History of Communities Unit 4 Week at a Glance Writing Revising & Week Instructional Focus Reading Workshop Workshop Editing Non Fiction 1 Edit (There is a list of NF Time & Chronology Verb readers from the SS kits MOY Writing (3.3A, 3.3B. 3.3C) Agreement DPM in iXplore. They can be used for this unit.) Fiction Writing 2 Shaping a Community Edit MOY R&E Tense (3.1A, 3.1B) DPM (Checkpoint #3) Traditional Literature Edit Quotation Expanding a 3 Marks in Community (3.1C) Dialogue Review History of Sentence 4 Houston/Cypress Structure & Poetry (3.1A) CUPS Poetry Writing (Checkpoint #4) Contractions 5 Technology Project (Checkpoint #4) GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT UNIT Lessons can be integrated into the reading/writing workshop schedule during the following times; poetry, independent reading & writing, read aloud, and social studies content time (15 min.). See the suggested components of balanced literacy in iXplore. Resources from the new social studies adoption, Exploring Social Studies, are included in this unit. Leveled readers, reader’s theater, files, and lesson plans are in iXplore. Each reader comes with a lesson plan booklet with various activities. These are referenced in the unit and located in iXplore. NEW: Spanish resources for Exploring Social studies are now in iXplore. Please see Dates of Remembrance & Heritage PPTs in iXplore for resources to use for required days of recognition as stated by CFISD policy. Check out the INSS Year-round Resources folder in iXplore for language arts, vocabulary, & current events resources. In the Unit Overview, the Bloom’s verbs have been underlined and critical skills have been color-coded. See your grade level TEKS in iXplore. See Appendix A for a list of biographies that can be used for read alouds during this unit.
History of Communities Unit 4 Week at a Glance Week Instructional Focus Reading Workshop Writing Workshop Revising & Editing 1 MOY Writing DPM Time & Chronology (3.3A, 3.3B. 3.3C) Non Fiction (There is a list of NF readers from the SS kits in iXplore. They can be used for this unit.) Fiction Writing Edit Agreement 2 MOY R&E DPM Shaping a Community (3.1A, 3.1B) (Checkpoint #3) Traditional Literature Edit Verb Tense 3 Expanding a Community (3.1C) Edit Quotation Marks in Dialogue 4 History of Houston/Cypress (3.1A) Poetry (Checkpoint #4) Poetry Writing Review Sentence Structure & CUPS 5 Technology Project Contractions (Checkpoint #4) GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT UNIT Lessons can be integrated into the reading/writing workshop schedule during the following times; poetry, independent reading & writing, read aloud, and social studies content time (15 min.). See the suggested components of balanced literacy in iXplore. Resources from the new social studies adoption, Exploring Social Studies, are included in this unit. Leveled readers, reader’s theater, files, and lesson plans are in iXplore. Each reader comes with a lesson plan booklet with various activities. These are referenced in the unit and located in iXplore. NEW: Spanish resources for Exploring Social studies are now in iXplore. Please see Dates of Remembrance & Heritage PPTs in iXplore for resources to use for required days of recognition as stated by CFISD policy. Check out the INSS Year-round Resources folder in iXplore for language arts, vocabulary, & current events resources. In the Unit Overview, the Bloom’s verbs have been underlined and critical skills have been color-coded. See your grade level TEKS in iXplore. See Appendix A for a list of biographies that can be used for read alouds during this unit.
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