1st Grade  / 6th Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Communication

Organizing Idea: Making Connections

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Unit Contents

Students investigate the “how” and “why” of communication. Whether reading or writing, speaking or listening, using sign language, pictures, graphics, or body language, people communicate every day. Students learn about sound and communication and the ways technology has changed communication over time. They investigate the messages commercials and the media communicate. Communication and freedom are explored as students discover that voting is a way of communicating. They find out what the lives of leaders past and present communicate to us. Students learn the meaning of state and national symbols as they express beliefs and values. Reviewing all of the topics studied about during the past year prepares students to write a report to communicate their learning. Students celebrate by reading their written communications to each other and then creating a class book in order to communicate with the next class of first graders.

Activities

Book, Book, Book: Inference & Main Ideas - by Kelly Hamilton
Students will use text and illustrations to identify main ideas, and make inferences.

Breaking the Code! - by Brenda McElyea
Students will examine and demonstrate use of code in communication.

Click, Clack, Moo - Cows That Type:  Inference & Main Ideas - by Kelly Hamilton
Students can use text and illustrations to identify main ideas, make inferences, and learn new vocabulary.

Stella Louella's Runaway Book: Sequencing - by Susan Jackson
Students will learn about the sequencing of events in a story. They will retell that story in order. (You can also use this with the third six weeks unit on Systems, where the students will learn about the library as a system.)

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