English Language Arts Grade 2 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Reading (2.R)

Students will learn to proficiently read and comprehend grade level literature and informational text, including seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band, with scaffolding as needed. *Standard R.4 includes an asterisk to refer educators back to the Text Complexity Grade Bands and Associated Lexile Ranges in the introduction of the standards.

Standard 2.R.6:

Read a variety of texts including those from diverse cultures, retell the narrative (RL) or informational text (RI) according to the text structure including the main idea.

• A Cinderella Story (Grade 2)
  2nd grade Students will be integrating social studies cultural awareness with cultural stories of Cinderella. Students will listen to the Charles Perrault version of Cinderella and identify the main characters, plot and conflict. They will read another version and identify similarities and differences of the two stories. They will create Venn diagrams to look at similarities and differences of their own school cultures and then use Venn diagrams to look at similarities and differences of Cinderella stories. With this information, they will create their own Cinderella story.
• Completing the Circle: The Craft of Circular Plot Structure
  Students identify, explore and apply the elements of circle plot structures to their own stories by using graphic organizers, reading and writing stories, and using checklists to assess their work.
• Cowboys and Castles: Interacting With Fractured Texas Tales
  What do cowboy hats have to do with fairy tales? Two traditional fairy tales and their Texas-based counterparts set the stage for five different ways to respond to text.
• Digital Story Comprehension and Retelling
  In this lesson, students will be asked to read a grade level appropriate story and make a digital storyboard that includes the basic elements of the story. These elements are: characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  They will illustrate the key elements of the story and use Apple Keynote to create and present a digital slideshow retelling of the story. 
• From Fact to Fiction: Drawing and Writing Stories
  Students gather factual information about frogs and toads to create nonfiction and fiction stories. Drawing is used for prewriting.
• Note Taking: Enhancing the Ability to Comprehend Nonfiction Text
  This article describes the importance of teaching students the strategy of note taking and includes a template for use with elementary students.
• People of the Whale
  This article describes how the lifestyle of Alaska's Inupiat people have changed over time, and the new challenges they now face as a result of a changing climate. Versions are available for students in grades K-1, 2-3 and 4-5. Related science and literacy activities are included.
• Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading
  Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.
• The Cinderella Projects
  The use of multicultural versions of the story Cinderella helps students make comparisons and observations.

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