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First Grade Skills Unit 4 Unit PlanFirst Grade Skills Unit 4 Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
1st
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 mo 12 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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First Grade Skills Unit 4

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This First Grade Skills Unit 4 unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: First Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: First Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Assessment and Remediation Guide: First Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Consonant Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Vowel Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Spelling Cards (.pdf)
  • Large Letter Cards (.pdf)
  • Individual Code Chart (.pdf)
  • Lesson Plan
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Twenty-eight lessons make a unit that focuses on skills practice. Lessons explore r-controlled vowels, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, and two-syllable words. Pupils read a story, answer questions, and draft a descriptive essay using their five senses.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

r-controlled vowels, vowel sounds, vowels, -er words, -ar words, -or words, multisyllabic words, syllables, the past tense, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, beginning reading, reading, responding to reading, Writing, descriptive writing, the five senses, sense of hearing, sense of sight, sense of smell, sense of taste, sense of touch, sense of vision

Instructional Ideas

  • Relate the writing lessons to science lessons on the five senses
  • Use finished products and assessments to guide further instruction, and discuss progress with families

Classroom Considerations

  • The fourth unit in a series of seven created for first graders by Core Knowledge
  • Set aside ample prep time to copy and gather materials

Pros

  • Packet comes with assessment opportunities
  • The unit is filled with detail, including a standards alignment chart, daily calendar, and table of contents

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.5 RI.1.1 RI.1.2 RI.1.3 RI.1.4 RI.1.5 RI.1.6 RI.1.7 RI.1.10 RF.1.1.a RF.1.2.b RF.1.2.c RF.1.2.d RF.1.3.b RF.1.3.c RF.1.3.d RF.1.3.e RF.1.3.f RF.1.3.g RF.1.4.a RF.1.4.b RF.1.4.c W.1.2 W.1.5 W.1.6 W.1.8 SL.1.4 SL.1.6 L.1.1.a L.1.1.b L.1.1.d L.1.1.e L.1.1.f L.1.1.g L.1.1.h L.1.1.j L.1.2.a L.1.2.b L.1.2.c L.1.2.d L.1.2.e L.1.4.b L.1.4.c L.1.6

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