Module 34: Immigration-Language Arts 3 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, learners explore immigration through fiction and nonfiction texts. They will use context clues, cause-and-effect relationships, and text evidence to deepen their understanding while practicing spelling patterns with -tion, -sion, and -ture. Learners will also practice using prepositional phrases and write, revise, and publish an informational essay.

Module Materials:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Material(s)
1	34.1 Immigration	timer Language Arts Notebook highlighters (assorted colors)
2	34.2 Immigration	Language Arts Notebook;
3	34.3 Immigration	timer Language Arts Notebook
4	34.4 Immigration	Language Arts Notebook;
5	34.5 Immigration	Language Arts Notebook;

Module Objectives:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Objective(s)
1	34.1 Immigration	Define -tion, -sion, and -ture in spelling words. Use context clues to find the definitions of vocabulary words. Define prepositions and prepositional phrases. Use a graphic organizer to plan an informational essay.
2	34.2 Immigration	Classify -tion, -sion, and -ture spelling words by meaning. Use context clues to determine the meaning of vocabulary words. Determine the cause-and-effect relationship in the Module Story. Construct a rough draft of an informational essay.
3	34.3 Immigration	Analyze spelling generalizations with the suffixes -tion, -sion, -ture. Apply cause and effect relationships to details in a text. Create sentences with prepositional phrases.
4	34.4 Immigration	Use vocabulary words in sentences. Analyze text for cause-and-effect relationships. Revise sentences by adding prepositional phrases. Demonstrate proper cursive connections while copying a poem.
5	34.5 Immigration	Determine the cause-and-effect relationships in a fiction text and a nonfiction text. Revise a paragraph for prepositional phrases. Create a published version of their informational essay.

Module Key Words:

Key Words	Spelling Words	Vocabulary Words
context clue fluency graphic organizer suffix base and root words cause and effect preposition prepositional phrase rough draft revise edit publish	confusion version revision division permission confession nation combination attention position action immature puncture structure departure vulture	disease pause actual continent brief cling

Module Assignments:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Page #	Assignment Title

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Notes
1	34.1 Immigration	Your learner will engage in higher-level thinking while working on story comprehension. They will analyze how characters’ traits affect their actions, how the setting affects story events, and how conflict affects characters’ responses. Support your learner as they answer discussion questions that guide them to find text evidence to support each step of their thinking. These questions will continue to be helpful as you work with your learner in step-by-step analyses that require them to find the connections between story elements. If your learner struggles to make these connections, model your thinking step by step to show how to reach conclusions.
2	34.2 Immigration	To help your learner understand prepositions, start by reminding them that a preposition is a word that shows the relationship between other words to provide details in a sentence such as where, when, or in what direction something is going. A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and includes the object of the preposition and any describing words that precede the object. When reading a sentence together, ask your learner to find the preposition first. Then, have them ask “what?” or “whom?” after the preposition to find the full phrase. Next, talk about what information the phrase adds to the sentence. Does it tell location (where something is), time (when something happens), or direction (where something is going)? You can also have your learner remove the prepositional phrase to see what information would be missing from the sentence. Practicing this concept will help your learner understand how prepositional phrases make writing clearer and more detailed.
3	34.3 Immigration	To extend your learner’s understanding of cause-and-effect relationships, provide opportunities for them to apply this skill across reading, writing, discussion, and content areas. During reading, have your learner act as a “cause-and-effect detective” by identifying what happened, why it happened, and what happened next, using signal words such as because, so, and as a result to support their thinking. In writing, help your learner strengthen sentences by adding clear causes and effects or by creating short cause-and-effect chains that show how one event leads to another. Have them consider multiple possible causes for a single effect and explain their reasoning. In science and social studies, learners can connect cause and effect to experiments, historical events, and timelines by explaining how an action or event led to a result.
4	34.4 Immigration	To help your learner practice making spelling changes before adding the suffixes -tion, -sion, and -ture, you can use modeling and hands-on practice that focus on reasoning, not just memorization. Begin with a think-aloud to show how a base word may need to change before adding a suffix, explaining each decision aloud so that your learner understands the purpose behind the spelling change. Next, engage your learner in “Word Surgery”: provide one of the spelling words and have them cross out letters, add new ones, and “fix” the base word before attaching the suffix. Then, ask them to explain why each change was needed. Reinforce this learning with build-a-word mats, allowing your learner to physically manipulate base words, spelling-change cards, and suffixes while explaining their choices.
5	34.5 Immigration	Because learners understand what they read better when they actively look for meaning, Learning Coaches can extend the exploration of cause-and-effect relationships in everyday reading. During shared reading, do a “cause-and-effect hunt” by helping your learner identify what happened and why it happened. Then, talk about what happened next to build a chain of events. Since some students learn well through creative activities, Learning Coaches can draw simple pictures or comic strips to show a cause and its effects, or invite learners to switch the text structure by retelling a story using cause-and-effect language like because and so. These simple activities strengthen learners’ comprehension and writing skills as they practice organizing their thinking in a clear way.

Guiding Questions
Suggested Books

Module Guiding Questions:

When a student starts a lesson ask them questions to check for prior knowledge and understanding and to review concepts being taught. At the end of the lesson ask the questions again to see if their answer changes.

Lesson Title	Question
34.1 Immigration	How can a graphic organizer help us plan an informational essay?
34.2 Immigration	How can we identify cause-and-effect relationships in a story?
34.3 Immigration	How can prepositional phrases add details to our sentences?
34.4 Immigration	How can cause-and-effect relationships help us understand a text?
34.5 Immigration	How can we use evidence from fiction and nonfiction texts to explain cause and effect?

Module Video Questions:

When a student watches a video take time to ask them questions about what they watched. Suggested questions for the videos in this module are listed here. Suggestion: Have the student watch the entire video first all the way through. Then have them watch the video a second time, as they watch it pause the video and ask the questions.

Lesson Title	Video	Question

Module Suggested Read Aloud Books:

Take time to read to your student or have them read aloud to you. Read a different book each day. While reading the book point out concepts being taught. You may purchase these books or find them at your local library. Suggested things to discuss while reading the book:

What is the main idea?
What are three things new you learned?
How does this book relate to what you are learning about?

#	Book	Author	Lexile Level
1	Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist	Julie Leung	890L
2	Coming to America: The Story of Immigration	Betsy Maestro	AD890L
3	All the Way to America: The Story of a Big Italian Family and a Little Shovel	Dan Yaccarino	AD830L
4	Grandfather's Journey	Allen Say	AD650L

Module Outing:

Take some time to apply what your student is learning to the real world. Suggested outings are below.

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