The document provides lesson plans and materials for a first grade classroom. It includes a read aloud about a student named Alex who moves to a new town and feels nervous, scared, lonely and sad. It also covers phonics, spelling, characters and settings from stories, comprehension questions about the read aloud, vocabulary, grammar and a writing activity. The lessons aim to help students understand characters' feelings, identify story elements, practice phonics and work on descriptive writing.

1. Lesson 1 Day 1

2. Question of the Day
• What do you do when you want to make new
friends?
• When I want to make a new friend, I _______.
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3. Read Aloud
• Set a Purpose:
• Why might we listen to a story?
• to learn or to enjoy
• Along with enjoying the story, you should
listen to understand how the main character is
feeling.

4. Read Aloud
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5. Read Aloud
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• What happens to Alex in the story?
• Alex moves to a new town.
• How do you think Alex feels?
• nervous, scared, lonely, sad
• Why do you think he feels that way?
• He doesn’t know anyone.

6. Phonics and Spelling
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u
• ă The letter a can stand for the short vowel
ă sound, as in pat.
• ĕ The letter e can stand for the short vowel
ĕ sound, as in Ben.
• ĭ The letter i can stand for the short vowel ĭ
sound, as in tin.
• ŏ The letter o can stand for the short vowel
ŏ sound, as in top.
• ŭ The letter u can stand for the short ŭ
vowel sound, as in cup.
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7. Phonics and Spelling
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u
• can ten pin top cut
• cvc cvc cvc cvc cvc
• Notice the consonant-vowel-consonant
pattern.
• The vowel is closed in by consonants.
• Words with this pattern have a short vowel
sound.
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8. Phonics and Spelling
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u
• magnet basket picnic
• mag net
• bas ket
• pic nic
• Each syllable has a vowel sound.
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9. Phonics and Spelling
Short Vowels a, e, i, o, u
• You Try!
• napkin kitten contest cannot
• nap kin
• kit ten
• con test
• can not
• You have 2 minutes to create nonsense words
by mixing up the syllables in the previous
words. Write them in your journal.
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10. Spelling Pretest
• this
• went
• jump
• still
• last
• dust
• tell
• drop
• shut
• lamp
• stop
• felt
• drink
• clock
• stand
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11. Characters and Setting
• Turn to page 16 in your book.
• I know I usually find out about the characters
and setting in the beginning of a story. If the
story takes place at a school, I know I might
read about children in a classroom or on a
playground. As I read a story, I think about
what a character says and does. I think how I
would feel if I were a the character.
• Let’s read pages 16-17 together.
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12. Characters and Setting
Characters Settings
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Jen
firefighters
school
Turn to page 2 of your practice book.

13. Characters and Setting
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14. Listening Comprehension
Read Aloud
• Good readers try to read every word correctly,
or accurately. When they realize that they
have read a word incorrectly, they go back and
reread it so that the sentence makes sense.
Think about your first day at a new school. Turn and talk to a
partner about your first day at a new school.
“First Day Jitters” is the title of the story I am going to read to you.
Jitters – to be nervous
Did you have jitters on your first day?
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15. Listening Comprehension
Read Aloud
• Does a story about a first day at school
sound like real life?
• Stories about things that could happen in
real life are called realistic fiction.
• I know that realistic fiction is like real life. I
expect that the characters in this story will
be like people I know. I expect that the
school will be like my school in many ways.
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16. Listening Comprehension
Read Aloud
• Two important parts of every story are the
characters – people in the story – and the
setting – when and where the story takes place.
• Listen to identify the characters as I read “First
Day Jitters”. Just as in real life, the characters do
not stay in one place; so one story can take
place in several settings.
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17. Listening Comprehension
Read Aloud
• Respond!
• What is Realistic Fiction?
• A story that could happen in real life.
• Who were the characters in the story?
• Where did the story take place?
• Why was Sarah nervous about teaching?
• Thumbs up if you enjoyed the story, thumbs
down if you didn’t.
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18. trudged
The word is…
trudged
What is the word?
trudged
We trudged through
the tall grass to get
to the lake. Which
would you trudge
through, a pool or a
swamp?
• Sarah trudged into
the kitchen because
she did not want to
get up for school.
• If you walked slowly
as though your feet
were stuck in the
mud, you trudged.
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19. gushed
• Mrs. Burton gushed at
Sarah to show how glad
she was to see her.
• When you were excited
about something and
talked a lot about it, you
gushed.
• The word is….
• gushed
• What is the word?
• gushed
• Jason’s parents gushed
whenever he scored a
goal in a soccer game.
• When would you gush
over a puppy – when it
obeyed you, or when it
chewed your shoe?
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20. Daily Proofreading
1. we have a new student today?
2. She will sat in the frunt row
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sit front
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21. Daily Proofreading
• Check your work!
• 1. We have a new student
today.
2. She will sit in the front row.
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22. Grammar:
Sentences: Statements & Questions
• A sentence is a group of words that tells a
complete thought.
• You make sentences all the time when you talk.
• Sarah tumbled out of bed.
• Notice:
• the words are in order
• they make sense to tell a complete thought
• It begins with a capitol letter
• ends with an end mark (period)
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23. Grammar:
Sentences: Statements & Questions
• Sarah tumbled out of bed.
• One part of the sentence tells who or what
• Sarah
• and the other part tells what the who or
what is or does.
• tumbled out of bed
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24. Grammar:
Sentences: Statements & Questions

25. Grammar:
Sentences: Statements & Questions
Complete each incomplete sentence in your journal.
• used the
markers.
• My friend
• liked the CD.
• is in the drawer.
• The dog
• The boys
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26. Writing: Descriptive Paragraph
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27. Writing: Descriptive Paragraph
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• A Descriptive Paragraph…
• uses words that help readers see, hear, feel,
smell, and sometimes taste what is
happening.
• includes plenty of details.

28. Writing: Descriptive Paragraph
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• Let’s brainstorm some descriptive words for a
trip to the park. Draw this chart in your
journal.
See Feel Hear Smell Taste