ELA 1

Unit 1 Overview

Spelling Words 

Love 

So 

No 

Be 

Her

Are

Of

Put

Look

Do

Reading Booster Cards Covered in the Unit 

• Cards 1 through 17 

Phonics Principles Taught 

• Homophones: ate/eight 

• Long and short vowels 

• Phonemic awareness: determining missing letters in words, changing one letter to create a new word, etc. 

• Plural words 

• Reading words with ALK, AR, EA, OLD, OO sound 1, OO sound 2, OR, OU, OW, Sneaky E, and sight words: group 1 

• Reading two-syllable words 

• Syllables

Writing, Grammar, and Other Principles Taught 

• Geography: maps/globes, landforms, oceans, continents, countries, map key, constructing a map, adapting to the physical environment 

• Oral narration: summarizing and storytelling 

• Plural words 

• Poetry appreciation and memorization 

•Sensory language 

• Starting sentences with an uppercase letter 

•Ending sentences with punctuation 

•Writing sentences 

•Art: art appreciation, Hans Dahl, shade, tint 

•Literature: setting

Spelling Principles Taught 

•Spelling words with ALK, AR, EA, OLD, OO sound 1, OO sound 2, OR, OU, OW, and Sneaky E 

•Segmenting words to spell them