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Look at Us!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1) Unit PlanLook at Us!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1) Unit Plan
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Look at Us!: Challenge Activities (Theme 1)

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Challenge your advanced learners with this set of activities based around a common theme. Learners draw, research, share, retell stories, compare and contrast, and more over the course of these activities, which focus mostly on animals and your pupils' lives.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

spelling, Drawing, animals, facial expressions, initial sounds, final sounds, sharing, presenting, compare and contrast, similarities and differences

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Pick and choose your favorite sections or teach these as suggested in the packet and the teacher instructions included in the materials

Classroom Considerations

  • These are designed to accompany a themed unit in Houghton Mifflin's curriculum, but can be taught independently of this unit
  • Printable instructions for all of the themes in this curriculum are provided; for this theme, all you need to do find the materials labeled with Theme 1
  • This is part of a three-part series; there are 15 challenge activities included because the other parts of the series happen over the course of three school weeks

Pros

  • Includes adaptation ideas for English language learners
  • Comes with printable instructions for all of the activities in this packet
  • See the materials for detailed teacher information on how to use these materials

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RL.K.1 RL.K.2 W.K.2 SL.K.1.a SL.K.4 SL.K.5

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