Unit Alignment Template for Backwards Planning

Unit Overview (What are the essential questions and big ideas will students explore and build an
understanding of? How will they apply their learning at the end of the unit?)

Daily-Level Alignment (Understanding by Design)

Day STAGE 1:
Daily Learning Objectives
(content, language, social)
1 Content: Students, today
you will learn how to
identify the letters of the
alphabet. (K.RF.3)
STAGE 2: STAGE 3:
Daily Formative Assessments Learning Activities
(content, language, social) (brief Description)
Content: Students, today you
will use a mini whiteboard to
show me that you can identify
the letters of the alphabet.

Language: Students will be Language: Today students will

able to orally state the
letters of the alphabet.
Social (Optional)
orally state each letter of the
alphabet that is shown to them
from a flashcard.
Social (Optional)

2 Content: Students, today Content: Students, today I will

you will learn the letter show you a letter card and you
sounds of the alphabet. will tell me what sound the
(K.RF.7) letter makes.

Language: Students will be Language Students will be able

able to orally say the sounds to orally state the letter sounds
of the alphabet. of the alphabet.

Social (Optional) Social (Optional)

3 Content Content

Language Language

Social (Optional) Social (Optional)

4 Content Content

Language Language
 Social (Optional) Social (Optional)

5 Content Content

Language Language

Social (Optional) Social (Optional)