Lesson Plans

Week of October13th-October 16th, 2015

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Subject: Reading and ELA
TEK: 2RCF I can make connections to things that have happened to me, in a book, or in the world around me.
TEK: 2RCD I can make mental images to help me understand stories that I read.
TEK: 2.17A I can develop first draft by putting ideas in order and spelling high frequency words.
TEK: 2.21B I can write complete sentences with subject/verb agreement.
Vocabulary: pretend, perfume Spelling principles over long a. See Word Matters book.
Word Wall High Frequency:
  • fast
  • good
  • help
  • jump
  • game

Lesson 5
Mini-Lesson: Our picturing is different based on our connections.
(From Adapting mental images based on schema 80-81- D. Miller)
  • Read several short poems that lend themselves to unique interpretations.
  • Read several of the poems more than once so that the students can listen carefully and think about which poem creates the most vivid mental image.
  • This is My Thinking Now can be used to show how your images may change after multiple readings.
(From: Adapting mental images based on schema 80-81, Debbie Miller.) Suggested Poems: (please feel free to use your favorite pieces) Statueinthe Park,TheWeb and Grandpa’sShoes from the poetry book Rich Lizard and Other Poems by Deborah Chandra.
Strategic Activity:Mental images recorded in reading notebooks. Students independent read while teacher DRA.

Writing Workshop

Take grammar assessment for major language grade.

  • Mini-Lesson: Talk to students about how sometimes we tend to start writing and then wander off the topic.
  • Example of children playing baseball. At first the game resembles how the adults play the game. Suddenly a dog snatches the ball and the children start chasing it across the yard. The softball game fluidly flows into the chase-the-dog game.

Sometimes writer’s start writing but they wander off the topic.

  • Read aloud Changing a Flat Tire or your story, first asking students to notice where you wandered off topic.
  • Mark the places where this happens.
  • Have partners share pieces with each other, noting whether or not they stay on topic.
  • Ask them to pay attention to this as they are writing by going back to reread.

Discuss ways to stay on topic.

Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Subject: Reading and ELA
TEK: 2RCF I can make connections to things that have happened to me, in a book, or in the world around me.
TEK: 2RCD I can make mental images to help me understand stories that I read.
Vocabulary: pretend, perfume
Word Wall High Frequency:
  • fast
  • good
  • help
  • jump
  • game

Take Reading CCA on Metacognitive Strategies: Major reading Grade.
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Subject: Social Studies
TEK: 2.7D I can explain the differences between different types of communities including urban, suburb, and rural.
Vocabulary:
  • urban
  • suburb
  • rural

Lesson Procedures:
1. Review and discuss urban, suburban, and rural areas.
2. Read and discuss communities story for reading and social studies grade.
Evaluation (formal or informal):
Take papers for a minor social studies and reading grade.
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Subject: Writing
TEK: 2.17A I can develop first draft by putting ideas in order and spelling high frequency words.
TEK: 2.21B I can write complete sentences with subject/verb agreement.
Vocabulary: pretend, perfume
Word Wall High Frequency:
  • fast
  • good
  • help
  • jump
  • game

Continue working on Lemm Story. Due Tomorrow during free time.
Independent Read for testing to get completed on DRA.
Date: Thursday, October 15, 2015
Subject: Social Studies
TEK: 2.7D I can explain the differences between different types of communities including urban, suburb, and rural.
Vocabulary:
  • urban
  • suburb
  • rural

Lesson Procedures:
  1. Students take communites test for a major social studies grade. Students may use their notes and circle maps on the test created in class.

Date: Friday, October 16, 2015
Subject: ELA
TEK: 2.17D I can publish and share my writing with others.
TEK: 2.21B I can write complete sentences with subject/verb agreement.
Vocabulary: pretend, perfume Day 4 Making Connections
Word Wall High Frequency:
  • fast
  • good
  • help
  • jump
  • game

Lesson 5
Resource: Reading Aloud for Visitors: An Author’s Celebration- Units of Study: Small Moments pp. 115-117
Materials: Page for comments attached to the back of each child’s writing with the title of the piece at the top of the page.
Celebration
  • Perhaps have older reading buddies come in for this celebration to sit next to their second-grade friends.
  • The second-graders will read their stories and the older buddies will write comments.
  • Clean out student pieces and store them elsewhere.

Date: Friday, October 16, 2015
Subject: Social Studies
TEK 2.7D I can explain the characteristics of rural, suburb, and urban areas.
Vocabulary:
  • Neighborhood
  • Rural
  • Suburb
  • Urban

Lesson Procedure
  1. Review Social Studies OER Question and have students complete. Graded for language and social studies grade.