Unit 2: There's No Place Like Home
Essential Questions:
These are questions we are working on answering during Unit 2 in Language Arts. At the end of the unit, students should be able to answer the essential questions.
· How do readers gather information from texts?
· Why do readers need to read text closely?
· How do writers communicate information?
Essential Questions:
These are questions we are working on answering during Unit 2 in Language Arts. At the end of the unit, students should be able to answer the essential questions.
· How do readers gather information from texts?
· Why do readers need to read text closely?
· How do writers communicate information?
Reading
Focus: Fiction / Non Fiection Phonics Focus: CVVC - vowel teams (consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant) Focus Texts/Integrated Texts: Weeks 1 & 2: Around the Pond / Frogs Weeks 3 & 4: In the Woods: Who's Been Here? / Fur and Feathers Weeks 5 & 6: A Desert Habitat / Slithery and Slimy |
Writing/Science/Social Studies
Writing Focus: Informational Writing Integrated Science Focus: -Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity -Make observations of plants and animals to compare the diversity of life in different habitats. Whole Class Writing Topics: We will be writing 3 different informational paragraphs this Unit. Students will be including a topic sentence (green), reasons (yellow), and examples (red), and a concluding sentence (green). Weeks 1 & 2: The pond is an ecosystem full of life Weeks 3 & 4: The woods is an ecosystem full of life Weeks 5 & 6: The desert is an ecosystem full of life |