ELA
Reading Workshop
Unit 1 - Second Grade Reading Growth Spurt
Bend I: Taking Charge of Reading
Session 1 - Readers Choose How to Read
Session 2 - Second-Grade Readers Take a Sneak Peak to Decide How A Book Wants to Be Read
Session 3 - Readers Get Stronger by Reading a Lot
Session 4 - Readers Read in Longer Phrases, Scooping up Snap Words
Session 5 - Keeping Tabs on Comprehension
Session 6 - Second Graders Can Mark Their Thinking with a Post-it
Bend II: Working Hard to Solve Tricky Words
Session 7 - Second-Grade Readers Roll Up Their Sleeves to Figure Out Tricky Words, Drawing on Everything They Know
Session 8 - Readers Use More Than One Strategy at a Time: Figuring Out What Makes Sense and Checking the First Letters
Session 9 - Some Beginning and Endings Can Be Read in a Snap!
Session 10 - Don't Forget the Middele!: Readers Are Flexible When They Encounter Vowel Teams in Tricky Words
Session 11 - Readers Have Strategies for Figuring Out Brand-New Words, Too
Session 12 - Readers Check Themselves and Their Reading
Bend III: Paying Close Attention to Authors
Session 13 - Authors Have Intentions
Session 14 - Readers Don't Just Notice Craft Moves - They Try Them
Session 15 - Readers Think about How the Whole Book Clicks Together, Noticing Masterful Writing
Session 16 - Readers Think, "What Does the Author Want to Teach Me?"
Session 17 - Celebrate How Much Readers Have Grown
Unit 2 - Becoming Experts: Reading Nonfiction
Bend I: Thinking Hard and Growing Knowledge
Session 1 - Nonfiction Readers Notice and Learn
Session 2 - Nonfiction Readers Notice, Learn and Question
Session 3 - Nonfiction Readers Ask, "What Is This Book Teaching Me?"
Session 4 - Nonfiction Readers Ask, "How Does This Book Go?"
Session 5 - Celebrate the Gift of Learning Something New
Bend II: Learning the Lingo of a Topic
Session 6 - Anticipating and and Using the Lingo of a Nonfiction Topic
Session 7 - Using Text Features to Notice and Understand Keywords
Session 8 - Using Context to Build Knowledge of Unknown Words
Session 9 - Solving Words Takes Strategic and Flexible Thinking
Session 10 - Reread Like Experts
Session 11 - Talk the Talk and Walk the Walk! Using Lingo to Teach Others
Bend III: Reading Across a Topic
Session 12 - Growing Knowledge across Books! Getting Ready to Read (and Learn) a Bunch!
Session 13 - Nonfiction Readers Add Information across Books
Session 14 - Thinking and Rethinking about How Information is Connected across Books
Session 15 - Finding Thinking, and Talking and bout What is the Same and What is Different
Session 16 - Readers Retell Topics, Not Just Books
Session 17 - Getting Ready for the Celebration
Session 18 - Celebration: Pay it Forward by Teaching Others
Unit 3 - Bigger Books Mean Amping up Reading Power
Bend I: Reading with Fluency
Session 1 - Rehearsing Reading Voices
Session 2 - Scooping up Word Phrases
Session 3 - Noticing Dialogue Tags
Session 4 - Using Meaning to Read Fluently
Session 5 - Reading at a Just-Right Pace
Bend II - Understanding Literary Language
Session 6 - Recognizing Literary Language
Session 7 - Understanding Comparisons
Session 8 - Noticing When Authors Play with Words
Session 9 - Reading as a Writer - Focusing on Special Language
Bend III - Meeting the Challenges of Longer Books
Session 10 - Setting Up Routines for Same-Book Partners
session 11 - Holding On to Stories Even When Books Are Long
Session 12 - Staying on Track When Books Get Tricky
Session 13 - Using Writing to Solve Reading Problems
Bend IV - Tackling Goals in the Company of Others
Session 14 - Self-Assessing and Setting Goals
Session 15 - Organizing Goal Clubs
Session 16 - Giving Feedback to Group Members
Session 17 - Celebration
Unit 4 - Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages
Bend I: Seeing with Poets' Eyes
Session 1 - Seeing with Poets' Eyes
Session 2 - Listening for Line Breaks
Session 3 - Putting Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Session 4 - Poets Find Poems in the Strong Feelings and Concrete Details
Session 5 - Editing Poetry
Bend II: Delving Deeper: Experimenting with Language and Sound to Create Meaning
Session 6 - Searching for Hones, Precise Words: Language Matters
Session 7 - Patterning Through Repetition
Session 8 - Poems Are Moody
Session 9 - Using Comparisons to Clarify Feelings and Ideas
Session 10 - Stretching Out a Comparison
Bend III: Trying Structure on for Size
Session 11 - Studying Structures
Session 12 - Studying a Mentor Text with Poets' Eyes
Session 13 - Matching Structures to Feeling
Session 14 - Playing with Point of View
Session 15 - Revising Poems: Replacing Feeling Words with Word Pictures
Session 16 - Editing Poems: Reading Aloud to Find Trouble Spots
Session 17 - Letter to Teachers: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author's Celebration
Writing Workshop
Second Grade Writers Workshop Unit 1-4
Unit 1, Lessons From the Masters: Improving Narrative Writing
Narrative Writing
Bend I: Studying the Masters for Inspiration and Ideas
Session 1- Discovering Small Moments that Matter: Generating Ideas for Writing.
Session 2- Capturing Story Ideas: Tiny Topics Notepads.
Session 3- Stretching Out Small Moments
Session 4- Writing with Detail: Magnifying a Small Moment
Session 5- Letter to teachers: revising with the masters: crafting powerful endings
Session 6- Rereading Like Detectives: Making Sure Our Writing Makes Sense and Sounds Right
Session 7- Working Hard: Setting Goals and Making Plans for Writing Time
Bend II: Noticing Author's Craft: Studying Imagery, Tension, and Literacy Language in Owl Moon
Session 8- Revising with Intent
Session 9- Close Reading: Learning Writing Moves from a Text.
Session 10- Learning to Write in Powerful Ways: Trying Out Craft Moves Learned From Mentor Authors
Session 11- Letter to Teachers: Learning to Write in Powerful Ways: Trying Out a Second Craft Move
Session 12- Emulating Authors in Ways that Matter: Revising in Meaningful Ways
Session 13- Mining Mentor Text for Word Choice: Studying and Revising for Precise and Specific Language
Session 14- Letter to Teachers: Rereading and Quick Editing: Preparing for a Mini Celebration
Bend III: Study Your Own Authors
Session 15- Learning Craft Moves from Any Mentor Text
Session 16- Being Bold: Trying New Craft Moves
Session 17- Letter to Teachers: Writers Can Help Each Other: Partners Offer Feedback
Session 18- Editing and Preparing for Publication
Session 19- Letter to Teachers: A Celebration
Unit 2, Lab Reports and Science Books
Informational Writing
Bend l Writing as Scientists Do
Session 1- Learning to Write About Science
Session 2- Studying a Mentor Text: Procedural Writing
Session 3- New Wonderings, New Experiments
Session 4- Authors Share Scientific Ideas/Conclusions
Session 5- Scientists Learn From Other Sources as Well as From Experiments
Session 6- Student Self-Assessment and Plans
BEND ll: Writing to Teach Others About Our Discoveries
Session 7- Remember All That You Know about Science and about Scientific Writing for New Experiments
Session 8- Letter to Teachers: Studying a Mentor Text: The “Results” Page
Session 9- Comparing Results and Reading More Expert Materials to Consider New Questions
Session 10- Designing and Writing a New Experiment
Session 11- Editing: Domain Specific Language
Bend lll: Writing about Forces and Motion in Information Books
Session 12- Drawing on all We Know to Rehearse and Plan Information Books.
Session 13- Tapping Informational Know-How for Drafting
Session 14- Studying Mentor Text: Integrating Scientific Information
Session 15- Using Comparisons to Teach Readers
Session 16- Showing Hidden Worlds with Science Writing
Session 17- Letter to Teachers: Introductions and Conclusions: Addressing an Audience
Session 18- Editing: Aligning Expectations to the Common Core
Session 19- Letters to Teachers: Celebration: Writing and Science Exhibition
Unit 3, Writing About Reading
Opinion Writing
Bend l: Letter Writing: A Glorious Tradition
Session 1- Writing Letters to Share Ideas about Characters
Session 2- Getting Energy for Writing by Talking
Session 3- Writers Generate More Letters: Developing New Opinions by Looking at Pictures
Session 4- Writers Make Their Letters about Books Even Better by Retelling Important Parts
Session 5- Keeping Audience in Mind
Session 6- Letter to Teacher: Using a Checklist to set Goals for Ourselves as Writers
Bend ll: Raising the Level of Our Letter Writing
Session 7- Writing about More Than One Part of a Book
Session 8- Reading Closely to Generate More Writing
Session 9- Gathering More Evidence to Support Each of Our Opinions
Session 10- Why is the Author Using a capital Here?
Session 11- Publishing Our Opinions for all to Read
Bend lll: Writing Nominations and Awarding Favorite Books
Session 12- And the Nominees Are…
Session 13- Prove It! Adding Quotes to Support Opinions
Session 14- Good. Better. Best
Session 15- Readers Giving Signposts and Rest Stops
Session 16- Writing Introductions and Conclusions to Captivate
Session 17- Using a Checklist to Write Writerly Goals
Session 18- Letter to Teacher: Keeping the Elaboration Going
Session 19- Letter to Teachers: Awarding Our Favorites: A Book Fair Celebration
Unit 4, Poetry: Big Thoughts in Small Packages
Poetry Writing
Bend l: Seeing with Poet's Eyes
Session 1- Seeing with Poet's Eyes
Session 2- Listening for Line Breaks
Session 3- Putting Tiny Thoughts in Tiny Packages
Session 4- Poets Find Poems in the Strong Feelings and Concrete Details of Life
Session 5- Editing Poetry
Bend ll: Delving Deeper: Experimenting with Language and Sound to Create Meaning
Session 6- Searching for Honest, Precise Words: Language Matters
Session 7- Patterning Through Repetition
Session 8- Poems are Moody
Session 9- Using Comparisons to Clarify Feelings and Ideas
Session 10- Stretching out a Comparison
Bend lll: Trying Structures on for Size
Session 11- Studying Structure
Session 12- Studying a Mentor Text with Poets Eyes
Session 13- Matching Structures to feelings and Ideas
Session 13- Matching Structures to Feelings
Session 14- Playing with Point of View
Session 15- Revising Poems: Replacing Feeling Words with Word Pictures
Session 16- Editing Poems: Reading Aloud to Find Trouble Spots
Session 17- Letter to Teachers: Presenting Poems to the World: An Author’s Celebration