Teachers Notes

This is an ELA Guided Reading and Writing Unit for Grades K-1. It is complete with Common Core Standards and Lesson Plan, Vocabulary Picture/Word Cards, Make and Take Book, Word Study, Phonics Activity, Comprehension Questions, End Punctuation Activity, Chant and My Beach Book. Some activities will be more appropriate for students at the Kindergarten Level and some for students at the First Grade Level.

Common Core Standards Kindergarten:

RL K.1, RL K.2, RL K.4, RL K.10

RF K.2, RL K. 3, RF K.4

W K.2, W K.  SL K. 1, SL K.2, SL K.4,

L K. 1, LK.2, LK.5,

Common Core Standards First Grade:

   RL 1.1, RL 1.2, RL 1.10, RF 1.1, RF 1.2, RF 1.3, RF 1.4,

   W 1.2, W 1.3, SL 1.1, SL 1.2,

   L 1.1, L 1.2, L1.5

Center Ideas

Pages 5-8: Word Wall Vocabulary Picture Word Cards-  Copy , laminate and cut picture word cards to be used for picture word match and picture word or picture sort activity that can be done in centers.

Page 9: Picture/Word Sort : Students sort pictures or word cards into categories

Page 15: Roll the Die and Read: Copy and Laminate for reading practice. (Kindergarten) Roll the die and read what is in the box.

Page 16- Roll the Die and Read what is in the box (1st grade)

Page 18: Main Idea and Details

Page 20: Initial Blend Sound/Picture Match

Page 22: Noun/Word Cut and Paste

Pages 23-24: My Beach Book: Write and Draw

Page 25: (First Grade) Write and Draw about the Beginning, Middle and End of the Story

  Target Reading Strategy:

  Connecting to Prior Knowledge

   Lesson Objectives

   Main idea and details

   Target Reading Strategy:

  Connecting to Prior Knowledge

   Lesson Objectives

  Main idea and details

  Read common high frequency words:

  Differentiate between a declarative sentence and a question

  Sort words by categories

  Make sense of difficult words by using context or picture clues

 Phonics: Initial Blends /fl/, /sh/, /thr/, /sn/, /bl/, /sw/

  Differentiate between a declarative sentence and a question

  Sort words by categories

  Make sense of difficult words by using context or picture clues

Lesson Plan:

Read Aloud Books:  Ask student if they have ever been to the beach. Read books about the beach. Talk about what they see and what people do at the beach. Make a word web about the beach and add beach words that students suggest.

A Day with my Dad at the Beachby Lance Waite

A Great Day at the Beachby Haba (Great pictures to talk about)

To the Beachby Linda Ashman

At the Beachby Anne and Harlow Rockwell

Pages 10- 14 Guided Reading Make and Take Book:

Tell students that one strategy is the main idea and details. As they read think about what the main idea and details are.

Do a picture walk through the book and ask students what they think will happen in the book.

Read the story and have students follow. Have the students read page one. Ask what they learned. Remind students to circle words they don’t know.

Have students continue and ask questions after one or two pages.

Continue until the book is finished.

After Reading: Ask student what did they thought the main idea was and describe some details. Go over the Comprehension Questions and Center activities.

Page 21- At the Beach Chant. Students will enjoy acting it out.

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