How this resource helps
Ask and answer questions about key story details with prompting and support. Includes the complete published illustrated Sizwe’s Smile in 12 packet scenes, daily targets, seven teacher sections, worked models, organizers, full keys, and rubric. Collect child-generated questions and accurate answers; choice scores alone do not establish performance. 102-page printable PDF with an 80-minute selected core, 30 four-option choices, 30 open/performance tasks, teacher guidance, and complete keys. Distribute bank tasks across later meetings; do not assign all 60 in one sitting. Complete licensed Book Dash story and illustrations included with separately identified original Saint Pierre teaching material. Not editable or fillable. Complete illustrated Sizwe’s Smile is included; no outside book purchase required. Adult read-aloud, printed story/selected organizers, crayons or accessible response tools, and prompting/support are expected. Attribution: Sizwe’s Smile, written by Vianne Venter, illustrated by Genevieve Terblanche, and designed by Lauren Rycroft. Originally published by Book Dash (2014), licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Original book free at https://bookdash.org/books/sizwes-smile/ . Exact English source: https://bookdash.github.io/bookdash-books/sizwes-smile/en/ . License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Changes: Full narrative and 12 illustrations retained. Text reflowed, illustrations resized, packet scene labels added, and two missing spaces in scene 10 restored. Saint Pierre questions, teacher scripts, organizers, samples, and rubrics added separately. Store preview images add a translucent SAMPLE label; purchased PDF does not. No endorsement by the creators or Book Dash is implied. License: The included Book Dash story and illustrations remain under CC BY 4.0: you may copy, share, redistribute, adapt, and reuse them commercially with required attribution, license links, and change notices. Store limits on copying, sharing, redistribution, resale, or adaptation do NOT apply to that licensed material. No DRM or additional legal/technical restrictions may be applied to the CC-licensed story/art. Separately identified original Saint Pierre instructional additions are covered by the store’s single-teacher classroom-use license; that license does not restrict the Book Dash material or claim ownership of it. One clean printable PDF; no editable file, software, or optional sampler included.
What’s Included
- 102-page printable PDF
- Complete illustrated Sizwe’s Smile: 12 story scenes and 12 illustrations
- 30 multiple-choice questions and 30 performance tasks
- Daily learning targets, seven teacher sections, worked models, organizers, keys, and rubric
- 80-minute selected core plus distributed practice bank
- Complete 102-page SAMPLE preview
- Book Dash attribution, source links, license, and modification notices
Resource details
- Grade / course
- Kindergarten • North Carolina
- Subject and resource type
- Reading / English Language Arts · Complete Teaching Packet
- Files
- 102 main PDF pages · PDF
- Estimated completion time
- 80-minute selected core that may be split across meetings; establish familiarity with all included stories before the core and distribute bank/performance checks over later days. Not all 60 items in one sitting.
- Answer key
- Full choice keys with reasons and performance samples/evidence guidance. Prompting and support are expected. Collect actual individual responses, not choice scores alone.
Standard or objective
RL.K.1