Ready-to-teach lesson
Key Details
Crazy for California - Grade 2 - Short lesson
- TIME
- OBJECTIVE
- 10 minutes
- Identify and organize explicit details associated with two California locations.
PRODUCT
A two-column list containing details for each location. The student may : A two-column list containing details for each location.
Essential question: What details does the book give about the San Diego zoo and San Francisco?
- Materials
- Text to mark
- • The book
- • Passage 6 - San Diego Zoo - elephants, snakes, and parrots
- Prepared passages: Passage 6, Passage 10
- Passage 10 - San Francisco - bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown
- Student response materials
Lesson sequence
1 Name the key detail - 2 min What details does the book give about the San Diego zoo and San Francisco?
- Prepared text:
- Passage 6, Passage 10 2 Work the evidence - 5 min At the zoo, the text lists several animals. For San Francisco, it lists well-known city features.
- Prepared text:
- Passage 6, Passage 10 3 Make the student product - 3 min
Teacher key
The zoo passage names elephants, snakes, and parrots; the San Francisco passage names a bridge, cable cars, and Chinatown.
Support & extension
Above: Add a third location and explain which details make it distinct.
Below: Provide two labeled columns and a word bank containing the six named details.
Assessment
- • : Names at least two details for each location • Places every detail under the correct location
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