Unit 3 Week 5 Day 1: A Weed is a Flower

Theme: Creative Ideas

High Frequency: clothes, hours, money, neighbor, only, question taught

Vocabulary (Amazing Words): excel, process, research

Grammar: am, is, are, was, and were

Background Knowledge / This week we are going to read and about where and how people get their
creative ideas. Creative people discover many new things.
Where do they get their ideas?
Where do creative ideas come from?
In Pearl and Wagner, how did Wagner get the idea to make the robot
speak to the judge?
In Anansi Goes Fishing, how did Anansi get the idea that he could do all the
Work and not get tired while he was fishing?
Poster 15
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?
Where does the poster take place?
What are the characters doing in the poster?
Let’s talk about where and how people get their creative ideas. (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.
Name someone you know of that had a creative idea and how it helped
other people.
Do you think people that cook and make up recipes are creative?
Video: George Washington Carver-an Overview—non-narrated four minute clip giving an overview of his life and geared for younger students;Snipets—George Washington Carver—one minute clip about G.W. Carver; George Washington Carver—An Uncommon Way—a two minute trailer that gives an overview of his life
Oral
Vocabulary
Introduction / Poster 15
The woman in the poster excels in cooking. Excels means being very good.
Say it with me. Get ready.. ...excel means being very good.
Say it by yourselves. ? Get ready…excel means being very good.
What do call being very good? excel
I wish I could excel in cooking.
The jam has to process. Process means steps taken to reach an end.
Say it with me. Get ready….process means steps taken to reach an end,
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…. process means steps taken to reach an end.
What do we call steps taken to reach an end? Process
There are many steps to process jam.
It takes a lot of research to write a cookbook Research means gathering
Information,
Say it with me. Get ready... research means gathering information.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…research means gathering information.
What do we call gathering information?research
The cook did many hours of research.
High Frequency
Words / clothes, hours, money, neighbor, only, question, taught
Help children to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
Here are this week’s high frequency words.
This word is clothes. What word? Clothes
Everyone, spell clothes. c-l-o-t-h-e-s
What word did you spell? clothes
This word ishours. What word? hours
Everyone, spell hour. h-o-u-r
What word did you spell? hour
This word is money. What word? money
Everyone, spell money. m-o-n-e-y
What word did you spell? money
This word is neighbor. What word? neighbor
Everyone, spell neighbor. n-e-i-g-h-b-o-r-h-o-o-d
What word did you spell? neighborhood
This word is only. What word? only
Everyone, spell only. o-n-l-y
What word did you spell? only
This word is question. What word? question
Everyone, spell question. q-u-e-s-t-i-o-n
What word did you spell? question
This word is taught. What word? taught
Everyone, spell taught. t-a-u-g-h-t
What word did you spell? taught
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
clothes: items worn to cover body
hours: a period of time equal to 60 minutes
money: something accepted as means of payment
neighbor: a person living near
only: without others
question: an expression of inquiry
taught: show or explain
Reading Comprehension / Distribute copies of A Bright Idea (Picture It) – ELL Teaching Guide page 100)
Have students look at the picture and tell what is happening.
Read the story aloud.
Help students do Cause and Effect worksheet.
Read the Multilingual summary ELL Teaching guide on pages 103-105

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