Hector Alvarez

SPEDE 776
3 Nov 2014
2-Week Unit Plan

WEEK 1
Monday Guided
Reading
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20

11:25-12:15

12:20-1:20

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Guided Reading: Read aloud of Humpty
Dumpty. Children and teachers will skim
through the book to describe what they
see and the pictures and analyze what
might be happening. They will then go
back to desks to cut out pictures of
humpty dumpty story and place them in
the prior sequence. Children will then
share the order they put it in.
Stations/Independent reading:
o Stations
IPad station for interactive
Humpty Dumpty story game
Writing station where they
practice writing the words
Humpty Dumpty
o Independent Reading
Understanding the concept of the number
5 through Humpty Dumpty word problems
Lunch

Tuesday (Word Study)

8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20
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11:25-12:15
12:20-1:20
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Children unpack and have breakfast

Morning meeting
Word study: Humpty Dumpty Read Aloud
is read.
o Children learn concept of rhyming
o Based on ability to rhyming,
children will fill in the blanks in
Humpty Dumpty
o Children will create a list of all-word
families. (i.e. Words that rhyme with
ball & fall)
Matching Based on Rhyming: Cut and
Paste Activity
o Students will cut and past pictures
depicting humpty dumpty events
and match it to pictures of rhyming
words
o Independent Reading
ART: Cracked eggshell collage project
Lunch

Wednesday
Writers Workshop
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20
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11:25-12:15
-

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Writers Workshop: Humpty Dumpty
o Humpty Dumpty read aloud once
more.
o Children discussed what happened
in the story and what could have
changed in the story
o Children will write their alternative
ending of humpty dumpty through
the use of pictures and labeling
Children will act out the original humpty
dumpty as a group.
o They will then act out several
different Humpty Dumpty
alternative stories written by peers
in class
Science: Children will do science egg
experiment. Children will experiment

bouncing a raw egg, a boiled egg, and an

egg soaked in vinegar. They will then
chart results

Thursday Readers
Workshop
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Readers Workshop: Students will read
and analyze Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
by using rhyming to fill in the blanks

10:30-11:20

11:25-12:15

Science: Children are read story Stars!

Stars! Stars,! by Bob Barner.
o Comprehension questions are asked
o Video on stars is shown
Math: Children will practice the concept of
adding two through the use of stars seen
in the sky
Lunch

12:20-1:20
Friday (Math)
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20
11:25-12:15

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Shared Reading:
o Children will read along with
teacher
o They will fill in rhyming blanks
o Vocabulary word: Twinkle
Gym
Math: Children will learn about greater,
less than or equal to
o They will work on fluency counting
using fingers

12:20-1:20
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o They will count and list how many

times the word twinkle appears in
the nursery rhyme. They will also
count and list how many sets of
rhyming words there are
o Finally, they will compare which list
is greater, which is less, or equal (if
appropriate)
Lunch

WEEK 2
Monday
Readers workshop
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

Predicting pictures
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10:30-11:20
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11:25-12:15
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12:20-1:20

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Readers Workshop: Students will skim
through pictures of story, The Hare and
the Tortoise and discuss their
interpretation of the pictures. They will
try to decipher what the general topic of
the story is
o Students will listen to read-aloud
o Discussion question will be provided
to assess comprehension
Stations/Independent reading:
o Stations
IPad racing game. Children
must answer questions in
order to help the tortoise win
Children practice writing their
names to strengthen fine
motor skills
o Independent Reading
Students will learn about number orders
and the concept of number 6
o Each number will have a picture of
an event from the Hare and the
Tortoise. Children will practice
placing numbers in order by
recalling the sequence of events in

the story
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Lunch

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Word Study:
o Children will learn vocabulary words
to understand comprehension of
text. Ex. Boasted, steadily, darted
o Children will practice saying this
word in sentences and share with
classroom
o Read aloud will be done

Stations/Independent reading:
o Stations
IPad racing game. Children
must answer questions in
order to help the tortoise win
Children enhance
understanding of vocabulary
words learned by drawing a
picture for each new
vocabulary word they saw
o Independent Reading

ART: Students will create finger puppets

of the tortoise or the hare

Lunch

Tuesday
Word Study
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20

11:25-12:15
12:20-1:20

Wednesday
Writers Workshop
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20
11:25-12:15
12:20-1:20

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Writers Workshop: Children will learn
about elements of a fable through The
Tortoise and the Hare
o Read aloud of Tortoise and the
Hare
Children will be asked to create their own
fable through pictures by including all
elements of a fable

Gym
Lunch

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Guided Reading: Children will learn about
opposites The Tortoise and the Hare
Read aloud of Tortoise and the Hare.
They will create a list with words in the
fable and a column next to it with the
opposite meaning
Children will be asked to draw a line to
match pictures of words with other
pictures that represent opposites
Children will do math word problems
related to speed using events in the story
Lunch

Thursday
Guided Reading
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

10:30-11:20
11:25-12:15
12:20-1:20
Friday
Science
8:30-9:00
9:05-9:30
9:35-10:25

Children unpack and have breakfast

Children will have morning meeting
Shared Reading on The Desert Tortoise,
by Sue Fox. Teacher will ask reading
comprehension questions in order to
chart characteristics of a tortoise

10:30-11:20

Based on characteristics of tortoise

children will come with animals that have
the opposite characteristic. Ex. A turtle

has a hard shell for its body, but what

animal has a soft body? A tortoise walks
slowly on land, what animals move fast?
11:25-12:15

12:20-1:20
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Science: Tortoise
o They will then learn about its
habitats
o They will compare similarities and
differences to a turtle
Lunch

Hector,
Your two week plan is excellent. You have really tried to incorporate a variety of
lessons into this unit. Very clear and detailed! Great work! 5/5