Curriculum » NC Standard Course of Study & aligned resources
English Language Arts — Grade 2
Goal 4, Objective 4.06
Resources aligned to this objective
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- The Bear Who Wouldn't Sleep
- Intermediate-level ESL students will apply facts from a content-based reading passage to create a short story about a bear who doesn't hibernate with his family.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts)
- By Donna Kauffman.
- Collecting Family Stories
- Students will interview relatives and compose a family story on the computer. This lesson was completed in conjunction with two other lesson plans (art and media) using the same theme but could be used alone. Student work from all three lessons was compiled in a student portfolio.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–5 English Language Arts, Guidance, Social Studies, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Amy Honeycutt, Chris Furry, and and Diana Hicks.
- 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.
- 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 Post-Visit
- Geometry and Art: Art Museum Post-Visit is the third lesson of a three-part unit integrating math, writing and visual arts. In this integrated lesson, students apply their knowledge of geometry by organizing and displaying information in graphs with correct labeling. Students then compare and analyze graphs. Finally, with this information students create a geometric design.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Mathematics)
- By Loretta Hopper.
- Getting Hooked; Introduction for a Narrative
- Students will be able to identify techniques for writing an introduction for a narrative and use them effectively.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts)
- By Leann Kelley.
- Getting to know spiders
- This lesson is useful for helping students understand the differences between spiders and insects. They will also learn about a spider's particular body parts. Live spiders will be observed over the course of a few days to see how sound, light, and movement affect the spiders.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Science)
- By Bree Welmaker.
- Leaves
- Students learn about the changing leaves with a hands-on approach. This cross-curricula thematic unit is designed for students to explore, read, write and much more.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Theresa Petrillo.
- 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.
- Make That Chocolate Sundae
- The student will write detailed directions for making and eating a chocolate sundae. S/he will then create and eat a sundae.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1–3 English Language Arts)
- By Landa Latta.
- 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.
- Moravian Migration: Before a Visit to Bethabara
- Students investigate NCECHO site to "read all about" the 1753 Moravian settlement of Bethabara within our social studies curriculum topic on Life Long Ago. The Historic Bethabara Park website has historic background in narrative and diary form. After reading and discussing this information in teams with the teacher, student teams present information to classmates in some visual product in one of five categories. Students also will visit the photos on NCECHO and answer analytical questions to increase understanding of the past as compared to today.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 Information Skills, English Language Arts, and Social Studies)
- By Wrenna Haigler.
- Narrowing the Focus: What's the Main Event?
- In this lesson, students will learn how to narrow the focus of their personal narrative down to one main event by selecting a more specific title. Good stories are focused on one topic or main event. The reader should be able to tell the most important thing that the story is about. Instead of writing a story about a whole vacation that describes many events, it is a good strategy to write a story about one thing that happened on the vacation-one main event.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
- Pigs and Wolf on a Map!
- The students will construct a Double Bubble Map (Venn Diagram) to compare and contrast two versions of a familiar fairytale.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–4 English Language Arts and Computer Technology Skills)
- By Cherry Randall.
- 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.
- Rules and Reasons
- Through active participation in a game without rules, students will discover the reason for rules and laws in our neighborhood and community. They will design a poster and write a story about rules.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Social Studies)
- By Jeannette Renas.
- 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.
- 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.
- Where Do I Begin?
- Picking a good beginning helps you to focus your story on just one main event. In this lesson students will learn how to pick a good beginning for their personal narratives.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 2–5 English Language Arts)
- By DPI Writing Strategies.
