Unit 3 Week 2 Day 1: Dear Juno

Theme: Creative Ideas

High Frequency: answer, company, faraway, parents, picture, school, wash

Vocabulary (Amazing Words): correspond, postage, transport

Grammar: verbs with singular and plural nouns

Background Knowledge / This week we are going to read and talk about ways we communicate with
each other. Watch someone use a cell phone or send an e-mail. Science
makes keeping in touch easy.
How do many ways can we communicate?
Name some of the ways Pearl and Wagner communicated with each other
in the story.
Friends keep in touch with each other. What are some ways Pearl and
Wagner could communicate when they are not in school?
Poster 12
Poster Talk-through – read aloud and point as you describe the poster.
Students need to respond to the following questions with complete sentence.
Error Corrections: If needed, model, test, and ask the same question at the end of this section to retest.
What is this poster all about? How people communicate
Name all the ways people are communicating in the poster? Writing a
letter and sending in an envelope with a stamp and , sending an e-mail
on a computer.
Which one do you think is the fastest? Which one is the easiest?
Let’s talk about communication. (Students need to respond in complete sentences.
Error Corrections: If needed, model, test, and ask the same question at the end of this section to retest.
How do you communicate?
Do you use computers at school to communicate?
Do you use computers at home to communicate?
Videos: Greatest Inventions with Bill Nye: Communication—hour long video that may be broken into segments showing different communication inventions
Oral
Vocabulary
Introduction / Poster 12
All of the children in the poster are answering each other’s correspondence.
Correspond means to communicate with someone.
Say it with me. Get ready.. ...correspond means to communicate with
someone.
Say it by yourselves. ? Get ready…correspond means to communicate with
someone.
What do call it when you communicate with someone? correspond
The two girls corresponded through e-mail.
You need postage to mail a letter. Postage means the fee to mail something.
Say it with me. Get ready….postage means the fee to mail something.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…. postage means the fee to mail something.
What do we call a fee to mail something? postage
A postage stamp cost 44 cents?
Mail is transported from one place to another. Transport meansto take or
carry goods.
Say it with me. Get ready... transport means to take or carry goods.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…transport means to take or carry goods.
What do we call to take or carry goods? transport
Postal workers transport letters.
High Frequency
Words / answer, company, faraway, parents, picture, school, wash
Help children to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
Here are this week’s high frequency words.
This word is answer. What word? answer
Everyone, spell answer. a-n-s-w-e-r
What word did you spell? answer
This word is company. What word? company
Everyone, spell company. c-o-m-p-a-n-y
What word did you spell? company
This word is faraway. What word? faraway
Everyone, spell science. f-a-r-a-w-a-y
What word did you spell? faraway
This word is parents. What word? parents
Everyone, spell parents. p-a-r-e-n-t-s
What word did you spell? parents
This word is picture. What word? picture
Everyone, spellpicture. p-i-c-t-u-r-e
What word did you spell? picture
This word is school. What word? school
Everyone, spell school. s-c-h-o-o-l
What word did you spell? school
This word is wash. What word? wash
Everyone, spell wash. w-a-s-h
What word did you spell? wash
Second Time
When I touch under the word, say the word in your head.
When I tap under the word, everyone will say the word aloud.
Practice the word list until they read the list without errors.
Define
answer: a reaction to a question
company: association with someone
faraway: distant in space or time
parents: a father or mother
picture: a painting or drawing
school: a place to educate children
wash: clean with water
Reading Comprehension / Distribute copies of Pen Pals (Picture It) – ELL Teaching Guide page 79
Have students look at the picture and tell what is happening.
Read the story aloud.
Help students to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
What does Ignacio’s drawing tell about him? He has family pets.
What does Karen’s drawing tell you about her? She has lots of family.
Do you think Karen and Ignacio like being pen pals? Why?
Help student fill out the worksheet using Drawing Conclusions.
Read the Multilingual summary ELL Teaching guide on pages 82 - 84

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