What is the problem and resolution in A Color of His Own?
How can writers construct sentences using multiple verbs or multiple subjects?
What is the most efficient way to count from 287 to 500?
How many ones are in a ten? How many tens are in a hundred? How many hundreds are in a thousand?
What is a physical map? What is a political map?Which type of map would you use to get to your vacation spot or a specific town?
What 2nd Graders Are Learning Next Week:
ELA (English Language Arts):
Wit and Wisdom Module 1: A Season of Change
Essential Question: How does change impact people and nature?
Learning Goals:
Record observations and questions about Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Identify the connection between leaves and trees.
Connect academic vocabulary words separate and shape with content knowledge from additional texts in the module.
Identify the main topics and details of Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Examine and identify characteristics of conclusions.
Apply Outside-In strategy and morphemes to determine the meaning of uncurled and disappear in Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Use key terms to identify the change process in leaves.
With support, draft a conclusion.
Analyze multiple-choice questions to choose the correct definition for survive and usually.
Determine connections between key terms and topics.
Draft and rehearse an informative paragraph.
Combine simple sentences using conjunctions to explain key concepts from Why Do Leaves Change Color?
Tennessee Foundational Skills:
Read different short and long vowel spellings (‘a_e’ for /ae/ sound as in late, ‘i_e’ for /ie/ sound as in hike, ‘o_e’ for the /oe/ sound as in hope, ‘u_e’ for /ue/ sound as in tube, ‘e_e’ for /ee/ as in eve
Read, chain, and write words with “magic e”
Read tricky words
Unscramble sentences
Read words with different spellings for the /ee/ sound (‘ee’ for the /ee/ sound as in bee, ‘ea’ for the /ee/ sound as in beach
Read words with the ‘oo’ spelling (‘oo’ for the /oo/ sound as in foot, ‘oo’ for the /oo/ sound as in broom)
Contractions
Understand the purpose of quotation marks
Ask and answer questions about key details in the student reader.
