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This text set is designed for students in kindergarten who will be learning about recycling.

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1. Earth provides us with resources to use.
2. Our everyday actions have an affect on our environment.
3. Trash is harmful to the environment.
4. Don't Litter! Put trash in the correct place.
5. Old & Used items can be turned into new items.

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Compost: pile of old leaves, vegetables, and plants that can be added to soil to help make plants grow better. (Found in Recycling Earth's Resources, pg. 17)
Pollution: when harmful things get into the environment and hurts living things. (Found in What a Waste pgs. 3-6)
Recycle: taking old or used items and turning them into new items. (Found in Michael Recycle pg. 7)
Resources: something found in nature that humans can use. (Found in Recycling Earth's Resources pg. 4)
Trash: unwanted or used items that are thrown away. (Found in Trashy Town pg. 4)

*To help students build knowledge of these words I will do a few different things. Before starting the unit and reading the texts, I will create a Word Wall of the key vocabulary words listed above. On the Word Wall I will pair each word with a visual picture to help students establish meaning. Students may refer to this Word Wall anytime during the unit.  When it comes time to read the first text (Trashy Town), I will go over each word on the Word Wall and provide students with the definitions both orally and visually. Then we will practice spelling each word aloud an on paper. While listening to the texts, students will act as detectives as they try to identify the vocabulary words. When the students identify a key vocabulary word I will ask what them what it means. As the unit progresses, students will participate in stimulating activities and discussions in order to continue to build understanding and test their knowledge of concepts and vocabulary words.

To help ELL students understand each word, a language translator will be provided (Dalton & Grisham, 2011). *

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Rationale for Text Selection and Building Conceptual Knowledge:

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Rationale for Text Selection and Building Conceptual Knowledge:

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Each text in this Text Set has been specifically chosen to aide in building a child's conceptual knowledge of Recycling. The books have been ordered to increase students knowledge of recycling as the unit progresses. To introduce and familiarize students with the topic of recycling, students will listen to a book called Trashy Town. This book establishes the idea of trash and how it is brought to the dump. Building on what students learned from Trashy Town, students will then listen to a book called Michael Recycle. Michael Recycle is a fun book that continues the idea of cleaning up your local town while introducing the topic of recycling. After students have been introduced to the topic of recycling, students will continue to develop conceptual knowledge via two nonfiction books. What a Waste and Recycling Earth's Resources both dive deeper into the topic of recycling by stating how to recycle, what to recycle, and the environmental effect if we don't recycle or correctly dispose of trash.

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Text One (Predictable Book): Trashy Town

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Text One (Predictable Book): Trashy Town

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Mr. Gilly is the trashman of Trashy Town. It is his job to ride around town in his big trash truck and collect all the trash. He picks up trash at the school, the park, the pizza parlor, and other local establishments until his big trash truck is full. Once the truck is full, he happily brings the trash to the dump. Trashy Town features a predictable and rhythmic storyboard as Mr. Gilly sings and encourages children to engage in reading.

Discussion Prompts:
1. Why is it important for Mr. Gilly to pick up the trash in Trashy Town?
2. How are people in Trashy Town helping Mr. Gilly?

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Text Two (Narrative Storybook): Michael Recycle

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Text Two (Narrative Storybook): Michael Recycle

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Michael Recycle is a fictional story about how a superhero uses his superpower of recycling to help clean a town called Abberdoo-Rimey. The people in Abberdoo-Rimey are super lazy and never clean up their trash. As a result their town smells really bad. Until one day when when a superhero named Michael Recycle comes to town and teaches everyone to recycle. Michael Recycle was successful and now Abberdoo-Rimey is so clean that it gleams and it glows. Not only is this a funny story for children, but it is informative as it provides tips on how to clean up a town and recycle.

Discussion Prompts:
1. What is one of Michael Recycle's go Green Tips?
2. How do you think Michael Recycle felt when he came back to Abberdoo-Rimey?

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Text Three (Informative Text): What a Waste

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Text Three (Informative Text): What a Waste

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What a Waste is a nonfictional story that teaches children about recycling and the environmental impacts of human activity. This book show children where our trash ends up (the good places and the bad places) through shocking facts and illustrations. Although this book tells children about how we are negatively impacting our environment, it tells children what we are doing to help our environment. It provides tips on how we can change our everyday life to ensure we preserve and protect our environment for years to come.

Discussion Prompts:
1. How does pollution affect animals?
2. What is one type of resource we use?

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Text Four (Informative Text): Recycling Earth's Resources

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Text Four (Informative Text): Recycling Earth's Resources

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This nonfiction story informs children on how we use Earth's resources in our everyday life. As we use these resources we usually throw them away. If we keep throwing these used resources away then our trash will take up too much space. Instead of throwing them away, this book encourages bringing items such as bottles, glass, paper, and metal to recycling centers to be turned into new items. Following the suggestions made in this book can ensure we have enough of Earth's resources in the future.

Discussion Prompts:
1. What are some items that can be recycled?
2. How can you help save your local environment?

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Dalton, B. & Grisham, D.L. (2011). eVoc strategies: 10 ways to use technology to build vocabulary. The Reading Tecaher, 64(5), p. 313.
French, J. (2019). What a waste. Penguin.
Patterson, E., & Colombo, A. (2008). Michael Recycle. Meadowside Children's Books.
Webb, B. (2011). RECYCLING EARTH'S RESOURCES. Rourke Publishing.
Zimmerman, A., & Clemesha, D. (1999). Trashy Town. HarperCollins.