1. Higher order questions
Lesson Topic(s): Reading
Second Grade
Week of: 12/03-12/07
Objectives: Students will be able to identify cause and effect.
TEKS:2.3b questions, 2.5B multiple meanings, 2.14A main idea, 2.14C order of events, 2.5A suffixes
ELPS: C4G increased comprehension, C4I demonstrate skills such as finding main idea
Essential Question(s): How can you tell the difference in cause and effect?
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Friday
Lesson Plan
Discuss vocabulary words. Read Click, Clack Moo. Make vocabulary page in journal with definitions and pictures.
Mini lesson: Sequencing a story
Strategy group: Cause and Effect
Word Work: word attack skill practice Read the story. Discuss author’s purpose in writing. Sequence the story.
Practice vocabulary. Read the story.
Use context clues to understand.
Practice identifying Cause and Effect.
Comprehension assessment on the story. Skill check on summarizing and cause and effect.
Vocabulary
Impatient
Furious
Demand
Emergency
Neutral
Sincerely
Sequencing
Cause
Effect
Beginning
Middle
End
Higher order questions
What are some ways you could persuade your parent to change their mind?
How do the cows get Farmer Brown to do what they want?
How are the animals in the story like real animals?
Does cause come first, or does effect?
How does visualizing help you sequence the story?
Assessment Strategy
Journal page and worksheet.
Use the mini lesson pages to assess.
Cause and Effect practice pages. Journal write their own causes and effects.
Journal page summary of story.
Summarizing practice page.
Students will do RTI as needed to reinforce skills.