This unit has been designed to help you teach an assortment of topics that the first grade curriculum hasn’t yet addressed and that deserve attention before the year is over: r-controlled vowels, high frequency words, capitalizationà The ellipses in that sentence are important because this unit, like the final unit in kindergarten, is deliberately designed so that it will set you up to continue teaching other assorted topics if you have more time in your school year and if your students are game to learn yet other topics: prefixes, contractions, punctuation.

Series title. Additional authors for some items. Mentor text is a National Geographic Kids, Level 1 book with title: Lions by Laura Marsh. Resource pack boxes contain cards, pictures, wall charts, posters, etc. for use with the curriculum units.