English Language Arts Houghton Mifflin Harcourt JOURNEYS COMMON CORE

Grade: Unit: Lesson: 2 3 14Essential Question: Anchor Text:How can you communicate in different ways? Helen Keller

BiographyTalking ToolsInformational Text

Writing: Reading Literature & Informational Text: Foundational Skills:Opinion Writing: Persuasive Essay

Comprehension Skills and StrategiesTARGET SKILL

Author’s Purpose Biography

TARGET STRATEGY Summarize

PhonicsLong o (o, oa, ow)FluencyNatural Pauses

Language:Target Vocabulary: knowledge, curious, motion, silence, illness, imitated, darkness, behaviorSpelling: Long o (o, oa, ow) own, most, soap, float, both, know, loan, goat, flow, loaf, throw, coachVocabulary Strategies: Suffix -lyGrammar: Using Proper Nouns

Planning for English Language Development:Begin with High-Utility Words Tier 1 Words *=Spanish cognatesHigh-Utility Words blind, deaf, hear, speak, spelled, ear, eye, hand, mouth

Language Support Card 14 Building Background Videos Teacher’s Edition p. E32 Chant, ELL.14.5

Move on to Developing Vocabulary Tier 2 &3 Words *=Spanish cognatesTarget Vocabulary knowledge, curious*, motion, silence, illness, imitated*, darkness, behavior

Vocabulary in Context CardsReading/Language Arts Terms vowel*, biography*, topic, main idea, detail*, summarize, suffix*, base word*, infer*, informational tes*, proper noun*, persuasive essay*, goal, reasons*, opinion*, fact Teacher’s Edition pp. E32, E34, E36, E38, E40Scaffolding ComprehensionBuilding Background

Language Support Card 14 Building Background Videos Selection Blackline Master ELL14.6

Comprehension Teacher’s Edition pp. E33, E34, E38, E40

Author’s Purpose Teacher’s Edition pp. E35, E37

Scaffolding WritingOpinion WritingPersuasive Essay pp. T364-T365

Teacher’s Edition p. E41 Common Core Writing Handbook: Persuasive Essay

Scaffolding GrammarGrammar: Using Proper Nouns, pp. T362-T363

Teacher’s Edition p. E39o Language Transfer Issue: Using Capital Letters

Language Support Card 13: Past tense Verbs

Whole GroupReading 60 Minutes

__:__-__:__ Language Arts Oral/Vocab60 Minutes

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Foundational Skills:PhonicsLong o (o, oa, ow) II-R-2: HI-9: reading regularly spelled multi-syllable words by applying the most common letter-sound correspondences, including the sounds represented by single letters, consonant blends, consonant/vowel digraphs (th, sh, ck) and diphthongs (ea, ie, ee) and r-controlled vowels.FluencyNatural PausesII-R-3: HI-1: reading aloud (including high frequency/sight words) with fluency demonstrating automaticity.

Grammar60 Minutes

__:__-__:__ Writing60 Minutes

__:__-__:__ Target Vocabulary: knowledge, curious, motion, silence, illness, imitated, darkness, behaviorSpelling: Long o (o, oa, ow) own, most, soap, float, both, know, loan, goat, flow, loaf, throw, coachVocabulary Strategies: Suffix –ly II- LS-1: E-7: responding to academic discussions using key words and phrases with instructional support.II-l-2 (Vocabulary) HI-4: using grade specific academic vocabulary and symbols within context.II-l-2 (Vocabulary) HI-5: applying knowledge of grade-level vocabulary (including content area words) in text.II-L-2: LI-4: using resources to spell words (word walls, environmental print, picture dictionaries, and dictionaries).

Children learn about proper nouns by using proper nouns when reading and writing sentences that relate to people without sight. II-L-1(N): HI-2: explaining differences between common and proper nouns in context (singular and plural).

Children continue their work on a persuasive essay from the previous lesson using Talking Tools as a model for supporting reasons with facts and examples. II-W-1: HI-8: writing a short response to a literary selection that connects text to self, text to world, or text to other text. II-W-1:HI-2: gathering information to answer questions about a topic or event for a report.

Helen KellerBiography Children will read Helen Keller to

Determine the author’s purpose.II-R-4:HI-9: identifying the author’s purpose for writing a book. Understand that a biography tells about a person’s life.II-R-4:HI-6: making connections to text while reading (text-to-text and text-to-self).

Talking Tools Informational TextChildren will read Talking Tools to

Discover tools for people who cannot see. II-R-4:HI-6: making connections to text while reading (text-to-text and text-to-self). II-R-4:HI-3: locating facts and answering questions about text.

Use photographs and captions to enhance understanding.

II-LS: 2: HI-19: locating specific information by using organizational features (e.g., titles, table of contents, heading captions, bold print, glossary, indices) in expository text.

ELL Whole Group Additional Whole Group ResourcesPoint-of-Use Scaffolded Support

Use Visuals Use Gestures Comprehensible Input Peer-Supported Learning Language Issues Idiomatic Language Use Sentence Frames Expand Language Production

Vocabulary in Context Cards

(front and back)

Decodable Readers Bill E. Goat, pp. 49-56 Mud Bug, pp. 57-64

Progress MonitoringAssess and monitor students’ progress to determine who is on track and who needs help. Clear prescriptions identify targeted instruction to address the students’ needs and get them back on track.Respond to Assessment

Vocabulary, p. T366 Phonics, p.T366 Comprehension, p.T367 Language Arts, p. T367 Fluency, p. T367

ELL Small GroupELL Leveled Reader-Inventor of the Telephone

Contains the same content as the On-Level Reader but uses more accessible language

ELL Leveled Reader Lesson Plan ELL Blackline Masters

Small Group PlannerTeacher-LedVocabulary Reader Special Tools Differentiated Instruction, p. 375Differentiate Phonics: Long o (o,oa,ow), p. 373Differentiate Comprehension: Author’s Purpose, Summarize, p.T377Reread Bill E. Goat and Wise CrowLeveled Reader Inventor of the Telephone, p. T383Differentiate Fluency: Natural Pauses, p. T379Differentiate Vocabulary Strategies: Suffix –ly, p. T385Reread Mud Bugs Options for Reteaching: p. T386-T387Reread Bill E. Goat and Wise Crow or Mud Bugs What are my other children doing?Listen and Read: Listen to or read aloud Bill E Goat and Wise Crow-Leveled Practice, ELL14.1Listen: Audio of Helen Keller, Student Book, pp. 472-489Partners: Retelling Cards-Leveled Practice, ELL14.2Partners: Use the words on Vocabulary in Context Cards 105-112 to tell about the pictures-Leveled Practice, ELL14.3Listen and Read: Listen or read aloud with Audio of Talking Tools, Student Book, pp. 494-497Leveled Practice, ELL14.4Listen: Follow along with Audio of Helen Keller in the Student Book, pp. 472-489-Complete and Share Literacy Center Activities

ELL Extra SupportELL Lesson 14 Resources

Daily Lessons to support the core

Language Support Card 14 ELL Blackline Masters ELL Teacher’s Handbook

o Professional Development o Peer Conference Formso Cooperative Learning Guidelines

Building Background

AssessmentWeekly TestsObservation ChecklistsFluency Tests Periodic Assessments

Reading LogVocabulary LogListening LogProofreading ChecklistProofreading MarksWriting Conference FormWriting RubricInstructional RoutinesGraphic Organizer Blackline MastersHandwriting Model

Standards