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Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3) Unit PlanAround Town: Neighborhood and Community: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2nd
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English Language Arts
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Unit Plan

Around Town: Neighborhood and Community: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 3)

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Neighborhood and community is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Following practice pages and a teach, blend, guided practice, practice/apply routine, the series of lessons provide additional reinforcement of reading foundational skills.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

consonant digraphs, blending sounds, high frequency words, common nouns, writing sentences, vowels, vowel patterns, compound words, topics, main ideas, details, proper nouns, suffixes, phonemes, isolating phonemes, syllables, multisyllabic words, making inferences, plural nouns

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Send worksheets home for extra practice
  • Work with small groups to address specific concepts from the unit
  • Take brain breaks to recite the chants found in the unit

Classroom Considerations

  • The unit was created as part of the Houghton Mifflin English language arts curriculum; it can also be used on its own or alongside another curriculum
  • Some curriculum-specific materials are not provided; however, lessons affected may still be implemented with modifications  

Pros

  • Answers to worksheets are printed directly on the corresponding lesson page 
  • The unit is organized neatly, following a similar routine for each lesson
  • Lesson plans are written clearly and in detail 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.2.1 RL.2.2 RL.2.3 RF.2.3.a RF.2.3.b RF.2.3.c RF.2.3.d RF.2.3.f W.2.8 SL.2.1.a SL.2.2 SL.2.4 L.2.1.a L.2.1.b

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