Adventure City Teachers’ Guide
Unit name
Clothing and Weather (unit # 8)
Theme
Clothing and weather related subjects
Number of Lessons
8
Learning Goals
At the end of this unit, pupils will be able to:
 Recognize, read and use the weather and clothing related
vocabulary, in the correct context.
 Spell and type the weather and clothing words.
They will also:
 Learn about the seasons and clothing.
 Learn words with ‘blends’.
 Learn words with long and short vowel sounds.
 Be able to write a poem about the seasons.
 Be able to write about their favorite season and vote for
their choice.
 Be able to write a short story based on one of the pictures
or stories they have read on the website.
Story
The Grasshopper and the Ant
Key Vocabulary
Actions:
type, write, read, sleep, swim, buy, shop, wear, color, work,
sort, predict, guess,
Vocabulary:
Summer, winter, fall, spring, sweater, boots, hat, shirt, skirt,
sandals, scarf, mall, weather, seasons, store, shoes,
expensive, inexpensive, inside, outside, usually, always, wear,
Long vowel with silent e: game, kite, time, bone, nine, cake,
white, five, cute,
Long vowel: play, rain, feet, seed, cheese, sweet, day, eat,
three, afraid, green, jeans,
Short vowel words: fall, summer, at, in, hat, on, under, winter,
No. Activity name
Description
Learning Goals
1
At the Shopping
Mall
A short video clip that
shows two characters
shopping. Listen to their
conversation as they are
looking into a store window.
This video is designed to
introduce the unit topic and
vocabulary.
2
About the Mall
A listening comprehension
activity. Watch and listen to
the video once again and
then answer the multiple
choice comprehension
questions.
Listening comprehension.
3
At the Mall Again
Shopping simulation game,
find the items on the
shopping list and purchase
the most economically and
environmentally sound
items. Remain within your
budget, and shop quickly
before you run out of time.
Review the articles of clothing
in a simulated shopping
experience. Learn about
environmentally friendly and
economic factors when
shopping.
4
Word Machine
Listen to the sentence and
look at the picture. Then
build the sentence in the
machine.
Listening comprehension and
sentence development.
5
Color the Clothes
Read the dialogue between
the two children who are
describing their clothes.
Then color the clothes
according to the
description. Both the
summer and winter
seasons are available.
Reading comprehension.
6
Maze
Run Jackie through the
maze and take him home.
Along the way collect the
words he requests: long
vowel words with silent e's,
long vowel words and short
vowel words.
Review of the blends, the
long and short vowel sounds,
and and words.
7
Sorting
Sort the words according to
their blends.
Learn commonly used letter
blends.
No. Activity name
Description
Learning Goals
8
What am I?
20 questions type activity.
Read a short description
and determine what it is
describing. Then choose
the correct word from the
word bank and drag it to the
correct place.
Reading comprehension.
9
The Weather
Read a short poem about
the weather and the
seasons; then answer
multiple choice reading
comprehension questions
about the text.
Reading comprehension –
genre - poetry.
10
Magnet Poetry
Use the words from the
word bank to write your own
weather poem.
Creative and personal use of
language, based upon the
content taught throughout the
unit.
11
My Favorite Season
Complete the text. Write
about the seasons we have
studied in the unit.
Creative and personal use of
language, based upon the
content taught throughout the
unit.
12
Write a Book!
Write a short story based
on one of the pictures taken
from the online digital
stories which are included
in Adventure City.
Use the information, the
content and the vocabulary
taught throughout the unit
and the entire website and
write an open piece based
upon one picture.
13
Prediction
Three short activities that
provide assistance in
predicting the content of the
online story: The
Grasshopper and the Ant.
Correct prediction of the
content of the online story:
The Grasshopper and the
Ant, which will be read in the
following step.
No. Activity name
Description
Learning Goals
14
The Grasshopper
and the Ant
Read the online story, The
Grasshopper and the Ant
and then complete the
reading comprehension
activities.
The learning goals of this
story are to provide the pupils
with a literary piece that is
written at the approximate
reading level of the pupils.
The story is fully animated
and fully narrated which
provides full visual and audio
input while reading the story.
The multi-modal input
increases the comprehension
of the story. In addition, this
story deals with a value issue
regarding the work ethic of
the grasshopper in
comparison to the ant.
15
After you Read
Reading comprehension
activities.
The learning goals of the two
reading comprehension
activities are to determine the
level of the pupils’
understanding of the different
components as well as the
sequence of events of the
story.
Pupils are given multiplechoice questions that test
the pupils’ understanding of
the story.
16
Quiz
Multiple choice quiz that
tests all aspects of the unit,
from vowel and consonant
blends, to word recognition
and understanding, writing
sentences and short
stories, as well as reading
and comprehending short
texts, poems and the digital
storybook. Understand and
recognize the sequence of
events, based upon the
content of the unit.
The learning goals of the quiz
are to determine the pupils’
overall level of understanding
of the content of Unit 8 clothing and weather.