Grade 1 Unit 3

	First Grade Unit 3 Have Fun
Week 1/Week 2/Week 3/Week 4/Week 5
Enduring Understanding There are many different ways to have fun. Essential Question: How can we have fun?		Oral Vocab Cards Notebook slides for each week. (Place in full screen mode) Visual Vocab Cards Notebook slides for each week. (Place in full screen mode) Vocabulary Extension Activity (for student use)
Treasure Quest Having Fun Research Project Webquest: Blacktop Games This Webquest allows students to work cooperatively or independently to research, learn, and present the rules to play a blacktop game. Note: This quest may be completed in the lab or as a rotation in the classroom. It may take 1-2 lab sessions.
Week 1: On My Way To School	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Long A Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Mouse and Cookie Mouse at School Nouns and Verbs	Long A with a Silent e (make words with long a) Long A with Silent e (match word to picture) Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (long a short a) Long Vowels (listen for long A) Long A Story (read and find long A words spelled a_e)
Enduring Understanding: Good Readers can retell the important parts of a story in order. Essential Question: What are the most important parts of the story?	On My Way To School Comprehension	Story Scramble (sequence events)
Week 2: Smile, Mike!	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Long and Short Vowel Classify (Kidspiration) Long Oo Practice (classify words by long O spellings) Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Past Tense Verbs	Long I Bingo (read words with long I spelled i_e) Long I With Silent e Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (beginning sounds) Treasures Spelling Activity (o_e, i_e) Long Vowels (listen for long i,I) Long I Story (read and find long I words spelled i_e)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers use clues from the story to predict what will happen next. Essential Question: Which parts of the story help you predict what is going to happen?	Smile, Mike! Comprehension	Making Predictions Follow Up Activity (practice using making predictions skill)
Week 3: Masks! Masks! Masks!	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Blending W and Wh Words Day 1 Day 2 The Old Box (Decodable Story)	Treasures Vocabulary Activity (sight word practice) Treasures Spelling Activity (consonant digraphs) Beginning Consonant Digraphs (identify the digraph that begins each word) Final Consonant Digraphs (identify final digraph that ends each word)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers identify the main idea of what they read and the details that support it. Essential Question: What is the main idea and which details support that main idea?	Masks! Masks! Masks! Comprehension	Create A Flip Book Story (*challenge)
Week 4: Rose Robot Cleans Up	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	Long E Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Long Vowel Game Rose Robot Mole Bakes	Long U With Silent e Long U With Magic e Long O With Silent e Winter Adjectives (use adjectives to describe a winter story) Treasures Spelling Activity ( o_e, u_e, e_e ) Treasures Spelling Activity (o_e, i_e) Treasures Spelling Activity (u_e) Long Vowels (listen for long O, U and E)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers use clues from the story to draw conclusions about the characters. Essential Question: What clues from the story did you use to draw conclusions about the characters?	Drawing Conclusions Rose Robot Comprehension	Drawing Conclusions (Log in to Discovery Education before selecting the link.)
Week 5: Kids Have Fun!	Teacher Resources	Student Resources
Word Study	What is a Contraction? Contraction Machine Contractions (Kidspiration) Contractions 2 (Kidspiration) Contractions 3 (Kidspiration)	Main Idea and Details (identify main idea and details) Contractions (practice making and breaking contractions) Contractions (contractions only using not) Treasures Spelling Activity ( three letter blends) Consonant Blends (beginning blends) Blending Words (blend and read words) Word Patterns (read and match words) Contractions Practice (match words and contractions)
Enduring Understanding: Good readers compare and contrast details from what they read. Essential Question: How can comparing and contrasting details help you better understand what you read?	Kids Have Fun Comprehension

Theme Connections

Treasure Quest

Having Fun Research Project

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Teacher Notes
Standards	Resources
Common Core Standard: Add drawings and or other visual diplays to descriptions when appropriate to clarrify ideas, thoughts and feelings. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Research and Inquiry Activities Having Fun Research Activity Webquest
Common Core Standard: Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken words. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Long A with silent e making words Long A with silent e match Long Vowels Long A Story Long A Days 1-5
Common Core Standard: Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken words. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Long I Bingo Long I with silent e Long Vowels Long I Story Long and Short Vowel Classify
Common Core Standard: Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs (two letters that represent one sound). Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Beginning Consonant Digraphs Final Consonant Digraphs Blending W and Wh Words Day 1-2
Common Core Standard: Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken words. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Long U with silent e Long U with magic e Long O with silent e Long Vowels Long Vowel Game Long E Day 1-3 Long O Practice Day 1-5
Common Core Standard: Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Consonant Blends Blending Words Word Patterns
Common Core Standard: Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words. Technology Standard: Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Treasures Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary extention activities for student use Treasures Spelling Activities The Old Box
Common Core Standard:Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing. Technology Standard:Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Contractions Pixie breaking Contractions Pixie with not What is a Contraction? Contractions Contractions 2 Contractions 3 Contractions Practice Contraction Machine
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.	Story Scramble On My Way To School Comprehension Create A Flip Book Masks! Masks! Masks! Comprehension Drawing Conclusions Rose Robot Comprehension Drawing Conclusions Smile, Mike! Comprehension Making Predictions Follow Up Activity Kids Have Fun Comprehension Mouse and Cookie Mouse at School
Common Core Standard: Rl2 Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text. (SC, 1) Technology Standard:Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Main Idea Details
Common Core Standard:L1.f Use frequently occurring adjectives. Technology Standard:Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Winter Adjectives
Common Core Standards: L1.b Use common, proper, and possessive nouns. L1.e Use verbs to convey a sense of past, present, and future. Technology Standard:Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Nouns and Verbs Past Tense Verbs
Common Core Standard: RF4.b Read on-level text orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression on successive readings. Technology Standard:Standard 3: technology for Learning and Collaboration.	Mole Bakes

August 2014