(ii), K.6(C)
 Can we go to the
market
?
The Places We Go
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 Shared Read
Find Text Evidence

Circle the word

go.
Retell the text.
Tell what
happens in
order.
(t)UpperCut Images/Getty Images; (b)Aga Kowalska

We can go in a .
bus
80 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.2(B)(iv), K.6(D), K.6(F)
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We can go, go, go!
The Places We Go 81
 Integrate Research and Inquiry
Places in School
Step 1 Talk about the places in your school.
Choose one place to learn about.
Step 2 Write a question about this place.

Step 3 Visit the place you picked.

Ask the people there your question.

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Step 4 Draw and write about what you learned.

Step 5 Choose a good way to present your work.

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 Integrate Make Connections

Talk about this farmers’ market.

To talk about
Compare this market to other farmers’ markets
we can say:
neighborhood places you read
about this week. Farmers‘ markets
have fresh ___.
We can buy ___.

84 Unit 3 • Week 3 TEKS: K.5(E), K.5(H), K.6(C) Social Studies TEKS: K.6(C), K.14(B), K.15(A)
What I Know Now
Think about the texts you read this week.

The texts tell about

Think about what you learned this week.

What else would you like to learn?
Talk about your ideas.
Share one thing you learned
about fiction stories.
TEKS: K.1(C), K.5(E), K.5(H) The Places We Go 85
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