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First Grade Skills Unit 3 Unit PlanFirst Grade Skills Unit 3 Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Unit Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
28 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

First Grade Skills Unit 3

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This First Grade Skills Unit 3 unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 3: First Grade Skills—Fables (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: First Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: First Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Big Book: First Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Assessment and Remediation Guide: First Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Consonant Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Vowel Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Spelling Cards (.pdf)
  • Large Letter Cards (.pdf)
  • Individual Code Chart (.pdf)
  • Lesson Plan
  • Activity
  • Assessment
  • Template
  • Answer Key
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Four weeks, 19 lessons—this unit covers five new vowel spelling patterns, tricky words, spellings, verb tenses, reading fables and exploring the writing process. Lessons offer review, an introduction to the concept, skills practice, writing practice, and reading time—take-home materials for extra support and assessments gauge comprehension.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

vowel sounds, letter-sound correspondence, vowels, graphemes, spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, middle sounds, beginning reading, reading, responding to reading, fables, past tense verbs, present tense verbs, the future tense, verbs

Instructional Ideas

  • Update the word wall with the unit's newest tricky words
  • Gather a collection of fables for early finishers to browse when time permits

Classroom Considerations

  • The third unit in a series of seven created for first graders by Core Knowledge
  • Units and lessons should be taught in order
  • Requires prep time to make copies and gather supplies

Pros

  • The unit makes conducting it easy with ample detail in its teacher notes and lesson plans 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.3 RL.1.5 RL.1.7 RL.1.10 RF.1.2.b RF.1.2.c RF.1.2.d RF.1.3.a RF.1.3.b RF.1.3.c RF.1.3.g RF.1.4.a RF.1.4.b RF.1.4.c W.1.1 W.1.3 W.1.5 SL.1.4 SL.1.5 SL.1.6 L.1.1.a L.1.1.b L.1.1.d L.1.1.e L.1.1.g L.1.1.h L.1.1.j L.1.2.b L.1.2.d L.1.2.e L.1.6

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