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Week 16: Nov. 30-Dec. 4 Theme: Better Together
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ELA > Grade 2 > Unit 3
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Unit Description
This unit explores the possibilities of working with others to complete projects, tasks, or plans. This unit will focus on sequencing events in a story, identifying synonyms and antonyms, and phonics. Spelling and phonics instruction will focus the /or/ sound, vowel diphthongs, r-controlled vowels, double consonants words with ow and ou, words with final k and ck, and words with or, ore, and our. Reading strategies will include picture walks, previewing and predicting, using picture clues to determine meaning of the text, retelling a story in correct sequence, following directions, and using graphic aides to understand informational text. Selections include, but are not limited to, a folktale, photo essay, realistic fiction, and fantasy. Vocabulary instruction will focus on using familiar word parts to identify unknown words and the meaning of unknown words, sounds a letter stands for and the blending of sounds, using context clues to determine word meaning, and using consonant and vowel letter patters to identify words. Students will write, respond to literature, identify different genres and become familiar with numerous strategies to promote higher order thinking. Writing instruction will focus on writing a tale, personal stories, descriptive paragraphs, how-to paragraphs, and writing shape poems, all using the writing process. Language skills will include common nouns, plural nouns, and proper nouns. Use of this unit will promote frequent opportunities for every student to read, listen to literature, practice/reinforce skills, and problem solve.
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ELA > Grade 2 > Unit 3 > Lesson 3 > Lesson Design
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STAGE 3 – Lesson Design
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Enduring Understandings
· We help ourselves and others when we work together as a team.
· Helping others means more than just talking about it.
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Essential Questions
· How can working as a team help you?
· When can working on a team be unhelpful?
· Why is teamwork important?
· How do my actions affect others on a team?
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GLEs: 2, 11, 12, 17, 23, 26, 30, 33, 35, 40, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51
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Content Questions
· How will adjusting your reading rate help you understand a reading selection?
· How do illustrations and facts help in giving information about the story?
· Why is it important to find big ideas and facts when reading non- fiction?
· What is a summary?
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Stories: "A Very Old Fish", "Boy Finds Fossils!", & "Meet the Super Crock"
Decodable Reader: "Check Out the Whale Show, 369D
Vocabulary: hopeful, unable, confirm, ancient, valid
Strategy: context clues/synonyms; monitor comprehension/read ahead
Phonics: Introduce, blend, build words with /ch/ch, /sh/sh, /th/th , /wh/wh
Spelling Words: chest, chill, chase, shape, sheep, thing, think, white, while, wheat, mule, fuse, idea, often, second
Grammar: Statements & Questions; Capitalization/Punctuation; Commands & Exclamations; Subjects & Predicates; Commas; Combining Subjects and Predicates; a and an; is and are; capital "I"; Nouns that name people, places, things; commas in a series; plural nouns; proper nouns and abbreviations; possessive nouns, plural; apostrophes; action verbs; present-tense verbs; subject-verb agreement; past-tense verbs
AR: Students will read books on their individual reading levels and take computerized comprehension tests.
Literacy Stations; GO Charts; Partner Games; Differentiated Instruction is used in small group instruction, literacy stations, and as needed in individual class work; Computer Games
Assessment: teacher and guaranteed curriculum generated tests and teacher observation
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Unit 3
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Math:
Unit Description
In this unit, students will use a variety of materials to collect, organize, represent, and analyze data they gather in ways that make sense to them. Students will work with data collected to sort in ways that make sense to them. This analysis will lead to students creating their own representations, exploring each other’s data representations, and working with conventional representations. Students will organize and represent numerical data. Students also explore each other’s data representations and some conventional representations such as line plots and bar graphs.
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Enduring Understandings
· Information means more to me if it is organized.
· Drawing pictures of information helps me make sense of what I collect.
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Essential Questions
· Why do I organize my collections?
· How does sorting help me understand the meaning?
· Why is drawing pictures of collections helpful?
· How can different kinds of pictures tell about my collection?
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GLEs: 4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
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Students will know…
· The purposes and uses of bar graphs and charts, when given a set of data
· How to classify objects and determine whether it satisfies a simple logical classification rule (belongs or doesn’t belong)
· Appropriate probability vocabulary (more likely to happen, less likely to happen, always, never, same as)
· How to choose a question to investigate.
· Collect and record data
· Organize data
· Represent data
· Describe and interpret data
· Develop a hypotheses and theories based on the data
· Vocabulary such as pictograph, collect, analyze, survey, observe, bar graph, line plot, Venn diagram
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Students will be able to…
· Collect, organize, and describe data and its connections based on real life situations
· Construct, read, and interpret data in charts, graphs, tables, etc.
· Formulate and solve problems that involve the use of data
· Explore, formulate, and solve sequence-of-pattern problems involving selection and arrangement of objects/ numerals
· Collect data
· Keep track of data
· Organize numerical data
· Create representations
· See representations as a way of communicating to others
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"Every Day Math Counts": counting by ones, tens, hundreds; daily calendar (month, day, year); patterns; telling time; counting money; solving addition and subtraction problems; recognizing even and odd numbers; writing numbers using standard notation, talley marks, words, pictures; solving word problems; writing story problems; make up number sentences using addition/subtraction that equal the number of the day.
Read It! Draw It! Solve It!, Investigations, Partner Games, Minute Math
Technology: Math computer games, calculators
Assessment: Teacher and guaranteed curriculum generated tests and teacher observation
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