Lesson Plans
Week of October13th-October 16th, 2015
Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2015Subject: 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.
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, 2015Subject: 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:
- 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
- Review Social Studies OER Question and have students complete. Graded for language and social studies grade.