English Language Arts Grade 2 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Writing (2.W)

Students will learn to write for a variety of tasks, purposes, and audiences using appropriate grammar/conventions, syntax, and style.

Standard 2.W.3:

Write narrative pieces in which they retell an elaborated event or short sequence of events; include details to describe actions, thoughts, and emotions using temporal words in sequential order; and provide a concluding statement.

• Acting Out Student Stories with Robots
  A brief guide to engaging students in narrative writing by having them program robots to act out their stories.
• All-About-Me Story
  Students will create a personal narraitve by generating ideas for writing from their personal experiences, write details of their experience in an organized manner, and revise their draft to add details.
• Balance Action in Your Writing with Thoughts and Emotions
  A story with all action and not enough reflection sounds childish and lacks depth. But a story that is all reflective thoughts and emotions can bore a reader and run the risk of not teling a story at all. Today?s mini move will help us think about the see-sawing effect of balancing actions with thoughts and emotions so that our story has the perfect amount of both!
• Collaborative Stories 1: Prewriting and Drafting
  Students hone their teamwork skills and play off each other's writing strengths as they participate in prewriting activities for a story to be written collaboratively by the whole class.
• 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.
• Mail Time! An Integrated Postcard and Geography Study
  Children write and receive postcards from friends and family, and then chart where all those postcards come from on a classroom map.
• Name Tag Glyphs
  In this lesson, students practice a way to communicate without words by using a glyph. They create a name card using information about themselves. Students also interpret glyphs made by others.

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