Unit 1 Week 1 Day 1: Iris and Walter

Unit 1 Week 1 Day 1: Iris and Walter

Theme: Exploration

High Frequency: someone, somewhere, friend, country, beautiful, front

Vocabulary (Amazing Words): investigate, rural, urban

Grammar: Sentences

Background Knowledge / This week we are going to read and talk about what we might discover in a new neighborhood. A neighborhood is a place where people live. There are two different kinds of neighborhoods – rural and urban. Rural is in the country and urban is in the city.
Do you live in a rural neighborhood in the country or an urban neighborhood in the city?
What kind of neighborhood has lots of open space but not many people?
Which one has lots of people and buildings but not very much open space?
Poster 1
Poster Talk-through – read aloud and point as you describe the poster.
Students need to respond to the following questions in complete sentences.
Error Corrections: If needed, model, test, and ask the same question at the end of this section to retest.
What is this man doing? The man is walking to work.
What are the children doing? The children are playing in the water.
What are the women doing? The women are visiting or talking.
Let’s talk about this neighborhood. (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.
What kind of store is this? The store is a grocery store.
What was this lady doing before she sat down to visit? The lady was grocery
shopping?
What was this lady doing before she sat to visit? This lady was walking a dog.
Whom do you think the girl is waving to? The girl is waving to the boy in front
of the door.
Videos: City, Suburb, and Rural Communities—16 minute video compares/contrasts these three types of communities; Rural and Urban Communities—a six minute video on youtube compares/contrasts a rural home with an urban home; Country Mouse and City Mouse—six minute video from youtube animates the popular children’s story
Oral
Vocabulary
Introduction / Poster 1
This neighborhood is an urban neighborhood. An urban neighborhood is in the city,
Say it with me. Get ready.. .. An urban neighborhood is in the city.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… An urban neighborhood is in the city.
What do we call a neighborhood in the city? An urban neighborhood.
My friend lives in an urban neighborhood with lots of houses.
Another kind of neighborhood is a rural neighborhood. A rural neighborhood
is in the country.
Say it with me. Get ready….A rural neighborhood is in the country.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready…. A rural neighborhood is in the country.
What do we call a neighborhood in the country? A rural neighborhood
The boy lives in a rural neighborhood where there are lots of horses.
Investigate means to find out all about something.
Say it with me. Get ready... Investigate means to find out all about
something.
Say it by yourselves. Get ready… Investigate means to find out all about
something.
What do we call finding out all about something? Investigate
Let’s investigate out new neighborhood. We found a nice park near our house
when we investigated.
Make a T-chart with the titles City and Country. Record student’s responses on the chart as to the differences between them.
High Frequency
Words / beautiful, country , friend, front, someone, somewhere
Help children to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
Here are this week’s high frequency words.
This word is beautiful. What word? beautiful
Everyone, spell beautiful. b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l
What word did you spell? beautiful
This word is country. What word? country
Everyone, spell country. c-o-u-n-t-r-y
What word did you spell? country
This word is friend. What word? friend
Everyone, spell friend. f-r-i-e-n-d
What word did you spell? friend
This word is front. What word? front
Everyone, spell front. f-r-o-n-t
What word did you spell? front
This word is someone. What word? someone
Everyone, spell someone. s-o-m-e-o-n-e
What word did you spell? someone
This word is somewhere. What word? somewhere
Everyone, spell somewhere. s-o-m-e-w-h-e-r-e
What word did you spell? somewhere
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
beautiful: having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction
country: out of the city where there are no buildings
friend: a person whom one knows, likes, and trusts
front: the part or side of anything that faces forward
someone: an unspecified or unknown person.
somewhere: in or at some place not specified, determined, or known
Reading Comprehension / Distribute copies of A New Home (Picture It) – ELL Teaching Guide page 2
Have students look at the picture and tell what is happening.
Read the sentences aloud.
Help students to respond to questions using complete sentences when appropriate.
Who is the story about? This story Is about Julie.
Are the characters people or animals? The characters are people.
What is the setting of this story? The setting is in front of Julie’s new house.
What is Nina like? Nina is friendly
Listen as I read you what the story Iris and Walter is about.
Read the Multilingual summary of Iris and Walter. – ELL Teaching guide pages 5-7

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