The theme in this unit is My Neighborhood. In this unit, we will be answering the question: What is a neighborhood? The children will read realistic fiction that discusses neighbors and neighborhoods. Each week we will address specific questions such as What is a neighborhood? What and who can I see in a neighborhood? We will use elements and clues in the texts to make connections. We will also read infographics, informational texts, and procedural texts.
Highlights from Unit 1 Week 3:
Weekly Question: How do signs in our neighborhood help us?
Reading:
This week we turned our focus to reading informational texts. The children are identifying the information that different parts of a book provide. They are beginning to recognize the characteristics and structures of informational texts, features such as headings and labels, and use them in order to locate key information in a text. In addition we have been working hard to recognize the differences between stories and informational texts.
- This Week's Story: Look Both Ways! by Janet Klausner
- Genre: Informational
- Weekly Question: How do signs in our neighborhood help us?
- Weekly Vocabulary
traffic, crosswalk, right, left
- Foundational Skills
- children learned how to segment and blend the sounds in three-letter words with the middle sound short /o/.
- reading and writing words with short /o/ in the middle.
- decode words with initial and final consonants Ff, Gg, and Bb.
- Heart Words - words we need to know by heart.
are, by look, was, you
