Wonders Teacher Edition Grade 1 - Weekly Overview Unit 4 Week 2 - Animals Together

Oct 1, 2026

Weekly overview for Grade 1 Wonders Teacher Edition Unit 4 Week 2, focusing on the essential question “How do animals help each other?” Lesson flow covers build knowledge activities, close reading and writing with anchor texts such as “A Team of Fish” and “Animals Working Together,” and differentiated leveled readers. Student outcomes emphasize citing evidence, determining main idea, retelling, opinion writing, and short research. Instructional path includes discussions, guided annotation, writing to sources, grammar practice (has/have), and phonics/word study to strengthen foundational reading skills.

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WEEKLY OVERVIEW Build Knowledge Animals Together Essential Question: How do animals help each other? Teach and Model Close Reading and Writing Big Book and Little Book Reading Writing Workshop A Team of Fish, 38–47 Genre Nonfiction Lexile 340 Interactive Read Aloud “Animals Working Together”Genre Nonfiction Differentiated Texts ON LEVEL Lexile 450 Leveled Readers T78 UNIT 4 WEEK 2 Practice and Apply Close Reading and Writing Literature Anthology Animal Teams, 36–54 Genre Nonfiction Lexile 480 Paired Read “Busy As a Bee,” 56–59 Genre Nonfiction Lexile 500 Extended Complex Texts What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? Genre Nonfiction Lexile 620 Starfish Genre Nonfiction Lexile 170 Classroom Library STARFISH. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. WEEK 2 Student Outcomes Ken Karp/McGraw-Hill Education Meaning Making • Cite relevant evidence from text • Determine main idea and key details • Retell the text RI.1.2 Effective Expression Write to Sources • Draw evidence from nonfiction text • Write opinion text • Conduct short research on animals Speaking and Listening • Engage in collaborative conversation about animals together • Retell and discuss A Team of Fish • Present information on how animals help each other SL.1.1c, SL.1.2, SL.1.3, W.1.1, W.1.7 Content Knowledge • Explore how animals have behaviors that help them to survive. NGSS 1-LS1.D Language Development Conventions • Use has and have Vocabulary Acquisition • Develop oral vocabulary behavior beneficial dominant instinct endangered • Acquire and use academic vocabulary partner danger • Use sentence clues to understand unknown words. L.1.1e, L.1.4a, L.1.6 Foundational Skills Phonics/Word Study/Spelling • Long e: e, ee, ea, ie • Prefixes re-, un-, pre • me, feed, seat, we, keep, beak, she, speed High-Frequency Words because blue into or other small Fluency • Appropriate phrasing Decodable Text • Apply foundational skills in connected text RF.1.3c, L.1.4b, RF.1.3g, RF.1.4a, RF.1.4b, RF.1.4c Professional Development • See lessons in action in real classrooms. • Get expert advice on instructional practices. • Collaborate with other teachers. • Access PLC Resources Go Digital! [www.connected. mcgraw-hill.com](www.connected. mcgraw-hill.com). WEEKLY OVERVIEW T79 INSTRUCTIONAL PATH 1 2 Read “A Team of Fish” Apply foundational skills in connected text. Model close reading. “A Team of Fish” to learn why fish swim in a school, citing text evidence to answer text-dependent questions. “A Team of Fish” to analyze text, craft, and structure, citing text evidence. Talk About Animals Working Together Guide children in collaborative conversations. Discuss the essential question: How do animals help each other? Develop academic language and domain specific vocabulary on animals. Listen to “Animals Working Together” and ask questions about how some animals cooperate. Write About “A Team of Fish” Model writing to a source. Analyze a short response student model. Use text evidence from close reading to write to a source. T80 UNIT 4 WEEK 2 WEEK 2 Read and Write About Animal Teams Practice and apply close reading of the anchor text. Animal Teams to learn about the relationship between different types of animals. Animal Teams and use text evidence to understand how the author conveys information about how certain types of animals work as a team. Information about how animals work as a team. Write to a Source, citing text evidence to compare and contrast different animal teams. 4 Independent Partner Work Gradual release of support to independent work 6 • Text-Dependent Questions • Scaffolded Partner Work Talk with a Partner Cite Text Evidence Complete a sentence frame. • Guided Text Annotation Integrate Knowledge and Ideas Connect Texts Text to Text Discuss how each

FAQs

What is the Week 2 essential question in this Grade 1 unit?

The essential question is: How do animals help each other?

Which texts are used for close reading and writing?

Students read and write using “A Team of Fish” and listen to “Animals Working Together,” along with additional leveled and differentiated texts.

What outcomes does the unit emphasize for students?

Students focus on citing relevant evidence, determining main idea and key details, retelling the text, writing to sources/opinion writing, and conducting short research on animals.

Oct 1, 2026

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