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Belonging and Friendship: Pinky and Rex

Lesson 21

ELA

Unit 3

2nd Grade

Lesson 21 of 22

These assessments accompany this unit to help gauge student understanding of key unit content and skills.

Content Assessment

The Content Assessment pushes students to synthesize unit content knowledge or unit essential questions in writing. The Content Assessment should be used as the primary assessment because it shows mastery of unit content knowledge and standards. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

Cold Read Assessment

The Cold Read Assessment tests students' ability to comprehend a "cold" or unfamiliar passage and answer standards-based questions. The Cold Read Assessment can be given in addition to the Content Assessment as a pulse point for what students can read and analyze independently, a skill often required for standardized testing. This assessment should take approximately one class period.

Fluency Assessment

The Fluency Assessment allows teachers to monitor students' oral reading fluency progress with a reading passage drawn from one of the unit's core texts. The Fluency Assessment should be given at the end of a unit. Teachers should plan to pull students one-on-one to do this while the rest of the class is independently reading or writing. Find additional guidance for using this assessment and supporting reading fluency in Teacher Tools.

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Lesson Map

Describe Pinky and Rex’s relationship and Pinky and Amanda’s relationship by using details from the text to describe characters and character relationships.

P&R — Chapter 1

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.5

Describe Pinky and Rex’s relationship by using details from the text to describe characters and character relationships.

P&R — Chapter 2

Standards

L.2.5.bRF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain how Amanda’s dialogue shows how she feels about being at the museum by using dialogue and details to show how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R — Chapter 3

Standards

L.2.5.bL.2.6RF.2.4RL.2.3RL.2.6

Describe the lesson that Amanda, Pinky, and Rex learned by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.

P&R — Chapter 4

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3

Discussion & Writing

Describe Pinky, Rex, and Amanda and how each character responds to major events and challenges by stating a claim and then providing supporting evidence from the entire text.

P&R

Standards

RL.2.3RL.2.5SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1

Explain why Pinky is embarrassed by what happens with Mrs. Morgan by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the Bully — Chapters 1-2

Standards

RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain in what ways Kevin is a bully and how his actions influence everyone around him, especially Pinky, by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the Bully — Chapters 3-4

Standards

L.2.5.bRF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain what advice Mrs. Morgan gave Pinky and why by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the Bully — Chapter 5

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain how Pinky changed and what lesson he learned by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.

P&R and the Bully — Chapters 6-7

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3

Discussion & Writing

Describe Pinky, Rex, and Amanda and how each character responds to major events and challenges by stating a claim and then providing supporting evidence from the entire text.

P&R and the Bully

Standards

L.2.1.eRL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1

Explain how Pinky and Rex feel about the spelling bee and how their feelings change by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the Spelling Bee — Chapters 1-2

Standards

RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.3

Describe how Pinky’s feelings change over the course of the chapters and what causes the change by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the Spelling Bee — Chapters 3-4

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain how Pinky and Rex changed and what lesson they learned by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.

P&R and the Spelling Bee — Chapters 5-6

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3

Discussion & Writing

Describe Pinky, Rex, and Amanda and how each character responds to major events and challenges by stating a claim and then providing supporting evidence from the entire text.

P&R and the Spelling Bee

Standards

RL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1

Explain why Pinky is mad at Rex and if it is fair that he is mad at her by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

P&R and the School Play — Chapters 1-2

Standards

RF.2.3RF.2.4RL.2.3

Explain how Pinky and Rex changed and what lesson they learned by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.

P&R and the School Play — Chapters 3-4

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3

Describe what happens during the play and what lesson Pinky and Rex learn by using details to describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges and what lesson they learn from the major events.

P&R and the School Play — Chapters 5-6

Standards

RF.2.4RL.2.2RL.2.3

Discussion & Writing

3 days

Describe Pinky, Rex, and Amanda and how each character responds to major events and challenges by stating a claim and then providing supporting evidence from the entire text.

P&R and the School Play

Standards

RL.2.3RL.2.5RL.2.9SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6W.2.1

Debate two essential questions by participating in a class discussion by stating a claim and providing evidence from the unit.

All unit texts

Standards

SL.2.1SL.2.2SL.2.6

Opinion Writing

5 days

Argue whether or not kids and robots can be best friends using details about Pinky and Rex’s relationship from the entire Pinky and Rex series.

All unit texts

Standards

L.2.2L.2.2.aW.2.1W.2.5

Gauge student understanding of unit content and skills with one of Fishtank's unit assessments.

Narrative Writing

4 days

Write a narrative about Pinky and Rex using what you know about their personality traits and relationship.

All unit texts
K-2 Narrative Brainstorm
Grade 2 Writing Rubrics (Narrative, Opinion & Informational)

Standards

L.2.1L.2.2SL.2.1SL.2.2W.2.3W.2.5W.2.8

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