How this resource helps
Describe connections between people, events and ideas in an informational text with support. This 102-page Kindergarten packet includes 30 multiple-choice diagnostics and 30 actual open/performance opportunities, 3 daily learning targets, seven teaching sections, worked models, organizers, full answer guidance and rubric. Included reading: A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai. Keep source relationships accurate; do not turn a simplified biography into a universal claim. Complete or revisit the supplied reading with the support described in the guide before source-dependent tasks. Full reading, unused bank items and extended projects require time beyond the selected 80-minute core. Source credits, scope and changes: A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai: Nicola Rijsdijk, Maya Marshak and Karen Lilje, as credited in the exact publisher-hosted English HTML edition. Writer: Nicola Rijsdijk; illustrator: Maya Marshak. No unverified role assigned to Karen Lilje; the current catalog designer credit differs. Book Dash. Exact source: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/a-tiny-seed/en/ Publisher/free source: https://bookdash.org/books/a-tiny-seed/ Licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Complete 412-word biography and all 12 illustrations. Narrative unchanged; text reflowed, illustrations resized and teaching labels added. Original Saint Pierre prompts, models, guides, organizers and rubrics are separately identified. Preview JPEGs add a translucent SAMPLE label; purchased PDF does not. No creator or publisher endorsement is implied. The included English biography and illustrations remain under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . You may copy, share, redistribute, adapt and reuse those components commercially with required attribution, license links and change notices. Store copying, redistribution, resale and adaptation limits do NOT apply to CC-licensed source components; no DRM or additional legal/technical restrictions may be applied to them. Single-teacher classroom-use terms apply only to separately identified original Saint Pierre instructional additions; do not resell or redistribute those additions. Font licenses retain their separate conditions. No ownership of licensed source works is claimed. NC 2017 alignment for 2026–27; original publisher alignment summaries, no NC DPI endorsement. No certified Lexile, universal decodability or full-year mastery claim. Shared-source notice: RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3 and RI.K.4 reuse the same complete A Tiny Seed biography and 12 illustrations for different reading skills. These are separate instructional companions, not four different books. Each is sold separately. No prerecorded audio is included; an adult reads aloud.
What’s Included
- 102-page printable PDF
- A Tiny Seed: The Story of Wangari Maathai — exact scope detailed below
- 30 multiple-choice diagnostics and 30 performance opportunities
- 3 daily targets and seven teaching sections
- Worked models, organizers, complete answer guidance and rubric
- Full 102-page SAMPLE preview
- Source attribution, license and change notices
- Shared-source notice: RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3 and RI.K.4 reuse the same complete A Tiny Seed biography and 12 illustrations for different reading skills.
- These are separate instructional companions, not four different books. Each is sold separately. No prerecorded audio is included; an adult reads aloud.
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Kindergarten
- Subject and resource type
- English Language Arts — Connect people, events and ideas · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 102 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- Selected 80-minute core; remaining bank tasks are distributed across later sessions. Complete or revisit the supplied reading with the support described in the guide before source-dependent tasks. Full reading, unused bank items and extended projects require time beyond the selected 80-minute core. Daily targets are a flexible progression, not a mastery deadline.
- Answer key
- Choice keys with reasons and performance examples/observation guidance. Collect actual learner responses, process or participation required by the task; models and correct choices are not substitutes. Record support and unobserved evidence rather than inventing outcomes.
Standard or objective
RI.K.3