Below are the Essential Questions and Standards that will be covered in all subject areas for the second week of school in a second grade classroom. Click the links to view the lesson plans for each individual lesson.
Reading:
Monday Lesson: Essential Question: How do readers collaborate respectfully? Standard: ELACC2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups. a. Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions (e.g., gaining the floor in respectful ways, listening to others with care, speaking one at a time about the topics and texts under discussion). b. Build on others’ talk in conversations by linking their comments to the remarks of others. c. Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion.
Tuesday Lesson: Essential Question: What should reader’s workshop look and feel like? Standard: ELACC2RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Wednesday Lesson: Essential Question: How do readers make the best book choices for themselves? Standard: ELACC2RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Thursday Lesson: Essential Question: How do readers choose just right books for independent reading time? Standard: ELACC2RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Friday Lesson: Essential Question: How do readers shop for just right books? Standard: ELACC2RF4: Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
Writing:
Monday Lesson: Essential Question: How does brainstorming prepare us to write? Standard: ELACC2W5: With guidance and support from adults and peers, focus on a topic and strengthen writing as needed by revising and editing. a. May include prewriting.
Tuesday Lesson: Essential Question: How does brainstorming prepare us to write? Standard: ELACC2SL2: Recount or describe key ideas or details from written texts read aloud or information presented orally or through other media. ELACC2SL3: Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension, gather additional information, or deepen understanding of a topic or issue.
Wednesday Lesson: Essential Question: How does brainstorming prepare us to write? Standard: ELACC2SL1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
Thursday Lesson: Essential Question: How do authors organize their stories? Standard: ELACC2SL4: Tell a story or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking audibly in coherent sentences. ELACC2W3: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure.
Friday Lesson: Essential Question: How do writers organize their writing? Standard: ELACC2W3: Write narratives in which they recount a well-elaborated event or short sequence of events, include details to describe actions, thoughts, and feelings, use temporal words to signal event order, and provide a sense of closure. ELACC2L3: Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
Math:
Monday Lesson: Essential Question: How and why do mathematicians use tools? Standard: CCGPS: MCC2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.
Tuesday Lesson: Essential Question: How do mathematicians write about their thinking? Standard: ELACC2SL6: Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification.
Wednesday Lesson: Essential Question: What do we do when we finish our work? Standard: Review of patterns
Thursday Lesson: Essential Question: What is odd and even? How do I add single digit numbers? Standard: CCGPS: MCC2.OA.2 Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers. CCGPS: MCC2.OA.3 Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.g., by pairing objects or counting them by 2s; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.
Friday Lesson: Essential Question: How do mathematicians solve problems? Standard: CCGPS: MCC2.OA.1. Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing with unknowns in all positions., e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
Word Study:
This week in word study I will be working on short vowels in words with the CVC pattern. Spelling words this week are: tell, set, went, sentence, help, well, men, head.
Standard: ELACC2RF3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.a. Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words.
Tuesday: ea as a short sound as in head
Thursday: review short e and short a
Friday: spelling test, teach complete sentences. Standard: ELACC2L2: Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
Social Studies:
Standard: SS2G1 The student will locate major topographical features of Georgia and will describe how these features define Georgia’s surface. a. Locate all the geographic regions of Georgia: Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain, Valley and Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau. b. Locate the major rivers: Ocmulgee, Oconee, Altamaha, Savannah, St. Mary’s, Chattahoochee, and Flint.
All of the following are one lesson in which students build a trifold map activity. View lesson here.
Monday: Essential Question: Where in the world are we? What are cardinal directions?
Tuesday: Essential Question: Where is Georgia?
Wednesday: Essential Question: What are the important cities in Georgia?
Thursday: Essential Question: What are the regions of Georgia?
Friday: Essential Question: What are the major rivers in Georgia?