Unit 3: Discoveries

Time Frame:  5 Weeks

 

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Unit Description

This unit is all about Discoveries.  Themes include: Food Around the World, Solving Riddles, Ecosystems in Balance, Making Journeys, The Art of Illustrating and an extra week to review and assess.  Phonics and/or spelling skills practiced are /ar/, /ur/, long /u/, /oo/, /ue/, /oi/.  Writing forms are journal entries, character sketch, persuasive writing, report writing, dialogue and a scene.  The grammar skill for the units concentrates on action verbs, present tense, past tense, and future tense verbs, and sentences containing verbs.  Mechanics and usage involves commas, subject-verb agreement, colons in time, and quotation marks.  Fluency practice includes exclamatory sentence, intonation and pauses, punctuation marks and dialogue, and reading pace.

Enduring Understandings

·         The world is a gift that we share with all living creatures.

·         Poetry expresses how we feel.

·         Words puzzles can create pictures

 

Essential Questions

·         Why is it important for us to appreciate our world?

·         How do we create pictures with words?

·         How can poetry capture feelings?

·         Why is it important to express feelings?

GLEs:  1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52

Assessments

·       Performance Task Assessment

·       Performance Task Rubric

·       Essential Skills Unit Checklist – LCC

·       Unit Assessments – Louisiana Comprehensive Curriculum (LCC)