The Rainbow Fish – Lesson Plan- Second Grade

Grade Level : Second Grade

Subject : Language Arts

Duration: 40 minutes

Benchmark Description : Florida Sunshine State Standards

LA.A.2.1.1: The student uses the reading process effectively – determines the main idea or essential message from text and identifies supporting information.

LA.2.1.7.3 – summarize information in text, including but not limited to main idea, supporting details, and connections between texts.

LA.2.1.7.4 – identify cause-and-effect relationships in text.

LA.2.1.7.5 – identify the text structure an author uses (e.g., comparison/contrast, cause/effect, and sequence of events) and explain how it impacts meaning in text.

LA.2.1.7.8 – use strategies to repair comprehension of grade-appropriate text when self-monitoring indicates confusion, including but not limited to rereading, checking context clues, predicting, summarizing, questioning, and clarifying by checking other sources.

LA.2.2.1.2 – identify and describe the elements of story structure, including setting, plot, character, problem, and resolution in a variety of fiction.

Objectives:

After this lesson:

Students will be able to identify the main idea in the story.

Students will be able to summarize the text and make text connections to their own lives.

Students will be able to identify cause and effect relationship in the text.

Students will use reading comprehension strategies to monitor their own understanding of the text.

Students will use higher order cognitive skills to create their own story on topics of friendship, sharing, and/or happiness in their journals.

Materials:

The Rainbow Fish, by Marcus Pfister

Poster size Rainbow fish

journals

pencils

markers

paper scales

Procedures:

1. Teacher will start the lesson by discussing the role of sharing in friendship. Teacher will ask students how sharing makes them feel. How do they go about sharing things that they really like? Does it hurt their feelings when someone does not want to share with them? How do they feel when a friend shares with them?
2. Teacher will proceed to introduce the story and then read the story. During the story, teacher will pause on a couple of spots and check on students’ comprehension and thought and prediction on the story. (It is important not to make too many comprehension pauses/stops in order to prevent loss of interest in the story.
3. At the end, ask students to summarize the story. What was the story about? Students will identify the cause and effects relationship in the story. How did the Rainbow Fish behavior change the way other fish treat her? Discuss the importance of sharing and what really made the Rainbow Fish happy? Was it the shimmering scales or friends?
4. Take a step further and encourage students to think about their own friendships and instances when someone’s selfishness made them feel bad or vice versa. Then give out a pice of paper in the shape of a scale to each student. Tell them to think of one word that comes to mind when they think of sharing and friendship. Have them write the word on the scale. Let them decorate their individual scales, and once they are done, glue the scales on the big poster fish.

Assessment:

Students will either retell the story in written form in their journals or create a new story on on the topic of sharing and friendship.

Pictograph – Math Lesson Plan

Pictograph Lesson Plan

Grade Level: Second & Third Grade

Benchmark: MA.3.S.7.1 - Construct and analyze pictographs and tally charts from data, including data collected through observations, surveys, and experiments.

Instructional Goal: Students will be able to create pictographs by using data from the

tally chart.

Result of Analysis

Instructional Need: Students need to be able to use their prior knowledge of

tallies and tally charts in order to be able to learn how to create pictographs.

Instructional Analysis:

Cognitive: Reading tallies, tally charts, using the key, creating pictograph,

identifying difference between tally chart and pictograph, making

comparisons between tally chart and pictograph, recognizing patterns,

verbalizing their findings and graph creation.

Psychomotor: Students will use computer mouse during their internet

session.

Affective: none

Entry skills/knowledge: Students will have knowledge of tallies and tally charts.

Conditions and Constraints: Students will need peaceful and engaging environment

with plenty of time to transfer data from tally chart into a pictograph. Students will need

to have individual computers for the second session of the lesson plan.

Learner Analysis: The learners are second or third grade students. They should have a

solid knowledge of tallies and tally chart. At the same time, students need to be able to

listen and participate through two forty-five minute lectures.

Learning Objectives

Objective 1 – cognitive

A . Second/Third graders will identify, create, and read tallies.

B Students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the tally chart by individually filling out the data in the tally

chart.

C   Students will fill out the tally charts individually during class.

D. Students will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of tallies withat least 60% accuracy.

Objective 2 -cognitive

A. Second/Third grade students will be able to create a pictograph.

B.  Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to complete the pictograph by using the key and data from the tally chart.

C. Second/Third grade students will create their pictographs in their notebooks during math class.

D Students will demonstrate ability to complete the pictograph with at least 60% accuracy.

Objective 3 -cognitive

A. Second/Third grade students will identify relationships between tally chart and pictograph.

B. Students will be able to describe the presentation of information in the tally chart and the pictograph.

C. Students will describe relationships between tally and pictograph chart in the written form in their

note books.

D. Second grade students will identify relationships between tally chart and pictograph with 80% accuracy.

Objective 4 -cognitive

A  Second/Third grade students will be able to check accuracy of their work.

B Second/Third grade students will double check accuracy of their work by working backwards from pictograph to tally chart.

C   Second/Third grade students will double check accuracy of their work in their notebooks during math class.

D   Second/Third grade students will double check their work with 80% accuracy.

Objective 5 -cognitive

A   Students will practice beginning multiplication concepts.

B  Second/Third grade students will practice multiplication while using the key to convert tally data into a pictograph.

C   Second/Third grade students will practice multiplication while completing their assignment during math class.

D. Second/Third graders will practice multiplication while creating pictographs with at least 60% accuracy.

Total

Graphing Assessment

Selected response items:

1. Circle the correct answer. What does the scale on the graph go up by?

1. 5

2. 1

3. 2

4. 4

2. Circle the correct answer. Which color is the least popular?

1.green

2.pink

3.blue

4.red

3.How many people like green?

1.4

2.6

3.1

4.2

4.Tally marks are written as groups of how many lines?

1.2

2.4

3.5

4.6

5.How many people is the key worth?

1.4

2.3

3.2

4.1

Constructed response:

1.Using the key and the data from the tally chart, how many people liked blue?

_________

2. Six people like red. Please fix the graph.

3. Explain how you use the tally data to construct the pictograph.

4.If the key is worth two people, how much is half of person worth?

______

5.Explain how you can check your work by working back from pictograph to the

tally chart.

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Pictograph Lesson Plan

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This is one of the best children’s nonfiction books about Thanksgiving. It is ideal for any age group, especially primary students who are discovering their first chapter books, and for elementary school teachers’ lesson plans.

The book describes the lives of Pilgrims and the origin of Thanksgiving in an interesting and engaging way.

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Tacky the Penguin – Helen Lester- Something for Laughs

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Check the spellingcity.com site. It lets you plug in your own spelling words into a list and play games. It just makes the memorization of the spelling words a bit more meaningful, which will help your child put the words in context and remember them even after the test.

children's books online

On a rainy day when you feel like reading some new books but don’t want to go to the library…  Here are some good sites with children’s books online.

Kids love this site. A lots of books read aloud by actors. http://www.storylineonline.net/

Between the Lions – PBS – stories online

http://pbskids.org/lions/stories/

International Children’s Digital Library from the University of Maryland

This site has books from all over the world. It’s a good way to introduce your child to different cultures.

http://www.icdlbooks.org/

Check www.biguniverse.com books online