Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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Create a Music Carnival: This is a lesson in which the students will combine their knowledge of rhythm, pitch, and tone color with their imaginations to create original compositions about animals. They will use "Carnival of the Animals", by Saint-Saens, and "Peter and the Wolf", by Prokofiev, for comparisons.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Dance Arts Education, English Language Arts, and Music Education); By Rowena Licko.

Discovering how to take care of our natural resources: This lesson focuses on our natural resources and the effect our actions have on them. Students explore this concept through discussion, matching, literature, cause and effect, and writing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Social Studies, and English Language Development); By Jennifer Hicks and Alison Short.

Geography centers: A geography unit in which students investigate and compare their hometowns and other cities. The unit incorporates nine centers: math, science, social studies, reading, writing, computers, puzzles and games, art, and listening. They all have activities that are integrated with the geography unit.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, Social Studies, Mathematics, Computer Technology Skills, and Science); By Laurie Perry.

The Key to a Map: The students will use a map of the classroom to strengthen their map reading skills. They will work in groups and use a prepared map of the classroom to find hidden messages.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Melissa Lasher.

Marvelous metamorphosis: Most kids love insects. This integrated unit will enable students the opportunity to observe, identify, and describe the life cycle a mealworm goes through during his metamorphosis into a grain beetle.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, Computer Technology Skills, and Science); By Pam Maness.

Positively popcorn: This lesson should be used as a part of a unit on the three forms of matter. This is a fun activity on the process of how popcorn pops using gas as a form of matter.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Science); By Jennifer Burton.

Tarantulas: Students will read Tarantula by Jenny Feely. Then they will summarize what they have learned about tarantulas by writing descriptive words or phrases on a graphic organizer. Finally, using the Kid Pix Studio Deluxe (or other similiar drawing program), students will write sentences about tarantulas and make an illustration.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Jody Shaughnessy.

Twas the night before Christmas: Retelling through thinking maps: After reading and discussing “Twas the Night Before Christmas,” students will work together to create a Flow Map. Each student will then use the map they created individually to retell the story in his/her own words.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Amy Rhyne, Paulette Keys, and Sarah Carson.

Vessels in Greek Art, Pre-Visit: This lesson will focus on what vessels are, where we can find them in our everyday world, and the concept that vessels are containers that hold something. This lesson is the first lesson of two.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Visual Arts Education); By Katie O'Connor.

What do you see?: This lesson is designed to teach color vocabulary and some basic animal names to novice level ESL students in grades 1-2 using Bill Martin's Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?; Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and ); By Cindy Young.

Aesop and Anase: Animal fables and trickster tales: Students become familiar with fables and trickster tales from different cultural traditions. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

All Together Now: Collaborations in Poetry Writing: This is a set of three lesson plans to make poetry exciting for your students as they listen to, write and recite poems that are sure to please. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Animals of the Chinese zodiac: Students learn about the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Catching the bug for reading through interactive read-alouds: Helps students learn reading strategies and how to prevent the spread of germs in their classroom. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Healthful Living Education); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Cave art: Discovering prehistoric humans through pictures: Students travel to the past to explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas. By studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France, students discover that pictures are a way of communicating beliefs and ideas. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities

Choosing one word: Summarizing Shel Silverstein's “Sick”: This lesson uses Shel Silverstein's poem “Sick” to challenge emergent readers to select the most important word in a text and to justify their selection. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Comparing fiction and nonfiction with "Little Red Riding Hood" text sets: In this lesson, students explore similarities and differences among various versions of “Little Red Riding Hood.” (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Creating class rules: A beginning to creating community: Students are led through a discussion designed to establish goals and needs for the classroom. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Exploring sets through math-related book pairs: After reading two math-related books, students explore their school and home environments to find and represent their own examples of sets. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Fact or fiction: Learning about worms using diary of a worm: Students develop strategies for differentiating fact from fiction in other books. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE