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ELA
Alternate Unit 2
2nd Grade
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Identify the different ways insects can be both helpful and harmful and explain one reason why by using text features and details to describe the connection between scientific concepts.
Book: Helpful and Harmful Insects by Bobbie Kalman and Molly Aloian pp. 22 – 29
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Identify the different ways insects can be both helpful and harmful. Pick one reason insects are harmful and explain why. Make sure to include two to three details.
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Questions about the text that will help guide the students understanding
What is the main topic of this section? How do you know?
Why did the author include the photographs on page 24 and 25? What do they help the reader better understand about the text?
Model Fluent Reading: There are some new, tricky words on this page. Watch to see what I do to figure them out. (Model reading page 26). What did you notice?
What are diseases? Is it helpful or harmful that some insects spread diseases? Give an example.
Literary terms, text-based vocabulary, idioms and word parts to be taught with the text
venom
n.
poison
parasite
lives on the skin of animals or inside their bodies
host
living things that carry parasites
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RI.2.2 — Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
RI.2.3 — Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.
RI.2.8 — Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text.
Standards that are practiced daily but are not priority standards of the unit
L.2.1.f — Produce, expand, and rearrange complete simple and compound sentences (e.g., The boy watched the movie; The little boy watched the movie; The action movie was watched by the little boy).
RF.2.3 — Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
RF.2.4 — Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RI.2.1 — Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RI.2.5 — Know and use various text features (e.g., captions, bold print, subheadings, glossaries, indexes, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text efficiently.
RI.2.10 — By the end of year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, in the grades 2—3 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
SL.2.1 — Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about grade 2 topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
SL.2.2 — Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media.
Lesson 19
Lesson 21
Identify key information about insect bodies by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RI.2.1 RI.2.4 RI.2.5
Identify and explain characteristics of an insect by identifying and explaining key details in a text Read Aloud.
Discussion & Writing
Explain which of the following images are insects by using organizing categories to defend claims or opinions about a content-related topic.
L.2.1.f RI.2.4 RI.2.7 SL.2.1 SL.2.2 W.2.1 W.2.5
Identify key information about insect life cycles by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.2.3 RF.2.4 RI.2.1 RI.2.3 RI.2.5
Describe the key phases in a complete insect life cycle by using text features and details to describe the connection between scientific ideas.
RI.2.2 RI.2.5
Describe the differences between a complete and incomplete metamorphosis using text features and details to describe the connection between scientific ideas.
RI.2.3 RI.2.5 RI.2.7
Explain what happens at each stage of the life cycle by using picture clues and details to sequence events.
L.2.1.f RI.2.3 SL.2.1 SL.2.2 SL.2.6 W.2.2
Identify key information about ants by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.2.3 RF.2.4 RI.2.1 RI.2.2 RI.2.5 RI.2.7
Argue why an ant would or would not survive in a rainforest habitat by using organizing categories to defend claims or opinions about a content-related topic.
L.2.1.f SL.2.1 SL.2.2 W.2.1
Describe the impact bees have on the natural world using key details from the text.
RF.2.3 RF.2.4 RI.2.1 RI.2.2
Describe a bee’s world by noticing key details in the text and using relevant vocabulary.
RF.2.3 RF.2.4 RI.2.2 RI.2.4 RI.2.5
Determine the main purpose of a text by reading with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
RF.2.3 RF.2.4 RI.2.5 RI.2.6
Argue why a bee would or would not survive in a rainforest habitat by using organizing categories to defend claims or opinions about a content-related topic.
L.2.1.f SL.2.1 SL.2.2 SL.2.6 W.2.1
Informative Writing – 3 days
Describe an insect’s life cycle by writing an informational text that uses researched facts, images, and definitions to explain what you learned.
L.2.1.f L.2.4 RI.2.3 RI.2.4 RI.2.5 W.2.2 W.2.5 W.2.7
Explain how the author uses poetry to describe an insect.
RL.2.4 SL.2.5
RI.2.3 RI.2.6 RI.2.8
Identify the different ways insects can be both helpful and harmful, and explain one reason why by using text features and details to describe the connection between scientific concepts.
RI.2.2 RI.2.3 RI.2.8
Argue why it would be a good or bad thing if all the insects in our world suddenly disappeared by using organizing categories to defend claims or opinions about a content–related topic.
Informative Writing – 5 days
Describe an insect by writing an informational text that uses researched facts, images, and definitions to explain what they learned.
L.2.1.f L.2.2.e L.2.4.e W.2.2 W.2.5 W.2.7
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