Unit Theme: How Do People Get from Here to There?

Unit 5 Week 2 Mayday! Mayday!

Unit Theme: How do people get from here to there?

ELL Planning Sheet

High Frequency Words:yellow, blue, green

New Phonics Skills: Xx /x/

Grammar: Question Sentences

Amazing Vocabulary:rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering

Story Vocabulary:adrift,turbines, “short taxi”, “whipping into gale”, swell, hoisted aboard, diagram

Unit 1 Proposed Assessment Plan

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Unit 5 Week 2 Mayday! Mayday!

Unit Theme: How do people get from here to there?

Day 1

High Frequency Words: yellow, blue, green

New Phonics Skills: Xx /x/

Grammar: Question Sentences

Amazing Vocabulary: rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering

Story Vocabulary: adrift,turbines, “short taxi”, “whipping into gale”, swell, hoisted aboard, diagram

• Poster Talk-through – read aloud and point as you describe the poster. Have students repeat the underlined words in the script, after you say them and identify on the poster.
• Students need to respond to the following questions with one of the embedded answer choices or complete sentence as modeled.
• Error Corrections: If needed, model, test, and ask the same question at the end of this section to retest.
• Are these people at camp or at school? These people are at camp
• Can you point to something in the picture that is the color green?
• What color is the water, green, or blue? The water is blue.
• This girl in the water is acting like she is tired and cannot swim anymore.
• Are the people going to use the sea plane or the boat to help the girl in the water? The people will use the boat to help the girl in the water.
• What color are the life vests the people are wearing, blue or yellow? The life vests are yellow.
• Does a sea plane land in the water or on land? A sea plane lands in the water.
• How does a sea plane get into the air?
• A sea plane will move across the top of the water, getting faster and faster until it is able to fly in the air.
• Another word for moving across the water, is to taxi across the water.
• What is another word for moving across the water? Taxi
• If the girl needed to get to a hospital, would the people use the sea plane or the boat? The people would use a sea plane.

• This helicopter is trying to rescue someone.
• Rescue means to help people get out of danger.
• What does rescue mean? to help people get out of danger.
• What is the word to help people get out of danger? Rescue
• A fireman can rescue people in danger.
• Can you think of people that can rescue someone in danger?A (Policeman, national guard…) can rescue someone in danger.
• A person who flies a helicopter or a plane is called a pilot.
• What does a pilot do? The pilot flies a helicopter or a plane.
• What do we call a person who flies a helicopter or a plane? A pilot
• Display pg. 8-9. Who is this person sitting in the front of the helicopter? A pilot
• This type of boat is called a yacht.
• A yacht is big enough to go in the ocean.
• Where can a yacht go? I yacht can go in the ocean.
• A yacht has an upstairs and a down stairs.
• Display pg. 4-5. What is this a picture of? A yacht.
• What is wrong with the yacht?
• I think this yacht is in danger .

• Think Aloud: I see a helicopter trying to rescue some people in the water. The title of this book isMayday! Mayday! What do you think Mayday, Mayday means?
• When someone is in danger and needs to be rescued they can send out a message saying Mayday, Mayday. This tells other people that someone is in danger and needs help.
• What could you say if you were in danger and needed to be rescued? Help or Mayday, Mayday.
• Do a picture walk and discuss what is happening on each page. (Do not read the text) Encourage and support students to use phrases and complete sentences when talking about the pictures.
• For Example: pg. 4-5 There is a storm out above the ocean. This Yacht looks like it is in danger. The people have sent a Mayday, Mayday call. They need help.
• Pg. 6-7 These people are running to the helicopter. They are called the coast guard. The coast guard helps to rescue people in the water.
• Pg. 8-9 This is the mechanic, swimmer and pilot. They are checking to make sure all their things are ready for a rescue.

• Here are this week’s high frequency words.
• This word is yellow. What word? yellow
• This word is blue. What word? blue
• This word is green. What word? green

• Please say the /x/ sound……/x/ /x/ /x/
• Say fox…. fox. What sound do you hear at the end of fox? /x/
• Sometimes the /x/sound can happen at the beginning of a word
• Most of the time the /x/ sounds happens at the end of the word.
• Say fix…fix. What sound do you hear at the end of fix? /x/
• Say box … box. What sound do you hear at the end of box? /x/
• Say fix the box… fix the box
• Say mix…mix. What sound do you hear at the end of mix? /x/
• Say six…six. What sound do you hear at the end of six? /x/
• Say mix six…..mix six
• Say max…max. What sound do you hear at the end of max? /x/
• Say fox…fox. What sound do you hear at the end of fox? /x/
• Say Max the fox…..Max the fox

• Use three fingers to help children see the number of sounds you say while segmenting a word. Model then have students repeat.
• Segment the word mix. Hold up fingers as you say the individual sounds. “mix m – i –x”
• Say it with me. mix m – i –x
• You (Students) do it. mix m – i –x
• Model putting fingers together and blending the sound
• Say it with me: mix
• You (students) do it: mix
• Repeat with the following words: fix, fox, six, fox

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Unit 5 Week 2 Mayday! Mayday!

Unit Theme: How do people get from here to there?

Day 2

High Frequency Words: yellow, blue, green

New Phonics Skills: Xx /x/

Grammar: Question Sentences

Amazing Vocabulary: rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering

Story Vocabulary: adrift,turbines, “short taxi”, “whipping into gale”, swell, hoisted aboard, diagram

• This helicopter is trying to rescue someone.
• Rescue means to help people get out of danger.
• What does rescue mean? to help people get out of danger.
• What is the word to help people get out of danger? Rescue
• A person who flies a helicopter or a plane is called a pilot.
• What does a pilot do? The pilot flies a helicopter or a plane.
• What do we call a person who flies a helicopter or a plane? A pilot
• This type of boat is called a yacht.
• A yacht is big enough to go in the ocean.
• Where can a yacht go? I yacht can go in the ocean.
• A person who works on a yacht or a boat is called a sailor .
• What does a sailor do? A sailor works on a boat.
• What do we call people who work on a boat? A sailor
• Display pg 4-5. What do we call these people that are in the yacht? Sailors.
• Display pg 22-23. Now the sailors are getting off the yacht and into a raft. Read the text on the page.
• Display pg 26-27. Now the sailors are getting out of the raft and into the basket. Read the text on the page
• Display pg 30-31. Now where is the sailor going? The sailor is going up to the helicopter.
• Display and read pg 32-33. How do the sailors feel? The sailors are cold and tired.
• This person is a mechanic.
• A mechanic is a person who knows how to fix and run machines.
• What does a mechanic do? A mechanic can fix and run machines.
• What do we call a person that can fix and run machines? A mechanic
• Diplaypg 8-9. These person sitting here is the mechanic. Sometimes people will call him mech. Read the text on the page.
• What does the mech or mechanic do before the helicopter goes up in the air? The mechanic puts on his seatbelt and puts his bags away.
• Display pg 24-25. The mechanic drops the basket down into the water.
• What is the mechanic doing? The mechanic drops the basket down into the water.
• The mechanic on a rescue helicopter has another job. Display pg 28-29. The pilot cannot see what is happening under the helicopter in the water. The mechanic tells the pilot what is going on and what to do.
• How does the mechanic help the pilot? The mechanic tells the piot what is happening in the water.
• Display and read pg. 16-17.
• Show flare pictures on the page after Day 2
• If you are in danger and need to be rescued you can light a flare and it will help people to see where you are.
• What does a flare do? Make light so people can see where you are.
• Shimmering describes something that sparkles in the light.
• The sky isshimmering red, or sparkling red from the flare.
• What does shimmering mean? something that sparkles in the light

• One way we can better understand a story is to think about what happened and why it happened. This is called cause and effect.
• Something that happened in the story was coast guard rescued sailors. (fill this in on the what happened side of the graphic organizer.)
• Why , or what caused the coast guard to rescue the sailors? Because they sent out a Mayday, Mayday message. (Fill this in on the cause side of the graphic organizer.)
• Complete for the following cause/effect relationships
• The yacht tipped over. Why?Because there was a bad storm

• A sentence that asks something is called a question?
• What is a question? A sentence that asks something
• What do we call a sentence that asks something? A question
• Display sentence question page. Something is wrong with all these questions. Can you see what is wrong?
• What do we need to put at the beginning of a questions sentence? A capital letter.
• What do we need to put at the end of a question sentence? A question mark?
• Read each question and have students direct you on how to fix the mistakes.

• Hold up a X letter card. This is the letter X. It makes the /x/ sound.
• Give each student a X letter card.
• Trace the letter X on your card and say /x/.
• What sound does this letter make? /x/
• What is the name of this letter? X

• I am going to say three words. One of the wordsends with the /x/ sound, hold up the letter X card for that word.
• Max, mike, molly
• Taco, tax, talk
• Milk, mix, water
• Rover, Rex, Buddy

• Use the page with arrows and blocks to practice blending words together.
• With students slowly sound out each letter while pointing to the letter with finger.
• With students repeat sounding out and pointing at a faster speed.
• With students repeat reading and pointing at a normal speed.

WHAT WHY

HAPPENED

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Unit 5 Week 2 Mayday! Mayday!

Unit Theme: How do people get from here to there?

where are the cookies

are you five or six

do you want more crayons

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Unit 5 Week 2 Mayday! Mayday!

Unit Theme: How do people get from here to there?

Day 3

High Frequency Words: yellow, blue, green

New Phonics Skills: Xx /x/

Grammar: Question Sentences

Amazing Vocabulary: rescue, pilot, yacht, sailor, mechanic, shimmering

Story Vocabulary: adrift,turbines, “short taxi”, “whipping into gale”, swell, hoisted aboard, diagram

• Display and read pg 4-5.
• This boat is adrift. Adrift means that the sailors are not able to drive or direct the boat. The boat is being carried away by the waves.
• Display and read pg 10-11.
• These are the turbines on the helicopter. Turbines help to give the helicopter engine power.
• A “short taxi” means that the helicopter rolls across the top of the ground before it goes in the air.
• Display and read pg 18-19.
• A gale is a very strong wind that can be dangerous. The winds are whipping into a gale – or the winds are getting very strong.
• What is a gale? A very strong wind

• One way we can better understand a story is to think about what happened and why it happened. This is called cause and effect.
• Something that happened in the story was coast guard gets in the helicopter. (fill this in on the what happened side of the graphic organizer.)
• Why , or what caused the coast guard to get in the helicopter? Because they got a Mayday, Mayday message. (Fill this in on the cause side of the graphic organizer.)
• Complete for the following cause/effect relationships
• The sailors are tired and cold. Why? Because they have been fighting the storm

• A sentence that asks something is called a question?
• What is a question? A sentence that asks something
• What do we call a sentence that asks something? A question
• Display the picture of a cat
• Have students think of a question to ask about the cat.
• After is question is said have the other students repeat the question
• Have students write a question about the cat.
• Review with students that all questions start with a capital letter, spaces between words and a question mark at the end.

• Hold up a X letter card. This is the letter X. It makes the /x/ sound.
• Give each student a X letter card.
• Trace the letter X on your card and say /x/.
• What sound does this letter make? /x/
• What is the name of this letter? X
• I am going to say a sentence. One of the words has an /x/ sound. Hold up your card when you hear the /x/ sounds.
• The ox ran.
• The snake is in the box.
• Max pets the duck.
• I have six fish.
• Use the page with arrows and blocks to practice blending words together.
• With students slowly sound out each letter while pointing to the letter with finger.
• With students repeat sounding out and pointing at a faster speed.
• With students repeat reading and pointing at a normal speed.

WHAT WHY