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Grade: 2
Unit: 2
Information Literacy SkillsTheme: Growth and Change
Theme Information Literacy
Skills
ResearchOpportunities
Week 1
Approaching: Plants You EatOn Level: Amazing PlantsBeyond: Power-Packed Plants!Main Selection The Tiny SeedVocabulary/Comprehension: Plant Power!Science Link: Plant Parts
Decodable Reader: Luke’s Tune/Growth and ChangeRead Aloud:
Approaching: Whale WatchOn Level: Save the TigersBeyond: Bald Eagle AlertMain Selection: A Harbor Seal Grows UpVocabulary/Comprehension:A Whale is Saved!Science Link: The PuppyDecodable Reader: The RescueRead Aloud: A Thousand Pails of Water
Animal Rescue
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize
Comprehension Skill:
Identify Sequence of Events FluencyWord AutomaticityEcho-Read: pronunciation Choral ReadingRepeated Reading
GrammarPlural NounsAntonyms Capitalization and commasSimiles
Main WritingHow-To Paragraph Other
Meet Author/Photographer Joan and Richard Hewitt
Week 3
Approaching: Hospital HelpersOn Level: Stay Healthy, Stay Happy!Beyond: It’s Easy to be Healthy!Main Selection: A Hospital VisitVocabulary/Comprehension:A Ride to HelpTest Strategy: Author and MeDecodable Reader: The Main Ways We Get FoodRead Aloud: A Special Trade
Approaching: Little BatOn Level: Hermie the Hermit CrabBeyond: Pip the Penguin Main Selection: Farfallina & Marcel Vocabulary/Comprehension: Leo Grows UpScience Link: ButterfliesDecodable Reader: Monarchs Take FlightRead Aloud: The Ugly Duckling
Research SkillsUsing a Dictionary: multiple meaning words Graphic
OrganizersChart 264K, 285NWeb 267E, 285D, 291A Technology Text FeaturesGraph
GrammarPlurals and Possessives Apostrophes
Week 6
Approaching:On Level:Beyond: Main Selection:Vocabulary/Comprehension:
Science Link:
Review and Assess
Test StrategyAuthor and Me ComprehensionDraw ConclusionsSequenceMake Inferences Refe
rence / Research Skills
Technology Text FeaturesDiagramsLabelsUsing LibraryIllustrationsGraphs
Unit Theme: Growth and Change
Project: Research an animalStudent Questions: In what ways do you grow and change? What are some other living things that grow and change? How would your life be different if you didn’t grow and change?
Research Component
Activities Skills Materials
AppreciationStudent realizes the need for information after a viewing, reading, listening or other type of sensory experience.
Unit stories and discussion
PresearchStudents establish a focus by developing an overview of the topic and exploring relationships.
State the problem and Identify needed information
Create a Venn Diagram
Write a sentence to summarize topic.
SearchStudents plan and implement a search strategy by identifying information providers, selecting information resources and tools, and seeking relevant information.
Identify Resources for Finding Information
List sources for information
InterviewUse text features
InterpretationStudents interpret the
Use Venn Diagram to
Synthesis
information they have gathered to make new meaning. They assess the usefulness of their information and reflect on the information to develop personal meaning.
prioritize their findings
CommunicationStudents apply their information to construct and present their new knowledge.
Make presentation at Growth and Change Fair
SpeakingRepresenting with visuals, media, pictures and photos
EvaluationStudents think about and evaluate both their process and their product during research and at the conclusion of research.
Teacher Checklist, p.295 K
Task Skills Procedures/Products Know how to
use a mouse. Use the
mouse www.macmillanmh.com/
reading word processing program
Grade 2 Unit 2 Computer Literacy Lesson
Create documents with the help of the mouse and keyboard