Phonics and Word Recognition: The students will learn to recognize and distinguish between long and short vowel sounds when reading and writing c-v-c and silent -e one syllable words. The students will continue to build on their sight vocabulary, adding words and increasing recall when reading and writing new sight words.
Character Study and Narrative Writing: In this unit, students will learn to pay close attention to how characters interact within a story and how they drive the actions. They will begin to ask and answer who, what, when, where, how, and why questions to further their understanding and to identify key details within a text to support their understanding. The students will learn to participate in collaborative conversations, beginning to identify and use appropriate grammar and punctuation when writing and speaking, specifically while discussing characters’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, and how they respond to major events within a text. The students will begin to listen to others perspectives and notice how others thoughts reinforce or contradict their own thoughts and understandings. Students will write a personal narrative where they will begin to apply what they have learned in reading to their own writing. The students will begin to develop fluency to aid in comprehension.
In this unit, students will learn to use questioning to look deeper at texts and to identify the main topic/central idea and details to support that main topic within an informational text. They will learn to make connections between and within texts. The students will summarize their understanding during conversation and in writing informational texts.
Students will be reading traditional literature from around the world. They will be learning about important story events, examining how a character responds to challenges, studying the features of literary text, and determining the central idea. They will use the knowledge that they have acquired to help them write their own personal narratives.
Students will be reading various texts by a variety of authors. Students will explore similarities between books in a series. They will also determine differences that may exist between books that are written by the same author. Students will use their knowledge and understanding from this author study to write an opinion piece. This will include stating a clear opinion and then supporting it with examples/ details.
