CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

 Miss Nelson is Missing

-Prior Knowledge    

-Vocabulary       

 - Nouns (common, proper, sing. plural)

-Quick Write “World’s Best Teacher”

-read story

-Comprehension Questions 

-ABC Order paper

-Spelling Tests

 1A, 1B  1C

3A  3B

 Miss Nelson is Missing

Skills

 -story maps

-Venn diagram

-writing scripts for puppet shows

-Guide Words

-Special Plural Nouns (English)

-Ideas Trait (6 Traits)

 -Spelling tests

-puppet show

-Character Development

   Activity

 1A  1B

2A

3B

4A  4B

 The Three Little Wolves

And the Big Bad Pig

 -Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary

-Read story

-Minilessons ( Fantasy/Realism, summarizing, making

                judgements)

-Alphabet books (Ideas Trait)

-Spelling tests

-Teacher Observations 

1A  1B  1C

2A  2B 

3B 

4A  4B

5C

 The Three Little Wolves

And the Big Bad Pig

skills

-writing a complete sentence

-writing directions to a game

-subjects and predicates

-Ideas trait (journal activities) 

-Spelling tests 

-game directions

-complete sentences

 1A

3C

The Three Little Javelinas

 -Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary

-Read story

-Writing a tale about animal sounds

-Combining sentences

-Word families

-Singular and Plural Possessives (English)

 -Spelling tests

-Comprehension Questions

-Eng. workbook 20 and 21

 1A

3C

 The Three Little

Javelinas  Skills

 -suffixes ed and ing

-correcting run-ons

-Vowel consonant e pattern spelling words

-Venn diagram

-writing and illustrating cartoons

-Organization trait (6 traits)

 -spelling tests

-nouns test

-LAB pages 24, 26,27,28

 1A  1C

3C

 The Hawaiian Pigs and

The Magic Shark

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary

-read story

-synonym matching

-2 spelling activities

-Organization trait- alliterations 

 -spelling tests

-synonym page

-A is for Alliteration class

book

 1A

3C

 The Hawaiian Pigs and

The Magic Sharks

skills

 -Using context

-Fantasy and Realism

-friendly letter to shark

-Verbs (English)

-LAB pages 34, 36 and 37

-letter to shark

-English workbook pages 43 and 44 

1A

2A

2B

 Theme Skills Tests

 -summarizing

-compare and contrast

-fantasy and realism

-base words

-inflected endings

-using context

 Theme Skills Tests

1A

2A

CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

CONTENT (General)

Language Arts

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

Titanic…Lost and Found

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and intro spelling words

-Quick Write “Ocean Voyage”

Read story in small groups

-Comprehension questions

-spelling activities

-adjectives worksheet

-spelling tests 

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 3A

Titanic…Lost and Found

Skills 

-Listening Center-Polar the Titanic Bear

-Skills Center- adjectives and a, an and the

-Pick a writing activity

-keyboarding

-Spelling activities

-LAB 95-96

-spelling tests

-adjectives chapter test

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A

Pompeii…Buried Alive 

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary

-Research Volcanoes

-Read story in small groups

-Soccer spelling

6+1 Writing-Word Choice- Read Double Trouble in Walla Walla

-Skill- Syllables

-Comprehension activity 

-Spelling tests

-Volcano research

-Syllables worksheet

-Writing Activity with Walla Walla story (6+1)

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 5A 

Pompeii…Buried Alive

Skills 

-Read “History Maker”

-Spelling words- number words- write out numbers in Monster game

-Listening Center- Magic School Bus:  Inside a Volcano

-Mural- Before, During and After a Volcano Eruption 

-Mural

-Presentations of Walla Walla stories (6+1)

-Spelling tests  

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5C 

Patrick and the Great Molasses Explosion 

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and Spelling

-Read story in small groups

-Comprehension activity

-Expository Writing-“Winter”

Skill- Homosphones

-Spelling- Archeological Dig

-6+1 Writing-Word Choice- I Love You the Purplest activity

-Comprehension questions

-Homophones worksheet

-Spelling tests

-Color activity (6+1)

 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C,

Theme Skills Testing 

-Vocabulary and Spelling words

-Writing- Tall Tale about a Disaster

-Skills:  Cause and Effect, Writing answers to questions

-6+1 Writing- Word Choice- Verdi activity

-Theme Skills Tests

-LAB pages

-tall tale

-spelling tests 

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5C  

Tony’s Bread 

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and spelling words

-Read story in small groups

-Continue “Winter” Expository

-Listening Center- Strega Nona

-Skills- Multiple Meaning Words, Adverbs

-Comprehension questions

-LAB pages

-Expository Essay

-Adverb worksheets

-Spelling tests 

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5C   

Tony’s Bread Skills 

-Extended Response questions

-Skills- prefixes, Using to, too and two 

-Comprehension questions

-Extended Responses

-prefixes worksheet

-to, too and two worksheet

 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 

Halmoni and the Picnic 

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and spelling words

-Extended response

-Adverb review

-Skill- suffixes

-Comprehension activity

-Extended response

-Adverb test

-spelling tests

-Suffixes worksheet 

 1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

CONTENT (General)

CONTENT (Specific)

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS LEARNING STANDARDS

ISAT Review

-Read The Flood

-Work on answering questions using multiple choice

-Extended Response Questions

-Spelling words and activities

-Multiple Choice questions

-Extended responses

-Spelling tests

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

ISAT Testing

-Reading tests- sessions 1, 2, 3

-spelling words and activities

-spelling tests

ISAT Testing

-Math tests-sessions 1,2,3

-spelling words- Word Wall Review

-spelling tests

Henry and Beezus

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and spelling words

-Teacher Fact File

-Read story in small groups

-Comprehension activity

-Rainbow spelling and sentences

-Skill- Stringy sentences, analogies

-comprehension questions

-spelling tests

-LAB pages

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

Henry and Beezus

Skills

-Read “Fast Food”

-Discuss nutrition and make a balanced meal plan

-Writing- Comic strips

-Skill- Sequence of Events

-Keyboarding- Activity 13

Spelling words and actitivies

-Balanced meal plan

-comic strips

-LAB page

-Spelling tests

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

Chicken Sunday

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary

-Read story in small groups

-Summarizing the story

-Listening Center- Pink and Say

-Keyboarding- Activity 14

-Skill- Homophones

-LAB page- summary and homophones

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

Theme Skills Tests

-Skills testing

-Spelling words and activities

-skills tests

-spelling tests

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

Tornado Alert

-Prior Knowledge

-Vocabulary and spelling words

-Teacher Fact File

-Read story in small groups

-comprehension activity

-Pick a tornado project

-spelling tests

-comprehension questions

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C

Tornado Alert

Projects

-work on projects

-spelling words and activities

-projects

-spelling tests

1A, 1B, 1C, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5C