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2nd Grade Unit 3: / Communication / Suggested Time Frame: / 6 Weeks
TAKS Objectives: / 1,2,3,4 / TEKS: /

2.5F, 2.9E, 2.9F, 2.9G, 2.9I 2.11A, 2.11C, 2.11I, 2.12D, 2.18E, 2.20D

Unit Overview
Students must come to the understanding that people in different settings and societies communicate in different ways. We must take these differences into consideration in order to understand one another. The importance of the use of graphic organizers to understand and develop their own ideas must be made evident to the students throughout this learning process.
Enduring Understandings
  • Understanding differences in communication around the world is important for understanding one another.
  • Important ideas can be represented by using graphic organizers.
/ Essential Questions
  • Why is communication important in the world?
  • How can graphic organizers be used to explain concepts?
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Writing Purpose:

Revision strategies

Focus and Coherence

Adding details or cutting away other parts.

Writing Organizations

Focusing on the most important part
Revealing internal stories
Writing story endings

Depth of Development

Develops a story with a sequence. (Model through shared writing.)

Voice

Model during Read Alouds and Think Alouds.

Conventions of Written Language

Use more complex capitalization and punctuation
Spacing words and sentences
Increase the use of adjectives
Write with more proficient spelling by using word walls, personal dictionaries, etc.
Language of Instruction
communication/ communicate
fiction/ nonfiction
inferences
setting
similarities/ differences
story meaning
topics/ characteristics/ problem
In this area place the vocabulary from the stories that you are teaching to your students.
Core Vocabulary
answer
band
bark
been
bell
busy
candle
cannot / careful
card
chase
clever
couldn’t
cried
didn’t / ear
feel
felt
frightened
should
thought
whisper
mouth
Vocabulary is generated by the teacher by selected reading materials.
To include:
Leveled reading high frequency words: (19)
there
carry
caught
walk
would
answer
yourself
Word Wall Words
about
court
favorite
found
group
how
just
more
name / new
once
quiet
smart
stood
their
too
very
what
Glue words (written on black and white) are in bold. Words with rimes are written on bright colored paper. / Relationships and/or Connections that should emerge
  • Communicate with various people such as: Friends, siblings, parents, teachers, people in the neighborhood and community.
  • There are various modes of communication such as: Email, telephone, text messages, letters, body language, sign language, various languages around the world.

Word Work Lessons
Week 1: SP5, HF3, WM2
Week 2: WS8, WS9, WSA8
Week 3: LS10, LS11, LS12
Week 4: SP6, SP7, SP8
Week 5: SP9, HF4, WM3
Products students will develop
  • journal entries
  • written/illustrated books
  • tri-fold sequencing booklets
  • postcards
  • letters

2nd Grade Unit 3: / Communication / Suggested Time Frame: / 6 Weeks
TAKS Objectives: / 1,2,3,4 / TEKS: /

2.5F, 2.9E, 2.9F, 2.9G, 2.9I 2.11A, 2.11C, 2.11I, 2.12D, 2.18E, 2.20D

Unit Overview
Students must come to the understanding that people in different settings and societies communicate in different ways. We must take these differences into consideration in order to understand one another. The importance of the use of graphic organizers to understand and develop their own ideas must be made evident to the students throughout this learning process.
Text Resources
  • The Big Orange Spot
  • I Love You, Blue Kangaroo
  • Letter To A Friend
  • The Day I Saw My Father Cry
  • Thank You Thanksgiving
  • Are You My Mother?
  • History Behind The Holidays
  • The Very First Thanksgiving Day
  • If You’re Angry and You Know It
  • Birthday’s Around the World
  • Cecil’s Garden
  • Alexander and the Terrible…Day
  • Welcome
  • The Grouchy Ladybug
  • The Meanest Thing To Say
  • Aaron’s Hair
  • Hunter’s Best Friend at School
  • We Are All Alike
  • The Polar Express
  • Don’t Wake The Bear!
  • Tackylocks and the Three Bears
  • Ceasar Chavez
/ Enrichment Workstations
  • Read the Room (use pointers to read the room)
  • Reading Boxes (use text from Guided Reading)
  • Class Library (fiction and non-fiction books)
  • Buddy Reading
  • Pocket Chart Activities
  • Making Words (magnetic letters, etc.)
  • LetterCenter (a variety of alphabet activities)
  • Writing (write the room, make books, journals, etc.)
  • Listening
  • Overhead
  • Computers (Waterford, etc.)
  • Dramatic Play (baskets of books and props [Mrs. Wishy Washy, etc.)
  • Flannel boards
Technology & Electronic Resources

  • (Symbols of Texas and what they mean).
Other(i.e., Speakers, Field Trips) / Reading Skills/Processes
□2.5A
□2.5B
□2.5C
□2.6A
□2.6B
□2.6D
□2.6E
□2.7A
□2.7B
□2.7C
□2.8A
□2.8C
□2.9A
□2.9B
□2.9C
□2.9D / □2.9E
□2.9F
□2.9G
□2.9I
□2.10A
□2.10B
□2.10D
□2.11A
□2.11C
□2.11F
□2.11J
□2.12C
□2.12H
Writing Skills/Processes
□2.14A
□2.14B
□2.14C
□2.14D
□2.15A
□2.15B
□2.15C
□2.16B
□2.16C / □2.17D
□2.18A
□2.18B
□2.18C
□2.18D
□2.19A
□2.19B
□2.19E
WRITING MINILESSONS:
TEKS: 2.14b,c; 2.16a,b,c,d; 2.17d; 2.18c,d,f; 2.19b,e
Week 1 / Revision strategies
Calkins book 2, Session 11 pp. 83-92
Calkins book 2, Session 12 pp. 93-100
Week 2 / Writing story endings
Calkins book 2, Session 13 pp. 101-108
Week 3 / Revising and editing with partners
Calkins book 2, Session 14 pp. 109-114
Week 4 / Reading to and receiving comments from a buddy
Calkins book 2, Session 15 pp. 115-117
Week 5 / Examining readable and unreadable writing
Calkins book 3, Session 2 pp. 9-18
Week 6 / Recording sounds, words, silences, and meanings
Calkins book 3, Session 3 pp. 19-26
Calkins book 3, Session 4, pp. 27-34
Calkins book 3, Session 5, pp. 35-44
Resources
Units of Study for Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins / Method(s) of Assessment
Observation
AObservation evaluated by peers
BStudents engaged in learning activities
CDirect questioning
DObservation of performance or process
EChecklists/ Rubrics
Constructed Response
  1. R2R
  1. TEKSCheck
  2. Open-ended
  3. Essay
  4. Research Paper
  5. Log / Journal
  6. Story / Play / Poem
  7. Model / Map / Video
  8. Oral / Visual / Multimedia Presentation
Selected Response
1Fill-in-the-blank test
2Matching test
3Multiple choice test
4True/False test

Second Grade ELA 3rd Six Weeks Summary

2007-2008

In this brief summary, dates will fluctuate according to your students, calendar, and special events.

Communication

November 12th – December 21st

  • Identify similarities/ differences~ problems
  • Use structural cues to recognize words
  • Use graphic organizers
  • Inferences: important ideas, cause/effects
  • Distinguish different text ~ recognize differing features
  • Locate/use important area in media center
  • Use multiple sources to locate/ answer questions

8/27/2007DRAFT 3