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Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4) Unit PlanFriends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Unit Plan

Friends Together: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 4)

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Friendship is the theme in this series of extra support lessons. With a variety of resources (practice worksheets, letter, word, punctuation and picture cards), young readers gain knowledge of initial consonants v and h, blending short /a/ sounds, and reading the high frequency words a and to.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

blending sounds, onsets and rimes, consonants, the short /a/ sound, initial consonants, high frequency words, end punctuation, punctuation, reading, phonics, phonemes, the /k/ sound, the hard /c/ sound, the /m/ sound, /h/ sounds, the /v/ sound, the /n/ sound, the /b/ sound, phonemic awareness

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Keep a journal to note students' formative assessment performance
  • Save prep time by laminating picture cards and blackline masters for continued use

Classroom Considerations

  • This compilation of extra support lessons accompanies Houghton Mifflin curriculum, but can be used independently  

Pros

  • Provides formative assessment stopping points and information to note
  • Lists phonics center activity suggestions to follow specific lessons of the unit
  • Total physical response opportunities for student engagement

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RF.K.1.a RF.K.1.b RF.K.2.a RF.K.2.b RF.K.2.d RF.K.3.a RF.K.3.c

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