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2nd Grade; Reading; 1. Develop and apply skills to the reading process. A. Comprehension; Develop and demonstrate reading skills in response to text by asking and responding to relevant questions.

2nd Grade; Reading; 1. Develop and apply skills to the reading process. C. Making connections; Determine the relevant connections between text to world (text ideas regarding experiences in the world).

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The focus is to get students to read texts relating to the theme of space. The teacher will give them questions inside the develop and they will answer questions through reading the text. the teacher will help them understand the text by making connections with the real world.

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Before reading, teacher will motivate students to know about space. She will ask them to make brainstorm bubble on a paper and write words about space. During reading, the teacher will ask questions that keep students on track and focus on the main idea of the text. After reading, the teacher will ask students to tell a summary in their own words.

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How to understand reading?

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This center will be located on the other corner of the room.

There will be shelves for miscellaneous books. Also, there will be books about space to give them a chance to learn more about space.

There will be a basket for each student to put books that he read it

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The teacher will only need 3 envelops and small cards to put in the envelopes for each group.

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Integration Possibilities, the teacher will read A moon Of my own out loud and show students the images of the book while they are sitting on the ground. Students must have knowledge of the elements of reading that they will have already discussed.

The teacher will ask them to go to sit on their table. She will put one envelope on every table. The envelope contains cards, such as title, genre, A moon Of my own, setting,...etc.  each group should be able to match the cards.

When the students finish work on the activity, the teacher will ask the students on the red and blue tables to go with her to see what the yellow group did. The teacher will do the same thing with each group.

The students will do this activity to help them to understand the text about space.

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2nd Grade; Reading; 2. Develop and apply skills and strategies to comprehend,  and evaluate fiction, poetry, and drama from a variety of cultures and times; C. Drama; Read, infer, and draw conclusions to identify the elements of dialogue and use them in informal plays

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The Focus is Drama/Dialogue

The focus is to get student familiar with using/creating dialogue.

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The student will use the elements of dialogue to create a dialogue for an informal play.

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In our centers, we are focused on the development of language and literacy and state standards for second graders. We chose a space theme, because it allowed us to integrate science into our literacy standards. Another reason we chose a space theme is that many second graders have an interest in space.

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What are the elements of dialogue and how do you use them correctly?

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This center will be in corner of the room away from others to distract.

For integration areas: There will be a box of examples of scripts with dialogue in it. There will also be book about space to give them ideas about their trip to space.

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This activity will allow four students to participate. They will separated into two groups. They will both be responsible for coming up with dialogue for their “trip to space.” They need to use the elements of dialogue that we will have previously discussed. There will be astronaut helmets for them to use in their informal plays. When their dialogue is written, they will perform their dialogue for the other group in a play form.

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Paper
pencils
2 astronaut helmets
Examples of dialogue in script
Books about space

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Our centers work on both recpetive and expressive language. The students practice receptive language in the drama and reading centers. Expressive language is practice in all three centers. The writing and reading centers also work on print concepts.

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Writing Center - Ability to write complete sentences, generate ideas for their writing, and have knowledge of what paragraphs are

Drama Center - Elements of dialogue and ability to write complete sentences.

Reading Center - Concepts of print

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2nd Grade; Writing; 1. Apply a writing process to develop a text for audience and purpose. A. Prewriting; Follow a writing process to plan a first draft by brainstorming and recording key ideas using a graphic organizer.

2nd Grade; Writing; 1. Apply a writing process to develop a text for audience and purpose. B. Draft; Appropriate to genre type, develop a draft from prewriting by: b. generating paragraphs with one main idea.

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Books:
Carson, Jana (2001). About Space.
Harryman, William (n.d). Coyote and the star. Available from www.readinga-z.com

McStotts, Jennifer (n.d). Life in space. Available from www.readinga-z.com

Relfsnyder, Cheryl (n.d). Voyagers in Space. Available from www.readinga-z.com
Cooper, Bruce D (n.d.). Our Solar System. Avaliable from www.readinga-z.com.- This book  explains attributes of the various planets, along with asteroids and comets. The book contains a glossary with the definitions of key vocabulary words. These words include atmosphere, diameter, fossil fuels, gravitational pull, meteor, meteorite, meteoroid, and orbit/s.

Page, Katherine (n.d.) Space. Avaliable from www.readinga-z.com.
Hulpoi-Deac, Andrei (n.d). Outer Space. Available from www.storyjumper.com

Rayos, Adrian (n.d). Space Adventure. Available from www.storyjumper.com

McNamara, Margaret (n.d). The Three Little Aliens and the Big Bad Robot. Available from          www.weareteachers.com

Songs:
StoryBots Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPTcFmdcsoQ

Pinkfong Songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WApvQ8yp5WE

Barefoot Books - Space Song Rocket Ride: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAHy_2IFFGA

Poems:
Outer Space

By:  Carol Weston
(Retrieved from: https://www.tooter4kids.com/Space/Poems.htm)

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The student will be able to use a graphic organizer to brainstorm and record key ideas for their writing piece.

The student will use their prewriting to draft a fiction writing piece with paragraphs centered around one main idea.

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The teacher will walk around to see how every student work and see if anyone have a question to help.

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The teacher will collect their written dialogue to assess.

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The focus of this center is writing fiction texts.

More specifically the students will focus on brainstorming ideas through prewriting and organizing their writing into paragraphs with one main idea.

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Why is brainstorming ideas an important thing to do before writing a draft?

How do paragraphs help organize our writing?

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This is a link to a very helpful website for setting up a dramatic play center.

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How to Set up the Dramatic Play Center in an Early Childhood Classroom - Pocket of Preschool

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The Dramatic play center is a place students can go to pretend, imagine, and be creative. Students can pretend to be anyone and do anything! This is powerful for our…

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The center will be located in portable bins. There will be two bins. One bin will hold the graphic organizers , and the other bin will hold the draft paper.

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This center can have as many participants as needed. The bins allow students to grab their supplies and go back to their seats, or the students can move the bins to a central location, such as the middle of a table.

The students will use the graphic organizer provided by the teacher to brainstorm ideas for their draft. Their writing is to be about what they would include on their perfect planet. The focus of their draft is to write paragraphs with one main idea, so their graphic organizer will be a web. The web will have their main idea in the middle (“My Perfect Planet”). Then, the web will have three supporting details that will be the ideas behind their paragraphs.

The students will move on to their draft after they have finished their web for prewriting. The students will grab their draft paper out of the bin. The draft paper will have room for a picture and writing. They may take as many piece of draft paper that they need.  The bin containing the draft paper will have a laminated reminder for students that will read: “Remember to organize your writing with paragraphs. You need an introduction, three  supporting paragraphs, and an ending paragraph. Use your prewriting to help you write.” This reminder will stay on the bin for every student to look at and read before they write their draft.

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Class set of graphic organizers

Class set of writing paper for drafts

Pencils for each student

Word Wall to help with spelling of high-frequency words

Laminated reminder on the “drafts” bin

Bins to hold the graphic organizers and draft papers

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To assess, the teacher will collect both the graphic organizers with their students’ prewriting and the drafts that the students write.

If the teacher is not working with another center, she may hold writing conferences with the people at this center to collect more information for assessment.

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1. Reading- The teacher could provide books as mentor texts to guide the students’ writing. The teacher may use the books as read-alouds before sending the students off to centers.

2. Science- The teacher can relate the activity to science standards about space. Their are standards relating to space in both first and second grade. This assignment can be related to previous knowledge about attributes of space and planets.