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CKLA Unit 5: First Grade Skills—Kate’s Book


Focus:
In Unit 5, students begin learning spelling alternatives that make up the advanced code. They practice making nouns plural and changing spelling when adding suffixes. In grammar, students identify sentence types (statements, questions, and exclamations) and practice creating longer sentences. They plan, draft, and edit a letter in which they express their opinions to the main character of the decodable Student Reader for Unit 5, Kate’s Book.

Number of Lessons: 22

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

Language Arts Grade 1 English

Individual Resources

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CKLA Unit 5: First Grade Skills—Kate's Book 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 5: First Grade Skills—Kate's Book 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 5: First Grade Skills—Kate's Book 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 5: First Grade Skills—Kate's Book 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.