Units of Study for Reading: Word Detectives - Strategies for Using High-Frequency Words and for Decoding with Trade Pack, 1st edition

Designed to be the second unit in first grade, Word Detectives supports students’ word solving skills and their knowledge of high-frequency words. This playful unit expands on the important work that the entire series does to support youngsters’ foundational reading skills.

In this unit, students will:

• Learn to monitor their reading
• Develop their word-solving skills
• Become more adept at using letter–sound correspondence to tackle tricky words
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• Increase their bank of high-frequency words
• Become more confident at using the words they know ‘in a snap’ to solve unknown words
• Develop their fluency skills

This unit is especially perfect for classrooms where many students are moving into levels E, F, and G texts. The foundational decoding skills that students develop will put them in especially good stead before they move into reading nonfiction in Learning About the World.

The Word Detectives Trade Pack includes age-appropriate trade books that are used in the units to model effective writing techniques, encourage students to read as writers, and provide background knowledge.

• A Country Mouse and a Town Mouse by Aesop
• Lost Socks by Dawn McMillan
• Nate the Great by Marjorie W. Sharmat, Craig Sharmat, Mitchell Sharmat
• The Birthday Boy by Debbie Croft