Module 1: Your Family-Language Arts 2 - Course Guide

Module Overview:

In this module, learners will strengthen their reading, writing, and language skills by exploring fiction texts and creating a personal narrative. Learners will practice using context clues to understand new vocabulary and apply the meanings of those words when reading and writing. They will identify and cite key details in fiction texts to show understanding of what they read. Learners will develop sentence skills by distinguishing between complete sentences and fragments and revising fragments into complete sentences. They will apply these skills by using complete sentences in their own writing and editing their work to demonstrate correct conventions. In writing, learners will use a graphic organizer to plan a personal narrative, revise their writing for clarity and sentence completeness, and edit for conventions. They will then publish a final personal narrative that clearly shares their ideas.

Module Materials:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Material(s)
1	1.1 Your Family	*Language Arts 2A Workbook, ISBN 978-1-63916-207-9 (optional);
2	1.2 Your Family	modeling clay Writing Notebook Handwriting Notebook
3	1.3 Your Family	note cards or pieces of paper Writing Notebook
4	1.4 Your Family	shaving cream (optional) tray (optional) watercolor paint (optional) paintbrush (optional) highlighters (assorted colors) Writing Notebook Handwriting Notebook
5	1.5 Your Family	None

Module Objectives:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Objective(s)
1	1.1 Your Family	Use context clues to identify the meaning of new vocabulary words. Identify complete sentences from fragments. Recognize key details in a fiction text. Use a graphic organizer to plan a personal narrative.
2	1.2 Your Family	Classify words with closed syllables. Recognize high-frequency words: its, sit, us. Classify complete sentences and sentence fragments. Demonstrate the correct formation of letters: Aa, Bb, Cc.
3	1.3 Your Family	Recognize words with closed syllables. Use complete sentences. Recognize key details in a fiction text. Revise a personal narrative.
4	1.4 Your Family	Recall high-frequency words: its, sit, us. Use the meaning of new vocabulary words. Demonstrate the correct formation of letters: Aa, Bb, Cc. Demonstrate understanding of conventions by editing a personal narrative.
5	1.5 Your Family	Revise complete sentences from sentence fragments. Cite key details in a fiction text. Create a published personal narrative. Demonstrate fluency when reading grade-level text.

Module Key Words:

Key Words	Words of the Week	Spelling Words	Vocabulary Words
closed syllable context clue complete sentence sentence fragment fiction key detail graphic organizer personal narrative fluency closed syllables context clues fragment revise edit publish	its sit us	best fast milk stomp strap mask sand frog stop just	manners amaze grumpy amuse investigate

Module Assignments:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Page #	Assignment Title

Learning Coach Notes:

Lesson #	Lesson Title	Notes
1	1.1 Your Family	Today, students will learn about closed syllables. A closed syllable has one vowel followed by one or more consonants. The vowel makes a short sound, like in cat, dog, and sit. A fun practice is a closed-syllable scavenger hunt. Have your learner find objects at home like cup, hat, and lamp. They should say the word, clap once for each syllable, and check if the word ends with a consonant. Then, ask if the vowel sound is short, like /e/ or /a/. Another activity is a closed-syllable word sort. Write closed-syllable words like hat, best, mud, sun, and open syllable words like go, me, hi, she. Have your learner sort them into closed and open syllables.
2	1.2 Your Family	Students will continue practicing closed-syllable words with blends, word chaining, spelling words and WOW words, and fluency. Remind your learner that closed syllables include a short vowel sound. Then, students will dive deeper into skills of vocabulary development, comprehension, writing, and grammar. Your learner will write a rough draft of their personal narrative today, so be sure to have the graphic organizer from yesterday within reach.
3	1.3 Your Family	Today, students are learning about closed syllable words with beginning blends, like bl, st-, and cl-. They will practice reading and spelling these words to build strong decoding skills. At the same time, students are working on shades of meaning with vocabulary words, learning how similar words can have slightly different feelings or uses. For example, they explore words like happy, joyful, and excited to understand how each word is a little different. In writing, students are revising their rough drafts of personal narratives, adding details and fixing mistakes to make their stories clearer and more interesting. To reinforce these concepts, you can encourage your learner to read books with lots of closed syllable words, play word games that focus on blends, and use a feelings chart to compare vocabulary words. Your learner can also share their story with a partner or family member to get feedback and ideas for revision.
4	1.4 Your Family	Students are currently practicing closed-syllable words that include blends at the beginning or end of the word. They are learning to recognize and pronounce the blends bl, st, cl, and mp. Students will also practice combining blends with short vowel sounds to read and spell words such as blip, stop, clap, and jump. If your learner struggles with these skills, try hands-on activities, like tapping out sounds and writing words with letter tiles. Students will also edit their rough drafts today. Help your learner with editing by marking mistakes together with a red pen. Read edited sentences aloud with your learner to make sure all is in place.
5	1.5 Your Family	Today, students will type the final copy of their personal narratives. This week, students have been learning how to tell if a sentence is complete or is a sentence fragment. Practice this by giving your learner notecards that have both complete sentences and sentence fragments written on them. Ask your learner to sort the cards into the categories complete and fragment. Remember to review spelling words, vocabulary words, and WOW words with your learner.

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
1.1 Your Family	What are closed syllables?
1.2 Your Family	What is included in a complete sentence?
1.3 Your Family	What are key details in a fiction text?
1.4 Your Family	When does 's' make the /z/ sound?

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	Me and My Family Tree	Joan Sweeney
2	The Places We Call Home	Kim Ann

Module Outing:

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

#	Outing
1	The theme of this module is family. Work with your student to plan an outing for their family that will allow them to spend time together, have fun, and make a good memory.