EXPLORATION: Animals, Animals, Animals Planning Guide
Grade 2 I Week 1
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Read-Aloud Who Would Win? Whale vs. Giant Squid, TG pp. 18–19 & SH p. 7 Reading Instruction Now I Know: Bears , TG pp. 26–27
Read-Aloud Please Be Nice to Sharks , TG pp. 20–21 & SH p. 10 Reading Instruction Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!, TG pp. 28–29
Read-Aloud What If You Had Animal Ears!? , TG pp. 22–23 & SH p. 13 Monitor Book Club Chats For background about each book, see pp. 40–43, TG. • W hat Would You Do With a Tail Like This? • W ho Would Win? Lion vs. Tiger • W ild World: Fast and Slow: Mammals • B aby Dolphin's First Day Vocabulary Clips, TG p. 35 & SH p. 14 Book Club Chat TG pp. 35, 40–43 & SH p. 15 Write About Reading Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! (Narrative), TG p. 29
Read-Aloud What If You Had Animal Feet!?, TG pp. 16–17 & SH p. 4
Whole Class Read-Aloud 30 min.
Reading Instruction Now I Know: Bears , TG pp. 26–27
Teacher-Led Instruction Small Group
Rotate after 20 min.
Letters and Sounds
Letters and Sounds
Letters and Sounds oo sounds , TG p. 32 & SH p. 5 Book Club TG pp. 32, 40–43 & SH p. 6 Informative/ Explanatory Writing Introduce Student Samples, TG p. 114–115
Independent/ Partners Rotate after 20 min.
r- controlled words , TG p. 34 & SH p. 11 Book Club TG pp. 34, 40–43 & SH p. 12
-ar and -or words , TG p. 33 & SH p. 8 Book Club TG pp. 33, 40–43 & SH p. 9
Informative/ Explanatory Writing Read-Aloud: Chameleons Are Cool! , TG p. 116
Write About Reading
Whole Class Writing* 20 min.
Now I Know: Bears Write and Respond (Description), TG p. 27
* There are Writing About Reading prompts included with the Read-Aloud lesson. You may wish to substitute those activities for the Write About Reading listed here.
14 Scholar Zone Summer: Reading & Writing
Made with FlippingBook - Online catalogs