• Unit 2

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    Unit 2, Week 1: "Jobs Around Town"

    • Essential Question: What jobs need to be done in a community?
    • Comprehension Focus: Make and Confirm Predictions; Character, Setting, Events
    • Word Work: Short e (like elephant), Inflectional Ending -ed
    • Grammar: Nouns
    • Spelling Words:
      • leg
      • beg
      • men
      • hen
      • head
      • bread
      • grass
      • spin
      • there
      • again
    • High Frequency Words:
      • again
      • help
      • new
      • there
      • use

     

    Unit 2, Week 2: "Buildings All Around"

    • Essential Question: What buildings do you know? What are they made of?
    • Comprehension Focus: Make and Confirm Predictions; Character, Setting, Events
    • Word Work: Short u (like bug), contractions with 's
    • Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
    • Spelling Words:
      • run
      • fun
      • nut
      • cut
      • bug
      • rug
      • men
      • head
      • could
      • one
    • High Frequency Words:
      • could
      • live
      • three
      • then
      • one

     

    Unit 2, Week 3: "A Community in Nature"

    • Essential Question: Where do animals live together?
    • Comprehension Focus: Main Topic and Key Details
    • Word Work: End Blends, Inflectional ending -ing
    • Grammar: Possessive Nouns
    • Spelling Words:
      • lend
      • send
      • fast
      • past
      • sink
      • wink
      • run
      • bug
      • of
      • who
    • High Frequency Words:
      • eat
      • no
      • of
      • under
      • who

     

    Unit 2, Week 4: "Let's Help"

    • Essential Question: How do people help out in the community?
    • Comprehension Focus: Character, Setting, Events
    • Word Work: Consonant Digraphs th, sh,-ng and closed syllables
    • Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
    • Spelling Words:
      • fish
      • shop
      • ship
      • with
      • thing
      • sang
      • fast
      • wink
      • want
      • call
    • High Frequency Words:
      • all
      • call
      • day
      • her
      • want

     

     Unit 2, Week 5: "Follow the Map!"

    • Essential Question: How do you find your way around?
    • Comprehension Focus: Main Topic and Key Details
    • Word Work: Words with ch, -tch, wh, ph; inflectional endings -es
    • Grammar: Irregular Plural Nouns
    • Spelling Words:
      • whip
      • whale
      • catch
      • match
      • chin
      • graph
      • shop
      • with
      • many
      • around
    • High Frequency Words:
      • around
      • by
      • many
      • place
      • walk

     

     Unit 2, Week 6: "Unit 2 Review"

    • Essential Question: What we are learning!
    • Please look back to the previous weeks for skills
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