Standard Course of Study :: English Language Arts

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African Masks (Pre-Visit): This lesson will observe and describe several masks from different parts of Africa housed in the Smithsonian Institute (National Museum of African Art) Washington, D.C. Students will use the internet to view the Smithsonian's virtual exhibits. There are two lessons to follow this pre-visit. In the first, the students will explore African masks at the Ackland Art museum in Chapel Hill. In a culminating activity the students will make their own masks with some personal materials brought from home. (Post-visit activity); Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Debra Johnson-Morse.

Directed Reading Lesson: Dear Mr. Blueberry: This plan is a directed reading/thinking activity for the book, Dear Mr. Blueberry, with questioning and a follow-up written activity that focuses on the story elements. Another activity involves discussing facts about whales in the story and, then, finding other facts about whales that are used for a writing activity.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts); By Candace Hall.

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.

Economic Resources Using Thinking Maps: This lesson uses several literature selections in order to identify and classify natural, human, and capital resources. Students will work together in small groups to gather information and individually complete a Thinking Map. The assessment includes completing a Tree Map individually and sharing group information with the rest of the class. This lesson will take two days.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Social Studies); By Robin Campbell.

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.

Geometry and Art: Art Museum Visit: Geometry and Art: Art Museum Visit is the second lesson of a three-part unit integrating math, writing and visual arts. In this lesson students apply their knowledge of geometry by sorting, classifying and counting plane geometric figures during a visit to the art museum to look at and compare twentieth- century paintings. Students then collect data and share what they observe.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Mathematics); By Loretta Hopper.

Landform Adventure: This lesson will enable students to learn the types of landforms and bodies of water. Then they will use geographic terms to describe landforms and bodies of water in Mexico. Activities in this lesson can be taught during a period of 2-3 days.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies); By Beth Edmonds.

The Legend of the Blue Bonnet: Students will create their own version/retelling of The Legend of the Blue Bonnet by Tomie dePaola; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Shari Peacock.

Making Equal Shares: This activity is designed to connect literature and math. The students will use manipulatives and literature to reinforce the concept of equal sharing.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Tara Almeida.

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.

Red-eyed Tree Frog Hyperstudio: Students will read The Red-eyed Tree Frog by Joy Cowley then plan and put together a Hyperstudio which retells the story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills); By Jody Shaughnessy.

The Second Grade World of Louis Armstrong: Second grade students will explore the music of Louis Armstrong via booktalks, compact disc recordings, digital video disc recordings, and may pursue internet web-questing through Marco Polo (http://www.marcopolo-education.org) and http://www.redhotjazz.com as a bonus!; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Music Education); By Dirk Robertson.

Splitting Bears: Students will learn sequencing (beginning, middle, end) by using a bear pattern.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills and English Language Arts); By Kendra Sisk.

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.

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.

What Does Your Name Mean?: This lesson will enable the students to investigate the meaning of their names and discuss with their parents how they decided on their name.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Computer Technology Skills); By Pam Purifoy.

3, 2, 1...Blast off! Vocabulary instruction using a virtual trip to the moon: Students learn new vocabulary by taking a virtual field trip to the moon. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 English Language Arts and Science); Provider: IRA/NCTE

Acrostic poems: All about me and my favorite things: Introduces students to acrostic poetry. They create poems using their names as a starting point for writing about themselves. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 English Language Arts); Provider: IRA/NCTE

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

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Nonsense Poetry and Whimsy: Students listen to the opening chapters of The Nursery ‘Alice,’ Carroll's adaptation for younger readers, and view Sir John Tenniel's illustrations from the original edition. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts and Visual Arts Education); Provider: National Endowment for the Humanities