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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 4: The Job Hunt

For Teachers 2nd Standards
Second graders practice skills, including spelling, grammar, and reading. Pupils examine vowel sounds and tricky words, nouns, and verbs. They begin the writing process by drafting a persuasive letter and decoding texts.
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel

For Teachers 2nd Standards
The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work,...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 2: Bedtime Tales

For Teachers 2nd Standards
A unit covering second-grade skills reviews 16 letter-sound correspondences, tricky words, and punctuation. Readers provide context for examining story elements, and pupils participate in close reading and write narratives retelling a...
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Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

Second Grade Skills Unit 1: The Cat Bandit

For Teachers 2nd Standards
For twenty-two lessons over five weeks, scholars practice sound-spelling correspondence, spelling patterns, tricky words, and reading decodable text. Assessments aid in small group formation and gauge comprehension. Lessons begin with a...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 5

For Teachers 1st Standards
Twenty-two lessons make up a unit that focuses on first-grade skills. Scholars examine spelling alternatives—their rules and patterns, practice tricky spelling and high-frequency words, explore plural nouns and sentences, read a...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 4

For Teachers 1st Standards
Twenty-eight lessons make a unit that focuses on skills practice. Lessons explore r-controlled vowels, past tense verbs, nouns, adjectives, and two-syllable words. Pupils read a story, answer questions, and draft a descriptive essay...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 3

For Teachers 1st Standards
Four weeks, 19 lessons—this unit covers five new vowel spelling patterns, tricky words, spellings, verb tenses, reading fables and exploring the writing process. Lessons offer review, an introduction to the concept, skills practice,...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 2

For Teachers 1st Standards
Nineteen lessons make-up a four-week-long unit that explores long vowel sounds, nouns, and 11 high-frequency words. Lessons scaffold information to gain confidence in reading a decodable text and answering questions. Routines include...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

First Grade Skills Unit 1

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders participate in skills practice with 32 lessons focusing on sound-spelling correspondence—sound combinations, consonant digraphs, double letter sounds, tricky spellings, and words. Lessons begin with a warm-up, review and...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 4

For Teachers K Standards
Fifteen lessons make up a unit that focuses on letter-sound correspondence. Beginning readers examine letters and their sounds. Scholars complete a review, an engaging activity, watch teacher modeling, and practice concepts. Lessons are...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 5

For Teachers K Standards
A unit designed for kindergarteners builds letter-sound correspondence in preparation for reading. Over four weeks, young scholars build proficiency in recognizing and matching the sound of 9 letters. They take that knowledge to read a...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 6

For Teachers K Standards
Throughout 15 lessons, scholars explore four and five-sound and rhyming words, closely examining initial and final consonant sounds, and begin reading the text independently. Each lesson follows a similar routine; an introduction to...
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 8

For Teachers K Standards
A unit introduces 14 double-letter spellings for consonant sounds and seven tricky high-frequency words. Over four weeks, young scholars participate in daily spelling and word reviews, guided practice, and complete skills practice....
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 9

For Teachers K Standards
This unit explores uppercase letters and tricky high-frequency words. Over 23 lessons, scholars review decodable and high-frequency words, examine and practice writing uppercase letters, and work with a new tricky high-frequency word....
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Kindergarten Skills Unit 10

For Teachers K Standards
A six-week unit wraps up kindergarteners' skills practice in beginning reading skills. Twenty-nine lessons focus on long vowel sounds and 11 tricky high-frequency words. Scholars participate in warm-up activities, introductions to sounds...
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Printables
Curriculum Corner

Sports Word Work Literacy Pack

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
Hockey, home runs, and helmets: your next sports-themed reading unit is here! Twelve tasks invite young readers to match unscramble sports words, create categories, count vowels and consonants, mark syllables, alphabetize words in the...
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Organizer
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Scholastic

Comprehension During Independent Reading

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
Ideal for a language arts class, literary unit, or independent reading assignment, a set of reading worksheets address a wide array of skills. From poetic elements to nonfiction text features, you can surely find a valuable resource in...
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Handout
International Reading Association

Children’s Choices 2014

For Teachers K - 6th
Books for kids, chosen by kids! What could be better? This packet is made up of book lists, each with approximately 30 books included, organized by age group. Kids will enjoy the summer reading materials they choose from this resource!
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McGraw Hill

Phonics Teachers Resource Book

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Looking to improve your classes literacy program? Then look no further. This comprehensive collection of resources includes worksheets and activities covering everything from r-controlled vowels and consonant digraphs, to the different...
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Education.com

Sight Words Bingo

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Engage emergent readers in learning their basic sight words with this fun game of bingo. With four simple 3x3 game boards including a total of 32 different sight words, this resource is a must-have for any primary grade teacher.
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App
24x7 Digital

TeachMe: 1st Grade

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Let your eager learners practice their basic arithmetic and spelling skills with this fun interactive resource! For any primary grade teacher with access to an Apple mobile device, this is a must-have application.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Custom Flash Cards - Free Printables

For Students Pre-K - 6th
Learners can practice high frequency sight words, vocabulary words, spelling words, or math facts with materials made at this flash card printer site. Teachers can type in words or math equations that they want their charges to learn and...
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Activity
Florida Center for Reading Research

Word Checkers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Young scholars practice reading high-frequency words by playing word checkers. They use the provided checker mat and checkers to read their way to the other side of the mat, making a less stressful way to provide necessary practice.
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Interactive
Arcademics

Puppy Hop

For Students 1st Standards
Young scholars recognize the letters of the alphabet in a dog-themed learning game. Participants listen to letters read aloud, then click on the matching tennis ball, ultimately landing on a comfy bed.