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Ferocious Fighting Fish: An Ocean Unit Exploring Beginning Word Sounds

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Title:

 Ferocious Fighting Fish: An Ocean Unit Exploring Beginning Word Sounds

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Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

This ocean-themed unit will focus students' attention on alliteration, or repeated beginning word sounds. Students begin by reading the book Look Who Lives in the Ocean by Allen Baker, and then sharing what they notice about the words in the story. Then they work as a class to craft a definition of alliteration and record the definition on chart paper. Students continue to expand their knowledge of alliteration by finding examples in classroom books and their own writing and then adding these examples to a class list. Next, they practice revising sentences to include alliteration and then share their revisions with the class. Finally, students compose their own class book to explore the technique in their own writing. The lesson is a natural extension after alphabet books have been introduced, when writing a class book, or to supplement independent writing projects.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
2. Actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge needed to be successful as they learn to read and, later, read to learn.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
2.
  • Actively engage
  • Teacher-led reading experiences
  • Collaborative discussions
  • Background knowledge
  • Peers
Knowledge:
2. Students know:
  • How to engage in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers to build background knowledge.
Skills:
2. Students are able to:
  • Build background knowledge by actively engaging in teacher-led reading experiences and collaborative discussions with peers.
Understanding:
2. Students understand that:
  • They need to build background knowledge to be successful as they learn to read and read to learn.
  • They need to actively engage in teacher-led reading experiences and discussions with peers to build their background knowledge.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
19. Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in discussions and/or text.

a. Describe the relationship between words, including relating them to synonyms and antonyms.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
19.
  • Unfamiliar words
  • Text
19a.
  • Describe
  • Relationships
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
Knowledge:
19. Students know:
  • Several question stems related to unknown words.
  • Techniques for identifying unknown words.
19a.
  • Synonyms are words that have the same or a similar meaning.
  • Antonyms are words that have opposite meanings.
Skills:
19. Students are able to:
  • Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words in discussions and/or text.
19a.
  • Describe the relationship between words, including relating them to synonyms and antonyms.
Understanding:
19. Students understand that:
  • It is important to ask questions to learn the meanings of unfamiliar words.
19a.
  • Words can be related to each other, such as some words having similar meanings (synonyms) and some words having opposite meanings (antonyms).
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: K
33. Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
33.
  • Express
  • Ideas
  • Orally
  • Connect
  • Drawing
  • Emergent writing
Knowledge:
33. Students know:
  • Techniques for using discussion, drawing, and basic writing to express their thoughts.
Skills:
33. Students are able to:
  • Express ideas orally.
  • Connect ideas through drawing and emergent writing to express their thoughts.
Understanding:
33. Students understand that:
  • They can express ideas through discussion, drawing, and basic writing.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
8. Apply previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decodable words with accuracy and automaticity, in and out of context.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
8.
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences
  • Decodable words
  • Accuracy
  • Automaticity
  • In context
  • Out of context
Knowledge:
8.
  • Phoneme-grapheme correspondences in decodable words.
  • Accuracy is getting something correct, and automaticity is reading the word quickly without having to sound it out.
Skills:
8. Students are able to:
  • Accurately and automatically decode words by applying previously-taught phoneme-grapheme correspondences, in and out of context.
Understanding:
8. Students understand that:
  • Fluent readers use known phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decode words correctly and quickly.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 1
12. Ask and answer questions about unfamiliar words and phrases in discussions and/or text.

a. Identify possessives and plurals and use them as clues to the meaning of text.

Example: Jack's coat, mom's car; pigs, pig's, pigs'

b. Identify meaningful parts of words (morphemes) and use them as clues to the meaning of unknown words, including frequently occurring affixes and inflections -s, -es, -ed, -ing, -er, and -est.

Examples: Explain that adding suffix -s changes a singular noun to a plural noun and adding suffix -ed changes a verb to past tense.

c. Describe word relationships and nuances in word meanings, including relating them to their opposites and distinguishing shades of meaning in similar or related words.

Examples: look, peek, glance, stare, glare; big, large, gigantic, monstrous
Act out tiptoe, creep, and march to distinguish shades of meaning in words related to walk.
Discuss synonyms and antonyms.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
12.
  • Unfamiliar words
  • Unfamiliar phrases
  • Discussions
  • Text
12a.
  • Identify
  • Possessives
  • Plurals
  • Meaning of text
12b.
  • Meaningful word parts
  • Morphemes
  • Unknown words
  • Affixes
  • Inflections
12c.
  • Word relationships
  • Nuances in word meanings
  • Opposites
  • Shades of meaning
  • Similar or related words
Knowledge:
12. Students know:
  • Strategies for identifying unfamiliar words and phrases in discussions and/or text.
  • Several question stems related to unfamiliar words or phrases in discussions and/or text.
  • Techniques for clarifying unfamiliar words and phrases in discussions and/or text.
12a.
  • The features of possessive nouns.
  • The features of plural nouns.
12b.
  • Words are made of meaningful word parts called morphemes.
  • Morphemes can provide clues about the meaning of a word.
12c.
  • Word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
Skills:
12. Students are able to:
  • Identify unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Ask questions about unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Answer questions about unfamiliar words and phrases.
  • Clarify meaning of words and phrases through questions.
12a.
  • Identify possessives and plurals of words, such as pigs, pig's, pigs'.
  • Use the possessives and plurals of a word to determine the meaning of a text, like Jack's coat, mom's car.
12b.
  • Recognize meaningful parts of words (morphemes).
  • Utilize morphemes as clues to identify the meaning of unknown words.
  • Use affixes as clues to the meaning of unknown words.
  • Identify frequently occurring root words and their inflectional forms.
12c.
  • Describe word relationships and slight variations in meaning, such as look, peek, glance, stare, glare; big, large, gigantic, monstrous.
  • Describe word relationships by relating words of opposite meanings (antonyms) and similar meanings (synonyms).
  • Distinguish shades of meaning in related words, like acting out tiptoe, creep, and march to distinguish nuances in words related to walk.
Understanding:
12. Students understand that:
  • It is important to ask questions about unfamiliar words and phrases to clarify the meaning of new vocabulary words.
12a.
  • Making a word possessive or plural changes the meaning of a text.
12b.
  • Identifying root words and affixes provide clues to the meaning of unknown words and phrases.
12c.
  • Writers and speakers should carefully select words to convey specific meanings, ideas, and relationships.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
R1. Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation.
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Teacher Vocabulary:
R1.
  • Active Listening
  • Discussion
  • Conversation
  • Rules
  • Participation
Knowledge:
R1. Students know:
  • Active listening skills.
  • Agreed-upon rules for participation for discussions and conversations in a variety of settings.
Skills:
R1. Students are able to:
  • Demonstrate active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings.
  • Converse in pairs, small groups, and large groups.
  • Practice the agreed-upon rules for participation.
Understanding:
R1. Students understand that:
  • Conversations and discussions follow agreed-upon rules to help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
12. Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
12.
  • Reread
  • Grade-appropriate text
  • Accurately
  • Automatically
  • Meaningful expression
  • Rate which supports comprehension
Knowledge:
12. Students know:
  • Accurately means reading without mistakes and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out.
  • Techniques to make appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression while reading orally.
  • Reading must occur at a speed (rate) that supports understanding of the text.
  • Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension.
Skills:
12. Students are able to:
  • Read and reread words that are second grade-appropriate with little to no mistakes.
  • Read words quickly without pausing to sound them out.
  • Read and reread at a pace that supports comprehension of the text.
Understanding:
12. Students understand that:
  • They should read text with accuracy, automaticity, and meaningful expression at a pace that helps them comprehend the text they are reading.
  • They can reread text to improve their accuracy, automaticity, and comprehension.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
17. Analyze meaningful parts of words and phrases in discussions and/or text.

a. Identify possessives and plurals and use them as clues to the meaning of text.

Example: girl's dress; boys' game; cats, cat's, cats'; houses, house's shutters

b. Identify meaningful parts of words (morphemes) and use them as clues to the meaning of unknown words, including base words, compound words, and frequently occurring affixes and inflections.

Examples: -less, -ful, -est

Note: Adding suffix -est changes an adjective to a superlative adjective; adding suffix -ful changes the part of speech.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
17.
  • Analyze
  • Meaningful word parts
  • Phrases
17a.
  • Possessives
  • Plurals
17b.
  • Identify
  • Meaningful parts of words
  • Morphemes
  • Base words
  • Compound words
  • Affixes
  • Inflections
Knowledge:
17. Students know:
  • Words can be divided into parts to learn the meaning of the word.
  • Phrases are groups of words that carry meaning.
17a.
  • That possessives show ownership, and plural mean more than one.
17b.
  • Words can be divided into smaller parts that carry meaning, which are called morphemes.
  • Compound words are one word made of two independent, base words (example: hot dog is made of hot and dog).
  • Affixes and inflections can be added to words to change their meaning.
Skills:
17. Students are able to:
  • Identify and analyze meaningful parts of words or phrases in discussions and/or text.
17a.
  • Identify possessives by the apostrophe either before or after the s, such as girl's dress; boys' game.
  • Identify plurals by the -s or -es at the end of singular words, such as cats; houses.
  • Use possessives and plurals as clues to the meaning of the text, such as cats, cat's cats'; houses, house's shutters.
17b.
  • Break words down into their smallest meaningful parts (morphemes) to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
  • Identify suffixes like -less, -est, -ful to determine the meaning of an unknown word.
  • Divide compound words into their smaller individual words to determine the meaning of unknown words.
Understanding:
17. Students understand that:
  • Words can be divided into smaller units that carry meaning.
  • Phrases are groups of words that carry meaning.
17a.
  • Possessives and plurals may change the meaning of text.
17b.
  • They can break words into smaller parts to determine the meaning of words that they don't know.
  • Knowing affixes and inflections can also help them determine the meaning of unknown words.
  • Compound words are made of two base words, and they can divide the compound word into two parts.
Tags: acrostic poems, Allen Baker, alliteration, alphabet organizer, class book, interactive, Look Who Lives in the Ocean, multigenre mapper, ocean, water, writing
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