This document provides the weekly lesson plan and materials for Unit 1, Week 1 of a reading curriculum. The unit's big idea is where ideas can begin. Week 1's concept is meeting a need. It includes the essential question of how we get what we need. Each day covers components like vocabulary, reading a story about meeting a need, comprehension strategies, writing exercises, and spelling. Students are provided slides to record responses. The plan guides students through exploring how characters met needs in the story and applying comprehension and writing skills.

1. Unit 1 BIG IDEA: Where can an idea begin?
Unit 1 Week 1 Weekly Concept: Meeting a Need
Unit 1 Week 2: Weekly Concept: Trial and Error
Unit 1 Week 3 Weekly Concept: Seeing for Yourself
Unit 1 Week 4 Weekly Concept: Intervention
Unit 1 Week 5 Weekly Concept: New Technology

2. Unit 1: How an a Change Bring out your Best
Unit 1 Week 1: Big Idea: Clever Ideas
Each student should make a copy of the slides in the link below
Story: A Fresh Idea:: Student’s Download
Table of Contents: Reading Writing Workshop
Table of Contents: Your Turn Practice Book
Spelling
Book’s Audio
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Weekly

3. Unit 1 Week 1 Day 1: Meeting a Need
Monday
Reading/ Writing Workshop
Introduction:BIG IdeaRWW 17
Introduce Weekly concentp & Essential Question RWW: 18-19
Vocabulary: Words To Know RWW 20-21
Think About It: Essential Question
Read Shared Read RWW 22-25
Journal: Make Connections Essential Question/ Text To Self RWW: 25
Practice Book
Vocabulary PB 1
Phonics/ Structural analysis PB 8

4. Unit 1 Week 1 Day 2: Meeting a Need
Tuesday
Reading/ Writing Workshop
Reread Share Read RWWW 22-25
Read Comprehension Strategy RWWW 26
Journal Your Turn RWW 26
Read: Comprehension Skill RWW 27
Practice Book
Comprehension
Graphic Organizer PB2
RWW: Comprehension Skill (model how to do the graphic organizer. It’s the only
answer key for the graphic organizer

5. Unit 1 Week 1 Day 3: Meeting a Need
Wednesday
Reading/ Writing Workshop
Read Genre/ Your Turn RWW 28
Jurnal Sources Your Turn RWW 30-31
Read Grammar RWW 450
Handbook referred to on Write to Sources Paged
Workbook
Genre PB6
Comprehension $ Fluency PB 3-4….timed read only
Writing Traits PB 9

6. Unit 1 Week 1 Day 4: Meeting a Need
Thursday
Reading/ Writing Workshop
Read Vocabulary Strategy RWW 29
Practice Book
Vocabulary Strategy PB 7
Write to Source PB 10
ReRead Comprehension & Fluency answer ques. PB 3-5

7. Unit 1 Week 1 Day 5: Meeting a Need
Friday
Kahoots: Comprehension test: Kahoots
Spelling Test
Writing Test
Vocabulary Test

8. Student’s Response Slides
Have each student make a copy of the below green slides and then share them with their teacher. This will allow them to write
a response to text questions within the book.
Click for STUDENT’S
RESPONSE
RRW
Literature Book
Click for STUDENT’S
RESPONSE
PB
2

9. Unit 1 Week 1
Books of the Week:
A Fresh Idea

10. UNIT 1: EUREKA! I’VE GOT IT…… WHERE CAN AN IDEA BEGIN?
WEEK 1: Meeting a NEED
Watch the video provided on the YOUR TURN Pages
The Big Idea
Weekly Concept, Essential Question, Talk About It
VOCABULARY: pg. 20-21
SHARED READ: A Fresh Idea
Weekly Concept: Essential Question pg. 18
Essential Question pg. 22
Make Connections pg. 25
COMPREHENSION STRATEGY YT: Reread
COMPREHENSION SKILL Your Turn: Sequence
GENRE Your Turn: Realistic Fiction
VOCABULARY STRATEGY YT: Context Clues
WRITING:Ideas
Writers Your turn: Editing Marks
Daily Lesson Plan
HW Sheet

11. Click the red lined boxes:
HW Worksheet

12. Weekly Summary

13. Idea pg. 16
Review the next 3 pages together.

14. The Big IDEA pg.
17
Where can an idea begin?
Where can an idea begin?
Answer

15. Essential Question Pg. 18
How do we get the things we need?
Answer:

16. Unit 1: What Do We Need? Pg. 19
Unit 1: Where can an idea begin?
Weekly Concept: Meeting a need.
Essential Question: How do we get the things we need?
Talk About It: Write words you have learned about meeting a
need.
Then talk about one way that you have found to get the things you
need.

17. Vocabulary: Words to know pg. 20-21
Answer the Your Turn Questions on the next
page.

18. afford
afford
ə-fôrd′
transitive verb
1. To have the financial means for; bear the cost of.
2. To manage to spare or give up.
3. To manage or bear without disadvantage or risk to oneself.

19. loan
loan
lōn
noun
1. An instance of lending.
2. A sum of money that is lent, usually with an interest fee.
3. The agreement or contract specifying the terms and conditions of the repayment of such a sum.

20. profit
profit
prŏf′ĭt
noun
1. An advantageous gain or return; benefit.
2. Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess
of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.

21. prosper
prosper
prŏs′pər
intransitive verb
1. To be fortunate or successful, especially in terms of one's finances; thrive.
2. To be successful; to succeed; to be fortunate or prosperous; to thrive; to make gain.
3. To grow; to increase.

22. risk
risk
rĭsk
noun
1. The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.
2. A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard.
3. The danger or probability of loss to an insurer.

23. savings
savings
noun
1. That which has been saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.
2. Plural form of saving.
3. a fund of money put by as a reserve

24. scarce
scarce
skârs
adjective
1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply.
2. Hard to find; absent or rare.

25. wages
wages
noun
1. A compensation given to a hired person for services; price paid for labor; recompense; hire. See wage, n., 2.
2. The share of the annual product or national dividend which goes as a reward to labor, as distinct from the remuneration
received by capital in its various forms. This economic or technical sense of the word wages is broader than the current
sense, and includes not only amounts actually paid to laborers, but the remuneration obtained by those who sell the products
of their own work, and the wages of superintendence or management, which are earned by skill in directing the work of
others.
3. the aggregate capital existing at any time in any country, which theoretically is unconditionally destined to be paid out in
wages. It was formerly held, by Mill and other political economists, that the average rate of wages in any country at any time
depended upon the relation of the wages fund to the number of laborers. This theory has been greatly modified by the
discovery of other conditions affecting wages, which it does not take into account.

26. Your Turn pg. 21
Pick three words. Write three questions for your partner to answer.
1.
2.
3.
TUESDAY

27. Spelling
gush
scan
batch
rough
stump
taught
laugh
guess
lead
dove
jut
nick
tenth
shrug
stuff
sense
damp
cat
flying
notch
CLICK THE WORDS BELOW

28. jut
jŭt
intransitive verb
1. To extend outward or upward beyond the
limits of the main body; project: synonym:
bulge.
2. To cause to jut.
3. To shoot out or forward; to project
beyond the main body.

29. nick
nĭk
noun
1. A shallow notch, cut, or indentation on an
edge or a surface.
2. A prison or police station.
3. A groove down the side of a piece of type
used to ensure that it is correctly placed.

30. tenth
tĕnth
noun
1. The ordinal number matching the number
ten in a series.
2. One of ten equal parts.
3. One of ten equal parts into which
anything may be divided; a tithe.

31. shrug
shrŭg
intransitive verb
1. To raise (the shoulders), especially as a
gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference.
2. To raise the shoulders, especially as a
gesture of doubt, disdain, or indifference.

32. stuff
stŭf
noun
1. The material out of which something is
made or formed; substance.
2. The essential substance or elements;
essence.
3. Unspecified material.

33. sense
sĕns
noun
1. Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or
inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties
of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and
equilibrium.
2. A perception or feeling produced by a stimulus;
sensation.
3. The faculties of sensation as means of providing
physical gratification and pleasure.

34. damp
dămp
adjective
1. Slightly wet.
2. Humid.
3. Dejected; depressed.

35. cat
kăt
noun
1. A small domesticated carnivorous
mammal (Felis catus), kept as a pet and
as catcher of vermin, and existing in a
variety of breeds.
2. Any of various other carnivorous
mammals of the family Felidae, including
the lion, tiger, leopard, and lynx.
3. The fur of a domestic cat.

36. flying
flī′ĭng
adjective
1. Of or relating to aviation.
2. Capable of or engaged in flight.
3. Situated, extending, or functioning in the
air.

37. notch
nŏch
noun
1. A V-shaped cut.
2. Such a cut used for keeping a record.
3. A narrow pass between mountains.

38. gush
gŭsh
intransitive verb
1. To flow forth suddenly in great volume.
2. To emit a sudden and abundant flow, as
of tears.
3. To make an excessive display of
sentiment or enthusiasm.

39. scan
skăn
intransitive verb
1. To look at carefully or thoroughly,
especially in search of something;
examine.
2. To look over quickly or read hastily.
3. To search (stored data) automatically for
specific data.

40. batch
băch
noun
1. An amount produced at one baking.
2. A quantity required for or produced as
the result of one operation.
3. A group of persons or things.

41. rough
rŭf
adjective
1. Having a surface marked by
irregularities, protuberances, or ridges;
not smooth.
2. Coarse or shaggy to the touch.
3. Difficult to travel over or through.

42. stump
stŭmp
noun
1. The part of a tree trunk left protruding
from the ground after the tree has fallen
or has been felled.
2. A part, as of a branch, limb, or tooth,
remaining after the main part has been
cut away, broken off, or worn down.
3. The legs.

43. taught
tôt
noun
1. Preterit and past participle of teach.

44. laugh
lăf, läf
intransitive verb
1. To express certain emotions, especially
mirth or delight, by a series of
spontaneous, usually unarticulated
sounds often accompanied by
corresponding facial and bodily
movements.
2. To show or feel amusement or good
humor.
3. To feel or express derision or contempt;
mock.

45. guess
gĕs
intransitive verb
1. To predict (a result or an event) without
sufficient information.
2. To assume, presume, or assert (a fact)
without sufficient information.
3. To form a correct estimate or conjecture
of.

46. lead
lĕd
noun
1. A soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white,
dense metallic element, extracted chiefly
from galena and used in containers and
pipes for corrosives, solder and type
metal, bullets, radiation shielding, paints,
glass, storage batteries, and antiknock
compounds. Atomic number 82; atomic
weight 207.2; melting point 327.5°C;
boiling point 1,749°C; specific gravity
11.35; valence 2, 4. cross-reference:
Periodic Table.
2. Any of various, often graphitic
compositions used as the writing
substance in pencils.
3. A thin stick of such material.

47. dove
dōv
noun
1. Any of various widely distributed birds of
the family Columbidae, which includes
the pigeons, having a small head and a
characteristic cooing call.
2. A gentle, innocent person.
3. A person who advocates peace,
conciliation, or negotiation in preference
to confrontation or armed conflict.

48. Make Connections pg. 25
Essential Question
How did Maki and Mr. Taylor each get something they needed?
Answer
TEXT TO SELF: How has someone helped you get something
yo needed?
Answer

49. Comprehension Strategy: Reread……pg. 26
Your Turn: Why does Mali decide to sell her tomatoes? Reread pg. 25.
Remember to use the strategy REREAD.
Answer

50. Comprehension Skill: Sequence pg. 27
https://youtu.be/TyGlCBuREdk
Reread “A FRESH IDEA” List events in the middle and end of
the story in your graphic organizer. Select important details
that show the sequence of events.
Graphic Organizer pg. 2
What is a sequence? Answer
What are some transition words that you can
use? Answer

51. Genre Literature: Realistic Fiction pg. 28
https://youtu.be/8_W_YjAQUV0
Your Turn
List three examples of details, dialogue, or illustration in “ A Fresh
Idea” that show you this is realistic fiction. Tell your partner why
these things make the story realistic.
Answer:

52. Vocabulary Strategy: Context Clues pg. 29
https://youtu.be/CyK01USxdg0
What is Context Clues? Answer
Your Turn
Use Sentence clues to figure out the meaning
of the following words from “ A Fresh Idea.”
plot, pg. 24: Answer
nursery, pg. 24: Answer
ripened, pg 25: Answer

53. Writing Traits: Ideas Pg. 20
https://youtu.be/MPtcV4tSByg
https://youtu.be/DQpIG_M_I-A
Descriptive Details: Identify details that describe what Mali
is like. What details tell you about the setting and the plot?
Answer
Complete Next Page Too

54. Writers pg. 31
Identify descriptive details Jonah included.
Answer
Look at the sentences Jonah wrote. Answer
Tell how revisions improved his writing. Answer

55. Unit 1 Week 1

56. Unit 1 Week 1: Meeting a Need

57. Pg. 1

58. Pg. 2

59. Pg. 3

60. Pg. 4

61. Pg. 5

62. Pg. 6

63. Pg. 7

64. Pg. 8

65. Pg. 9

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