3. Student Learning Map

  • Topic:04: Summarizing (ongoing throughout the year)
  • Subject(s):English Language Arts
  • Days:25
  • Grade(s):2
Key Learning:

Readers can summarize what they read by describing the main idea and supporting details.
Unit Essential Question(s):
 
 

How can I summarize what I read?
   
Concept: Main Idea
LA.2.2.1.8   LA.2.2.1.5   LA.2.2.1.1   LA.2.1.7.3  
Concept:

Summarizing

LA.2.1.7.8   LA.2.1.7.3  
Concept:

Self-Correcting

LA.2.1.7.8   LA.2.1.6.6   LA.2.1.4.8   LA.2.1.5.2   LA.2.1.5.1  
Lesson Essential Question(s):

Lesson Essential Question(s):

Within my writing, how do I use nouns, verbs, personal pronouns, adjectives, and adverbs?

 (A)

How do I check for subject/verb agreement in my writing?

 (ET)

How do I check for noun/pronoun agreement in sentences?

 (ET)
Lesson Essential Question(s):

How do I use self-correction as I read?

 (A)

How will I improve my reading comprehension by rereading, predicting, and using context clues?

 (A)

How do I decode words quickly and accurately to improve my comprehension?

 (A)

How do I predict outcomes to self check my comprehension?

 (ET)

How does knowing high frequency words in context help me understand what I read?

 (ET)
Vocabulary:

main idea, supporting details

Vocabulary:

summary

Vocabulary:

repair comprehension, reread, checking, context clues, predict, questioning

Additional Information:

Polk County Schools

Curriculum Map/Monthly Focus Calendar

Reading Comprehension Skill Sequence

November: Text Elements

(literary elements, text features, plot, etc.)

December: Sequence

Embedded throughout the year:

*Reference and Research

*Vocabulary

*Summarizing

Harcourt Trophies

  • Week 11, November 2 - 6, 2009, Just for You: Helping Hands - "Leomonade for Sale" by Stuart J. Murphy
  • Week 12, November 9 - 13, 2009, Just for You: Our World - "Johnny Appleseed" by Pleasant DeSpain
  • Week 13, November 16 - 20, 2009, Teacher Discretion: Trade books relating to Summarizing
  • Week 14, November 30 - December 4, 2009, Just for You: Our World - "From Seed to Plant" by Gail Gibbons
  • Week 15, December 7 - 11, 2009, Just for You: Our World - "The Secret Life of Trees" by Chiara Chevallier

    • Resources:

    View As PDF
    Know - Understand - Do Organizer
    Student Learning Map
    Vocabulary Report

    Acquisition Lesson:

    1. How do I identify the details and main idea in a variety of texts?2. How do I use supporting details and main idea to summarize what I read?3. How do I summarize using connections between self to text, text to world, and text to text?5. How do I use reading strategies to monitor as I read?

    Extending Thinking Lesson:

    Vocabulary Report

    • main idea -

      what the story or passage is mostly about

    • summary -

      tell about the main idea of a story or passage in your own words

    • repair comprehension -

      use fix-up strategies

    • supporting details -

      small parts of the story that tell about the main idea

    • reread -

      read again and think about the text

    • checking -

      questioning yourself about the text

    • context clues -

      figure out the meaning of a word by using the parts of the sentence surrounding that word

    • predict -

      thinking about what may happen next in story

    • questioning -

      wondering or asking about the story to check for understanding (comprehension)