Literacy & Written Expression

In Literacy, Unit 1 is The Reading Community: Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction

During this unit, students and teacher will share their reading lives. The students will identify key details in text. They make text-to-self connections and consider differences in the points of view of characters.

During IDR (Individualized Daily Reading), the students learn procedures for selecting "just right" books for independent reading. They will learn the procedures for "Turn to Your Partner", "Think, Pair, Share", and IDR.

As we build a reading community and work in a responsible way, the students listen respectfully to the thinking of others and share their own.

In Being a Reader, we will use picture books to learn about the importance of looking carefully at words to help us read, write, and spell. The students are introduced to the "Spelling Sound Chart" as we review short vowels sounds. Through independent work and small group instruction, the students will identify and chart various work habits they need to develop in order to work effectively on their own.

Unit 1~ Personal Narratives

In Written Expression, the students begin to see themselves as contributing members of a caring writing community. They will hear and discuss good writing and learn about the writing practices of professional authors. They will generate writing ideas by drawing, listing ideas, and writing sentences. The students will write about their lives and they will write silly and scary stories. They will approximate the spelling of unfamiliar words, use ending sentence punctuation, and capitalize proper nouns and the first letters of sentences.