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Second Grade Skills Unit 5: Sir Gus Unit PlanSecond Grade Skills Unit 5: Sir Gus 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 12 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Second Grade Skills Unit 5: Sir Gus

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This Second Grade Skills Unit 5: Sir Gus unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 5: Second Grade Skills—Sir Gus (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Second Grade Skills Unit 5 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Second Grade Skills Unit 5 (.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
  • Activity
  • Assessment
  • Template
  • Answer Key
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A unit focuses on second-grade skills, specifically spelling, grammar, writing, and reading. Over six weeks, scholars review spelling patterns and tricky words, and explore verb tenses, adjectives, subjects, and predicates. They write new endings to stories and use chunking to decode multisyllabic words. Assessments show what learners know.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, irregular spellings, spelling patterns, spelling rules, vowels, vowel sounds, vowel patterns, Grammar, adjectives, subjects, predicates, compound subjects, verb tenses, past tense verbs, present tense verbs, the future tense, Writing, conclusions, decoding, chunking, decoding words, multisyllabic words

Instructional Ideas

  • Review assessments and send take-home materials for those that need additional practice
  • Use applicable lessons during small group rotations

Classroom Considerations

  • The fifth unit in a series of six created by Core Knowledge for second graders

Pros

  • The unit comes with a table of contents, calendars, lesson overviews, and detailed plans

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.3 RL.2.6 RL.2.7 RL.2.10 RF.2.3.d RF.2.3.e RF.2.3.f RF.2.4.a RF.2.4.c W.2.3 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.e L.2.4.a

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