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Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace

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Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace

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Overview:

This lesson gives second-grade students opportunities to interact with a thought-provoking story, as they also develop comprehension and critical-thinking skills. Students begin by listening to a read-aloud of Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman, with teacher modeling of the thinking process at key points. They then participate in partner, small-group, and whole-class discussions to revisit and respond to the text. Students finish by using the interactive Doodle Splash to visually represent the ideas they want to remember from the book. Helpful tips are embedded within the lesson for discussing difficult themes and guiding students to make respectful and thoughtful comments in a group setting.

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English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	R1. Utilize active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings, following agreed-upon rules for participation. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: R1. Active Listening Discussion Conversation Rules Participation Knowledge: R1. Students know: Active listening skills. Agreed-upon rules for participation for discussions and conversations in a variety of settings. Skills: R1. Students are able to: Demonstrate active listening skills during discussion and conversation in pairs, small groups, or whole-class settings. Converse in pairs, small groups, and large groups. Practice the agreed-upon rules for participation. Understanding: R1. Students understand that: Conversations and discussions follow agreed-upon rules to help us actively listen and gain understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	4. Orally answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about a text or conversation, using complete sentences to provide key ideas and details. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 4. Orally Who, what, when where, why, and how questions Complete sentences Key ideas Key details Knowledge: 4. Students know: Key ideas and details should be included when answering questions. Complete sentences, which contain a subject and a predicate, should be used when answering questions. Who, when, and where questions will have a concrete, objective answer. What, why, and how questions may have a more abstract, subjective answer. Skills: 4. Students are able to: Orally answer questions about a text or conversation using complete sentences that provide information about key ideas and details. Orally answer who, what, when, where, why, and how questions about a text or conversation with appropriate key ideas and details. Understanding: 4. Students understand that: When answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions they should provide key ideas and details from a text or conversation to demonstrate their comprehension. Speaking in complete sentences helps them clearly communicate their message and their understanding.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	12. Read and reread grade-appropriate text accurately, automatically, and with meaningful expression at a rate which supports comprehension. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 12. Reread Grade-appropriate text Accurately Automatically Meaningful expression Rate which supports comprehension Knowledge: 12. Students know: Accurately means reading without mistakes and automatically means knowing the words immediately without sounding them out. Techniques to make appropriate changes in voice, pitch, and expression while reading orally. Reading must occur at a speed (rate) that supports understanding of the text. Rereading is a strategy that aids in word recognition and comprehension. Skills: 12. Students are able to: Read and reread words that are second grade-appropriate with little to no mistakes. Read words quickly without pausing to sound them out. Read and reread at a pace that supports comprehension of the text. Understanding: 12. Students understand that: They should read text with accuracy, automaticity, and meaningful expression at a pace that helps them comprehend the text they are reading. They can reread text to improve their accuracy, automaticity, and comprehension.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	13. Read grade-appropriate poetry, noticing phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 13. Grade-appropriate poetry Phrasing Rhythm Rhyme Knowledge: 13. Students know: The features of poetry include phrasing, rhythm, and rhyme. Words rhyme if their vowel and ending sounds are the same (example: ham, Sam). Rhythm is a steady beat made by stressed syllables in spoken words. A phrase is a group of words. Skills: 13. Students are able to: Read grade-appropriate poetry. Notice the features of poetry, including words that rhyme, stressed syllables that create rhythm, and words that are grouped together in phrases. Understanding: 13. Poetry is a genre of text that uses distinctive style and rhythm to aid in the expression of feelings.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	23. Identify the main story elements in a literary text. a. Explain the plot of a narrative, using textual evidence to list the major events in sequence. b. Describe the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors in a story. c. Describe the setting of a narrative, using textual evidence. d. Identify the central message or moral of a story. e. Identify the theme in myths, fables, and folktales. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 23. Story elements Literary text 23a. Plot Narrative Textual evidence Major events Sequence 23b. Describe Character Traits Feelings Behaviors 23c. Setting Narrative Textual evidence 23d. Central message Moral 23e. Theme Myths Fables Folktales Knowledge: 23. Students know: Literary text is a story that contains story elements, like a plot and characters. 23a. Plot is the main events of a story (often referred to as the beginning, middle, and end of a story). The sequence of events is the order in which the story takes place. 23b. A story author provides descriptions of the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors. 23c. Setting is when and where a story takes place. 23d. A central message or moral is the lesson that is learned through the story or the one big idea of the story. 23e. Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text. Myths, fables, and folktales are fictional pieces of text. Skills: 23. Students are able to: Identify the main story elements in a literary text, such as characters, settings, and plot. 23a. Explain the major events of a story in order by using text evidence. 23b. Describe characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors by using information from the text. 23c. Describe the setting of a story by using evidence from the text. 23d. Identify the central message or moral of a story using information from the text. 23e. Identify the theme of a myth, fable, or folktale. Understanding: 23. Students understand that: Literary texts include story elements, and they can identify the various elements to better understand the text. 23a. The plot is the main events of the story that happen in a particular sequence. The plot can be explained by using words or phrases from the text. 23b. Understanding each character's traits, feelings, and behaviors will help them better understand a story's plot. They can learn about characters by carefully reading the story and describing the characters' traits, feelings, and behaviors. 23c. They can use information from the text to learn when and where the story takes place. They can use the text to describe attributes of the setting. 23d. Stories will often have a central message or moral that the author intended to share with readers. 23e. Myths, fables, and folktales are often written to convey a particular theme or main message.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	25. Identify and use various text features to locate ideas, facts, or supporting details in both written and digital formats. a. Identify and locate captions, bold print, subheadings, indexes, graphs, maps, glossaries, and illustrations. b. Explain how specific features can clarify a text or enhance comprehension. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 25. Identify Text features Ideas Facts Supporting details Written formats Digital formats 25a. Captions Bold print Subheadings Indexes Graphs Maps Glossaries Illustrations 25b. Features Clarify Enhance Comprehension Knowledge: 25. Students know: Text features can be used to locate information in printed and digital text. 25a. Captions, bold print, subheadings, indexes, graphs, maps, glossaries, and illustrations are important text features that can help provide or locate information. 25b. Text features can clarify or enhance the meaning of text. Skills: 25. Students are able to: Identify text features in printed and digital text. Use text features to locate ideas, facts, and supporting details. 25a. Locate captions, bold print, subheads, indexes, graphs, maps, glossaries, and illustrations within a text. Identify captions, bold print, subheads, indexes, graphs, maps, glossaries, and illustrations by naming them within a text. 25b. Explain how text features can clarify the meaning of text. Explain how text features can improve comprehension of text. Understanding: 25. Students understand that: Printed and digital text has predictable features that can be used to locate important ideas, facts, and supporting details. Using text features helps support their overall comprehension. 25a. Locating and identifying text features can aid in comprehension. Viewing these text features prior to reading, can provide a preview of the material and give them a purpose for reading. 25b. They can use text features to better understand, or comprehend, the meaning of a text.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 2	27. Identify the text structures within literary and informational texts, including cause and effect, problem and solution, and sequence of events. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 27. Text structures Literary texts Informational texts Cause and effect Problem and solution Sequence of events Knowledge: 27. Students know: Literary and informational texts follow predictable structures. Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect). Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved. Sequence of events is the order of events within a text. Skills: 27. Students are able to: Identify the text structure of literary texts. Identify the text structure of informational texts. Understanding: 27. Students understand that: Identifying the text structure of literary and informational texts will set a purpose for their reading and improve their comprehension.

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Amazing Grace, collaboration, comprehension, critical thinking skills, Doodle Splash, Mary Hoffman, read aloud

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Let's Talk About Stories: Shared Discussion With Amazing Grace