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2nd Grade Parents and Students,

This learning bundle is meant to provide enrichment reading and math

activities for students working above grade level as assigned by your

teacher. Enrichment Reading Activities are to be completed in place of

ONE grade level reading activity. Math Enrichment Activities are to be

completed as ONE of the 4 documents for student portfolios.

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Reading Before Reading: Text features allow authors to give their readers more in-

formation about the topic that are visually interesting and make the text

easier to understand. Make a list of as many text features you can think of

and share with a family member.

During Reading: Read The History of Chocolate. Mark an ! everywhere

something surprises you in the article. Mark a ? anywhere you have a

question in the story. Put an H anywhere a text feature helped you under-

stand the article. Share one of your ? with a family member and discuss for

clarification. Share one way a text feature helped you understand the arti-

cle.

After Reading: List 2 text features from the article and explain how they

helped you better understand the article. Complete the Text Feature

Chart and design one text feature to add to the article that you think

would better help readers understand the text. Explain why your added

text feature would help readers better understand the text.

Math (choose one)

School Supplies

Can you help Marcus reach his

allowance goals?

Multi Step Markers

Can you help solve the multi-step

math problem?

Array Away!

Roll dice to make arrays and write

addition and multiplication

sentences.

Spin an Array

Use a spinner to build arrays and

write addition equations.

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Second Grade Math Enrichment Activities

School Supplies • Marcus wants to give $15 to help kids who need school supplies. He also wants to buy a

pair of shoes for $39. How much money will he have to save for both?• Marcus gets $5 a week for his allowance. He plans to save his allowance every week.

How many weeks does it take him to reach this goal to buy the supplies and the shoes?• Marcus remembers his sister’s birthday is next month. He sets a goal of saving $16 for

her gift. How many weeks does he have to save his allowance to reach this goal? Howmany weeks does he have to save his allowance for all three of his goals?

Multi-Step Markers Gia has 18 markers. Her teacher gives her three boxes and asks her to put an equal number of markers in each box. Anthony has 18 markers. His teacher wants him to put 3 markers in each box until he is out of markers. Before you figure out what the students should do, answer these questions: What is happening in these two situations? How are they similar? How are they different?

• Figure out how many markers Gia should put in each box. Show your work.• Then figure out how many boxes Anthony should fill with markers. Show your work.

Array Away! 1. Roll the die twice (see handout). The first number you roll tells how many rows to make inyour array. The second number you roll tells how many counters to put in each row of yourarray. Counters can be anything you have at your house such as beans, erasers, pennies,etc.2. Draw each array you make.3. For each array you make, record how many rows, how many counters in each row, andhow many counters in all.4. Write a repeated addition sentence and a multiplication sentence that represents yourarray.

Spin an Array Materials: spinner (handout), pencils, 1 paper clip, 4 different colored markers for each player, paper Number of Players: 2-4 Directions: 1. In turn, players spin the spinner twice to decide how many rows and columns will be inthe array. The first time the player spins will be the number of columns in the array. Thesecond time will be the number of rows.2. Player draws the array and records the addition equation onto paper.3. Play continues until each player has made 10 arrays.4. Once each player has created 10 arrays, each player will add up their sums from eacharray. The player with the highest sum wins.

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The History of Chocolate-Text Feature Chart

Directions: Match the following text features with how each feature helps you as a reader. Write the letter of the matching explanation next to the text feature.

Text Feature How does the text feature help you as a reader?

1. Vocabulary Chart ___

2. Map showing the locationof Hershey, Pennsylvania___

3. Photograph of MiltonHershey ___

4. Picture of the item beingdescribed ___

5. Caption under aphotograph ___

a. Helps the reader learn aboutwhere an important place islocated, that is mentioned inthe text.

b. Helps the reader see what anobject that is being describedin the text looks like.

c. Helps the reader learn aboutwhat is being displayed in aphotograph.

d. Helps the reader learn newwords that are important tounderstanding the text.

e. Helps the reader visualize whatthe person they are readingabout looks like.

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The History of Chocolate-Adding Text Features Activity

Directions: Add 2 more text features to the text The History of Chocolate. Be creative and try to use other text features that haven’t already been used in the original text. After you add your additional text features in each box, write a sentence to describe how it helps the reader understand the text. Refer to the Examples of Text Features chart below for different types you could include.

Examples of Text Features Glossary Bold Print Illustrations/Photographs Subtitles Table of

Contents Index Heading Diagrams Italics Timelines

Text Feature

How does the text feature help a reader?

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Text Feature

How does the text feature help a reader?

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