Grade: Unit:

Information Literacy SkillsTheme: Expressions

Theme Information Literacy Skills

ResearchOpportunities

Week 1Approaching: Saving SofiaOn Level: A Party and a HalfBeyond: The Summer PartyMain Selection: Mice and BeansVocabulary/Comprehension: Bobo’s Celebration Science Link: Math Link:Rosa Maria’s Rice and BeansDecodable Reader: Mudge MargeRead Aloud: When Elephant Goes to a Party

Count on a Celebration!

Comprehension Strategy:

Analyze story structure

Comprehension Skill:Fantasy and realityMake and confirm predictions.Written directions.

FluencyWord AutomaticityEcho reading: pronunciationRepeated reading: punctuationTimed reading

LiteratureFantasyRecipeBiography

Reference/Research SkillsUse the internet or books to learn about customs and celebrations in other parts of the world. Create a chart to take notes.Use the internet or books to learn about healthy foods. Make a list of foods and why they are healthy.Use cookbooks to research recipes.

Graphic Organizers

Chart 298Story structure Chart 301, 301BConcept word web 301EWriting Web 333C

Main Writing:Descriptive Flyer

Other: Distinguish between fantasy and reality by checking out a book and making a chart.

Retell a story.

Rewrite Mice and Beans from a different point of view.

Create a chart to describe a family custom or celebration.

Meet Illustrator Joe Cepeda

2 6

Technology Internet web sites

GrammarAdjectivesComma Text

FeaturesIllustrationsWritten Directions

Week 2 Approaching: Illustrators at WorkOn Level: A World of WordsBeyond: Writers at WorkMain Selection: Stirring Up MemoriesVocabulary/Comprehension: Making Stories Happen Science Link: Decodable Reader: The Caring King’s Fair WishRead Aloud: If You Were a WriterPaired Selection: Brush Dance

Creating Stories

Comprehension Strategy:

Text structure Comprehension

Skill:Draw conclusionsMake inferencesOnomatopoeia and word play

FluencyWord automaticityChoral reading: intonationRepeated reading: tone and expressionTimed readingLiteratureAutobiographyPoetryBiographyNonfictionFiction

Reference/Research SkillsDictionary: defining words as nouns, verbs, adjectivesDictionary: Latin and Greek RootsGraphic

Organizers Story chart 340KFact/Conclusion Web 343BConcept Web 343ERetelling rubric 361Writing Web 361CStory Outline 365

Technology GrammarArticles a and anCapitalization of proper nouns Text

Features

Main WritingDescriptive Poem

OtherWrite sentences using words with Latin roots.

Write a personal narrative

Create a fact sheet about a place.

Find out about plants that grow in desert areas. How do they live with little rain?

Find out about plants in your area.

Meet the Author Pam Munoz Ryan

Week 3 World of Comprehension Strategy

Main WritingNonfiction

Approaching: A World of ColorsOn Level: A Collection of CatsBeyond: Cats and ArtMain Selection: Music of the Stone AgeVocabulary/Comprehension: Frozen ArtTest Strategy: On My OwnDecodable Reader: Three Cheers for the Five SensesRead Aloud: The Bremen Town Musicians

Art Text structure Comprehension

Skill:Make judgmentsClassify and categorizeQAR 373T

FluencyWord automaticityEcho read: pronunciationRepeated reading: punctuationTimed reading

LiteratureNon-fiction articleInformational Non-fictionBiographyFolktale

Reference/Research SkillsChoose resource materials 373KDictionary: Multiple meaning wordsOrganizing writingQAR 373T

Graphic OrganizersConcept word chart 366KJudgment organizer 369BResource material organizer 369DConcept word map 369EBar graph 377EJudgment chart 377Z

TechnologyBar graphSpell check

GrammarAdjectives that CompareApostrophes Text

Features

article

OtherList and compare facts learned from a book.

Choose to read daily for enjoyment.

Use multiple-meaning words in sentences.

Write a fictional narrative.

Write a how-to explanation.

Write about and design a piece of public art.

Draw and label a diagram for the five senses.

Week 4Approaching: Telephones Then and NowOn Level: Cars Then and NowBeyond: Old Cars, New CarsMain Selection: African

Inventors Then and Now

Comprehension StrategyMonitor comprehension and reread

Comprehension Skill:Compare and

Main WritingBiography

`OtherRead about an inventor and create a timeline of

American InventorsVocabulary/Comprehension: Kid Inventors Then and Now Social Studies Link:Inventors Time Line Decodable Reader: More Fun Than a Hat!Read Aloud: So You Want to Be an Inventor?

contrastDraw conclusionsTime Line

FluencyWord automaticityEcho reading: pronunciation Repeated reading: phrasingTimed reading

LiteratureBiographyInformational nonfictionNonfiction ArticleNonfiction

Reference/Research SkillsTime LineUse books or the internet to find out more about an inventor.Tell how inventors are alike and different. (Interpretation)Find photos of famous inventors using reference resources

Graphic OrganizersTime LineConcept word chart 378KVenn Diagram 380-381BConcept Word Web 381EDetail Web Drafting Strategies 403CConcept Word Web 403DInvention History Chart 403NInvention Chart 407A

TechnologyUse internet to locate pictures.

GrammarAdverbsSuffixes Capitalization Text

FeaturesTime line

their life.

Tell how inventors are alike and different. (Interpretation)

Write a description of a person.

Write a description of an invention.

Research how sweet potatoes grow. Draw and label a sweet potato plant.Find other plants whose underground parts we eat.

Have children research a famous inventor and write a biographical poem using the model of Lee Bennett Hopkins in Lives: Poems About Famous Americans.

Meet the Author Jim Haskins

Week 5 Other Comprehension M

Approaching: Ice CoolOn Level: Lions at LastBeyond: The Soccer TeamMain Selection: Babu’s SongVocabulary/Comprehension: E-mails from Other Places Social Studies Link:Where in the World is Tanzania?Decodable Reader: How Bird Was Lured Away from FireRead Aloud:

People, Other Places

StrategyReread

Comprehension SkillCharacter and SettingFantasy and RealityMap

FluencyWord automaticityEcho readingRepeated readingTimed reading

LiteratureBiographyRealistic FictionNonfiction Article

Reference/Research SkillsStory MapResearch a country and fill in a line map.

Graphic OrganizersConcept word chart 408KCharacter/Setting Chart 411BConcept Word Web 411EThree Column Chart 441N

Technology GrammarSynonyms and Antonyms Text

Features

ain WritingJournal Entry

OtherMake a story map to show plot of a story.

Choose to read for enjoyment.

Write a description of a place.

Write a paragraph that tells why a story character would make a good friend.

Compare and contrast two countries on a chart. Use the internet or books to find out about the countries.

Write about a simple machine that involves a wheel and axle.

Week 6 Review and Assess

Test StrategyThink and Search Comprehension

Fantasy and RealityDraw ConclusionsMake Judgments,Compare and contrastCharacter and setting

Reference / Research SkillsWritten directionsChoose Resource MaterialsTime LinesMaps

Technology

Writing WorkshopCompare and contrast

Grammar Text Features

Unit Theme: ExpressionsProject: Slide ShowStudent Questions: Self selected according to topic chosen.

Research Component Activities Skills MaterialsAppreciationStudent realizes the need for information after a viewing, reading, listening or other type of sensory experience.

Unit readings.

PresearchStudents establish a focus by developing an overview of the topic and exploring relationships.

Discussion and Brainstorming: Make a chart that records student brainstorming on the following questions:

What are some ways that you express yourself?

How does that make you different from everyone else?

Each student chooses one way people have of expressing themselves creatively. Create individual KWL charts that list what they know and want to know about this type of expression.

Brainstorming for topics.

Creating questions for research.

Poster paper chart or Inspiration chart.

Computer and LCD projector or marking pens.

KWL charts

SearchStudents plan and implement a search strategy by identifying information providers,

Brainstorm possible information sources. Write the sources on a list.

Learning about information sources.

BooksMagazinesInternet sitesTable of contentsOPAC

selecting information resources and tools, and seeking relevant information.

Have each child decide which sources on the list will be best for their use in gathering information on their topic.

Develop research plans to find and gather information. List answers to questions on the KWL chart.

Choosing appropriate information sources.

Reading for information.

Taking notes.

KWL chartpencils

InterpretationStudents interpret the information they have gathered to make new meaning. They assess the usefulness of their information and reflect on the information to develop personal meaning.

Students decide which of their answers are important about their mode of expression and should be put in their slide show.

Students decide how to put their information together so that their audience will understand it the best.

Decide who is the information sender and the information receiver in their particular mode of expression, i.e. broadcast media, print media, speech, etc.

Interpreting information.

Synthesis of gathered information.

CommunicationStudents apply their information to construct and present their new knowledge.

Create a presentation:Slide show

Poster

Report

Write a sentence about the type of creative expression researched.

Present your information to the class.

Creating a slide show.

Written expression.

Public speaking.

ComputerPresentation software.Notes.

Paper, pencil

ComputerLCD ProjectorVisuals

EvaluationStudents think about and evaluate both their process and their

Ask questionsReview ways to tell what is pretend and what is real in media.

Evaluation of sources.

product during research and at the conclusion of research.

Use some of the following questions:

What is this source telling me?

Is this real or pretend?

How do I know?

Can I get this same information from a print or online source? Why or why not?

Student evaluation of slide creation, writing and note taking.

Teacher evaluation of process and final project.

Self evaluation using a checklist

Evaluation of product and process.

Student Checklist 451K

Teacher checklist 451KScoring Rubric 451L

Task Skills Procedures/ProductsIntroduce topic of making a presentation.

Create a slide show. Discussion questions:Can you think of a good way to give information to a large group of people?

What are some tools you might use to present information?

Learn how to create a slide. Create a slide show. Presentation software.ComputerLCD Projector

Learn how to save a slide. Create a slide show. Presentation software.ComputerLCD Projector

Student practice of making a slide.

Create a slide show. www.macmillanmh.com/readingGrade 2 Unit 6 Computer Literacy Lesson

Use a search engine to find information on a topic.

Identifying a search engine.

Entering a search term into the search box.

Looking at search results.

Demonstrate the use of the search engine to the students. This is a teacher modeling activity only.

ComputerLCD Projector

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