Module 2 Week 1
Pumpkin Pumpkin
Module Two: How an Author Develops Ideas, Concepts, Characters, and Experiences, Part 1
In this module, students learn how authors craft different types of texts for different purposes. They explain those differences and use the features or elements of different texts to demonstrate and clarify understanding. They identify an informational topic and write pieces that include two or more facts and a sense of closure. They use narrative writing to describe an experience with thoughts and feelings and a variety of words.
Click Here: Pumpkin Thinglink
STANDARDS/READING STRATEGIES:
Compare fiction vs. non fiction Text Features/ Sequencing Introduce nonfiction text feature
Sight Words
Sight Words: seed plant flower pumpkins grow
Word Study
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UNITS OF STUDY RESOURCES
Small Moment Anchor Charts
Small Moment
Introduce Small Moments
Read Mentor Text: The Kissing Hand (first day school, new teacher, new student)
Teach students to use events from their lives, things they like to do or have happened.
USING FEELINGS IN YOUR WRITING
Writers Tell Stories Across Their Fingers
Writers Tell Stories Across Their Fingers
How To Write A Story
DAILY 5
WRITING/GRAMMAR
1. Generating and writing facts about things (pumpkins/fall)
CC.1.4.1.A - Write informative/ explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information.
2. Write sequence of the life cycle of a pumpkin using temporal words. Life Cycle
CC.1.4.1.P -Recount two or more appropriately sequenced events using temporal words to signal event order and provide some sense of closure.
3. Exploring labels and illustrations. Label illustrations (pumpkin life cycle)
4. How can I teach My Reader?
Think about Who? What? Where? When? Why?
Write Twin Sentences.
Add Pictures or use photographs
Use words about color, shape, size
Use big, bold words.
Make comparisons apples vs pumpkins