1. THEME: Neighborhoods & Communities
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Created by Mrs. Ha Corsentino, Y.E.S. Hyde Park Elementary, 3140 Hyde Park Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90043
English Language Art
Treasures Unit 2 Week 2 – Home-Grown Butterflies 1
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2. Strong Paragraphs: Describing an Emotion
Writing
Showing is a writer’s ability to use precise observations, descriptive details, and expressive language to communicate emotion, evoke images, and present evidence.
Showing is describing so that the readers know and understand, without you having to tell them what is going on.
W3.1.1 Create a single paragraph. Develop a topic sentence. Include supporting facts and details. 2
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3. Writing Skill: Showing
“Don’t tell me what happened, show me what happened.”
W3.2.2 Write descriptions that use concrete sensory details. 3
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4. Strong Paragraphs: Describing an Emotion
Writing
How can we show the emotion that is being described here?
She was afraid.
Write three more sentences that SHOW the girl was afraid.
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5. Strong Paragraphs: Describing an Emotion
Writing
Here is an example of what your writing might look like.
November 14, 2011
The girl ran behind the fence and screamed
loudly…
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6. Strong Paragraphs: Describing an Emotion
Writing
Conversation – No. Please write quietly.
Help – Raise your hand if you are stuck or you need help.
Activity – Write three more sentences that SHOW the girl was afraid.
Movement – Stay in your seat.
Participation – I know you are on-task if I see you writing quietly. When you are done, go back and proofread using your proofreading marks.
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7. Daily Language Activities
Writing
both books are about foxs.
Baby foxs are called pups!
next week we will sea a fox.
LC3.1.1 Use complete declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences. 7
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8. Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Writing
Singular nouns
Plural nouns
Names one person, place, or thing.
Can be compound words.
Names more than one person, place, or thing.
Add –s to form the plural of most singular nouns.
Add –es if the singular nouns ends in s, ch, sh, or x
Can be compound words.
LC3.1.3 Understand and use complete declarative, interogative,
imperative, and exclamatory sentences. 8
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9. Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Writing
Change the y to an i, then add -es.
Play Tim Bedley’s song Plural Y and F on iTunes. Can be purchased on iTunes or else where.
LC3.1.3 Understand and use complete declarative, interogative,
imperative, and exclamatory sentences. 9
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10. Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
Writing
Let’s do Practice Book, page 91.
We will do a few problems, and finish the rest during IWT.
LC3.1.3 Understand and use complete declarative, interogative,
imperative, and exclamatory sentences. 10
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11. How have butterflies helped the community?
Oral Language
Focus Question:
How have butterflies helped the community?
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12. Lesson Vocabulary Disappear Protect Harming Supply Capture enclosure
Word Study
Disappear
Protect
Harming
Supply
Capture
enclosure
R3.1.4 Vocabulary – Use antonyms, synonyms to determine meanings. 12
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13. Lesson Vocabulary: Connect to Words
Word Study
What is something that disappears in the daytime?
How can you protect your skin against the sun?
What things are harming our environment?
Where is our classroom’s supply of paper?
Why do scientists capture insects?
What enclosures are there in your neighborhood?
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14. Strategy: Dictionary
Word Study
A dictionary is a large book of words where you can look up difficult or unfamiliar words.
A dictionary is organized alphabetically and tells the part of speech and multiple meanings of words.
Let’s use a dictionary to find the part of speech
and the meanings of the word supply.
R3.1.7 Use a dictionary to learn the meanings and features of unknown words. 14
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15. Strategy: Dictionary Let’s do Practice Book, page 88.
Word Study
Let’s do Practice Book, page 88.
We will do a little bit, and finish the rest during Rotation/IWT.
R3.1.7 Use a dictionary to learn the meanings and features of unknown words. 15
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16. Phonics: Words with Silent Letters
Word Study
Kn as in know
Mb as in lamb
Rh as in rhyme
Gn as in gnat or sign
Bt as in debt
Mn as in hymn
Wr as in write
Gh as in ghost
L as in calf
LC Spell correctly one-syllable words. 16
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17. Phonics: Words with Silent Letters
Word Study
Sign
Knock
Doubt
Gnarl
Knight
knob
Should
Knack
Knit
Gnome
Knot
wreath
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18. Phonics: Words with Silent Letters
Word Study
Writing
Wrap
Wing
Knee
Ghoul
wreck
Gnat
Wrong
Rhino
Tomb
Reign
wrestle
LC Spell correctly one-syllable words. 18
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19. Phonics: Words with Silent Letters
Word Study
Let’s do Practice Book, page 82.
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20. How do butterflies help the community?
Oral Language
Focus Question:
How do butterflies help the community? 20
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21. Home-Grown Butterflies
Oral Language
Genre: Nonfiction
Nonfiction gives information about real people, places, or things.
R3.3.1 Distinguish common forms of literature. 21
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22. Strategy: Monitor Comprehension
Reading
Monitor comprehension is checking for understanding as you read.
You can reread, read ahead, ask questions, adjust reading rates, or summarize to help you understand.
R3.2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge
with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text. 22
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23. Skill: Draw Conclusions
Reading
Drawing conclusions is using facts, details, and our own experiences to come up with a new understanding.
Why is it important? This helps you figure out ideas and information that the author does not tell you directly.
R3.2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge
with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text. 23
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24. Skill: Draw Conclusions
Reading
R3.2.2 Ask questions and support answers by connecting prior knowledge
with literal information found in, and inferred from, the text. 24
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25. Lesson Vocabulary Pollution nectar Disappear Protect Harming Supply
Word Study
Disappear
Protect
Harming
Supply
Capture
enclosure
Pollution
nectar
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26. Preview and Predict, pg 194-195
Oral Language
Make predictions.
Read the title
Look at the illustrations.
Think about the genre (nonfiction)
How have butterflies helped the community?
R3.2.4 Make and modify predictions. 26
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27. Purpose for Reading Use clues to draw conclusions.
Complete the Conclusion Flow Map in the Practice Book, page 85, as you read.
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28. Return to Predictions and Purposes
Reading
What were your predictions and purpose for reading?
Did you find clues that helped you understand what home- grown butterflies are?
R3.2.4 Recall major points in the text and make and modify predictions. 28
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29. Review Reading Strategies
Monitor comprehension
Monitor and clarify: Seek Help
Decoding
Self-Selected Strategy Use
RC2.0 Reading Comprehension. 29
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30. Reread for Fluency: Pacing
Oral Language
Good readers read at a pace, or speed, that is appropriate to the text. Read slowly for nonfiction text.
I will be listening for your pacing as you read this week.
R3.1.3 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately with
appropriate pacing. 30
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31. Reread for Fluency: Pacing
Oral Language
Let’s practice our pacing using Home-Grown Butterflies, page 200.
R3.1.3 Read aloud narrative and expository text fluently and accurately with
appropriate pacing. 31
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32. Reader’s Theater: “The Memory Quilt”
Oral Language
For Unit 2, you will practice fluency in many different ways.
One way is Reader’s Theater.
You will practice reading the play throughout the unit.
You will perform it at the end of the unit.
LAS3.1.9 Read prose and poetry aloud with fluency, rhythm, and pace. 32
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33. Rotation/Independent Workshop Time (IWT)
Students will work independently.
By yourself
With a partner
In a group
Or with the teacher.
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34. Rotation/Independent Workshop Time (IWT)
Green Go Time
DO NOT DISTURB THE TEACHER.
When you are done, read a book from inside your desk.
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35. Rotation/Independent Workshop Time (IWT)
MUST DO
Practice Book, pages 88, 82, 91, 93, and finish pages 83, 84, 89
Fluency, Reread Home-Grown Butterflies, pay attention to your pacing.
Reader’s Theater: Read with a partner quietly.
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