The Literacy Block
Unit 1 Week 5
Time
15 min.
Day 1
Reading
Build Background
for the story
-Starting your
own business
Day 2
Language Arts
Writing Trait:
Sentence
Fluency/Sentenc
e Length
Day 3
Mini-lesson:
Main Idea and
Key Details
Day 4
Mini-lesson:
Reread
Day 5
Mini-lesson:
GenrePersuasive
Article
Day 6
Mini-lesson:
Writing about
reading –
Comparing Texts
Day 7
Assessment
Choices:
Weekly
assessment
OR
15 min.
Introduce
vocabulary in
context
compassionate
enterprise
exceptional
funds
process
routine
undertaking
15 min.
Strategy Minilesson:
Reread
Writing Process:
Prewrite and
begin draft of
Personal
Narrative
Mini-lesson:
Mini-lesson:
Vocabulary
Revising for
Strategy: Suffixes sentence length
Mini-lesson:
Close reading of
Kids in Business
Mini-lesson:
Editing
Word Study:
Introduction of
word list, initial
sort, written sort
Small Group
Instruction and
Independent
Practice Stations
(Next 4 rotations
are happening
simultaneously)
Small Group
Instruction and
Independent
Practice Stations
(Next 4 rotations
are happening
simultaneously)
Small Group
Instruction and
Independent
Practice Stations
(Next 4 rotations
are happening
simultaneously)
Small Group
Instruction and
Independent
Practice Stations
(Next 4 rotations
are happening
simultaneously)
~With Teacher
Depending on
student needsskill, strategy,
vocabulary, word
study, writing
~With Teacher
Depending on
student needsskill, strategy,
vocabulary, word
study, writing
~With Teacher
Depending on
student needsskill, strategy,
vocabulary, word
study, writing
~With Teacher
Depending on
student needsskill, strategy,
vocabulary, word
study, writing
Word Study
Assessment
OR
Analytical
Writing:
Text Connections
(Connect to
essential
question)
AND/OR
Write About
Reading
(Analyze to
inform or explain)
15 min.
Skill Mini-lesson:
Main Idea and
Key Details
Word Study:
Introduction of
word list, initial
sort, written sort
~Read to
someone: Main
idea and key
details
~Read to self:
Main idea and
key details
~Read to self:
~Read to self:
Reread with post- Reread with postits
its
Introduction to
Story:
Shared reading
Word Study:
Introduction of
word list, initial
sort, written sort
~Word Work:
Independent
written sort,
practice with
suffixes, story
vocabulary
practice
~Word Work:
Independent
speed sort,
practice with
suffixes, story
vocabulary
practice
~Word Work:
Independent
word hunt or
blind sort,
practice with
suffixes, story
vocabulary
practice
~Word Work:
Independent
written sort,
practice with
suffixes, story
vocabulary
practice
Grammar:
Run-on
Sentences
~Work on
Writing:
Grammar:
Practice with runon sentences
Trait: Sentence
fluency/sentence
length
Process: Draft
continued
~Work on
Writing:
Grammar:
Practice with runon sentences
Trait: Sentence
fluency/sentence
length
Process:
Revising
~Work on
Writing:
Grammar:
Practice with runon sentences
Trait: Sentence
fluency/sentence
length
Process:
Revising
~Work on
Writing:
Grammar:
Practice with runon sentences
Trait: Sentence
fluency/sentence
length
Process: editing
15 min.
15 min.
Independent
Reading
Strategy practice
Assessment for
each cycle must
include:
A weekly
assessment OR
a word study
assessment OR
an analytical
writing piece
AND an
analytical
writing piece