Language Arts

Unit 1 Skills

Unit Summary

This unit focuses on reviewing various spellings with an emphasis on consonant sounds, one- and two-syllable

words, and high-frequency Tricky Words.

Overall Learning Outcomes

● Review letter-sound correspondences

● Read and write words with short vowel sounds

● Read and spell Tricky Words from G1

● Read and write two-syllable words

● Read and spell words with suffixes -ing, -ed

● Read, write and pronounce words with past tense suffix -ed pronounced three different ways

● Spell grade-level words correctly

● Write sentences with correct capitalization and punctuation

Knowledge Domain 1: 

Unit Summary

Students are introduced to three classic fairy tales: “The Fisherman and His Wife,” “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and “Beauty and the Beast.” They consider characteristic elements of fairy tales and consider problems faced by the characters as well as lessons each story conveys. Students then turn to the American frontier and tall tales about Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Casey Jones. They learn about the characteristics of tall tales, such as exaggeration and larger-than-life characters.

Overall Learning Outcomes

● Demonstrate understanding of Fairy Tales and Tall Tales genres

● Set a purpose for listening and understand the concept of exaggeration

● Distinguish details of idioms and multiple meaning words

● Identify regular and irregular plurals

● Compare and contrast two tall tales using a graphic organizer

● Experiment with narrative writing by rewriting a classic tale