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Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel Unit PlanSecond Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel Unit Plan
Publisher
Core Knowledge Foundation
Resource Details
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Grade
2nd
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Unit Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
1 mo 5 days
Instructional Strategies
Direct Instruction
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Year
2013
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Unit Plan

Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel

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This Second Grade Skills Unit 3: Kids Excel unit plan also includes:
  • CKLA Unit 3: Second Grade Skills—Kids Excel (.html)
  • Entire Unit (.zip)
  • Student Workbook: Second Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Student Reader: Second Grade Skills Unit 3 (.pdf)
  • Consonant Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Vowel Flip Book (.pdf)
  • Spelling Cards (.pdf)
  • Individual Code Chart (.pdf)
  • Assessment and Remediation Guide (.pdf)
  • Fluency Packet (.pdf)
  • Lesson Plan
  • Activity
  • Assessment
  • Template
  • Answer Key
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The unit offers second graders skills practice in tricky spelling and words, grammar—nouns and punctuation, reading decodable texts, and writing a personal narrative. Lessons begin with a warm-up and go into a concept review, word work, reading, writing, and take-home materials.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

spelling, spelling patterns, spelling rules, irregular spellings, Grammar, common nouns, proper nouns, capitalization, decoding, decoding words, reading, beginning reading, Writing, Narrative Writing, narratives, personal narrative writing, personal narratives, the writing process, reading comprehension, reading comprehension strategies

Instructional Ideas

  • Make take-home materials optional or include extra time in the classroom to complete them
  • Plan applicable lessons or activities during ELA center rotations

Classroom Considerations

  • The third unit in a series of six; units should be taught in order
  • Requires ample prep time to make copies and collect texts and other materials

Pros

  • The unit provides 248 pages of detailed information, lesson plans, and helpful teaching notes

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.2.1 RI.2.5 RI.2.6 RI.2.7 RI.2.8 RI.2.9 RI.2.10 RF.2.3.a RF.2.3.b RF.2.3.c RF.2.3.d RF.2.3.e RF.2.4.a W.2.3 W.2.5 SL.2.6 L.2.2.a L.2.2.e L.2.4.a

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