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Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5) Unit PlanHome Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Home Sweet Home: Extra Support Lessons (Theme 5)

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Home Sweet Home is the theme of a unit comprised of extra support lessons. Scholars reinforce concepts through chants, grand discussions, and practice worksheets. Topics include digraphs, blending phoneme, long vowels, final sounds, contractions, comparing and contrasting using a Venn diagram, reading high frequency words, and making generalizations. 

 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

digraphs, blending sounds, responding to reading, compare and contrast, venn diagrams, high frequency words, illustrations, the long /a/ sound, final sounds, phonemes, independent reading, the long /i/ sound, contractions, cause and effect, apostrophes

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Invite learners to bring in one object from home to use in the compare and contrast activity 
  • Direct pupils to find words in their independent reading books with the lesson's long vowels or digraphs 
  • Brainstorm, illustrate, and share additional cause and effect situations

Classroom Considerations

  • Modifications are necessary to implement lesson with materials mentioned but not included 
  • Although, the unit was created as part of the Houghton Mifflin English language arts curriculum, it can be taught independently or with another curriculum 

Pros

  • Teacher directions are written clearly and in detail
  • The overall design is clean and easy to follow 
  • Answer sheets are printed on the same page as the lesson, making for less flipping through pages 

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.1.1 RL.1.2 RL.1.3 RL.1.7 RF.1.2.a RF.1.2.b RF.1.2.c RF.1.2.d RF.1.3.a RF.1.3.b RF.1.3.c RF.1.3.g SL.1.1.a SL.1.2 SL.1.4 SL.1.5

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