Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Chapter 1
). Explain to the students that you will begin reading a chapter book called ...
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Week 4 Focus Standards
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RI.2.1
W.2.2
L.2.1
RL.2.9
RI.2.2
W.2.3
L.2.1a
RI.2.5 RI.2.6
W.2.7
L.2.4a L.2.4e
Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter Reading Mentor Text
Writing Mentor Text Tier II Words
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Second Grade - Unit 2 The Wild West ___________________
Reading
Monday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Characters Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World by Mildred Pitts Walter (Chapter 1) Explain to the students that you will begin reading a chapter book called Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World. Each day you will be focusing on different elements of the book. This week you will be focusing on the characters and their traits. Read Chapter one of the text (pages 1-7) List the characters that you have met so far on chart paper. Choose one to model your thinking about the traits they possess, demonstrate how you use evidence from the text. Choose a second for students to turn and talk about the characteristics they think the second character contains. As students share encourage students to use evidence from the text. Time to Read: Encourage students to choose a chapter book this weeks so that they can watch a character grow over time. Instruct them focus on a main character to record character traits they notice.
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Second Grade - Unit 2 The Wild West ___________________
Reading
Tuesday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Reader’s Workshop – Characters Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (chapter 2)
RL.2.1
Share with students how proud you were with the work they did yesterday learning about their characters. Explain to students that today you will continue really thinking and learning about the characters in this book. Discuss the characters and traits you noted together yesterday. Growing readers use evidence from the text to justify their reasons that think a character acts the way they do. Instruct students to listen carefully as you read so that they can justify their thinking. Continue reading chapter two and share with students that today you are going to be focusing on Justin’s friend. After reading, Ask the students to describe Justin’s friend during a think pair share. Share his character traits siting evidence from the text. Time to Read: Encourage students to think about their character’s traits as they read and try to justify by using the information the author provides.
Focus Lesson
Second Grade - Unit 2 The Wild West ___________________
Reading
Wednesday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Characters Citing Text Based Evidence
RL.2.1
Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (chapter 3) Share with students how proud you were with the work they did yesterday justifying character traits by citing evidence in the text. Explain to students that today you will continue to learning about the characters in this book. Discuss the characters and traits you noted together yesterday. Growing readers use evidence from the text to justify their reasons that think a character acts the way they do. Instruct students to listen carefully as you read so that they can justify their thinking. Continue reading chapter three continuing to discuss character traits and justify citing evidence from the text. Model your thinking then allow students to assist you with this process. Time to Read: Encourage students to think about their character’s traits as they read and try to justify by using the information the author provides.
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Reading
Thursday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Reader’s workshop – Events Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Chapter 4,5,6) Explain to students that you will continue to read the story. They have discussed all of the characters in the story and today they will begin talking about some major events in the story. Begin to review what has gone on in the first three chapters of the text. Begin reading chapter four. In the story it talks about a cattle drive. Ask the students’ to help you list the details of a cattle or things about cowboys and chart on paper. Discuss where they stopped for lunch in chapter four. Continue reading into chapter 5. Describe the farm and the family history. Discuss with the students’ what grandpa taught Justin. Read the last chapter for the day (chapter 6) and ask the students to talk about what happened as they “rode the fence.” Use some of the discussion questions as a turn and talk moment. Time to Read:
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Reading
Friday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Reader’s workshop –Important events Text – Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (chapters 7 – 8) Review the story so far. Begin reading in chapter 7. Explain to the students’ that in this chapter we begin to see grandpa start to cry. Discuss with the students’ why grandpa was crying. Continue reading into chapter 8. Discuss the title “exodusters” with the students. Tell them that good readers pay attention to the important events in a story. Discuss the important events that happened in the book that Justin found. Give each student a post it note and allow them to write down one of the events that happed in the book Justin found and why it was important to the story. Time to Read:
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Writing
Monday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Adding Details Share with students of examples of great writing you noticed yesterday in writing workshop. Today they will learn another strategy to revise their writing - adding details. Add to anchor chart - I can add details to my writing so my reader can picture what I am sharing. Growing writers go back to their writing to make it better before they share with many people. Demonstrate for students how you reread your writing, and think aloud about the content. Is there enough information that the reader could draw a picture about the content? Show students how you decide how to add details that will improve your writing. Show how you add carets and add additional details. Then reread and reflect. Time to Work: Partners will assist one another in trying out the strategy.
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Writing
Tuesday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Editing
W.2.2 W.2.7
Tell the students that writers do all they have been doing-and that writers publish their writing. Remind children that when it is time to publish, a writer looks over everything he or she has written and choose one text to fix up and fancy up. “All through this school and all across the world, when writhers know that it will soon be time to publish, the writher rereads what he or she has written and chooses the best, saying, ‘This is the piece I’m going to publish.’” Share that you are going to show them a few strategies to fix up their writing which is also known as editing. Create an editing anchor chart – for this first go round only add three elements. I can check for punctuation – each sentence must have an end mark. I can make sure every sentence begins with a capital letter. I can check for spelling. Model going through the process of checking for each in your own writing. For spelling circle the words that you are unsure of the spelling. Think aloud were you might find the correct spelling.
Time to Write: Students should begin to edit their papers.
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Writing
Wednesday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Prepare for Publishing *Students will work of final product for two days.
W.2.2 W.2.7
Explain to the students that it is important for your reader to feel like they have reached the end. Today you are going to let them spend the majority of writer’s workshop for preparing their work to be shared with others. Model the process that you will take to have your writing reading for readers. Suggest after text is written, students work on illustrations and text features Time to Write: Publishing
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Writing
Thursday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Publishing Continued
W.2.2 W.2.7
Share with students how excited you were with seeing their progress from yesterday. Tell them they will have the entire writing time to complete their writing for the author celebration tomorrow. Time to Write: Students complete writing.
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Writing
Friday - Week 4
Focus Lesson
Writer’s workshop – Author’s Celebration Today the students’ will celebrate the nonfiction reports they have written over the last couple of weeks.
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Student’s will display the nonfiction books they written on their desks and students can go around and look at the other books that have been written.
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