Grade 1 Unit 2

	First Grade Unit 2 Our Families, Our Neighbors
Week 1/Week 2/Week 3/Week 4/Week 5
Enduring Understanding We all work together to help one another. Essential Question: How do family and neighbors help one another?		Oral Vocab Cards (Notebook slides for each week. Put in full screen mode.) Visual Vocab Cards (Notebook slides for each week. Put in full screen mode.) Vocabulary Extension Activity (for student use)
*Treasure Quest* Community Helpers Research Project Community Helper Trading Card
Week 1: Animal Moms and Dads	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Beginning Sounds and Spelling (practice spelling words) Hello, Hello	Noun Practice (sort nouns) Nouns Noun Sorting Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (op, og and ot sort ) Rhyming (practice rhyming) Short O,o Circle Map (Kidspiration) Rhyming Sort (Kidspiration) Rhyming Match (Kidspiration) Rhyming hat, fog, ran (Kidspiration) Rhyming (ig and ot words)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers look for the main idea of what they read and the details that support it. Essential Question: What is the main idea of what you read, and what are the details that support the main idea?	Main Idea Video (from Brain POP) Main Idea Animal Moms and Dads-Comprehension	National Geographic (find facts about animals)
Week 2: Little Red Hen	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Blends Hens and Eggs Plural Bridge Map fr, sk, cr, sm Blending Make Way for Duckings	Rhyming Words (at and en) Making Words (make words with short vowels a,e, and o) Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (match rhyming words) CVC Practice (sound out 3 letter words) Short E Games (choose any) Short Vowels (Kidspiration) Short E (Kidspiration) Short E Circle Map (Kidspiration)
Enduring Understanding: Good Readers can retell the important parts of story in order. Essential Question: What were the most important parts of the beginning, middle and end of the story?	Retell The Little Red Hen Little Red Hen Comprehension	Retell the Little Red Hen
Week 3: On The Map	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study		Blends (Kidspiration)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers look for the main idea of what they read and the details that support it. Essential Question: What is the main idea of what you read, and what are the details that support the main idea?	Main Idea On the Map Comprehension Me on the Map
Week 4: The Pigs, the Wolf and the Mud	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Short Vowels Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Gus and Fluff Homes Intro Three Little Pigs	Making Words (make words with all short vowels) Vowel Match (sort by short vowel sound) Rhyming (un and ug) Word Families (Game) Short U,u Circle Map (Kidspiration) What is a Noun? (Inspiration)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers pay attention to the events of a story and understand the problem and how it is solved. Essential Question: What is the problem in the story, and how does the problem get solved?	The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud The Pigs, the Wolf and the Mud Comprehension
Week 5: Beth and the Band	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Digraphs Tree Map (classify words as sh or th)	Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Digraph - sh (Starfall) Digraph - th (Starfall)
Enduring Understanding: Good Readers can retell the important parts of story in order. Essential Question: What were the most important parts of the beginning, middle and end of the story?	What is Retelling? Beth and the Band Comprehension

Theme Connections
Curriculum Links	Resources
Students will build their own neighborhood.	Build A Neighborhood
Students will learn about different community helpers.	Community Club
Students will match community helpers with their specific jobs.	What's My Job?
Find facts about a given animal.	National Geographic
Treasure Quest Community Helpers Research Project Repeated from Top

Teacher Notes
Standards	Resources
Common Core Standard: W6 With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing, including in collaboration with peers. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Community Helpers Research Project Community Helper Trading Card Build a Neighborhood Community Club What's My Job?
Common Core Standard: Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts and feelings. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Research and Inquiry Activities
Common Core Standard: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Treasures Vocabulary Activities Rhyming Rhyming -ig -o Rhyming Sort Rhyming Word -at -en Making Words a,e,o Rhyming Match Rhyming Making Words with all short vowels Vowel Match Rhyming -un-ug
Common Core Standard: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. Technology Standard: Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Hello, Hello Hen's Eggs Make Way for Ducklings Retell the Little Red Hen Little Red Hen Comprehension What is Retelling? Beth and the Band Comprehension
Common Core Standard: Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words. Technology Standard: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Short O,o Circle Map Short E,e Circle Map Short U,u Circle Map Short E Games Short E Word Families
Common Core Standard: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. Technology Standard: Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	CVC Practice Short Vowels Day 1-5 Word Families Blends Gus and Fluff Beginning Sounds and Spelling Making Words
Common Core Standard: Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant diagraphs (two letters that represent one sound). Technology Standard: Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Digraph - sh Digraph - th Digraphs Tree Map
Common Core Standard: Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. Technology Standard: Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Main Idea Animal Moms and Dads - Comprehension National Geographic On the Map Comprehension Me On the Map Main Idea Video Animal Moms and Dads Three Little Pigs
Common Core Standard: L1.b Use common, proper, and posessive nouns. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	Noun Practice Nouns Nouns Sorting Plural Bridge Map What is a Noun?
Common Core Standard: Use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, or events. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration.	The Pigs, the Wolf, and the Mud The Pigs, the Wolf and the Mud Comprehension
Common Core Standard: Describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text. Technology Standard:Standard 3: Technology for Learning and Collaboration. Use a variety of technologies for learning and collaboration	Homes Intro

August 2014