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Trading for Things You Want

CURRICULUM

Trading for Things You Want

Unit Overview

TRADING FOR THINGS YOU WANT

  2nd grade
  7 lessons
 

This unit can be used during the first semester.  Student read and interpret nonfiction text independently. 

  Strategies:  Comprehend, analyze and evaluate nonfiction
  This unit consists of seven lessons. Students independently learn to write friendly letters, messages, and directions using interrogative and declarative sentences.  This Communication Arts unit incorporates the economic concept of bartering and a Book Trade Day.  The students will have prior knowledge of the economic concept of bartering.
  Handouts including graphic organizers
  Formative and Summative Assessment
  Glossary

Unit Plan: Lessons

  Components of Nonfiction Text Word HTML (with links to documents)
Clarifying Understanding in Nonfiction Text Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Identifying Main Ideas Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Making Inferences Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Writing Simple Directions in Sequential Order Word HTML (with links to documents)
  Identify and Write Declarative and Interrogative Sentences in a Short Message Word HTML (with links to documents)
   Writing a Friendly Letter Word HTML (with links to documents)

 Essential Questions:

  Why is it important for students to read and interpret nonfiction text independently?
  What skills does a student need in order to read and interpret nonfiction texts independently?
  Why should students adjust their reading rate when reading nonfiction text?

Summative Assessment and Scoring Guides:

 

PREVIOUS LEARNING

TARGETED LEARNING

FUTURE LEARNING

Identify and explain information in text, pictures, titles and charts.

 

R3A:  The student will locate and interpret information of nonfiction text: illustrations, titles, headings, captions, diagrams, charts, and graphs.

 

 

Students will locate and interpret information in illustrations, titles, headings, captions, diagrams, charts and graphs in nonfiction text.

Use details from the text to

  • ask questions to clarify understanding

  • recognize important information in text

  • identify main ideas                  

  • identify supporting details

 

R3C:  The student will use details from the text to ask questions to clarify understanding. The student will identify main ideas and provide support. The student will make basic inferences about problems and solutions. The student will write simple directions for making or doing something and will be able to retell

Students will use information from nonfiction text to ask questions to clarify understanding, identify main ideas and provide support, retell sequence of events, and make inferences based on text.

Students will need to apply information gained from text to comprehend written information.

 

In composing text, write simple sentences

 

W2F:  The student will identify and write declarative/statements and interrogative/questions in a short message to another student.

 

Students will use interrogative and declarative sentences when writing simple messages and directions.

 

Identify

  • different forms of written     communication (e.g., thank-you notes, friendly letters, lists, poems, invitations)

  • audience and compose text, with assistance

 

W3E:  The student will write a friendly letter to parents/guardians that will include declarative and interrogative sentences.

 

Students will write friendly letters for an intended audience.