2nd Grade

Reading

Tiered tasks meet our students needs in reading. We add icons to help guide our students thinking.

We use the Big Idea Icon and Details icon to organize a main idea response. The main idea is the big idea and the pillars are the supporting details.

We integrated Depth and Complexity into our reading curriculum by adding the icons to questions on a bookmark to help guide their thinking and comprehension in independent and partner reading.

We used the icons to look at different characters in a book that we were reading and to connect it to our life.

We use the icons during reading groups sparked very meaningful conversations. It challenge their thinking other that just comprehension of the book they were reading

We use icons to respond and give feedback to other students writing.

Math

Using Depth and Complexity in math helps students gain a better understanding of the concepts being taught. It also gives them a chance to think critically about the process they are working on. It also sparks great conversations during the lesson and during work time.

Science

We used the icons to guide our thinking with our independent research. It helped the students gain a better understanding of what we were learning and push them to find out other information that was not surface level.

We used the icons to reflect on the changes over time the students were seeing in what we were studying.

We used details of what a fish is and then wrote details that prove that we are not a fish.

Social Studies

To better understand a question that was presented to students we brainstormed the language of the discipline of specific words in the sentence.

We used poplet to brainstorm the details of inventors and then wrote unanswered questions we still have from the details.

Rules and Procedures

As a class we discussed the ethics of our school code.

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