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CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo

Focus:
Unit 4 introduces the most common (or least ambiguous) spellings for /r/-controlled vowel sounds. Students learn the concept of a syllable and practice with two-syllable words. Students are introduced to past-tense verb forms ending with –ed as they continue to work with nouns and verbs in phrases. Students are introduced to adjectives and they practice descriptive writing. The decodable Student Reader for Unit 4 is The Green Fern Zoo.

Number of Lessons: 28

Lesson Time:
60 minutes each (Each lesson may be divided into shorter segments.)

Additional Search Terms:
reading and writing • decoding • phonics • grammar • listening and speaking • informational text

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Language Arts Grade 1 English

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CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo TEACHER GUIDE

This comprehensive Teacher Guide specifies learning objectives and provides background information, daily lesson plans, assessments, and other resources for teaching the Skills unit.
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CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo STUDENT WORKBOOK

Student Workbooks contain activity pages that provide practice or reinforcement of skills taught in the unit. Graphic organizers, assessment tasks, and take home activities are also included in the workbooks.
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CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo STUDENT READER

These 100% decodable texts provide children an authentic reading experience and reinforce their sense of success by eliminating the distraction of encountering untaught spelling patterns. The texts are written in the style of chapter books to inspire children to want to read more.
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CKLA Unit 4: First Grade Skills—The Green Fern Zoo ASSESSMENT AND REMEDIATION GUIDE

The Assessment and Remediation Guide provides for re-teaching and reinforcement of grade-level objectives that were not mastered in Skill Strand lessons. This online-only resource assists teachers with determining students’ needs, selecting activities and materials that target those needs, adjusting instructional difficulty, and monitoring progress. Use of this resource creates continuity between core classroom and support instruction.
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