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Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt Unit PlanSecond Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
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Grade
2nd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
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Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 mo 5 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt

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This Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 4: Second Grade Skills—The Job Hunt (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Second Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Second Grade Skills Unit 4 (.pdf)
  • Consonant Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Vowel Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Spelling Cards (.pdf)
  • Individual Code Chart (.pdf)
  • Assessment and Remediation Guide (.pdf)
  • Fluency Packet (.pdf)
  • Lesson Plan
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Second graders practice skills, including spelling, grammar, and reading. Pupils examine vowel sounds and tricky words, nouns, and verbs. They begin the writing process by drafting a persuasive letter and decoding texts.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, irregular spellings, spelling rules, one-syllable words, nouns, singular nouns, plural nouns, proper nouns, Writing, persuasive letters, letter writing, the writing process, editing, the verb to be, verbs, multisyllabic words, chunking, reading, beginning reading, decoding, vowel sounds, vowels, close reading

Instructional Ideas

  • Update a focus wall and word wall to showcase the unit's concepts
  • Keep assessments and work samples in a portfolio for discussion during conferences

Classroom Considerations

  • The fourth unit in a series of six created for second graders by Core Knowledge
  • Requires copying and collecting materials for each lesson

Pros

  • Information scaffolds nicely from unit to unit, lesson to lesson
  • Assessments gauge learners' comprehension

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.6 RL.2.7 RL.2.10 RI.2.7 RF.2.3.a RF.2.3.b RF.2.3.c RF.2.3.e RF.2.3.f RF.2.4.a W.2.1 W.2.5 SL.2.6 L.2.1.a L.2.1.b L.2.1.d L.2.1.e L.2.2.a L.2.2.b L.2.2.e L.2.3.a L.2.4.a

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