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Animal Riddles
Students write animal riddles. They write three or more sentences describing a selected animal, and draw a picture to go with their descriptive sentences. Students then create a three slide slideshow using Kid Pix 3 computer software.
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Imagine This
Students practice visualizing as they read to aid comprehension. They then read a chapter in their history book and visualize what they read so that they can answer comprehension questions about the chapter.
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Silly Snake
Students practice recognizing and sounding out the letter S. They listen to the alphabet song, "Sea Shell," by Amy Lowell, and view a large picture of a snake in the shape of the letter S. Each student points out other objects found in...
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Apples Are A...peeling
Second graders participate fully in cooperative learning groups, assuming all the different job roles.
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Long Vowel Phoneme - ea- 1 of 4
Students use reading searchlights to work out new words and make sense of what they read. They compose own poetic sentences.
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Reflection with a Friend
Young scholars listen to story and respond with illustrations and comments.
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Dream Houses
Young scholars explore different types of homes and how the environment effects the types of houses people construct. In this houses lesson plan, students learn about environmental factors and cultural factors that play in to why people...
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Spooky Story
Second graders write a Halloween story. In this combined technology and writing lesson, 2nd graders create a Halloween picture using KidPix, insert it into Microsoft Word, and then write a story to correspond with the picture.
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Geo Jammin'-Day2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll
Second graders write in journals, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about.
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My Favorite Papers
Students complete worksheets about themselves throughout the year. They are collected and kept by their teacher. They create a book at the end of the year with all of their writings.
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Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Students listen to the book Pumpkin, Pumpkin. They create words using the cluster ump.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 15: Geo Jingo Jivin'
Second graders explore how musical instruments h ave varying geometric shape, and how those geometric shapes correspond to three-dimenaional shapes that students have studied.
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E-Mail Mentor Project
Students use e-mail to introduce themselves, ask for and receive advice and information on certain school concerns, and share information on activities they enjoy with other students from other schools.
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Picture It!
Students, through teacher modeling and guided practice, explore the concept of visualization and how it works to help them comprehend what they read. They read a story, visualize what has happened in the story, and then draw a picture...
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Nemo's Fast Swim
Young scholars need to be come fluent readers and in order to do that they have to read faster, smoother and more expressively. They have to read accurate and automatic. Students gain fluency through repeated readings, timed readings,...
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Expression is the Key
Second graders listen to the reading of "For Sale" by Shel Silverstein which is read very expressively. They review sentence structure remembering that reading the sentence should always make sense especially when read with expression....
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"Doggone Good" at Expression
Second graders review how to read a word that they do not recognize right away and go over examples. They discuss the meaning of "expression" as a class and write the proper definition on the board for the students to see on the board....
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Comprehension
Students identify that comprehension is an essential component or reading and in order to be efficient and fluent readers. They interpret what they have read through various strategies. Finally, students use one of the strategies,...
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May Worksheet
In this literacy worksheet, students find the definitions of the things associated with the month of May for the five spaces on the worksheet.
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Reading Log
In this reading log worksheet, students fill in a reading log, noting title, author, genre and rating on a scale of 1-5. Students then write, "telling about the book."
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Freckle Juice- Lesson 6
Students read Freckle Juice. In this comprehension lesson, students complete a story map and discuss cause and effect based on readings from Freckle Juice.
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Destination Reading
Students practice reading skills and comprehension through the use of computers and the educational software "Destination Reading" provided by Riverdeep in this self-directed lesson.
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Word Family Activities and American Symbols
For this word family and American symbols worksheet, students learn about word families and American symbols. They complete an activity in which they create real and nonsense words by combining sounds of the alphabet with 7 different...
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Present Simple Questions
In this question writing instructional activity, 2nd graders write a question by choosing a word or phrase from four different boxes. The boxes are titled, who, what where, and when.